And now for something completely different!
Regular readers ("hello mom") may
recall that I visited the latest Derby Show held at a new venue at Castle
Donington with my brother and old mate Ade. There we played a small demo of
Warlord Games new'ish WWII rule set Bolt Action. After a game in which we
somehow managed to completely wipe each other out Ade and myself decided to
invest some of our future time and efforts in this game system. Ade bought the
rules there and then. As mentioned previously, Ade intended to go with US forces and his rather spiffing first lot of figures can be seen here.
I however opted to take on the mighty Red
Army, purchasing
a box of The Plastic Soldier Company's (PSC) plastic 28mm WWII 'Russian Infantry
in Summer Uniform' from Wayland's Forge in Birmingham
The Plastic Soldier Company's set has a
certain retro charm but suffers from a lack of sharpness of detail compared to
the figures in the WG set. I believe the masters were designed for 1/72
(20mm) scale and then scaled up to 28mm but suffering in the process. I'll detail
the box contents once I've finished at least one lot of sprues worth of
figures.
Added Russian M52 helmet & Ushanka fur hat (even if he is wearing summer uniform).
The box set contains three identical sprues but the majority of figures are single mouldings, not multi pose like WG but regular readers ("hello again mom") will know I enjoy chopping and changing figures whenever possible as I like to add some variety to my red horde. Having numerous spare heads from the WG box I decided the chop and change at least one of the three figures per sprue.
In this first batch I've only changed the heads (and a single hand), I hope to modify a few other bits and pieces with other figures. All the original, unaltered, miniatures are the first figure the left hand side (except for the second photo because I forgot) but hopefully the differences should be obvious.
Will look forward to seeing how these progress. Blacktree Design often have offers if you become a Premium Member (costs nothing) o it's worth doing as they can cut 35% off sometimes. Recently they hd 50% off for Black Friday, though I am still waiting for these to come through
ReplyDeleteIan
I look forward to gunning these down mercilessly ;) not 1 chewed cigar in a mouth, they can't be that tough! I've never been any good at trash talking... They look good dude can't wait to play.
ReplyDeleteLooking nice!
ReplyDeletePhil.
@Ian - thanks for that info, I'll have to take a look at their stuff. Might even become a Premium Member.
ReplyDelete@Ade - my mighty red Ivans will crush your flatulent capitalist pig dogs any day of the week (although preferably at the weekends) and cut through Josh's SS like a hot bayonet through a frankfurter. Pity there's no Sergeant Rock type figure in the Russian set though.
@Phil - Cheers, glad you like them.