Modern wars in 1/35- project log

[AKULA]

Love the new additions 

[Freddy]

Thanks guys!

I would NOT want to meet that chick with the grenade launcher in a dark alley.  Or even a well-lit one...

She does not even need the grenade launchers to be dangerous

[AKULA]

Apologies if you mentioned it elsewhere, but where are the civvies from?

[Freddy]

Apologies if you mentioned it elsewhere, but where are the civvies from?

Which ones? They are mostly from MiniArt and MasterBox, also some random resin pieces.

[Freddy]

Two more Soviets for Afghanistan (paratroopers from Zvezda, but I will use them as mech infantry).

[AKULA]

Nice work on the new additions 

[Freddy]

Nice work on the new additions 

Thank you!
...and there is more.
Some Soviet paratroopers (Dragon models with headswaps):



The axemen for the PMC-s.



And a civilian guy. Redneck type, but great conversion fodder for basically anything, I made some resin copies too.

[Freddy]

American group pics:



Also a Soviet plane (in 1/72). This Su-7 model was manufactured in the GDR (!), originally someone else built it, but I had to made some renovations on it- painting corrections, missiles, cockpit, etc.

[carlos marighela]

The glorious GDR lives! 

[Freddy]

The glorious GDR lives! 

It does indeed, I have a lots GDR-made stuff, for example a Simson motorbike which was thrown after you in junk iron price 10-20 years ago, now notalgic Germans would give its weight in gold for it.
GDR plastic model industry made some 1/72 Warsaw pact flyers too, but my favourite line is their 1/100 Soviet airliner range. Most of those planes have no other sets released in that scale ever since! Here is my Il-62.

[Freddy]

Two more Afganistan Soviets.

[carlos marighela]

Niko the manufacturer of that Su-7? I wonder why they made the Su-7? As far as I know the DDR's LSK never flew them, only Su-22s in the 1980s. Must research what other kits they produced.

[Freddy]

Niko the manufacturer of that Su-7? I wonder why they made the Su-7? As far as I know the DDR's LSK never flew them, only Su-22s in the 1980s. Must research what other kits they produced.

This one:
https://www.scalemates.com/hu/kits/veb-plasticart-su-7--158013

Here is the list of their kits. Seems like they did a lot of non-GDR stuff too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VEB_Plasticart

(The Il-62 above also came with Interflug, the GDR airline company markings, the Hungarian decals are from HADmodels)

[carlos marighela]

Cheers! Seems someone bought the moulds as the Su-7, Be-6 and the Yak-24 are all being sold on Etsy under the manufacturing name of Niko and according to one of the links in that Wiki article there is or was a German successor company that holds/held the tooling to much of the range.

I'd quite fancy the AN-12 and/ or the AN-24. Must have a look about. They seem to be fairly simple, indeed primitive kits.

[Freddy]

The last two of this batch of Afghanistan Soviets.



Also some autumn terrain (this one is quite scale and era-agnostic)