Saturday 11 March 2023

From Millsy: 28mm Bolshevik Lancers and AC (100 points)

G'day All,

As threatened on my last post, here's some more mobile stuff for my RCW Bolsheviks.

The cavalry are a mix of sets from Copplestone Castings and are some of the worst white metal castings I've had in ages. It took me over two hours just to clean up the horses. They paint up well enough though.





The armoured car is a Garford-Putilov from Empress Miniatures. Based on a civilian truck chassis, it's overloaded with armour and weapons for the engine size so will be slow and probably unreliable in game, but also able to take a good amount of punishment whilst dishing it out. I have visions of it crawling to mid table, conking out and becoming some sort of weird pill box. A nice kit that went together well, needed minimum clean up and was a snip to paint.



8 x 28mm cavalry and 1 x 28mm vehicle is another 100 points. Looks like I will just make my total this year.

Onwards to the Whites now...

Cheers,

Millsy

The cavalry may have been a pain to assemble, but you've certainly done a great job with the paint. They look marvelous. The armoured car is very cool. Early AFV's always look so quirky and ridiculous, but full of their own kind of charm. 

16 comments:

  1. Loving seeing this RCW stuff Millsy. That AC is bonkers

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  2. Nice Cossacks and armoured car, Millsy! :)

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  3. Love the horseflesh- really well done.

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  4. Great job matey . The truck is wonderful

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  5. Oh, those cavalry are excellent and I've always loved the over optimistic armoured cars of this period (the poor engines and transmissions!)

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    1. I like the old photos where the trucks discovered that nice muddy patch in the pasture! ;)

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  6. Loving that truck and the lancers Millsy

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  7. Great entry Millsy, lovely job on the horses

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  8. Great cavalry, and that AC is very weird. Fine job!

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  9. Great work Millsy - as others have noted, the AC seems so delightfully bonkers!

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  10. Loving this RCW stuff Millsy! Sorry that the cleanup on the C'stone models was such a PITA...

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  11. Very nice work, Millsy! The cav are really fine looking, but I love the armored truck! So many unusual and bonkers vehicles built then while engineers and mechanics went from conspirators to adversaries in a blink! That is a proper beast!

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  12. Thanks everyone. Really enjoying this stuff (apart from the endless variations of khaki!).

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