'Resistance' by PeterD: Badass Women of the Dutch Resistance

I've been down with the lurgy so these sat almost done until Saturday morning.  I did some rudimentary ground cover, which needs tidying up but met the deadline.

  

As noted on one my earlier posts, I bought into a Bad Squiddo Kickstarter featuring women of the WW2 Resistance.  So for the Resistance Theme Round I present the Dutch Resistance fighters Hannie Schaft, Freddie Oversteegen and her sister Truus Oversteegen.  I'm rather infamous for long winded history posts, but this time I suggest following the links as I don't think that I can do these three young women justice (Hannie was the eldest at 24 in 1945).

Note to self, add red highlights to Hannie (centre) and darken the sisters' hair.  Also brush the ground cover off the figures!

The trio worked together on the full gamut of Resistance activity - sabotage, assassinations, transporting documents and arms, helping Jewish children escape etc.  Hannie would make sure to dress up and do full makeup before her operations saying “I’ll die clean and beautiful.”  "The girl with the red hair" became one of the Dutch Gestapo's most wanted.   

Love the strut on Hannie, still dressing for the moment even incognito.

As the heat turned up, they conducted operations in disguise.  Hannie cut her hair short and dyed it black while Truus dressed as a man.  Eventually Hannie was caught and executed in the final weeks of the war, despite an agreement between the Gestapo and Resistance to end executions.  The Oversteegen sisters lived full lives and survived into their nineties (this seems to be a theme among surviving resistance fighters in the Bad Squiddo kickstarter).  All three are honoured in the Netherlands and other countries, particularly Hannie.

Had a last minute panic attack when I realized that I gave the wrong figure the black hair, leading to a Saturday am dye job on both.

Like all Bad Squiddo women of WW2 figures, these are excellent.  Well researched, nicely sculpted, full of character and a joy to paint.  That's five 28mm figures for 25 points, and I'm going to claim a squirrel point as the Dutch resistance was operating in a different theatre than the other fighters that I've painted this challenge.