These are some of the figures from the Imex Pioneers set. It is one of the most under utilized and versatile sets out there in 1/72nd scale plastic. I have taken these six figures and modified them to be Auxiliary members of the Wehrmacht. The German Army in WWII had many people working from them doing construction and other combat support services. The men figures are wearing boots and high waist pants with suspenders, like German soldiers. I removed the heads from the Pioneers and took heads from the Imex German Infantry set and glued them onto the Pioneers. This gave me a German Auxiliary who was chopping wood, digging a hole, carrying wood and carrying wire. It also gave me another one who was playing the violin. A nice musical interlude before the Katushka rocket attacks.
The woman is carrying two water / milk containers and wearing a helmet. She is also barefoot. Often local women were paid to help with cooking and other mundane housekeeping duties. Last there is the boy in the fieldmutze cap. The USSR had some very young boys serving in their army and sometimes when captured the Germans would keep them as mascots. This boy is one of those. The many carrying the wooden beam has a new head, new left hand with machine pistol and an ammo pouch from an Imex German figure. I used the parts from a dead guy!
Pioneers have been primed, wood carrying figure shows what they look like before priming.
Finally I took the Officer figure from the Imex Germans and cut off his head and his arm. I turned his head around so he was looking the other direction. I then took the arm from the kneeling guy who is firing his pistol and glued it onto the officer. That gave me an officer firing a pistol.
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