20mm Ivan for Winter War (updated 18.5.)

[gamer Mac]

Lovely work
The snow looks great.

[Verderer]

A bit of threadomancy here, sorry folks. But I haven't forgotten or given up on this project, it's just been under slow boil for awhile. Mostly due to my move to a new apartment, and because I am currently making a WWII Pacific project which is marked 'urgent'. Not that it's going very fast either, but hey there you go... anywho:




Here's a couple of conversion jobs I did recently, firstly a 37mm Bofors AT gun (Stonewall/Combat miniatures?) with a crew from Fantassin. First I replaced the barrel of the gun with a piece of steel wire, because the original was VERY thin and bendy. This is more robust even if it is a bit overscale. The Fantassin crew had '75mm' shells sculpted on them, and these were abyssmally oversize for even 75mm shells, more like 150mm in that scale. Let alone tiny 37mm. So I hacked them off along with the (bare) hands of the minis, and sculpted some mittens holding wire 'shells' that were made form the same material as the barrel. Still oversized of course, but much better than the original ones. Making really tiny shells would have required reposing their arms, and I didn't want to go that far.



Second one contains makings of the two unsung heroes of war, namely the trusty Finnish horse and driver from the supply company. The sled & trappings are scratchbuilt, the horse is from SHQ English civil war range, and the miniature is originally a Combat Minis Russian. Needs a little more work, adding some gear, and the hat isnt' quite right. Painting will come when I get around to it, eventually.

I had a little trouble with lighting and focusing the camera, so the pics look pretty iffy again, sorry about that.
 

[gorgarrak]

Great stuff, I don't know if you have seen the more recent elheim Ruskies in snow suits, I think about 12 new winter riflemen, they might suit your project

Mike

[Verderer]

Yeah, figures he'd get around doing them after I had converted my own!

[Vonkluge]

I love this thread!

[pocoloco]

Great new additions, lovely to see the project continuing.