Author Topic: Own up. Who suggested reading "Generals Envoy" (Read 10735 times)

Svennn · « **on:** 19 February 2009, 09:59:01 PM »

Not touched my BoB stuff since the LPL and although Dodge has been tempting me to get some Russians with his recent posts I was being strong and just sticking to the dozen or so other periods/theatres I am currently dabbling with. But no, someone had to suggest reading Conways Caspacian novel and I end up doing this for my Chinese Warlord.

I did enjoy the novel and ended up with two copies so if anybody wants an ex library paperback copy for the cost of postage (£1.50?) give me a shout.

Cheers Svennn

Ignatieff · « **Reply #1 on:** 19 February 2009, 10:23:53 PM »

Bugger the book - tell us about the train!!!!

Mancha · « **Reply #2 on:** 19 February 2009, 11:19:36 PM »

That's great! Throw a Chinese warlord next to it for scale and post another pic please!

answer_is_42 · « **Reply #3 on:** 20 February 2009, 12:24:02 AM »

Quote from: Ignatieff on 19 February 2009, 10:23:53 PM

Bugger the book - tell us about the train!!!!

What he said! That's awesome!

dodge · « **Reply #4 on:** 20 February 2009, 07:03:40 AM »

Bloody hell ,

that is fantastic,

make ? where , who, how, what ?

I'm reading the first one at the mo, with the second already in place.

Very good stories

dodge

sukhe_bator · « **Reply #5 on:** 20 February 2009, 09:46:22 AM »

It was me - and that makes an awesome 'Dragon'. There must be all sorts of pulp/BoB figures out there to represent the unsavoury White Russian crew. Now who wants to model General Mok's singular method of execution using the train? - a novel (if rather gory) departure from the Damsel in distress tied to the tracks

sukhe_bator · « **Reply #6 on:** 20 February 2009, 09:52:41 AM »

Btw, I LOVE the camo scheme. I made an interesting discovery trying to recreate a scheme from a b/w oblique photo of an armoured train from the Polish Front in one of the Osprey Vanguard 'Armoured Units of the RCW' - the splodges turned out to be trees! Now my 15mm 'Comrade Blyukher' (still w.i.p) sports this livery

gamer Mac · « **Reply #7 on:** 20 February 2009, 09:56:02 AM »

WOW

Great stuff. Same question as above is it bought or scratchbuilt.

One question. How does it move. Does it attach to a locomotive?

sukhe_bator · « **Reply #8 on:** 20 February 2009, 09:59:28 AM »

That my friend is a fab example of a scratchbuild - awesome work Svennn

Almost makes me wish I did 28mm. Very inspiring work

Svennn · « **Reply #9 on:** 20 February 2009, 10:19:56 AM »

Thanks for the comments. It is part of PP-52 Pilsudczyk??? if anybody knows what that is??
The pros -
It is skirted so I did not have to worry about wheels.
I found plan drawings to work from.
I liked the design and balanced layout.
The cons -
I think it may be WWII?? but I dont care too much
Even scaled to 1/50-1/55th it is still huge
I have not got much else done in the last couple of weeks

here are a couple of shots of wip

Svennn

Malamute · « **Reply #10 on:** 20 February 2009, 10:25:36 AM »

Impressive stuff Svennn. Nicely done. You have got that curved shape spot on.

JollyBob · « **Reply #11 on:** 20 February 2009, 10:31:34 AM »

Wow!

So this was the secret beastie you made the rivet strips for, eh?

Utterly fantastic.

sukhe_bator · « **Reply #12 on:** 20 February 2009, 10:34:43 AM »

I shouldn't worry too much...these projects tend to take on a life of their own. It's still a fab build. The main gun turrets look very much like the Putilov 76mm guns on my 'Comrade Blyukher'. 'The General's Envoy' is set in 1927, so in the middle of the Interwar period. The Dragon had a very misc bunch of armament, so old and new would be combined. Earlier Armoured trains tended to look less streamlined, so if you are worried you could always couple the gun car up to a more angular clunkier-looking train and achieve the same effect

Poliorketes · « **Reply #13 on:** 20 February 2009, 12:09:21 PM »

That's absolutely amazing!

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It is part of PP-52 Pilsudczyk??? if anybody knows what that is??

A polish armored train, PP is short for Pociag Pancemy (don't ask me the meaning!). So it should have seen action in 1939 and perhaps afterwards in german use.

[Edit]http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi%C5%82sudczyk_(poci%C4%85g_pancerny) Sorry, I don't understand one word of this, but it should give you the trains history.[/Edit]

Westfalia Chris · « **Reply #14 on:** 20 February 2009, 12:43:11 PM »

Quote from: Poliorketes on 20 February 2009, 12:09:21 PM

A polish armored train, PP is short for Pociag Pancemy (don't ask me the meaning!). So it should have seen action in 1939 and perhaps afterwards in german use.

Errrm... "pociąg pancerny" means "Armoured Train".

Excellent model you´ve got there, nicely built and very nicely painted. It´s remarkable how similar this design is to the Russian "Orlik" type and the Italian twin-turreted armoured motor coach built in WW2...

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