Continuing with the winter WW2 Soviets project, I just finished the Winter Weapons Teams from Bolt Action. The box contains six models - a sniper team, a flamethrower team, and a light mortar team.
Last up first, here's the mortar team. Warlord says this is the 50mm mortar but there's no bipod as you'd usually see. Hmmm.
There's a sniper team in the pack. The models are the new Warlord Resin (tm?) and are actually pretty good. No warping or flexibility to speak of, fortunately.
The team includes a sniper with an M1891/30 scoped rifle and a spotter with a PPsH-41 submachinegun.
Lastly we've got a flamethrower team, just the thing to stay toasty on a cold snowy battlefield! The uniforms on these guys are Vallejo Model Color 70.988 Khaki, pretty much an exact match to GW Zandri Dust. They were washed with good old Agrax Earthshade and re-highlighted Khaki.
Nice detail on the flamethrower. All of the models are one-piece with "puddle" bases - but I cut the base off the flamethrower operator.
From the Support Group there's the 82mm mortar team. Not enough room for 'em all on the round base so I put one on the square.
These models are metal of course and are quite nice.
Lastly I painted the radio operator from the Support Group, also metal.
As for the Circles, I'm gonna grab the low-hanging 20 points bonus for "Violence". Pretty self-explanatory I guess, all of these models are pretty much violence-oriented!
Points:
10x 28mm infantry = 50 points
Violence Circle = 20 points
Total = 70 points
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Your Rooskies are really coming along Dallas! Yhey will be a force to be reckoned with when completed. Looking forward to seeing what comes next (I have some small side bets with myself going....hope I win!)
- Paul
Great job Dallas. I cringe every time another company brags "Resin!" but glad the sniper team turned out nicely.
ReplyDeleteAs for the mortar bipod...hey, it's the Soviet Union...you can hold that tube in place yourself, comrade! Are you committed to the revolution or not?
Very nice work on the figures and the snow effects are just right.
ReplyDeleteNice work on the soviets, Dallas! I look forward to seeing more from this project as your force grows! Don't worry too much about the motor bi-pod. It is probably still rolling around in the truck with the maual. ;) I participated in a live fire range in Romania with troops whose senior leadership was Soviet trained. Extra weapons and ammo including RPGs were unboxed and laying loose in a truck that I had just seen bouncing towards us at speed...no crates, no straps loose ammo, weapons, ....the most nervous I've been outside a war zone!
ReplyDeleteGreat work on the Ruskies Dallas, good to see some snow bases too!
ReplyDeleteNice job on those winter Ruskies. I will need to take a look at those resin sniper and flamethrower teams.
ReplyDeleteOn a personal note, I carried the platoon 60mm mortar on exercise nearly 50 years ago, and it didn't have a bipod.
Excellent snow and frigid work here. Well done.
ReplyDeleteExcellent work Dallas
ReplyDeleteGreat stuff. The winter war is probably the only time you'd volunteer for flame thrower duty.
ReplyDeleteGreat work Dallas! I particularly like the radio operator with his ear flap up. :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for the comments lads! As far as the bipod arrangement I did a deeper dive on this and it appears that the weapon isn't the RM-38 (with bipod) but rather the later RM-41, which didn't have a bipod... it was influenced by the 50mm German mortar. Traverse and elevation adjustments were on the barrel yoke.
ReplyDeleteThese are very good indeed Dallas, the basing is ace too!
ReplyDeleteVery nice, I like the radio operator and sniper.
ReplyDeleteNice paint job Dallas
ReplyDeleteGreat painting, Dallas!
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