From ValeryN - The result of the pre-New Year's work: Soviet Artillery Batteries and Prime Movers (196 pts)

Hello everybody! 

The New Year has not yet come, Christmas in Russia is celebrated on January 6-7, so the whole last week I worked actively with a brush.

Today I want to present to your attention a few units for my Soviet army for the Flames of War.

The first unit is the artillery battery of divisional howitzer M-30:

 

The second division of heavy guns is the famous ML-20. They formed the basis of the reserve artillery of the Red Army Supreme Command. 

The battery includes 4 howitzers, headquarters and an observer:

During the Second World War, a serious problem for the Soviet army was the shortage of caterpillar tractors for towing heavy artillery. In the first period of the war on the Eastern Front, a lot of heavy artillery was thrown on the roadside because there was not enough equipment to transport them. But my guns will not suffer such a fate, because I now have them:

This caterpillar tractor was produced in the USSR, at the Stalingrad Tractor Plant in 1937-1942 on the basis of the tractor SKTZ-NATI («Stalinets»). A total of 10,000 such tractors were produced. The soldiers he received an informal nickname «Golovastik» (tadpole).

And this "Komsomolets" is another tractor, though for lighter artillery, which was also produced in the USSR before the Second World War.

And finally, the reinforcement for my Soviet army in the early period of the war - famous T-34 models of 1941:

That's all that was painted over the past week:

In total, 12 vehicles, 8 cannons and 46 soldiers - 196 points.

I wish everyone a happy New Year, new projects, new games and lots of fun from our hobby!

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BOOM!! BOOM!! BOOM!!!

Happy New Year, Valery!!  What a fantastic haul of Soviet ear-popping and ground-thundering artillery!!  Truly awesome in quantity, quality and sheer bombardment noise.  And all in one week - really a terrific contribution to the Challenge, Sir!  

I always feel that with a Russian or Soviet army you just need to have a lot of artillery - and your opponents will almost expect it!  True, it might not always obliterate the target, but generally it makes a hugely impressive noise to impress the Comintern, Party apparachniks, or the Imperial Court in Moscow or St. Petersburg.  And that's at least part of the point, right?

I particularly like the artillery prime-movers, including the Tadpoles!  Lovely castings and finely presented.  And all contributing to a very considerable salvo of 196 points!!!  

Uuuurrraaaaaahhhh!!!