15mm WW2 Tachanka

As I mentioned in a previous post, Julian purchased a couple of "end of line" Tachankas from some online retailor, that were listed as 28mm at a price that seemed too good to be true - and it was, because when they turned up, they were actually FoW WW2 in 15mm! No use to Julian - but as I have a 15mm WW2 Russian collection, he kindly donated them to me.

It comes in about ten parts - four horses, separate shafts for the rear two horses, the spar that the shafts attach onto, two axles, four wheels, the HMG and three crewmen - quite fiddly to put together in this scale as you may imagine!

I put it off for a couple of weeks and then the assembled model sat on the painting table for another week or so till I undercoated it a couple of days ago. I then completed the whole thing from start to finish in about two hours yesterday - its always a revelation how quick and easy it is to pant modern 15mm figures - Napoleonics etc would be a bit different I imagine!

I searched through the multitude of box files in the garage to find the 20 bases of mounted Peter Pig Cossacks I painted 15 or 20 years ago, just to make sure the uniforms matched - and as I went to the trouble of finding them, I touched up some of the paintwork and put some of the bases into the final shot below....