RCW Tachanka - Finally Completed!

This is another part of my RCW project that has been sitting on the painting table for over a year, waiting to be completed.

During my mass buy up in Nov 2017, I obtained one MDF Tachanka and a couple of individual crew from "Warbases" for the grand cost of about seven quid- a pound each for the drivers and four forty odd for the vehicle. If I had not been so tight, I could have paid twelve pounds fifty and got the entire thing, three horses, three crew, the HMG and the cart....

Anyhoo, long story short, I assembled and painted the Tachanka more or less immediately, then it sat forlornly on the painting table for 16 months until Julian donated three horses and a third crewman. This then motivated me to search the lead pile - in my case it is quite minimal, but like all wargamers, it does exist - and located a WW1 era HMG that was originally intended for use by Old Glory Arabs against a European colonial enemy.

I have now finally combined the various constituent parts and bases the completed model - I think it looks pretty good. I may well get a second one but if I do, I will probably just pay the full price and get everything at once!

This is how the model looked after assembly but before painting

And here are various angles of my completed model

And finally, an image of an RCW memorial statue somewhere in the ex Soviet Union