We decided to work on this about 6 weeks ago and together we scratch-built various ruins, and also finally painted some resin ones that had been lying around unpainted for a long time. The results can be seen below.
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One of Carlos' modified Altaya Sd.Kfz 250, now converted into an early war mortar carrier with 2 Pegasus figures and 50mm mortar inside
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A Revell Russian sniper (very effective during the game by the way) in one of Juan's scratch-built ruins.
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Matchbox Sdkfz 251, one of Carlos' repainted Altaya Pz IIIs and in the background a scratch-built factory by Iván.
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The interior of Iván's factory (with my double-pinned Russian infantry hiding out in there).
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That's what you call a "fire-engine". One of my Russian SMG squads tries to flush out some Germans (The squad is made up from Chinese copies of old Esci hard-plastic 1/72 Russians, which in turn are scaled-down copies of the old Airfix 1/32 scale Russians ..........if all that makes sense.....) Complicated anecdotes aside, these fellas got thrashed as they came onto the table by one of Juan's "last-man-alone" German squads !
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Intense house to house fighting. The ruins are resin I bought off a friend, Rob, some time back. They've been hanging around for about a year now, and were painted last week by Carlos for the game.
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Pegasus German Infantry Gun and crew in a crater made by Juan.
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Nice atmospheric shot, Revell and Airfix grenade throwers silhouetted by a smokescreen thrown up by the Germans to cover their advance.
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Airfix and Revell Russians trying to take the factory.
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For the game, the we used a system of entry points into the sewers and Juan made these excellente stands with manhole covers as entry points a couple of days before the game. They added a really nice touch and the opposing squads were able to enter and exit at different points on the table.
I do like Stalingrad - we did it in 28mm on 12ft table with a very large scratch built factory. These types of scale really work. Great table.
ReplyDeleteThanks, I would like to see that. Do you have a link ?
DeleteJust type in Glasgow warhog blog..then click on stalingrad
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Just seen it. That is some table ! You really went to town on that. Superb.
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