Carlist Support Weapons

Carlist Support Weapons

When I finished painting all those Requetes last month, it became obvious my bandera (a battalion sized unit) was terribly short of support weapons.

Now choices for suitable figures for SCW are extremely limited these days with Bandera not accepting orders, Irregular Miniatures retiring and Minairons ceasing trading! So we are left with one 20mm manufacturer - Xan Miniatures!

Now i have no idea if Xan has any plans to expand his range, but a quick email (which had an very fast reply), he was kind enough to allow me to order some Carlist beret heads along with my next order, which I placed through the website:

https://www.xanminiatures.com/es/ 

The figures and heads arrived promptly, I then spend a fun few hours swapping heads and adding tassels with plasterscene 😁 I then slapped on some paint and this is the result:

Hotchkiss MMG teams 

The officer was a HAT Industrie German gunner

Light mortar teams

LMG teams

Medium mortar team

Straight out of the plastic pile, the crew are a mix of HAT Gernans and an old Matchbox Australian all with XAN heads

Transport mules

2 are Battlefield/Blitz, the odd one an ancient Esci plastic with a scratch load