From Millsy: Russian Civil War Bolsheviks (241 points)

G'day All,

It's been a while since my last submission, mainly due to a dose of conjunctivitis which makes painting unpleasant at best. Thankfully things have improved and I've been able to get back on the tools.

This submission is a large chunk of one of the two opposing forces for my new Russian Civil War project. There's some cavalry, an armoured car and a few transports to go, but this covers all the command and core troops on foot for the Bolsheviks.

I'm using a home brew variant of Bolt Action so infantry squads are ten men as a rule and command, supports, etc. all follow the standard sizes under those rules. Miniatures are for the most part from the wonderful and quite extensive Copplestone Castings Back of Beyond range which a few extras from Empress Miniatures. I'd like to add some Brigade Games stuff but at their (frankly extortionate!) postage rates that seems unlikely.

Command

Officer, Standard Bearer and Kommissar. The flag is a freebie thanks to Wiki Commons.

Infantry Squads (4)

Three x standard rifle-armed Bolshevik infantry squads with Officer, Standard Bearer and LMG.

The fourth squad are rifle-armed Communist Volunteer infantry with Officer, Standard Bearer and Kommissar to keep the "volunteers" in line. The Kommissar bears a striking resemblance to my good mate and sometime Challenge participant EvanH. The flags are once again freebies thanks to Wiki Commons.

Support Squad

HMG and crew. Dakkaski-dakkaski!

This brings me to within around 250 points of my target, which should be easily achievable with 2.5 weeks to go. Next up hopefully the aforementioned cavalry, an armoured car and transports.

Cheers,
Millsy

Glad to hear that you are doing better Millsy. These models all look great, the flags are going to give you a bonus point to help you get just that little bit closer to your goal. I'm looking forward to seeing the rest of this army.