The Red Army at my doorstep

They are here now. The first platoon of my russian battlegroup. Organised into squads, support units, HQ, ‘spare bits’ and then put neatly into a box, where there is a chance that they will stay untouched for several years. Hopefully not.

I felt an urge to buy a full company, but my economy wont allow me doing that. I will buy a platoon or some gun crews now and then. The chance that I run out of figures to paint is second to none as I have 17 more boxes like this filled with figures…(!?!)

In my search for a 120mm mortar in transport mode, I today stumbled upon a new website selling gaming stuff that I thought was a danish online shop. They had several models that I don’t find in my usual shops and I quickly found some boxes that I couldn’t resist, especially some Zvezda AT and AA guns for my red horde, but also Nebelwerfers for my Fallschiermjägers.

A thing, I also ordered, that I especially look forward to have in my hands is two trucks, one polish Fiat and a Praga truck, both some I will mix together with Opel Blitz’s to give my german army a more “ragtag” kind of look. These two trucks are from the polish company called First to fight. This will be my first models from this brand and I can’t wait to see how the quality is.

After the order was placed I got the usual confirming email and found out that the shop wasn’t danish at all. This was a polish online shop… which for me isn’t a problem, but I found it quite fun that the url was danish and even the language was translated into danish. Well after I found out that it wasn’t a danish site I also found several errors in the translation that a dane wouldn’t do. Check it out yourself. Most of the brands are eastern European, but there is alsvo some Italeri and Dragon boxes. I give you the international url ;-) www.super-hobby.com

Finally got these…

Got this sets with mail today. Two Academy sets I have wanted for a very long time. The Dodge Ambulance I actually already have, but this is converted into a radio car. The other Academy set I mainly wanted for the motorcycle, I need a dispatch rider for my US battlegroup. I have lots of M3’s already, but can always need some more. The Seep I will give to my russians, when getting there.

The 88 is one that I needed. I have two from Hasegawa already, but I need four. I wanted to check out the quality of the Zvezda model before buying one more. The first impression of the set is that it looks good, fine details and great quality of the plastic. The sprues seems to have been bent though, I am a bit concerned that it will give me problems later when assembling the model. But the price is so low that I guess I can live with a model that is a little bit deform.

This two Academy sets have been sold out for several years where I normally buy my stuff. I was happy to find a seller on Ebay that have both sets, always nice to save a bit on packaging.