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Chris Townley
Mixed Tankovy Batalon from Eastern Front
With all of the excitement around Blood, Guts, & Glory I found
myself in quite a quandary, I already have a reasonably large US Tank
Company half painted, but I also needed to get a new Mid-war army
completed for our grand tournament.
In the end the thought that I would be one of the designated
splitters and head down a slightly different path and work on my
tournament army – who could resist the chance to get half an army
knocked out over the course of 24 hours!
Learn more about Eastern Front here...
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Chris' Mixed Tankovy Batalon
Light Tankovy Companies
10x T-26S obr 1939: 205 points.
9x T-26S obr 1939: 190 points.
Heavy Tankovy Company
6x KV-1e: 620 points.
Tankovy Anti-tank Company
4x 76mm ZIS3 guns: 130 points.
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Light Armoured Car Platoon
3x BA-64 75 points
Armoured Car Company
10x BA-10M: 310 points
Sporadic Air Support
I-153: 90 points.
Total Points: 1620 points |
The plan for the day was to get three of the four companies finished – the KVs and both units of BAs. My theory was that working on three different but similar things would mean that I would remain interested thanks to the little bit of variation, but still get an economy of effort by using the same techniques.
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The next challenge in the plan came from how I
intended on painting them. Instead of going with the traditional green
that you expect to see on Soviet tanks, I found some references to
three-colour camo of green, brown and sand. The scheme was used in some
Military Districts and whilst the practice started to die out as the war
progressed I felt that a Mixed Tankovy Batalon of T-26s was a likely
candidate for this scheme.
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The three-colour camouflage on a T-26. Image courtesy of o5m6.de. |
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As for how I was going to do it, I had a plan of using a small mountain of blue tac and an airbrush – only time would tell if it was actually going to work out!
~ Chris.
Below: Chris' trial KV-1e (right) and a work in progress (left).
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Last Updated On Friday, May 11, 2012 by Blake at Battlefront
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