Westwind SOTR Paras Starter set

When Westwind released the Paras for SOTR, I bought a set at Salute (when, I cannot remember but I suspect before 2015).

The box came with a full colour wrapper.

Which showed a guide to the contents.

These are the supplied pieces.

There are the following:

• Five command figures (pistol, STEN/Owen hybrid, three Assault BRENs) - bottom right.
• Two four man sections armed with Assault BRENs - bottom left.
• Two man Bazooka team.
• Two two man AntiTank Rifle teams
• Three man medium mortar plus spotter

In Konflikt '47 terms that is 514 points (Assault BRENs count as assault Rifles not Automatic Rifles).

There are one Airborne (B.O.B. SHS) helmet sprue, one Beret (B.O.B. SHS) sprue, one SOTR command beret head sprue and three SOTR beret with gas mask sprues. Some of the masks look like they have a fill issue, so I modified the gas mask filter with plastic rod.

The berets as supplied are at rather a jaunty angle, see the UNIT figures way back when, so I have removed and replaced some of them with Greenstuff ones.

Westwind Steam Knight

A long while ago (Warfare - 2015?) I bought a number of Westwind Empress of the Dead figures. They have been sitting in a box somewhere awaiting inspiration.

I decided that I would put the Steam Knight together

The figure had difficulty standing due to the shape of the soles of its feet, so required some greenstuff. Superglue was not too impressed with it either, I had to try a couple of times to get the arms to stick.

Warlord K47 M5A5/6 Jackal Walker - construction

So I have started building the Warlord Games M5 Jackal walker for Konflikt '47 Weird War 2 system.

I decided to pin the legs to ensure they remained in place. I estimated the centre point on sockets for the legs and drilled a 1mm hole to take a brass rod. I then drilled a matching hole in the ball joint of the top of the leg. I then used a loop of greenstuff (with a small piece in the holes) and a brass rod to pin it together.

That was then left to set. William Killian for scale.

The greenstuff was not sticky enough on one leg, and I had to superglue it back in.

The arms were just glued in place as was the hand/claw pieces. The rear part of the body (with the arms attached) was then added to the front parts (with the legs).

I had not added the pieces to the legs (thrusters?) and unfortunately there is no room to get them in place.

There is a marked gap between the front and rear halves of the body, which will need filling.

There is an annoying join through one of the panels, which shows a lack of thought in the way the body was split for moulding.

Rubicon Models T34/76 - the build

So I have assembled the kit to this point. There are a lot of options, the best bet is to find a prototype and then choose the parts to match.

I chose the "Cast" turret with the two periscopes, the Stalingrad sale gun mantlet and the all steel wheels. A late style engine access hatch was used at the back.

I was just going to build it "out of the box", but ended up adding some hand rails, using the Bill Bedford hand rail jig.

Stowage and hull machine gun to be added.

Soviet Infantry

I think this is a Chechnya era figure by Empress.

Rubicon T34/76 - the sprues

I bought this when the kit was originally released, but have not got round to building it.

The later T34/85 kit build is currently awaiting finishing, but is going to have additional stowage.

The T34/76 however will be effectively straight out of the shop and into the fray so will not have the delay.  Once I decide what version to build.

There is an additional sprue for another turret present in the T34/85.

Panzer I Ausf B with Breda 20mm auto cannon finished... part 5

So, the Panzer I Ausf B is now more or less finished.

Okay, there is still some work to do on the wheels.

The crew has evidently stolen a fire bucket (a Rubicon Models bucket from one of the stowage).

William Killian faces down the Panzer.