Cadian theme army

[Perturabo]

Ive had the idea of doing a little themed army for a long time, based on the TV programme called "Band of Brothers" its about a real life 2nd Worl War Paratroopers Company called "Easy Company".
They are famous for many actions through many theatres of war and there is plenty of background info for them.
I wanted to make a force that reflected them-deepstriking with litle or no armour, mortars and hauto cannons as the main heavy weapons choices with demo charges and the occasional rocket launcher as a anti vehicle choice.

Ive tried to base the colour scheme on actual photos of the uniforms the wore (its scarily like the normal Cadian scheme anyway)

Easy Company Paratrooper

[Ion Raptor]

nice idea, i loved Band of Brothers, do you plan on doing any conversions at all? Like packs or if you ever add a tank converting it with some 1/35 scale Sherman parts?

I second the idea, very nice show and idea. I woudl suggest modeling any autocannons and the like on a bi or tri-pod set up to resemble an MG. The scout Heavy bolter bit might work there nicely, as well as some of the chaos Heavy bolter feed clips (bare bullets look). Add some plasticard tubing to the end, a GS or more PC triangle sight and drill out the tube to be a massive flash supressor!

I'm a WWII re-enactor, and a close unit that mine works with models themselves after a paratrooping force liek easy co., so let me know if you want any advice!

[Perturabo]

Im already trying out several ideas for the autocannons (as you say tubes for flash suppresors and now crew shield)-maybe even trying to get hold of some heavy stubbers (*note to self - put add up on trading thread!*). Gonna use belt feeds instead of the barrel clip that comes with them (the heavy bolter has a ammo box if memory serves me correctly).

Any help with pics of uniform or weapons would be great-email them to the address in my sig bar!

Cheers

Well, if all goes well we have an engagement planned for sometime fairly soon. I'll make sure to dreg up some pics though.

[r4wr89]

looks really good. i like that you theme it on something you areinterested in too. great paint work as well. :]
-ant

[Lord Erak Grimnar]

I loved that show good luck on doing it. Just a suggestion for doing some conversions but maybe that wounded guy that comes in the command sqaud make it so his shot in the arse . Also that guy who is there trainer in the first few would look like a good as someone in the command squad.

Also if youve go to do the bases as the bastogne forest when there all hiding in the fox holes would be awesome like broken trees and shells. Also for a fun diagram you can show them running into that one german's foxhole.

[Perturabo]

I considered doing the Battle of the bulge as a time frame for the project but decided against it because it was such a terrible time for those involved with such heavy loses and many casualties.

I decided on the begining of the European Campaign as my timeframe this way there are more of the origional members for me to base names on and I can also use a cityscape base for the project as well as all my other armies have watse land or grassland ones and I fancied somthing diffeent.