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 […]
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Meet the Heroes: SOE & French Resistance Nancy Wake aka “The White Mouse”
Nancy Wake was a hard-drinking, hard-fighting WWII special agent, saboteur, and Maquis commander who survived four days of Gestapo interrogation, saved over two hundred downed Allied pilots from falling into the clutches of the Nazis, blew up a couple German supply depots, had a bounty of five million Francs placed on her head, and then […]
Step-by-step – Painting Eichenlaub (oak leaf) camouflage in Spring/Summer colors
Welcome to part #2 of my article series about painting different WW2 camo patterns. If you have missed part #1 where I explain how to paint Palmenmuster (palm tree) camo in Autumn/Winter colors, take a look here: http://stoessisheroes.com/step-by-step-painting-palmenmuster-palm-tree-camouflage-in-autumn-colors/. In this article, I will show you step-by-step how I am painting an Eichenlaubmuster (oak leaf) camo, but […]
Meet the Heroes: Lt. Col. Charles Carpenter aka “Bazooka Charlie”
Charles “Bazooka Charlie” Carpenter was famous for his usage of this plane against tanks and armored vehicles. Armed with Bazookas, he was credited with the destruction of 14 tanks (Two Tigers), several armored vehicles, and killing dozens of German soldiers. Here is the miniature that Stoessi’s Heroes is releasing to honour Charles Carpenter: Let’s talk […]
Meet the Heroes: German Feldwebel & Panzer Ace Kurt Knispel
Kurt Knispel was born on September 20th 1921 in a small town called Salisfled in Czechoslovakia. Knispel spent most of his childhood in Mikulovice, where his father worked in an automotive factory. Knispel disliked factory work and in April 1940 Knispel joined the Wehrmacht as a volunteer. Knispel first saw action in August 1941 in […]
Meet the Heroes: Soviet Army Guards Senior Sergeant Mariya Oktyabrskaya
After the Germans killed her husband, Mariya wanted revenge for his death and for the death of the Soviet people. For this purpose she deposited all her personal savings – 50,000 rubles – to the National Bank in order to build a tank. She then wrote Stalin the following letter: “My husband was killed in […]
Meet the Heroes: Japanese Imperial Army – 2nd Lt. Hiroo Onoda
Hirō Onoda was an Imperial Japanese Army intelligence officer would fought in World War 2 and did not surrender in 1945. After he spent 29 years holding out in the Philippinies where he performed guerilla warfare, his former commander traveled from Japan to personally issue orders relieving him from duty in 1974. „Every Japanese soldier […]
Meet The Heroes: Colonel David Stirling “Phantom Major” – Founder of the SAS
With a whole bunch of new Stoessi’s Heroes releases coming out in the next few weeks, I am getting super-excited and would like to share some of my excitement by introducing you to each of the new heroes one by one. If you are following my group on Facebook, you have already seen a sneak-preview […]
Step-by-step – Painting Palmenmuster (palm tree) camouflage in Autumn colors
Here we go with the first part of the long awaited series on how to paint German WW2 camouflage patterns. We’ll start with the Palmenmuster (palm tree) camo pattern for Autumn, so predominantly in brown and orange colors. I am not claiming that my way of painting camo patterns is the best way or the most […]
Quick shots from the workbench: Jedi Puppies in WW2 camouflage
Sometime last year I had promised to work on tutorials for painting different German camouflage patterns and here you can see a few pre-view pics of the work that I am doing for the first tutorial on Autumn Palmtree pattern (Palmenmuster) and Autumn pea dot pattern (Erbsenmuster). I thought it would be fun to piggyback […]