I've been pretty busy this week with work and family commitments, so I'm planning to make up for it with some What a Tanker! wargaming this weekend. I have some forest terrain pieces to scratch build so that the armour has something to hide behind, as well as some Red Vectors battle damaged village buildings that I'll have to construct when they arrive in the post at some point, hopefully before the club game a week on Tuesday. As they are burned down ruins they shouldn't be too difficult either to build or to paint up?
I also rummaged in the unmade kit box and have dug out some early war Russian tanks that I meant to build last year but ran out of time to stick together before the summer holidays. These are a pair of Italeri quick build T34/76 m42's, which look really good, and a cracking kit of two Pegasus KV-1 / KV-2 tanks, which can be built as either variant. I think I might make a pair of KV-2 bad boys so that I can scare the pants off the Wehrmacht! These will all be painted in winter camouflage to match my mid/late war models.
I'm also going to get the briefings finished for the Bag the Hun Malta scenario, as they are already almost finished and just need a few minor tweaks to be ready to go. After that, I'll crack on with the card deck for the game, which I'm planning to adapt either from the deck I produced for the Bandits Over Berlin scenario, or from a more 'polished' deck I produced for a similar scenario a couple of years ago.
(As a result, the Cruel Seas stuff has been temporarily bumped along a bit and will have to wait until I can clear the decks of plastic tanks, trees and other paraphernalia!)
Wouldn't 1 KV-1 & 1 KV-2 offer more versatility? it's not like a KV-1 is a pushover for mid-war German armour ...
ReplyDeleteYes, I'm going to do that I think, instead of getting a couple more KV-1's. Good idea.
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