From SimonG: Soviet Steel for The Armoury (55 points)

Rather than paint another fantasy figure, or a plated knight for the Armoury I here offer up the pointy end of my Cold War gone hot Soviet GSFG force -- a Guards T64B tank company.

Once again these are Timecast 10mm pieces from their Cold War '84 range. Nice resin bodies with metal details and some very nice touches such as the indent for the gun barrel opening, making drilling the barrel out a cinch. Other things are more bothersome, in particular the top mounted machine gun that needs clipping at the back to sit comfortably. Overall though very nice pieces and they look the part.

Soviet armour is rather boring colour scheme wise so I elected to include the Guards Insignia on the IR projector. Initially I made up some tiny (1.5mm diameter) transfers but these simply fell apart when I tried to apply them. So I instead hand painted the designs, Im pretty pleased with how they came out -- interesting how you can abstract a design down to a couple of splotches and still have a good sense of what it should be. The numbers are also hand painted. Once again I'm using my numbering scheme for three troops of three tanks plus the command vehicle. The lettering is sequential with my BMP company and with other support vehicles I'll get too later.

So another 50 points for my total -- ten 10mm tanks at 3 points each plus 20 for the chamber.