asks a painting service to handle a complicated commission: assembling four plastic kits, getting the magnets right, painting and applying decals.
We have some more packs of Cold War, circa 1980, VDV Soviet Paratroopers. These are 28mm scale and link to our previous packs, and all ready to take on our BAOR figures.
Command Pack VDV5
Soviet Paratroopers – VDV – armed with AKSD folding-stock assault rifles and one officer with a silenced AKS.
One radio operator and one squad communications trooper with an ear receiver.
Pack VDV6
RPK Light Machine Gun armed VDV.
Pack VDV7
Two snipers armed with Dragunov rifles.
One VDV trooper armed with a 9k32 Strela 2m shoulder-launched anti-aircraft missile launcher.
One VD trooper armed with a RPO Rys ("Lynx") reloadable rocket-propelled flamethrower weapon developed in the 1970s by the Soviet Union. It was one of the earliest weapons of its type, and also one of the largest and most powerful.
Pack VDV8
The RPG16 was developed for special forces and paratroopers in the late 1960s and became operational in the early 1970s.
Troops wear a mixture of the khaki-colored jump overalls and the light green colored coveralls with hood.
The VDV beret is light blue.
Sample figures painted by Jon Atter AKA Dags.