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Monday, July 4, 2011

Gauntlet Acquisition

This weekend's Gauntlet show was a blast.  Jamie and I spent almost the whole weekend playing in the SOTCW participation game “Fifty Five Days At Peking”.


For details see the SOTCW blog and Pete Jones's Free Wargames Rules blog. 


I did, however, have time to peruse the bring and buy and I came back with a complete 1980s Swedish Armoured Brigade in 1/300th for just a tenner!  They're rather poorly based for Corps Commander but it's no hardship to rebase for Cold War Commander. Just click to enlarge the pics.


First the whole force:

Two thirds of the tanks; Stridsvagn S-103s or S-Tanks if you prefer:


 The 155mm howitzers and AT company vehicles:

Brigade HQ, engineers and AA elements.

The mechanised infantry components of one of the armoured battalions; the APCs are Pbv302s:


I always wanted to do a Soviet invasion of Scandinavia.  Now it looks within reach.



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2 comments:

  1. Andy McMasterJuly 4, 2011 at 3:31 PM

    That was a good buy. Quick wash and drybrush and rebase and they will look spiffing!

    Look forward to seeing them in action!

    Andy

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  2. CounterpaneJuly 6, 2011 at 12:00 AM

    I hadn't thought of washing as well as dry-brushing them but I'll try with and without and see how much difference it makes.

    A year or more ago I'd have felt obliged to on the disruptive camo but having seen how little visual impact it has on my Finns I'll give it a miss.

    Cheers Andy!

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