Friday, 16 January 2026

Red Army Infantry

 More or less the last of the 3d printed stuff from Australia tonight - eight bog standard infantrymen from The Great Patriotic War.

The Red Army provided the largest ground force in the Allied victory in the European theatre of World War II, and its invasion of Manchuria assisted the unconditional surrender of Japan. During its operations on the Eastern Front, it accounted for 75–80% of the casualties that the Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS suffered during the war, and ultimately captured the German capital, Berlin.

Up to 34 million soldiers served in the Red Army during World War II, 8 million of which were non-Slavic minorities. Officially, the Red Army lost 6,329,600 killed in action (KIA), 555,400 deaths by disease and 4,559,000 missing in action (MIA) (mostly captured). The majority of the losses, excluding POWs, were ethnic Russians (5,756,000), followed by ethnic Ukrainians (1,377,400).[3] Of the 4.5 million missing, 939,700 rejoined the ranks in liberated Soviet territory, and a further 1,836,000 returned from German captivity. The official grand total of losses amounted to 8,668,400


Once again, these are the excellent RKX range of 3D printed miniatures.










I hope you like these figures - I have a couple more batches, mainly from the Polish supplier, to post up, then its going to be a change of pace for a while. 

33 comments:

  1. Love them! Great minis and fantastic painting!

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    1. Thanks Michal I am pleased you think so!

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  2. Nicely painted figures to add to your Eastern front armies.

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  3. These look great as always Keith. The range of kit and poses is tops.
    Best wishes, James

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    1. Cheers James, I do like the huge range of poses available via 3d printing.

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  4. Great additions there Keith:). I must admit I always had a fondness for the Summer smock they wore, which looked so simple but such a useful garment.

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    1. Me too, Steve, plus the fore and aft caps with the red star badge on the front!

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  5. Nice Keith they certainly look Russian 👍

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    1. Thanks Matt - I am very glad to read that!

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  6. Nice poses and great paint work, Keith.

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  7. Thirty-four million, and it seems you are well on the way to achieving that as a goal Keith. Great work again on these.

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    1. Haha...my wife would probably agree with you Lawrence!

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  8. Lovely work mate! How do they scale up next to say, Warlord figs?

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    1. Thanks Dai, I think they work OK together...I will put up a comparison image next post

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  9. Some great figures, Keith. I do like the kneeling machine gunner.

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    1. Thanks Ray - not that I am trying to tempt you or anything - but they do have Winter War figures - see here, for example

      https://ozwargaming.com.au/collections/15-28mm-ww2-miniatures?sort_by=created-descending&filter.p.tag=Finnish

      I am sure you can get them from a UK supplier! I have seen Finns with a Reindeer pack animal - if I was you, I would HAVE to get a couple of those!

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  10. Well they’re jolly arent they. Nicely proportioned and in good poses. Top stuff.

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    1. If you can call hardened Communists with a life expectancy of six weeks jolly, JBM, then, yes, they are! Like hard plastic figures before them, they are able to be much more accurately proportioned than yer traditional metal toy sodgers!

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  11. They look great Keith. The bases are excellent.

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    1. Cheers Ben - out of circulation NZ 2c or 10c copper coins (I can't remember which) I bought about 500 of them for NZ$20 a few years back!

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  12. Super work Keith, very nicely done, they look great miniatures too, very nice.

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    1. Thanks a lot Donnie, they are very nice 3d prints!

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    1. Thanks Jon...you have been a bit quiet recently, everything OK?

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    2. Not OK but home again and trying to get back on track.

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    3. Oh ok - very sorry to hear that - hopefully not anything too impactful.

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  14. Great looking 3d prints, I think the helmets work particularily well?
    Best Iain

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    1. Cheers Iain....do you mean the shape or varying shades of green?! I can only take credit for the latter 😀

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  15. Classic Soviet Infantry…
    Very nice indeed…

    All the best. Aly

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