"Red Army 1943-1945. We continue to mobilize" Topic
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| Tango01 | 21 Jan 2021 8:59 p.m. PST |
Nice job.
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Amicalement
Armand
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Mark 1  | 26 Jan 2021 12:42 p.m. PST |
An interesting blog post. I enjoy not only the modelling but also the commentary. There is little info I can find on the sources of the figures, but I appreciate several aspects of the figures shown. - I like the colors of the shoulder-roles (usually the soldiers' greatcoats, which were somewhat grayish compared to the rest of the uniform), and the lighter and inconsistent coloring of the tunics (which faded in the summer sun faster than the trousers).
- The side-mounting of bayonets on the Mosin rifles is visible. A nice detail.
- A few of the riflemen appear to be carrying Mosin carbines. This is less clear, as there are no close-ups of what appear to be the shorter rifles. If so, it is a nice touch, as after Stalingrad many of the experienced "frontnovics" seem to have preferred the shorter M1938 carbines despite their inability to mount a bayonet. But by late war some might have been M1944 carbines with the perma-mounted folding bayonets.
- Pilotka side-hats are common among the troops. To my reading, those who wore helmets were considered to be "sissies" in some circles in the Red Army.
- The presence of PPS-43 submachine guns, along with the more ubiquitous PPSh-41s, kind of says "late-war Soviets" to me.
- The presence of Panzerfausts is welcome. By the end of the war many thousands of 'fausts were in service with the Red Army, and were particularly present in any urban fighting. They are described in the text as Faust-patrones, although to my eye all of the pics are of Panzerfaust-30s or -60s. Still, as the blog says: "Истребляйте гитлеровцев их же оружием!" ("Destroy the Nazis with their own weapons!") Good stuff. -Mark
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opens the box on one of the re-released European Buildings series.
