Winter Wehrmacht

 AS these recently painted figures will appear in my AAR on Sunday or Monday, I thought I might as well give them their moment of glory on the blog first. These are the last three squads of 6 figures each (less one who hid amongst the detritus of the painting desk until I was finished and was packing them up for transportation to Barry's place - so be it, he misses out!)

There really isn't a lot of need for descriptions, so I won't do many 

I posed the LMG crew together

The next squad includes an officer in iconic black leather coat!

He has to be a baddie, hasn't he?

Some of the heads in this kit have great expressions on them!

I didn't do too many in the Feldmutze cap, but this was a nice look I thought

I noticed the wooden handle of the "potato masher" grenade wasn't painted - that's now been rectified!

Finally, this is a 3d printed Kubelwagon that's been sitting around waiting for attention for about six months - nice to finally get it completed!

I put the officer there for scale - I think it looks fine.

That's it for tonight - it took longer to take the photos than to complete the post - which isn't always (or even often) the case!  Game report up next in a couple of days' time.

Fresh from the Painting Desk - A Quartet of Red Army Tanks

 AS mentioned in my last post, I had an unusually productive construction session last weekend and put together four 28mm Warlord kits in one sitting. These were spray painted on the Sunday and finished off on Monday evening - and here they are:

First up is a KV I tank - background provided by Co Pilot Generative AI!

I have added some stowage from both the Warlord stowage pack that came in the box set and some left over bits from the Russian infantry set

Next up is a KV II - same chassis, just have to swap the turret over

The Obr 41 early T34/76

The turret numbers on this were all individual - a very painful and slow process to get them applied!

A second early war version T34/76, this one with the rather odd rear storage bins

This one also has a commander, using signal flag in lieu of radios that the Red Army did not have in many vehicles early in the war

The last tank is the later Obr 1942 version with a different turret and hatch arrangement.

This one has a tank commander with a Victoria Miniatures head swap

The decals on this vehicle make it part of a Guards unit.

And finally, as we are well into Autumn (fall) here, a lady at work asked to see a picture of our apple tree - so you get the joy of seeing it too!

Thanks as always for visiting and please let me know what you think of the four tanks - thanks!