Friday, 4 February 2022

Cold War Options

I've been mulling over the options for the Seven Days to the River Rhine potential project over the last week or so but still haven't been able to make up my mind about the scale. I did remember that I backed a Kickstarter several years ago now for 15mm Soviet and British figures in arctic kit, which was launched by the now defunct Armies Army. I don't think they available any more and I'm also not entirely sure where they actually are in the lead pile but it's a possible option for some Norwegian scenarios. I quite fancy the idea of some Norwegian 'What If?' Cold War wargaming, which would be a change from the usual North German Plain tank clash. 

Jim's Wargames Workbench: Armies Army Cold War Kickstarter (jimswargamesworkbench.blogspot.com)

I also have some very nice 10mm Royal Marines from Pendraken, which I bought for Norway as well but stashed them away as no suitable 10mm Soviet figures were available. I have subsequently discovered that Red 3 make a range of Spetnatz that would double up as VDV airborne troops or Soviet marine infantry, with a white paint job to give them arctic camouflage suits, so that's yet another possible option. The Red 3 airportable and amphibious AFV's are also really nice and I'm sure I could justify some armour too, perhaps a platoon of ASU85's or PT76 light tanks. I just need to make up my mind about which scale to go for, once I've excavated the figures to have a closer look.

5 comments:

  1. Hey Jim, it seems Keith has a new name/site for his 15mm cold war stuff:
    https://army-bits.co.uk/

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  2. G'day Jim,
    Not sure if you're aware, but the sculptor of Armies Army has launched his own 15mm Cold War store here: https://army-bits.co.uk
    It's the wrong scale for me, so I'm not entirely across his business model. But I think he sells both STLs for home printing, and physical printed models. They look like lovely sculpts though!
    Cheers,
    Ben

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  3. Further to the army bits, on this page:
    https://army-bits.co.uk/elements/pages/about/
    Keith says some of his Armies Army stuff is with Scotia Grendel, but there's no sign on their website (that I can find!)

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  4. I'll be interested to see where you go with this. I eneded up with two scales, 6mm and 15mm, as one allows for lots of vehicles, and the other allows for more detailed, but smaller unit infantry actions.

    I was told some time back that Scotia has the rights to the old Armies Army 15mm models, but not sure that is still the case. A shame they became unavailable, as they were lovely models.

    My understanding is that the company "ArmyBits" is Armie back in business, beautiful stuff 15mm, including Soviet SF and airborne. May be of interest. There is also the Eureka 15mm figures.

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