Welcome back to my blog. Today I'm proud to show you the minifigs I created for some WW2 Battle of Berlin MOCs I plan to build. This idea and inspiration came to me just a few days ago so this time I didn't plan the video and the minifigs with the same time I spent for previous videos but I think the quality is still very quality and you will enjoy the minifigs I'm about to show you. First we will start with the Soviet army. Minifigs are kinda simple but there wasn't any army in the war with the uniform variations/options the Germans had. As long as I know they didn't even come close.
Here there is a Soviet standard soldier and an officer. WIth a blue cap it could be a NKVD officer too. Cap is from AliExpress and the arm is from CrazyBricks. Has hand-painted legs and a Tokarev TT-33 from BrickArms. The soldier wears a coat from AliExpress and a SVT-40 from them too.
Reference picture for the officer. Source: https://www.1001hobbies.es/figuras-y-soldaditos/34427-trumpeter-tu00703-wwii-soviet-officer-9580208007038.html
Reference picture for the soldier. Source: https://www.pinterest.fr/pin/709035535055312379/
More soldiers with different caps and weapons. Pilotka cap is from a closed BrickLink store. Ushanka with the red star is from BrickArms. Mosin Nagant is from BA too and hand-painted by me. Some soldiers use coats and others use the Telogreika. I used the amazing Roaglaan Decals to create them.
Rear view
Turn for the German army. First you can see the SS (Schutzstaffel) officer. There were many SS troops in this battle and they defended the famous Reichstag. Torso and legs are from AliExpress and cap is from 7Toys7. Hands need some glue in these specific torsos so they don't fall.
The reversible Oak Leaf parka the soldiers wear. Source: https://www.lux-military-antiques.com/en/p/waffen-ss-oak-leaf-12.htm
Now turn for standard Wehrmacht soldiers. Torsos from Citizen Brick and gear weapons and helmet from BrickArms.
Next ones are the Volksgrenadier infantry. Volksgrenadier divisions were created in late 1944 to replace lost units aiming to use men and teenagers that would be too old or too young for the regular divisions of the Wehrmacht. Don't confuse them with the Volkssturm units. Volksgrenadiers were suposed to keep the firepower an standard division had. Coat is from Valiant Bricks. So useful to recreate many kind of soldiers from different eras. Amrs from CrazyArms. Cap from a (sadly) closed Bricklink store.
Source: https://www.ebay.it/itm/124350703002
Now Volkssturm. They were armed civilians so basically almost every torso and hat that fits the 40s in Europe is useful. Gun is a MP-18 from AliExpress. Cap is from BrickWarriors and the cigarette I forgot where I got it from. Will update the info if I find out in the future.
Painted boots and torso from Indiana Jones' father from a Lego set.
Hitlerjugend. In the desperation of the last days of the war the Nazi government used kids to defend the cities. Here I represent 2 of them. They are inspired by the kids that appear in the amazing film Der Untergang from 2004. Skirt represents a coat. I bought it from Firestar Toys. Panzerfausts are from AliExpress and cap is from the Swiss shop Brickssoldier.
Notice legs are shorter. They are the medium height legs from Lego.
Next one is a German sniper. Wears a Splinter Camo Zeltbahn poncho from Valiant Bricks. Under it wears a piece of cloth I painted years ago to recreate a coat. The sniper Kar 98k is from AliExpress.
Now the Fallschirmjäger. There were some in the Battle of Berlin. Helmet is from Brickssoldier. Body from AliExpress. Arms are from Lego. One of my favourite minifigs from here. I will try to create more of them in the future and do a MOC with them.
FG-42 gun is from BrickArms and is hand-painted by me.
Last ones are two crew members of a Panzer tank. Torsos are from Brickizimo. Cap from Brickssoldier. Arms from CrazyArms.
And that was all guys! Hope you like them as much as I do. In the future I think I will be able to improve them when I get more stuff. There were some units too left behind like the many Kriegsmarine or SS foreigners troops that participated in the battle. Time will say!
Hey guys! First post of the year! Today I show you my latest MOC. It's the Reichstag main entrance where 2 German soldiers stand with a MG42 on a tripod. Took me almost 2 weeks to complete since I work in another project at the same time but it's finally here. I'm pretty happy with how this build turned out finally. When I started I only planned to do the stairs and the doors with the columns so the soldiers where the main "star" of the picture. I just wanted a cool background. But then I was like why not continue building and put the background at the same level of importance the minifigs have here? So I have improvised this build and it was very fun. I love the result. Only thing I would change is the roof full of studs but well at that point I only had plates to do it and finish the whole build finally. Hope you like it guys!
The battle for the Reichstag was fought in the last days of April and it took Soviet several atempts and a couple of days until their red flag was on the roof of the building. Defenders of the Reichstag were mainly some hundreds of SS but there were Fallschirmjagers and other troops there too. Here you have the best video you can find if you want to know more about how the USSR took the building:
No minifigs
The entrance. I used broken pieces as you can see.
Can we call this Behind The Scenes content?
The stairs
Tripod isn't my design. Saw it on Flickr many years ago but I don't remember who I saw it from
SS soldier
As you see through the pictures I tested with the lighting for these pictures. Here is the picture that inspired the building.
Source: https://www.italeri.com/en/product/2908
Hope you like this build guys. It was fun. Years ago on Flickr there was a user building the whole Reichstag in tan color. It was cool and looked promising but I think he became inactive and the project was never finished I guess. Would be cool to build more of the building in the future with more parts and working harder on getting the design closer to the real one and specially building a battlefield in the front of it to represent the battle happened there almost 78 years ago! See you soon guys stay tunned for more content!
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