WW2 Russians for Bolt Action

We picked up the rules and lists for Bolt Action a few days ago, thought we might give em a try.We have plenty of figures painted they just need organising into squads etc.here's a few photos of the Russians, Germans will follow shortly.

Heavy machine gun teams.

Anti Tank Rifle teams.

Heavy Mortar ready for action or (damn thats loud)

12 man rifle section with 2 LMG

10 man rifle section with 1 LMG

Assault section with SMG

T34/76 with supports on board.

Making terrain for 1st Corps 28mm WW2 Operation Kutosov Part II

Its taken longer than intended but here is part II of the terrain blog for the 'Operation Kutosov' game.

 

When the green paint for the grass areas was dry we broke up the  colour using different shades of green and brown spray paint. We used Humbrol  sprays basically because thats what we had at hand.

 

 

 

 

Same idea for the wheat fields, yellow, ochre, sand and pale brown sprays were used.

 

As we'd used an acrylic sealer for the roads we were able to use acrylic paints  to paint the roads.

We went for country dirt roads for a more rural look.

The paints used were emulsion paints mixed for us at a local DIY store. We have a dark earth shade and 2 paler shades for highlighting.

This way we can make sure we  get consistant colours on our figure bases and terrain.

A Corgi 1/50 Panther alongside a 1st Corps 1/48 scale T34

A close up of one of the village strong points usedin the participation game.

Buildings are by Hovels(supplied painted many years ago),fences are the plastic ones by Renedra all mounted on hardboard bases and textured by ourselves.

We'll be releasing our own Eastern Front buildings later this year.

The defensive position at the bottom of the picture as scratch built by ourselves.Maybe thats one for another blog entry.

 

Te game as set up at Partizan in September.

And again.

 

As set up at The Worlds, Derby.

 Unfortunatley the guys that were going to run the participation game couldn't make it to the show  so we set it up as  a static demo game. As w had forgotten the box with the village buildings and some of the German defences we put out every Russian vehicle we had. his came to 15 T34's 3 SU122's and 4 SU85's.

A closer shot of the Russian horde charging across the wheat fields.

All the vehicles and figures are by 1st Corps.

A Corgi Panther awaits the onslaught with 1st Corps German panzer grenadiers  in support.

Materials used.

Teddy bear fur, we used the 'wolf hair ' colour as our base.

supplied by

Fur fabrics and crafts,Tel 0121 7711666

Green paint.  Forest Green fence paint.

Sprays, assorted colours by Humbrol

Acrylic window sealer, dark brown.Available at most DIY stores.

Emulsion paints for roads mixedby local DIY store.

 

 

Operation Kutusov , a 28mm WW2 demo/participation game for salute 2012

To coincide with the our expansion to the WW2 Russian  range, we decided to put together a game for at Salute 2012 and hopefully at other shows we attend round the UK..

I'll be adding updates during the coming weeks showing the progress made towards the game.

Meanwhile here's a brief intro to the game and some photos of a few of the new 28mm Russian vehiclesThe brief has  kindley been put together by Phil Grey of the C20th Wargames Society Wargames Group who will be helping to run the game for us .

Operation Kutusov

The defeat of the German Summer Offensive at Kursk is followed up by Operation Kutusov - to push the Fascist Invaders back to the Dnieper river line.

 As part of this, the 9th Tank Corps, with attached rifle brigade and Army artillery support, is attacking hastily prepared German positions.  Having spent two weeks training for a night action the attack is, naturally, launched at dawn.  Soviet forces need to clear the two lines of villages and take the settlement of Veselaya Kalina, located at the edge of the forest, which controls the road through the dense woodland.

 The assault is going in over partly harvested wheatfields, with the village of Posadka to the fore, and Taborische and Breznyak to the left flank...

 Join Leitnant Vasily Krysov and his comrades in the 1454th and smash the Fascists!

 German strength is unknown, but it is expected the fascists will die hard they usually do.