This is my Accionunoseis contest figure.
At the time of the German invasion of Soviet Ukraine partisan units led by Sydir Kovpak waged guerrilla warfare against Axis forces originally in partisan strongholds in Sumy and Bryansk regions but later its operation spread deep into German occupied territory including Kiev, Zhytomyr, Rivne, Homyel, Volyn and other regions. These partisan units also fought against nationalist Ukrainian Insurgent Army. In 1944 partisans under Kovpak leadership raided enemy forces throughout western Ukraine and Belarus and even reached Romanian border regions during the famous Carpathian raid inflicting heavy casualties on the Germans.
Kovpak mastered guerrilla tactics and became a living legend in the Soviet Union. In the summer of 1943 Germans managed to hunt down and kill Kovpak's second in command Semyon Rudnev who was replaced by a new right-hand man Petro Vershigora who would later became a writer and dedicate his books to Kovpak's legendary underground resistance.
Figure:
Partisan known as 'grandfather' with 1st Ukrainian Partisan Division Kovpak, Ukraine 1943.
Typical winter clothing consisted of ushanka, telogreika or wadded coat, and wadded trousers. The felt boots or valenki were ideal for crisp dry snow, but tended to become watterlogged as soon as the thaw set in.
Weapons: Russian PPsH-41 submachine-gun and 'Molotv cocktail'.
Nude: Carnot, DID, DML hands adapted.
Ushanka: DID
Telogreika and trouser: Nikolai by DML.
Sam Brown: Otto Bittman by DID
Prismáticos: DML supose (thanks P.S.)
Coctel Molotov: loose buy it in
www.Shoes: valenki home made.
Bibliography:
Wikipedia
World Army Uniforms since 1939 by Mollo,McGregor,Smith&Chappell.Blandford Press
Jordi Blasco aka JBCat
