Setup in Poser & rendered in vue, I've wanted to do german paras for a while, so here they are... The products are The free apollo maximus, adh3d's german para, thunderr's vogel einz & zwei, panko's in her majesty's service, Ranman38's ammo case, Stonemason temple ruin, the olive tree from xfrog, the plants from free renderosity & the mg34 it's an old 3ds file that i had & there was no readme file so i dont know where it came from (unfortunate, its a rather beautiful piece), the mg34 tool kit pouch is mine. The uniforms were retexrured & dirtied & the mg34 was also remapped, the ammo case was resized & retextured. Operation "Merkur".... The Invasion of Crete came a few months after the taking of the Corinthian canal in Grece. The Germans were expecting another walk in the park, but were in for a nasty surpise. The British had reinforced the island garrison, with 27000 men that had been evacuated in may 1941 from Greece & setup anti glider & airborne defences. In april of 1941 The "Fallschirmjager" took the island, but at a very high price. This was a pyrrhic victory for Goering's Luftwaffe, and from then on the german airbone was a ground unit in everything but name. Hitler refused to ever use them again in airborne operations. Those who survived the battle for Crete wore the sleeve cuff "Kreta". My 2 soldiers represent the 2 possible types of the the german airborne smok type 2, both splinter pattern & light field grey, After the battle has ended 1 of the troopers liberated a few items from the ennemy...