Viking

I bought the Rus infantry from Fireforge games knowing I would use them... http://www.fireforge-games.com/webstore/medieval-russian/russians-infantry-details

Seeing the latest trailer for the coming Russian movie Viking made me kitbash some of the Fireforge Russians with Gripping Beast Hirdmen. Enought to make a small unit in Lion/Dragon Rampant.

 

That combined with the whole eastern Norsemen, and their lack of attention in this more English orientation miniatures gaming world.
This is a whole new world to explore, sailing the rivers of Volga, crossing the Caspian sea and dragging the boats all the way to Byzantium, Persia and trading steel for those Ulfberht swords…   





For those who have missed it:

Granted the movie will probobly not be as good as I want it to be but still... Rus Vikings...


For those interersted in the plastic Rus box from Fireforge Games, here are some reviews:

http://antonswargame.blogspot.se/2016/09/fireforge-russian-foot.html

http://dalauppror.blogspot.se/2016/06/fireforge-plastic-russian-pre-casts.html

Spraycan disaster…

Spraycan disaster…

I just primed en Russian Havoc helicopter and disaster struck…

 

The model ended all grainy and when the color dried it leaved dried out channels on the surface. I tried to apply another layer to smoothing the surface but that didn´t help.

I think it has to do with the moister level in the air.

Anyone got any idea on how I can fix this?
If I should just try to paint over it and pretend it didn´t happen?
Should I try to dissolve the primer with something without damaging the plastic kit under ?

Russian reinforcement

While visiting the girlfriend’s parent’s summerhouse I also managed to read the Force on Force rulebook and thing I starting to get a small grip on it. 

I look promising and as good as people say. Im really interested to try out the rules and particularly the campaign rules with units gaining experience or losing it as new members joins if suffering to severe casualties. 

To play this I need miniatures, and I have painted some more Modern Russians to play with.

The force is divided in common soldiers dressed mostly in Flora camouflage and Special Forces mostly dressed in Partizan camouflage.

The minatures are from Under fire miniatures and is highly recomended.

Btr80

I have always loved the btr80, I think it’s such a beautiful vehicle and one of the reasons to painting all these Russians is so I can motivate myself to get me one.

The model is a 1/72 kit from Trumpeter. A lovely kit and was really easy to assemble and it included real rubber tires. 

I now regret that I just bought just one, I should have bought three…

I painted it in a neutral green color without camouflage so it could multitask to different tasks.

The green base color is Valejos 924 “Russian uniform WWII”

More Modern Russians

I finally managed to complete another batch of Russians.

The Fantasy project did get a grip on me and I got a bit carried away. That meant that my other project did lose some speed…

But here they are, some heavy hitting Russians. Models from Under Fire Miniatures and painted in (mostly…) partizan camouflage.  

Modern Russians

Modern Russians for Force on force, Ambush alley.

The American posted earlier in this blog was just to get a grip on the scale and test paint some models, my intention is to collect a force of modern Russians as my main army. Here are some of them, the ones I have painted as now.

 

They are 20mm models from Under fire and I can gladly recommend them and their site where I bought them from.
http://www.underfireminiatures.com/page13.htm

Dragomir was once again stopped and asked a lot of stupid question. These young Russians was spoiled and hadn´t lived throe the hardships of life that Dragomir had. And now they asked him those stupid questions. They showed no respect to the aging former soviet heavy weight boxing champion and soon his temper would run out and something else then the mouth would do the talking.

Early Russian, DBA

Last summer a friend and I decided to each get a mediaeval DBA army, and in that autumn we started to paint and later play some games. My friend was interested in getting Teutonic knights and I was lured in to getting an Early Russian army.
So the theme for our project fell on the teutonic crusade in the Baltic region in 1100-1200-something.  
Both armies are very horse heavy, the Teutonics with knights and the Russkies with medium cavalry. The knights are more heavy hitting but the cavalry have greater speed and thus better maneuverability. This meant some really fun and intense games.

And as I try to recycle some of my older work in betwen some new stuff, it is time to show of the Early Russians.

The camp was made by first making a paper building and then dressing it in an outer layer of toothpicks. The copula is made in “gray-stuff”, it’s the same as the more well-known “green-stuff” but have some different properties that are for me unknown. After painting I covered the roof in the same flock as the rest of the army´s bases.

Here is an work in progres picture of it.