Red Storm - first skirmish!

[Digits]

Cheers guys.  I was using this image for the reference.

[anevilgiraffe]

Cheers….fits in nicely I think!    I didn’t so much want this to look burnt as blasted…

  the other buildings DO have chimneys - seriously did not see them in the other pictures, you must have been wondering what I was going on about... 

[Digits]

I assumed you thought they were too low for the thatch?  Either way don’t sweat it! 😉

[anevilgiraffe]

I was just dazzled by the brilliance of the fur

[Digits]

Well this barn has put paid to any more hairy buildings….for now…..🥴



It adds a little height dimension so that’s good.   Pretty happy with how the village is turning out…..useful collection of buildings I think.

[Digits]

Ordered a few Artizan partisans to mix in with my militia and whilst at it, a pack of Copplestone Bolshevik cavalry in great coats just to try a few head swaps in order to see if they would make viable Soviet Cavalry.  Question is….do I buy more packs for shits and giggles, or do I consign them to dusty shelf?  I have probably missed something. 

[has.been]

Oh do do the Cavalry. How often do we get to see Cavalry on a WW2 game table?

[MaleGriffin]

Excellent conversion idea! I agree, there's not enough cavalry in WWII games!

[Will Bailie]

  Question is….do I buy more packs for shits and giggles, or do I consign them to dusty shelf?  I have probably missed something. 

Those conversions look great, but will be costly!  I have mixed feelings about WWII Soviet Cavalry.  On the one hand, it's surprising that almost no one makes Soviet cavalry, considering that you can readily find cavalry for the Poles, Germans, French, Italians, British, when the actual Red Army had more cavalry than everyone else in the world combined!  On the other hand, cavalry in WWII is really mounted infantry, and the soldiers would dismount to fight.  Horses can be treated much as you'd treat trucks or other transport.  So, depending on your preferences, you could have a few cavalry models to represent the ability of the troopers to move quickly when out of contact with the enemy, much like some games will have a few bicycles to represent bicycle troops.

If you do feel a need to go full cavalry - which I selfishly would love to see! - plastics would be a great way to go.  Combine plastic Soviet infantry with Wargames Atlantic horses and go from there.

To show you where my loyalties lie, here is the start of my WWI Russian cavalry wing:
https://willstoysoldiers.blogspot.com/2024/08/wwi-russians.html

[warburton]

The barn looks great and the village as a whole is fantastic.

The cavalry look great too, and I would like to see more - though I agree with Will that they would usually operate as mounted infantry so would dismount to fight in general, but they could be extremely useful is certain scenarios - IIRC there are various accounts of Cossack cavalry chasing down isolated units of Germans in snowstorms as Barbarossa was faltering before Moscow and so on. 

[Digits]

Thanks fella, glad you like the barn!



Cheers for the info Will.

I’m tempted to do a squad at least.   If only for photo fun but you are right, it would be very expensive to do more. 

[carlos marighela]

The cavalry figures look good.

If you fancy making more here are a number of folk making separate GPW Soviet heads. These people for example:

https://ozwargaming.com.au/products/soviet-winter-war-heads-pack-propylene-foliescu-28mm-ww2-wargaming-miniatures?srsltid=AfmBOorFLy3vLxVVs4fGqsq9xJEEPg3RyE-QEIMjGQI6PUFg6PBrBr6i

West Wind also did packs of separate: https://www.westwindproductions.co.uk/index.php?route=product/category&path=76_167_187

I was fortunate  enough to have Nic at Eureka supply me with some separate heads from their WW2 Soviet range for conversions. Then you have various 3D files if you have a printer.

[Digits]

Thanks for the link fella.  I’m tempted but have plenty of warlord heads at the moment.

I need to find a cheaper supply of the Copplestone minis first though….however I may paint these up first to see if I like them enough.

Thinking I may build a small orthodox grave yard next….

[Gunbird]

Thinking I may build a small orthodox grave yard next….

I'm so stealing that.

[carlos marighela]

I'm so stealing that.

Which would of course make you.............a grave robber.