Russian hordes!

Hi, here's a new post about some of my 20mm figures. This time painted and based Russians.

The soldiers seems to be chinese copies of airfix kits but I don't know which illegal manufacturer precisely?

But if somebody knows whichs figures these are and were to purchase let me know.

The 3 battalions exists of

- 1 commandbase (2 figures)

- 4 squads of 4 bases (32 figures)

A total of 102 figures

The three battalions.

A photo of one of the battalions.

Another shot of some soldiers.

A closeup of one of the battalions.

Greets,

Stalingrad (15mm part VI)

This is sixth part which is covers all my already buildings in some sort of temporarily Stalingrad.

The district near the tractorfactory!

The small ruin in the workersdistrict.

A birdsview of the workersdistrict, check the small fences made of matches in the left bottom.

A small part of stalingrad in all it's glory, you can see the tractorfactorydistrict and the workersdistrict.

How to storage all that terrain? can't have a game my playingtable is now also a storingspace for my algrowing collection of terrain pieces.

Stay tuned for more Stalingrad!!! Buildings such as Pavlovs house, the grain elevator, the central station, the warehouse, the Mamev Kurgan, more ruines and rubble, ...

Stalingrad (15mm part V)

This is the fifth part of my Stalingrad project, this part will cover 3 burned down workershouses.

I still need to paint the burning damage but I haven't a clue how to do it?

The remains of the workershouses after a fierce fire, the only thing that's remaining are the brick chimneys. the German soldiers called those burned down districts, the graveyards because of the distinctive shape of the chimneys and the little cover you could find in those areas.

Another picture of the houses, the chimneys were made of pieces of polystrene. The actual buildings are remains were made of pieces wood.

A birdsview over the graveyard.

Stay tuned more will follow, ...

Stalingrad (15mm part IV)

This is the already the fourth part of my stalingrad project. This part covers 4 ordinary stone houses and 1 ruined stone house to fill up some space on my battlefield.

Here you can see 2 of my houses, these were the easiest to make just a square shape of cartonboard, a flat roof and some windows and doors in the frontside.

The other 2 buildings, ...

The 4 houses lined up, these are forming a niece boulevard!

The same boulevard after an German airraid, check the second house which was been bombed by a Stuka bombdiver, ...

The bombed house, a bit closer. Behind the bombed house, the tractorfactory building and a small ruine.

Stay tuned more will follow, ...

Stalingrad (15mm part III)

Here you can see the third part of my Stalingrad project which cover trenches, fountains and rubblepiles.

A small fountain made of a angel candle, textured with PVA and sand. The entire fountain was based on a cd. The ring around the angel was an empty tape ring.

Another fountain made on the exactly same way as the first. However i used on this fountain some 15mm soldiers which I cutted up. You can also see the rubblepiles on this pictures, these were very easy to made just cut out a irregular shape of MDF, sand it. Then add a pile a plaster and put some pieces of wood, polystrene and bricks in it. Paint it and ready to rumble, ...

"Bricks in 15mm scale you can make by cutting up matches with a scissor or stanleyknife."

Here you can see one of my 3 trenchpieces, these were made by making a base shape of the trench with polystrene. On this baseshape I added the supports and after that I added plaster, wood, pieces of polystrene to resemble rubble.

A picture of my 5 rubblebases and my one of my fountains.

Stay tuned more will follow, ...

Stalingrad (15mm part II)

Here you can see the second part of my stalingrad project which covers 2 ruined appartment buildings. These building are not based on some real buildings from stalingrad but were build based on my feel of a ruined appartment.

The 2 ruined buildings based on MDF of hardboard textured with a canvass (for painting paintings on) and pieces of textured wallpaper (free examples at your local shop). The same basics as the other building,thes buildings were also textured with PVA and sand.

Picture from another angle, where you can see the rubble inside the buildings. The building were made of cartonboard cut out with a stanleyknife and taped with tape to hide the corrugated side of the cartonboard.

Picture where you can see pieces of the remaining floors.

On this picture you can clearly see the textured base and rubble.

And at last a birds view, I really like this picture!

Stay tuned more will follow soon,...

Stalingrad (15mm part I)

Here you can see the first part of my Stalingrad project. This part covers the tractorfactory bureau which was my first piece for the stalingrad board. i tried to keep it standard so I can also use it for other setting like Berlin, Vietnam teth offensive, Paris, etc

Original building, ...

And my building in all it's glory with some trenches and a homemade fountain inspirated by the real fountain featered in the film "Enemy at the gates". You can also see some russian propaganda posters with slogans like "papa is todt" and a picture of the great leader "Stalin".

The building was made of cartonboard, textured with other pieces of cartonboard and sand. the rubble was made of cheap plaster and pieces of matches I cut to look like bricks. on this picture i still need to attach the pillars.

The backside of the building with a big hole, those damned german invaders!!

Another picture of the artillery damage and inside rubble,...

stay tuned,...