Eric Blair,a Lady and a tank.

[Blackwolf]

   

[former user]

the bases please
otherwise nice paintjob

well, obviously the three most unappropriate figures to be displayed together

I guess this is a free storytelling contest
let's give it a try:
While recovering from his throat wound in Barcelona, may 1937, he met the then propaganda comissar Olga Vladimirovna Putilova.
She was recovering herself from a serious case of skin irritation caused by cheap ukrainian make-up (here the biographer is silent about which parts of her skin were actually irritated). Unknown to him, Olga was a Trotzkyist who had sought assignment to the SCW in order to escape Cheka investigations.
Seeing her beautiful paintjob, he immediately fell in love with her. Following the outlawing of the POUM, both were arrested and deported to Russia. The next 6 years they spent in a prison in Charkow. When the Cheka tried to evacuate them in an armoured train, the tracks were blown by the combat engineers of a notorious division with a key in their blazon, the train derailed and crashed into a column of newly arrived Hetzers. The photograph shows them on the run while stumbling into an italian propaganda unit.
His words at this sight are reported as: "look Olga, a bottle of Chianti"

[former user]

oh no

this would definetly make too much sense

[Blackwolf]

former user,you are a man after my own heart.Back stories to prosaic pictures ,wonderful.On the subject of bases always seem to do them the night before a game,will do better.............

[former user]

same with me unfortunately

but good pictures like above demonstrate the importance of bases

but the part with the hetzer was weak, so here we go again:
While recovering from his throat wound in Barcelona, may 1937, he met the then propaganda comissar Olga Vladimirovna Putilova.
She was recovering herself from a serious case of skin irritation caused by cheap ukrainian make-up (here the biographer is silent about which parts of her skin were actually irritated). Unknown to him, Olga was a Trotzkyist who had sought assignment to the SCW in order to escape Cheka investigations.
Seeing her beautiful paintjob, he immediately fell in love with her. Following the outlawing of the POUM, both were arrested and deported to Russia. The next 6 years they spent in a prison in Charkow.This prison was part of a secret engineering plant to which blueprints from the Skoda works had been brought and where the soviets managed to build a Hetzer prototype 4 months before the german started serial production. Upon the approach of the front, the Cheka began to evacuate the secret facility. It was during the confusion that the two managed to escape on board the prototype. Since the engineers had drank the kerosine in the assumption it was alcohol, the tank travelled only 15 km before it stopped and force the passenger to continue on foot.
 The photograph shows them on the run while stumbling into an italian propaganda unit.
His words at this sight are reported as: "look Olga, a bottle of Chianti"

[argsilverson]

Lovely story and minis!