Captured Soviet Guns

Finland also captured a number of these guns and so you could supply them to your Finnish Army, if you have one.

The Germans used them in Normandy.

The Germans also used them in the Mediterranean theater.

So guns like this can be used in many scenarios.

I don't give my troops a lot of captured equipment, but it's nice to get something different now and then.

122mm Artillery

2016 has been the year of building German artillery and Soviet artillery and tanks.

Here is a little of both, a Soviet made 122 mm howitzer M1938 (M-30).

Soviet 122mm howitzers captured and put back into service by the Germans.

The Germans called it the 12,2 cm s.F.H.396(r).

Crew by Revell.

Headquarters and Supply Bases

More work on the WWII Soviet collection, here are Mir BT-7 tanks being put back together after having their flash trimmed off.

Zvezda bases have holes in them for pins on the feet of their troops.  I use the bases for other purposes and put the troops on individual bases.

A bit of plastic rod from Evergreen Plastic to fill in the holes, glues fine with regular model glue.

Various supply depots and headquarters for my Soviets getting ready for painting.

I use Tamiya Extra Thin on these bases when filling in the holes with plastic rod.

85mm Gun

I am building a Zvezda 85mm anti-aircraft gun.

It's 1/72nd scale, glue-able plastic.

It's got a lot of parts but is easy to build.

It's a good model and fits together well.

Here are several of the crews and some other Zvezda crews.

Instructions are clear and I followed them exactly.

Stalin Truck

These are the bulk of the parts I use for the Stalin Organ, I also use the base on the T-60 tank.

When I mount the rockets on a truck, I use the base and the fenders.

These fenders are from the 15mm Soviet truck, I cut one end off and then glue the big parts together.

This Roco 2 1/2 ton truck will become a Stalin Organ Rocket launcher truck.

It takes two 15mm trucks to make one HO truck body.

I am making 8 of them for my Soviet Mechanized Corps.