When I started Stoessi’s Heroes, I never expected all the connections & acquaintances I would make. And I don’t only mean all the tabletop & miniature painting fans that I have met. I am talking about something different here and you will see in a bit why this blog post is about Pat Glover. I […]
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Meet the Heroes: British Airborne Major – John Howard
Background: Major (Reginald) John Howard DSO (8 December 1912 – 5 May 1999) was a British Army officer who led a glider-borne assault on two bridges between Bénouville and Ranville in Normandy, France on 6 June 1944 as part of the D-Day landings during the Second World War. These bridges spanned the Caen Canal and […]
Meet the Heroes: British Lieutenant Joseph Winston (Pat) Glover & Myrtle Para- Chick
Lt. Glover captured and trained Myrtle, a chicken, to parachute. Myrtle completed the required number of training jumps and was awarded a set of wings. On the day of the drop into Holland for Operation Market, Myrtle was stuffed inside his parachuting jacket, and the jacket was closed over. And when Pat jumped, Myrtle jumped […]
Meet the Heroes: Major Harry Carlyle and Lt. Col. John Frost
If my readership hasn’t noticed it yet, I am a huge fan of old WW2 movies. 😉 One of the funniest scenes from one of my favorite films is this one here. [an SS officer is approaching under a white flag] Major Harry Carlyle: Rather interesting development, sir. [to the German] Major Harry Carlyle: That’s […]
Step-by-step…. painting Roy
So Roy is the first miniature from Wave 2 which I decided to paint. Such a lovely sculpt and a lot of fun while painting. Here is a step-by-step for how I tried to make Roy come to life: 1) Started off with a base of Green Brown (MC879) and Green Ochre (MC914). Mixed in […]
Stoessi’s Heroes Update: A bridge too far – Robert Urquhart
Stoessi’s Heroes pre-view time again! This time around we are proudly presenting a British airborne miniature that was inspired by the movie “A bridge too far”, a classic from 1977. It is based on the historical events around Operation Market Garden. In the movie, Sean Connery plays Major General Roy Urquhart of the 1st British […]