Nothing like last minute painting before a gaming event… some extra MG crews and wounded leaders for Chain of Command at MOAB tomorrow #spreadthelard #tabletopwargaming #tabletopgaming #ww2gaming #ww2
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Trans lesbian with a wonderful partner. Historian (especially ww2). Tabletop gamer (also mostly ww2!). Retired geostrategic analyst and policy wonk. Diversity in national security advocate. Wine lover. Tolkien, Star Wars and Babylon 5 nerd.
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drybrushed mini of audry hepburn as a teenager offering some flowers, stood on a flower field, with red feiry skies, and a faint Mufasa style hovering version of herself later on.
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Audrey Hepburn was a teenager around Arnhem and Velp during WW2, ironically moved from the UK to somewhere safer, which was not to be. She performed ballet at secret fundraisers for the resistance and whatever deeds a "non threatening little girl" could get away with, slipping under the radar of the occupiers.
In one story, she is delivering some papers to a downed pilot, but on the way spots a Dutch Nazi police officer, so begins picking nearby wildflowers. Once he comes over, she offers him some, innocently. I think I've resonated with the resistance stories so much is the ability to turn something frustrating and wrong (being overlooked and underestimated) into a superpower.
After the Battle of Arnhem, she was left in Velp with the remainder of the citizens who couldn't evacuate, with the two major threats of German boots on the ground and Allied bombing from the skies. Working under Dr. Hendrik Visser ’t Hooft she helped at the medical stations running whatever errands were required, all while suffering from the weakness from starvation that was affecting the area.
As with all of our minis in this Resistance project, Audrey is one of many civilians who risked or lost their lives helping others to survive. The hope is that by shining these lights on just some of them, we can appreciate the many many more that went unrecorded. The civilian resistance also grabs me because it's very every day people dragged into action and becoming extraordinary.
The KS goes live 21st October, twenty brand new minis of folk from the Dutch Resistance, including wee Audrey Hepburn.
[words by Annie Norman, backdrop by Handiwork Games, mini sculpted by Alan Marsh]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7jhp2alj37rslyy7a7mvjlam/bafkreif7t2ssadbvr7vmbrhpcrfkwn4c7jkxdsa2jje5v5vlu6ggwy5ka4)
