Still Reducing the Plastic Hoard

Greetings Folks,
I'm still working on things and getting stuff made. I tend to get on to a subject and blitz it for two or three months at a time. At the moment it's WWII, and I can't see myself losing interest at the moment. Every time I play a game I get inspired to keep going. As far as I can recall it's going to be 28mm Pacific Chain of Command this weekend. Japan v's Australia. I'll be borrowing figures for this one.

But back to my own constructions...

I've made a variety of things over the past few days. Again, it's a bit for everyone (keeps me on my toes).

First a couple of Esci M3 75mm GMC's. One for the Brits and one for the US. This was a really nice & easy kit to make. Two models in the box with enough decals for two US or two British versions. So that leaves a nice bunch of extra decals for other things. But they need some crew which I'll get when I visit Eureka in two days time. I think I might get another set of these.

And, while were at it: The U.S. get a few more toys. A troop of M3 Halftracks from PSC. I have some more coming my way that I found going cheap online. And if necessary I can always sub Brit and US halftracks if I need to make up numbers.

A resin M4 76mm. This is a resin model that I picked up from Uncle Les at CANCON a few years back. It had a pretty rudimentary spray job so I decided to give it a repaint and add some decals.

And a little SdKfz 250/9 painted in dunkelgrau for 1939 - '41 Blitzkrieg era. This is also from Uncle Les. It's a 3D print and I believe it's one of his earliest efforts. It's a nice clean print but it's very lacking in detail. Otherwise, it's a nice little model that'll do the job.

And, I made sure those pesky Russian's didn't get left out this time around. They get this behemoth land-dreadnought - T-35. I added some figures to give it some scale but it didn't work out. The pic doesn't really give a true idea of the size of this thing. Even in 20mm - It's bloody huge.

Oh No! I Forgot Uncle Joe

My last post was titled "Something for Everyone," but I left out the Soviets. So, in order to make amends I've given them a little bit of love over the past couple of days.

I inherited a large amount of Soviet stuff from my friend Jim, who passed away. There's a lot of it and I'm slowly sorting out what's what. I don't have a great deal of knowledge regarding Soviet equipment other than their more common tanks, so this is a bit of a learning curve for me.

I had all ready started painting up Soviet infantry before I received Jim's stuff. I started with Zvezda plastics and then decided to do them using AB figures. But amongst the infantry I inhereted were the figures below (with a couple of AB that I added to the mix). I don't know where they came from so, if you can help me identify them it would be very much appreciated (they're nice figures).

I also did some heavy weapons. One of the anti tank rifles is metal (closest to the front) and looks to be the same as the infantry above. Again, help with identifying them would be of great help.

 These look to be from Plastic Soldier Company and Zvezda.

Much of the stuff from Jim only has very rudimentary paint jobs, so I've decided to spruce them up to do them justice. I've decided to start on some of the earlier stuff because, to me, it's a lot more interesting than the later Soviet equipment. I'm going to label these models as Barbarossa to distinguish them from the later equipment.

A couple of BA - 10's

And a little troop of T-26's

And then there's these T34's... They're a bit different form the rest as they've been really well done with lots of stowage and weathering added. The only thing I did with these was the tracks which had been left unpainted. I'm not sure what brand they are but I suspect they might be Revell or maybe Matchbox. Whatever they are... they look nice (I might add some Cyrillic slogan decals).

There's actually two troops of three but I only have one troop ready to go at the moment.