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Miniatures Adventure => The Second World War => Topic started by: Elbows on June 02, 2020, 07:33:06 PM
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Having played a handful of games of Battlegroup in the past, I've always liked the system. I collected some stuff to start trying it in 28mm a few years back and abandoned the idea shortly after.
One of my buddies and I were waiting for Battlegroup NORTHAG...but were a bit disappointed with the 10mm "ultracast" stuff, and have decided to steer back into classic WW2 Battlegroup.
So...I spent a chunk o' money and started building a Soviet force. Here is the result of the first few weeks. A load of vehicles en route from various places in Europe, but as always, knock out the infantry first!
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I applaud your proletarian zeal!
Dont let your desire to protect the Revolution from Hitlerite agressors or Trotskyite backsliders turn into praetorianism though. Ok?
We'll be watching...
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At this point, I simply assumed that after one or two minor losses I'd be executed or sent to the gulag...so there's that. :D
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While not exciting...if I'm chronicling stuff, I'm chronicling stuff! Some Flames of War entrenchments for use with Battlegroup as various defenses. A nice little box of pre-painted stuff....that I then immediately re-painted for a more natural look. FoW had some weird colour choices in their pre-painted scheme.
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Will probably pick up the sandbag and wooden log versions in the future.
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Looks good!
I’ve based individually but this looks good.
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Yeah, at 15mm and playing Russians I decided almost immediately not to individually base. I simply use wound tokens until a base is removed.
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And I'm plowing on...having finished the bulk of my needed basic infantry (other small infantry teams, units, specialists will be needed...but mainline infantry are more or less complete!).
Pardon the poor pictures, quick phone snaps.
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A second rifle platoon (third platoon total), an extra 50mm mortar and a sapper squad.
The "so far" army sitting in a tray;
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Excellent work. Battlegroup is an outstanding game that works brilliantly in 15mm and at different game sizes. FotR Russians (Just need infantry I have most of the motor pool needed) will probably be my next force after I finish my British 1944+. I’m basing individually but can see the benefits of multi basing especially in horde like groups of Russians.
Keep up the good work,
BALM
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Adding some more armour options and a few extra mortars.
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Looks good!
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Finished a few more units, and got in a great game of Battlegroup today.
The current Soviet force:
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Very nice indeed!
Is the cloth/matt a commercially available one?
DB
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It is an old, Version 1 "Steppe" mat from Deepcut Studios. A few months ago they released a new "Steppe" mat in Version 2 (probably nicer art, etc.). No experience with the latter one, so the one in the picture is not technically available anymore.
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The horde is growing...and I've been taking too many mediocre pics, so that's all that's being put up!
Fact #106: BA-64 Scout Cars are adorable. (repaints)
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Repainted this IL-2.
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Repainted this P-39.
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Repainted this Yak-1. (yes, the decals are old, some are still setting...but overall, not very successful)
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I've received a ton of vehicles lately, so the armour portion will get kicked into high gear. Here is a trio of T-70 light tanks:
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Oh, and forgot about these support teams I painted:
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And another platoon of infantry - PSC this time. They're nicer than I first thought. Don't match well on the same base as FoW, but they would be fine on the table together.
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Nice.
Yes BA-64s are cute.
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While not a perfect facsimile...I bashed some BM-8-24 rocket launcher vehicles from some Katyusha and T-70 kits.
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Basically obsolete T-60 chassis were outfitted with Katyusha style launchers...a bit shorter, and sometimes on a turntable. These T-70s are incorrect chassis, but close...and the launchers are something I'd argue would have been feasible.
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Well, a lot of stuff has been going on for the Soviets.
Two Su-85 tank hunters (Battlefront minis).
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A handful of 4Ground cabins assembled, some painted - and ghetto thatch roofs added
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Two more Zis-42M halftracks, two M3 White Scout cars, and a third Su-76 (to complete the platoon)
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Three more KV-1's (one with a ghetto turret)
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Two Zis-42M halftracks and one Zis-5 truck (several more of those on the way!)
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Some halftracks with "supply" inserts - I've assembled some other inserts to swap duties between trucks and halftracks (they share the same bed size)
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Another insert - this is a kit-bashed crane (no real reference was used...just...bored). Used for repair/recovery duty.
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Lovely work! Although I have to ask what makes just one of the KV-1S turrets 'ghetto'? I understand what you mean with the thatch roofs, but the turrets have me stumped.
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I started building one of the three as a KV-1S...then abandoned it mid-build (why it has the S rear and fuel cans) - I had also assembled the S turret...so the KV turret got the wrong gun (and it doesn't technically match the vehicle's other bits).
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I started building one of the three as a KV-1S...then abandoned it mid-build (why it has the S rear and fuel cans) - I had also assembled the S turret...so the KV turret got the wrong gun (and it doesn't technically match the vehicle's other bits).
Yep, I see it now!
Ah well. You've still done a cracking job :D
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Great army. I like the support vehicles especially !
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Wonderful force with some really cool conversions. :) Who makes the ZiS halftracks?
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that's an impressive collection you're putting together there.
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Wonderful force with some really cool conversions. :) Who makes the ZiS halftracks?
The Zis are from the Axis and Allies miniatures game. They did a Zis-5 truck and a Zis-42M halftrack. They're some of the nicer miniatures from that game. I picked eBay clean of a bunch of them as they're robust/simple/nicely sculpted.
I grabbed mine for around $4 a pop which is the same as the cheap Zvezda kits - but less work (and Zvezda trucks are reaaaaallly fragile).
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Really snazzy collection. Wonderfully put together and painted.
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I've been churning through stuff lately.
I traded my buddy for his log entrenchments and then repainted them. Feels more properly Soviet.
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Picked up a couple Axis & Allies Su-122s and "prettied" them up slightly so they better match proper 15mm miniatures.
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They ended up pretty good - despite the detail being really soft on them.
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Testing some new 3mm Sintra roads I made. My Fat Franks ones from eBay curl a bit more than I like, so I'm messing around with a stiffer solution. That causes its own problems...but we'll see. Will play test with my "new" roads for a bit.
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Spent the last two days going back and touching up a bunch of vehicles, adding decals and re-doing some colours to match the ones I've settled on.
Also knocked out another five vehicles.
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1x Zvezda KV-1
2x Battlefront Su-100
2x PSC M5 Halftracks
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An additional group of T-34/43's.
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And a single picture from a 500 point game of Kursk today:
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I went back with my last T-34's on hand...and decided to make some specialized units. An OT-34 (flamethrower version), a T-34 ARV (armour recovery vehicle), and a Forward HQ version (with spare turret to run as a normal tank).
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Excellent painting! I really need to steal a couple of your ideas on mine (early) t-34.
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A couple of ruined/destroyed cabins from 4Ground. Added some paint, some debris, and some thatch roofs.
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Great look to those 4ground buildings, really nicely done. I’m saving pics of your Soviet vehicles for when I finally get around to doing mine.
Keep up the good work,
BALM
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Thanks, I picked up a large order of 4Ground for a decent deal (if you order over a certain amount they ship free to the US). I also did some bunkers but I'm not happy with how they look so they won't be featuring too prominently in this thread :D
With nine buildings, I can now have a small Russian village!
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Great thread!
Those cabins are ace! :-*
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I had some of the 4ground bunkers as a birthday present and wasn’t that impressed with them. I usually love their stuff and don’t mind the fact that you can see the where the tabs fit but the bunkers were quite bad and the removable roof created a join line that really irritated me and sent them to straight back to my hobby mountain to think about what they’d done :)
BALM
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Yeah, I don't mind them, particularly for the price (less than equivalent resin ones). I'm using earth texture to cover some seems (looks kinda/sorta like concrete), but they're definitely not my favourite items. It's nice that they fit FoW sized bases. I'll end up replacing them with resin ones from Ironclad or some such eventually. Having said that, you can never have too many bunkers - so they won't be ditched.
In retrospect I should have built them onto a larger base with a lot of added build-up, etc. Still, they do the part for now.
The joins are always an issue with MDF, but I do find it far more noticeable at 15mm. Hence the ghetto thatch roofage!
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Having more or less "completed" my Soviet army in a mad dash last year...I've finally come back around to add some fun and variety to it. Found another local player and I've been able to play Battlegroup a couple times lately.
So...yesterday I built three Plastic Soldier Company Churchills - choosing MkIIIs.
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And then today I planned to prime them...instead I finished them in a single sitting. I'll snap a better picture at some point!
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And my overall Soviet vehicle depot is starting to outstrip my actual storage...
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Brilliant work Elbows. I’m building my Russians now, have just based the first SMG platoon and supports and some vehicles. Excellent motor pool picture (I saved it to peruse for inspiration). I’m really missing playing so just looking at nice collections helps to inspire me. What’s next?
BALM
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While the army is more than complete enough for almost any game...Battlegroup features so many cool/unique options that I'll just be tinkering - and eventually adding some stuff for early war...and late war, etc. I was smart enough to knock out the basic infantry first!
I've got some more Churchills to build, a handful more halftracks. I'll probably be doing an ambulance halftrack, a tented aid station, etc. I have enough infantry to make a few more special units, etc.
Basically whatever tickles my fancy is what's getting built. I also want some more less-than-awesome tank options. More T-60s or T-70's, and some Valentine III's, etc.
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Fantastic, not sure how I missed this, plan to start my soviets in the spring.
Cheers
Matt
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I totally agree. Battlegroup gives you such options and such diverse/unusual units (that don’t often get any table time in most other games) and they are actually usable and do something, that you end up adding all kinds of cool stuff and little conversions/vignettes/diorama pieces.
BALM
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Yep. I just found some decent 3D printing files for the variety of Soviet heavy tractors, etc...so I'm hoping to get a buddy to print me some large Komintern and Voroshilovets stuff too. Exciting times! :D
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I whipped up the last two Churchills as proper MkIV versions with the cast turret, a spare fuel tank and the mud guards in place. Made up a simple camouflage scheme as well.
One of the MkIIIs from yesterday is shown for comparison.
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I really like those Elbows, and the mkIII and mkIV paint schemes work very nicely together as well.
BALM
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Thanks. It's too easy for a Soviet army to become a sea of the same colour green (4B0 I think). So as you can see from my vehicle bin, I have a handful of units that are painted differently. With the Churchills I wanted two entirely different unit schemes - and I figured someone would camo-paint their tank...risking a couple years in a gulag.
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Been doing a bunch of little weird "finish it up" projects.
Two more Maxim teams and two halftracks - one of which is designated as an ambulance.
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This little 1/144 Zvezda Po-2. A tiny little kit with really poor detail, but it'll do the job.
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A little Forward Aid Post (really useful in Battlegroup) Due to lack of medical figures/casualties, this is simply an officer checking in with the two medics I do have.
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The big project yesterday/today was making three defenses - for use as foxholes, trenches, gun or mortar pits, etc. Basically anything to represent many of the defences in the army lists.
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Smaller one is sized to take an FoW scale artillery/AT base.
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The other two are each sized to hold three FoW bases - and you can sneak a small additional base in with this guy.
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This one also holds three normal bases for infantry or MG teams, etc.
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Because the pits are sized for FoW bases they're obviously a bit large and would even be suitable for 20mm figures (which I don't own/use). Combined with bunkers, I'll soon have a pretty fun defensible area. Need some barbed wire and some minefield indicators.
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Very nice painting.
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I like your forward aid post. Great scenics fella.
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Your entrenched positions look great, and speak USEFUL.....I need to make some of these up for 1/144th scale (you're givin' me some inspiration)! :-*
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Thanks. They're not realistic, but they are made to be useful, like you said. I couldn't do the stacked earth because they just started becoming way too big.
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nice :-* :-* :-*
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I may have gotten slightly carried away with the defenses...
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A small mortar/machine gun pit, a netted observation post, and a log bunker complex.
The complex has a removable roof for the bunker and spaces for a number of units for Battlegroup.
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Starting a small German opfor. I picked up three of these Panzer IV Ausf. H's from the "Hit the Beach" starter box that my buddy didn't need. Not...jazzed with my paint results, but they're good enough. They'll receive decals in the future when I actually get some.
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Some great progress there my friend. I really like your bunkers/entrenchments and have done something similar (I love that little log bunker complex and will copy soon!). Keep up the good work.
BALM
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Thanks, yeah it's nice to have a solid defensive set-up now. Will be doing minefields and barbed wire to accompany it. It's fun designing the little trench sections...but after this batch I don't want to touch a saw for a bit :D
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Well, my Fallschirmjaegers have received more support - waiting on some spray cans to actually knock out the infantry units.
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2x Kubelwagens
3x StuG III F/8s
3x Kettenkrad (with drivers based alongside, since mine didn't come with riders)
2x PaK40's with FJ crewmen.
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The Fallschirmjaegers have actual Fallschirmjaegers now...the force is growing. One platoon finished, command and support elements on the way. Also added a thiccc StuH 42 (which I ended up painting twice because I hated the first paintjob!)
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Now I can host small games, or even play solo if I get that bored. Needed someone to step in front of my Soviets.
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I needed a couple of Marders so I kit-bashed some using cheap Axis & Allies miniatures from eBay.
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They were a bit of work, but not bad for a simple afternoon project. They look better at tabletop height.
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They look good from this height too. :-*
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Some pre-fab and home-made terrain for my Russian village.
A 15mm church from Things from the Basement (it's okay, not amazing, but came out looking fine!)
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Some scratch built fenced yards (I'll be making a few more to fill out the town)
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And some ever exciting telephone/telegraph poles...
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Oh cracking work!
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Adding to the German opfor. A Jagdpanther (my favourite German AFV) and a bunch of random stuff (engineers, mortars, radio teams, HQ's, kubelwagens).
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It looks really yellow in this pic...but you can see from the pic above it's not.
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Very nice Jagdpanther. :-*
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Another "big cat" I will rarely use, but it helped me get free shipping. lol
Tiger II (Zvezda, 15mm)
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Fantastic project, a pleasure to follow it.
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A game today where I faced my own damn Germans!
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After pushing back the Germans in yesterday's game...we kept the table (and most of the destroyed vehicle hulks!) and the Germans launched a counter-attack. The Soviet survivors from the first game were dug in, waiting for reinforcements.
The town of Pepyanguska
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A Pz. 222 shelling the church from distance with its autocannon.
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The Germans perform a pincer attack - hitting the town from both directions.
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The destroyed KV-2 from yesterdays game was repaired enough to operate the turret and it helped fend off the German armour.
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While the Germans suffered egregious casualties, the arrival of several Stukas helped save the day and the numerically superior Soviet force withdrew under heavy bombing.
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Lovely table.
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Cool table, models, everything!
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Been a while, but some updates.
When I began my 15mm BG project I started my initial Soviets with several Zvezda kits. They all featured slightly different paint schemes, and some slapdash decals, etc. I put this lot up for sale on eBay and luckily no one picked it up (for a steal even!) :D So...out came the ultrasonic cleaner and alcohol. I stripped many of these down, re-gunned them, swapped out some turrets, added stowage, added some battle damage, and then repainted/re-decal'ed the lot. I still have a few more on the way.
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Recovered units:
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Nice recovery. :D :D :D Great painting on those soviet tanks. :-* :-* :-*
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A wave of Zvezda kits to fill out some small gaps for both my Soviets and the German opfor.
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I dont consider an elephant a “ small gap”! Lol
Good work though.
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Sure it is...any vehicle in 15mm is a small gap proposition!
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Great stuff, you have me mulling over a Soviet project although I have vowed to never do WW2 again.
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When I began running Soviets in Battlegroup I rushed to paint up my air support and they've bugged me ever since. I decided to repaint them entirely.
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They look great!
Are these 15 mm or 1/144?
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Very tidy indeed. :)
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They're 15mm or 1/100 from the Axis & Allies Bandits High game.
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Over a year ago, a buddy of mine printed me some Soviet vehicles - I only recently convinced him to actually mail them to me!
The first of my Soviet tractor farm, some STZ-5's and Kominterns.
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Added two 'Karelian Sculptors' to my force, along with heavy Voroshilovets tractors to tow them. I need to buy/paint suitable crews for the guns.
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So, my buddy's car was stolen (and recovered) a few weeks ago. One of the only things stolen was the box containing his Battlegroup minis (Germans). I have suitably reprimanded him for leaving them in the car, but now he's lacking motivation to rebuild German infantry units, etc. I used this as inspiratinon (or excuse...is there much difference?) to add to my small Fallschirmjaeger force.
While not the staggering size of my Soviet force, my FJs are getting some additional units in the next week, starting with this small collection:
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I've added a sniper team, a loader team, an additional tripod MG34/42, a 75mm recoiless gun, and a forward aid post.
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This brings my FJ fighting strength (infantry-wise) to two well supported platoons. This tends to be enough for most games with Germans as they're expensive. My FJ's serve from Kursk to Normandy, and I've got a bundle of tanks/additional AT guns on the way.
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Received the Kasserine box from Flames of War. While I detest that game, I love the deals you can get on 15mm miniatures from their starter boxes!
I painted up two of the 50mm guns (I had painted the crews yesterday in anticipation of receiving the box). I added an MG loader team, a 120mm heavy mortar team, and a small FJ scout squad armed with several panzerfausts.
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Also played some 20mm Battlegroup this evening:
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It's been a little over 24 hours since I received this:
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And so I did the 50mm guns last night, and these six tanks last night and today.
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Trying to get the 15mm bug out of my system, but it's been a nice break from 28mm stuff I've been knocking out lately.
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Great work on all of the above mate, particularly like the 203mms and the Lees, there's always something refreshing seeing a tank you're accustomed to seeing in 8th Army camo in full Red Army fig.
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Yeah, it's why I think the Soviets are arguably the silliest army to play. You have access to "most" of the entire Allied catalogue, including their less successful options. The only thing I can't use from the Kasserine box is the M4A1 Shermans as they didn't send those to the Soviets.
I don't particularly like Shermans or some of the later Allied stuff, but I love silly stuff like the tiny Stuart, the big Churchill, the bizarre M3 Lee, etc. So being able to field them alongside the army I like the most is excellent.
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While shuffling stuff around my hand 4L RUB's, I decided to take some pictures of the amassed 15mm madness. Not bad for a bit over a year and a half of collecting/painting.
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I wanted to add some heavy armour to counter the German big cats...
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I've been plowing through the Kasserine contents...
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I'm done painting tanks...(cough...cough)
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Aces to you for looking after your buddy. Well done!
Nice minis you've done up, as well...
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Oh, we've made lemonade out of the lemons...he's decided it's time to start British and he's already ordered some. lol
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After blitzing through the Kasserine box like a rabid squirrel...I've painted my last tank from the box for a while, a Panzer III quickly converted to a Panzer III N - adapted as a Flammpanzer. Removed the side visor ports from the turret, made a "tank/pump" out of a spare Churchill unit, added some hosing from a Tiger tank exhaust and added a thicker "faux" barrel to the front.
So, since getting the box on Thursday I've smashed out:
2x 50mm Guns
3x Panzer III L's
3x M3 Grants
3x Stuart M3A1s
2x Panzer III N's
1x Panzer III Flammpanzer.
The rest goes into storage of gets flipped on eBay to recoup some of the cost of the box.
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Nice job on that flammpanzer. Looks good!
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So, since this project is at the "playable" status, I don't often crank out 15mm stuff. However, it's a nice break from all the 28mm fantasy and sci-fi stuff I've been doing.
I picked up the absurdly well priced 'Kursk' box recently and have been adding some more cats for my German force. Some buddies expressed interest in more Normandy based games, so I want more options for the later war German stuff. Weirdly, I also did not have a single Tiger for my FJ support.
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I have a large batch of 3D printed Eastern Front buildings on the way too, so I hope to add to my table sometime soon.
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Adding some post-Kursk armour to the Soviets. Nothing too exciting, just more...green T-34's. This time with 85mm's.
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Expanded my Soviet village into a Soviet town with some 15mm 3D printed buildings (FDM) from Patrick Miniatures on Etsy.
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Really solid buildings. Decent prints (for FDM), and they disassemble for using the interiors nicely.
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Finding myself with a somewhat uncharacteristic backlog of miniatures (too many projects on the go at once, I s'pose), I decided to find something quick and simple I could get out of the painting queue.
A platoon of 15mm Valentines in Lend Lease use with the Soviets (Flames of War minis from the Kursk box I picked up recently).
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Nice thread, I do 20mm, but I appreciate a nicely painted 15mm figure.
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Well, that's more great looking stuff! The tanks look spiffy, and I love what you've done with those buildings...
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It may seem like sacrilege...but as a Soviet player, I'm not a huge fan of the T-34. I'm a KV guy through and through. However, almost every FoW starter box comes with T-34's and they're definitely a staple for Soviet forces. So I threw together my last three (well I have one more on sprue I likely won't bother with) T-34/85s. I didn't bother building the shorter barrel turrets though I may do that in the future if really bored...
I now have maybe 7-9 of the short barrels, and six of the T-34/85's...so that's enough T-34's to see me through most scenarios. I am also really tired of the FoW T-34 kit as it's old, poor to assemble, and its mold is showing a lot of use. The tracks lean in, the front fenders don't line up, there's a lot of sprue flash, and the plastic is mediocre.
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Using 15mm to get me out of a non-hobby funk over the past two weeks. I grabbed the PSC 231 8-Rad kit and whipped up three of the five.
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They look great! Good job!
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Just spent a fascinating half hour, reading this thread, and drooling over the piccys.
Elbowski, I reckon they should make you a Hero of the Soviet Union!
:-*
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Da, comrade! lol
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I took a rather uninspiring die-cast from eBay and gave it a quick re-paint. It's not period correct, but it'll pass as air support.
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Period-correct or not, it looks good to me!
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Thanks, been after a Stuka which wasn't $30+ for a while..sadly this die-cast was pretty underwhelming when I got it (but it wassss cheap). I just winged the paint job without bothering to research it, lol.
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Trying to trim down the pile of 15mm plastic I've acquired recently. I knocked out some of the new Zvezda T-70's. Not a fan of the kit (way too 'true scale' and thus super tiny pieces...if you're all thumbs this kit will be a nightmare). However, done and painted, I'm happy enough. I love T-70's.
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Looking great sir! I do like some of the zvesda kits but they can be fragile (the Opel Blitz’s kits suspension comes to mind) in some places.
Did you see the news about Battlegroup?
Balm
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Yeah, some of the Zvezda kits lately have been really good, but the old BA-10 was something like 26 pieces...an absolute travesty for a 15mm kit. It's the gold standard of garbage/frustration for building 15mm.
I saw the BG news, but honestly I don't play this game enough to be excited, etc. I also won't be playing a "different scale" of WW2 (as they mentioned a NORTHAG-style alternate version). I enjoy painting up 15mm WW2 and every now and then I get a game in, but my whole BG group disappeared as usual.
The other guys I used to play with are 40K players and they abandond projects regularly.
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Cute little tanks you did there. :D Nice job!
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Great looking project
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I haven't painted much recently - almost exclusively terrain and working on actually finishing up some games. However...15mm is a nice palette cleanser when I don't want to paint anything, but can whip out some simple vehicles in about an hour.
Zvezda SU-152 pair. (One is new, one is my old one that I stripped to repaint)
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Those SU-152s look good!
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Thanks Cap, I keep going back to 15mm as the palette cleanser. I have acquired a rather absurd collection at this point, and it's still growing. I'd say...65-70% of the models I own and have painted have never seen the table in anger. Too bad, but at least I'll have them on hand if I ever trick anyone into playing BG.
May have to start running solo-games myself or something.
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To balance out the Soviet heavy armour I repainted my old Elefant and painted a partner for it.
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ohhh they look Lovely
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Let's keep the silliness rolling: a Zvezda Jagdtiger. Another German monster that will likely never see the table - short of designing a scenario around it. I love these little $3.50 kits, and it's fun to get to do up all the weird German stuff.
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Those things sure look good, too!
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I don't yet have any panzergrenadiers to go with them, but I had a small stack of 251 half-tracks, so I assembled and painted them today. One of the reasons I like 15mm. It's dead easy to whip up a platoon of vehicles in an afternoon.
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Nice looking half-tracks. Well done.
Do you have the grunts to go with them?
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Nope. I only have a large amount of Fallschirmjaeger painted up. I've been adding lots of German vehicles simply so I can do scenarios. I may eventually paint up a single platoon of basic panzer grenadiers to go with them. Right now, I simply proxy my FJ as basic Pz-grens because their squad sizes match.
I've developed some 'random force creation' tables that we use when playing Battlegroup - and stupidly used the whole Kursk book instead of just models I own. So frequently rolling random units in half-tracks. They'll be good to have on hand.
I added these PSC Steyr Cars today - and heads up, the kit is absolutely awful (at least in 15mm). You have to hack and chop all kinds of stuff to make them fit...not sure how they let that slip by the initial production process. Terrible kits. Shame since I adore the vehicles. I'm not happy with my paintjob, but they're serviceable.
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To clean the taste of the Steyr Heavy Cars out of my mouth I whipped up these two Nashorns - a newer kit from Battlefront. Superb as always. I had five, but it's a dual kit that makes Hummels and I don't fancy using much on-table artillery for games (feels a little silly to me, always has), so I sold off three. Made the last two into these nice Nashorns/Hornisses.
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I just worked through the entire thread and that was time absolutely well spend! Your painting is top notch and your collection at this point very impressive and very inspiring to someone with a huge backlog of 15mm WW2 miniatures.
Keep it up, I am looking forward to seeing even more!
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Thanks, it's been a fun project. I don't play BG often enough to really warrant all this stuff, but I have it on hand..so why not paint it. It's been a process "learning" how to paint 15mm stuff. Almost all of my original Soviet stuff has been repainted or sold off and replaced as I'm figuring out the tricks and methods to doing it all!
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I recently sold off my original Panzer IV H platoon (featured back several pages) because I was really unhappy with the colour. I had some more from a later army starter box...so I replaced them today.
The original platoon:
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The new replacement platoon:
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You have got some great looking replacements there!
Are the numbers on the turrets decals or painted by hand?
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Oh definitely decals :D
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I'm not sure why I buy Flames of War army boxes...because my "box lid of 15mm kits" seems friggin' bottomless right now despite me plowing through kits.
An Ostwind and Wirbelwind for some anti-air cover.
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Great stuff Elbows! Almost in the same boat…… I looked at the Battlegroup books, got over excited and started collecting both sides but for most of what was possible instead of being sensible and planning specific forces - which was a mistake! I especially like the fact that not everything is necessarily a tank and smaller even non-combat vehicles have their place on the tabletop.
The Steyr kits is one of the things that may have pushed me over the edge - one thing I can still do is build a small plastic kit, oh accordingly not! They make a lovely end piece but the path to them is simply not worth it :D (I bought some expensive tiny clamps in a closing down sale and I’m going to try again….)
Thank you for posting,
Andrew
BeneathALeadMountain
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Yeah, I enjoy having as many options as possible, but my neurosis is that I keep selling off and re-doing kits "better". The Steyr heavy cars were a shame, and yeah...nearly broke me! lol
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And now to replace the two Panthers I sold on eBay...three different Panthers.
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I had a few sprues of the Battlefront panzergrenadiers on hand, so I mustered up enough to produce a single PzGren platoon (to use the halftracks I recently painted). Not great sculpts, but they'll be serviceable.
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Started re-doing more of my original Soviet stuff, and added a few 3D printed jeeps.
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I am sooo close to getting out from under the 15mm mountain...
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Nice work on those
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While not terribly exciting... I recently picked up a large set of Crescent Root's 15mm 'Normandy'-esque buildings. I ordered some brick and stone walls to add to the table.
I find Normandy pretty boring, as growing up in America, we've more or less been taught that WW2 only consisted of Pearl Harbor, Normandy, Iwo Jima, and Stalingrad. However, I have two buddies with British forces, and two buddies with American forces...so I wanted an alternate table for non-Eastern Front stuff.
I ordered some brick and stone walls from Monday Knight Productions(?) and they're...as bad as I expected. Very classic late-90's "convention" level terrain. I spent a lot of time scraping off flash, sanding the bottoms flat, and cutting off extraneous junk. I think I salvaged them. These will be used along with the Normandy buildings to make some farms and just add cover to the table.
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Not my best work, but finally got my hands on some variety of prime movers for my Germans. All 3D prints. My transport selection for my Germans is growing rapidly alongside the scout selections.
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They’re looking great - I love the variations in Dunkelgelb.
Andrew
BeneathALeadMountain
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Thanks...annoyingly the other colours are me trying to find a "good" version of Dunkelgelb. Stuff like the two Opel Blitzes in the top left will probably be repainted, etc. Turns out Vallejo's spray paints (while fantastic) have a terrible version of Dunkelgelb. :(
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:D I don’t feel so bad now. I found painting Dunkelgelb hard work as I was never sure I’d got it right.
Andrew
BeneathALeadMountain
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My current "fix" is...dumb. It's Vallejo Bone spray...followed by Vallejo "Dark Khaki Green" armour wash...and then Army Painter strong tone. Somehow it just gives me the right look I wanted.
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The last of the German 3D prints I received, a pair of 20mm FlaK guns. One with an FJ crew, and one with a panzergrenadier crew. They can be towed by the small SdKfz. 10 halftracks.
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Finally replaced my old Zvezda BA-10's (a historically bad kit...and poorly painted) with some 3D printed replacements. I can already see the long road ahead of "rescuing" most of my Soviet vehicles with updated models/paintjobs!
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Replacing the old (awful) Zvezda BA-10 kits.
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My four-liter bin count is now at: six bins for the Soviets, and five bins for the Germans.
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And (drum roll) the last in my stack of 15mm shame...(for now at least) a pair of Battlefront Panzer III M's. Really happy with the results on these guys - using the new Victrix decals which are superb (if pricey).
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I sat down to hobby yesterday and forgot I needed to finish off this second set of walls I'd ordered. Really poor resin walls, but with a lot of chopping/cleaning/changing and basing..acceptable.
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Bit slow but they are very nice. Excellent palette choice on the stone.
Andrew
BeneathALeadMountain
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Wall looks fine to me! And that panzer is a work of art :-* … looks real enough to roll out my screen and shoot my in the head lol
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Thanks, I'm pretty happy with the project. I'm more or less done with the Germans and will be re-doing my Soviets to a higher standard as I have time/money/patience.
The current 15mm collection (with individual box pictures on the blog)
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Such a sight would bring warmth to my heart, well done. I wish I had 10% of your drive and output currently :D
Andrew
BeneathALeadMountain
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Been going hard on some ancients/fantasy lately, but managed to knock out these five yesterday afternoon.
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