Hello!
I know, I wasn't planning on more alt history figures, specially not army ones since I wanted to concentrate more on some rebels but you know how it is with creativity and ease of access to what you need to make something. Anyway this figure draws its inspiration from the real Cazadores that existed in Puerto Rico by 1898, cazadores where for a lack of a better word troops that used natural cover in order to fight, basically like a hunter would. Puerto Rico had a total of four cazador battalions, those being Colon nº23, Alfonson XIII nº24, Patria nº25 and Valladolid nº31. The cazadores much like the Guardia Civil and many other institutions disappeared after the treaty of Paris.
And now for the alt history!
Batallon de Cazadores nº2, Capitan Antonio de los Reyes
![[Alt History] Batallon de Cazadores, the elite troops of the nation. XLsq5Zp](https://i.imgur.com/xLsq5Zp.jpg)
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![[Alt History] Batallon de Cazadores, the elite troops of the nation. 68ovu0F](https://i.imgur.com/68ovu0F.jpg)
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Overall a very simple figure but fun one to put together. The boots I painted brown in the canvas area after not really liking how the "canvas" looked. I don't really know what else to say really, this figure sort of pop into existence in a couplue of hours. Just in case anyone wants to see the other figures I'll post links to them bellow:
-Civil Defense Officer
Civil Defense Volunteer
National Army LMG
National Police of P.R.
National Naval Infantry
National Navy of P.R.
National Army of P.R.
National Air Force Pilot
And well, that's that really, I hope everyone has a good week ahead, that you are all able to have some fun and to above all stay safe out there.
I know, I wasn't planning on more alt history figures, specially not army ones since I wanted to concentrate more on some rebels but you know how it is with creativity and ease of access to what you need to make something. Anyway this figure draws its inspiration from the real Cazadores that existed in Puerto Rico by 1898, cazadores where for a lack of a better word troops that used natural cover in order to fight, basically like a hunter would. Puerto Rico had a total of four cazador battalions, those being Colon nº23, Alfonson XIII nº24, Patria nº25 and Valladolid nº31. The cazadores much like the Guardia Civil and many other institutions disappeared after the treaty of Paris.
And now for the alt history!
Batallon de Cazadores nº2, Capitan Antonio de los Reyes
It was no secret that Puerto Rico's military was always looking for ways to improve and better itself, it was during the first world war that the idea of bringing back the cazadores first arose. Originally thought of as voluntary force to be used for raiding trenches it soon evolved to involve sappers and chemical weapons, it wouldn't be until the 1920's military reforms that the cazador battalions where finally established as a standalone unit of the military, separating the sappers into the sapper batallions and the chemical weapons division into it's own thing. During this period the cazadores would received additional training in the form of jungle warfare, climbing, hand to hand combat and saboteur techniques. As it stood the cazadors where one of the most elite units and one of the most difficult ones to enter.
The gear of the cazadores was not that different from that of the standard army, unlike it, the cazadores made use of submachine guns, more specifically the MP-18 adopted locally as the Pistola Automatica Modelo 1930 or the PA-M30, the use of the c96 was also common, sniper rifles usually using the Gewehr 98, other weapons included grenades and chemical weapons such as gases. The helmet where the standard stahlhelm and it's locally made copies, the uniform was of the four pocket variety which was more rare, their boots where tall canvas boots with leather reinforcements though some troops also made use of tall leather boots used normally used by the cavalry and puttees. Perhaps more interesting was the issuing of either a shovel or a machete, cazadors however made use of both in hand to hand combat as they would often sharpen the shovels to be used.
The cazadores would soon see combat during the 1930 to 1931 riots in the form of clandestine missions in order to find the people responsible for organizing and starting the riots. Again they would see service after the 1937 Vieques uprising as they combed the rural parts of the island in search of rebels. However it is perhaps their involvement of the 1937 to 1942 "Grito Nacional" in which the units carried out raids on suspected rebel hideouts, their tactics where considerably heavy handed involving not only machine guns, but also mortars, explosives and even chemical weapons.
The gear of the cazadores was not that different from that of the standard army, unlike it, the cazadores made use of submachine guns, more specifically the MP-18 adopted locally as the Pistola Automatica Modelo 1930 or the PA-M30, the use of the c96 was also common, sniper rifles usually using the Gewehr 98, other weapons included grenades and chemical weapons such as gases. The helmet where the standard stahlhelm and it's locally made copies, the uniform was of the four pocket variety which was more rare, their boots where tall canvas boots with leather reinforcements though some troops also made use of tall leather boots used normally used by the cavalry and puttees. Perhaps more interesting was the issuing of either a shovel or a machete, cazadors however made use of both in hand to hand combat as they would often sharpen the shovels to be used.
The cazadores would soon see combat during the 1930 to 1931 riots in the form of clandestine missions in order to find the people responsible for organizing and starting the riots. Again they would see service after the 1937 Vieques uprising as they combed the rural parts of the island in search of rebels. However it is perhaps their involvement of the 1937 to 1942 "Grito Nacional" in which the units carried out raids on suspected rebel hideouts, their tactics where considerably heavy handed involving not only machine guns, but also mortars, explosives and even chemical weapons.
Overall a very simple figure but fun one to put together. The boots I painted brown in the canvas area after not really liking how the "canvas" looked. I don't really know what else to say really, this figure sort of pop into existence in a couplue of hours. Just in case anyone wants to see the other figures I'll post links to them bellow:
-Civil Defense Officer
Civil Defense Volunteer
National Army LMG
National Police of P.R.
National Naval Infantry
National Navy of P.R.
National Army of P.R.
National Air Force Pilot
And well, that's that really, I hope everyone has a good week ahead, that you are all able to have some fun and to above all stay safe out there.
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) but it looks like you've got him in an M43 tunic, and by that point in the war it's unlikely the Germans were sending anything to anyone other than their allies like Finland or Hungary. Probably much more likely in an M36 or even M28 Reichswehr tunic (don't think that's ever been made in 1/6), since the most likely time frame for military export would be 1933-1939 for Germany.
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