Armies Army - VDV vehicles Pre release Sale now on!

Hurrah! Some of my 3D vehicles have been casted by Armies Army

News from Armies Army

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ArmiesArmy is very pleased to announce its very first release of 15mm Cold War vehicles. The first release are the vehicles of the "Vozdushno-desantnye voyska" VDV Soviet Airborne troops of the 1980's.

These will be available at a discounted preorder price until the 20th of November.

Available are the BMD-1 , BMD-1P and the ASU-85 Assault gun. The platoon packs contain three vehicles and the company pack contains 3 platoon packs and 1 HQ vehicle (ten total)

All vehicles will be discounted. The more you buy the greater the discount. If you would like alternative packs please drop me an email or contact me through my blog. You can also find me on armiesarmy facebook page https://www.facebook.com/ArmiesArmy/ 

All are available now at my shop www.armiesarmy.com I will be following these up with the appropriate infantry over the next month. These will include tank riders, Zu-23-2, AGS-17, DShK tripod mounts, 120mm mortars.

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1:100 T-72 main battle tank

T-72A

T-72M1 - have different glacis plate and dozer blade (cant be seen on this render).

Lion of Babylon have T-72M1 hull with added sand protection to the engine exhausts, and different searchlights near the gun and on commanders cupola. Also it have countermeasure device on left hand side of a turret.

1:100 scale T-64A, T-64B and T-64 BV for Khurasan Miniatures

T-64A Mod 1969

T-64B

T-64BV

Converting 1:100 BMP-1 into BMP-2 for Khurasan

I’ve been asked by Khurasan Miniatures to convert their 1:100 scale BMP-1 model into BMP-2. So here is the final result. More than 1/3 of existing BMP-1 was redone or heavily modified and turret was made completely from scratch.

Ninth planet of Taya translation progress

I started translating Soviet era diafilms (filmstrips) and even created a new Soviet Diafilm blog. The first filmstrip called "Ninth planet of Taya" and was first released in 1964 in black and white and later in colorized version.

Test of Soviet Diafilm translation :)

While waiting for your comments and opinion on my possible English translation of science fiction Diafilms (Filmstrips) from Soviet Union, I decided to make a sample translation of third frame from "Ninth planet of Teya (1980)". 

Here you can see an original and a translated frame. To keep the feel of Russian Cyrillic font (pretty simple and boring font in my opinion, but it is the widest used font in Russia), I choosed regular Arial font. As you can see sentences in English language are much shorter than in Russian. 

3rd frame in Russian.

3rd frame in English.

Soviet Sci-Fi Diafilms in English translation?

Random frames from "Ninth Planet of Taya (1964)"

While discovering the joy of Soviet Diaflims (Filmstrips), I found that some of sci-fi genre filmstrips were produced from 60's to 80's. As for me, who was born in the end of Soviet era, grew up in Modern Russia and now live in Australia for 6 years, I found that old Soviet Sci-Fi was very unique. 

So I thought that some of you may be interested if I translate these old Diafilms into English language? I doubt if any of these diafilms were released outside the Iron Curtain, so it will be interesting journey to see the future  through the eyes of soviets :) 

If you are interested, PLEASE LEAVE YOUR COMMENTS and I will create a new "Soviet Diafilm Blog" :)

I will try my best with translation, and I don't think it will be very hard, because most of diafilms use simple language. And please, if you'll find any mistakes in my translation (English is my second language), just add your comments in my future Diafilm related posts.

Random frames from "Hunting for Setavr (1980)"

Soviet Filmstrips -Diaflims

Today I want to tell you about very old and interesting thing called Filmstrips.

The filmstrip was a common form of still image instructional multimedia, once commonly used for education or for entertainment, overtaken at the end of the eighties by VHS. In the early 1950s production companies started producing filmstrips for home entertainment. There were a number of films from Disney, and also from other manufacturers. You can read full Wikipedia article here.

In short, the "filmstrips" were illustrated stories that were projected on a canvas or wall. The sequence of images was printed on a perforated film strip and all frames were thematically linked to each other and are usually equipped with text.

In Soviet Union filmstrips were called Diafilms (Диафильм) and before introduction of VHS they were extremely popular among soviet people. Lots of Diafilms of different subjects and different genres were released: educational, fairy tales and even some sci-fi ones.

As for me, I haven't saw much Diafilms when I was a kid (I was born in 1984), and I remembered about them only two days ago, so now I am rediscovering Diaflims :) 

20% finished Char2c and Rkhm Kashalot

Whats on the Workbench?

Bunch of half painted QRF models. M60A1 Patton (only turret is finished), RKhM "Kashalot" and Char 2C. Sorry for poor lighting :) Its rainy outside.

Another shot of BTR-90 for QRF website.

15mm QRF BTR-80

Another great model from QRF. Note that ALL STOWAGE was sculpted by me and its not a part of original model.

QRF 15mm T-80

Painted T-80 from QRF and Peter Pig soviet infantryman for size comparison. I used Knarloc Green/Loren Forest as hull main colour and for highlights I used Straken Green and Nurgling Green.

Note that gunmetal grey round spot on the right side of the turret is not a miscast, but battle damage, accidentally made by me.

Sorry for delays in updates!

Sorry for delays in updates! I am currently working on "UseMe Twilight of the Empires" for 1870-1930, Pulp and VSF games.

But I know I should post something! So here is short clip. James Bond on Russian tanks destroys Russian streets :) from Goldeneye (1995). Russian architecture, Soviet tanks, crappy cars and evil Russians !
Note: This is supposed to be T-80 tank but actually its T-55 tank adapted to look like a T-80BV

Plastic Soldier Company 45mm AT Gun

Sharing painted version of 15mm Plastic Soldier Company 45mm AT Gun with you :)

Different angle of the gun base. Here you can see the ammo box.

This gun can also be used in 15mm skirmish games as 45mm or just generic anti tank gun.

Repainted T-26

Just repainted 15mm T-26 tank from Zvezda and I am gonna  paint the rest of my T-34 tank force this way. You can see the old color scheme here http://15mmworld.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/psc-t-34-85-and-zvezda-t-26-tanks.html

I used Knarloc Green for base colour, then I highlighted all hatches with 50/50 mix of Knarloc Green and Straken Green (new paint). Then I used Straken Green to highlight all edges. For some hull and turret edges I used 50/50 mix of Straken Green and Bleached Bone. Then I drybrushed tracks using khemri brown. At the end, I applied minimum amount of blackwash on hull around hatches edges and onto tracks.

Flames of War

I have roughly 1400 point Flames of War Soviet army, but I haven't posted any photos, because I wasn't satisfied with painting style of my infantry. But recently I found the color scheme that suits me and tested it on the  Commissar figure you see on the photo above! So I am gonna to paint all my soviets in same style  as this Commissar. Here are Games Workshop colors I used for the unifrom :

Desert Yellow - Base color
Kommando Khaki - first highlight
Bleached Bone - second highlight

Metro 2033 trailer

with 28 weeks later soundtrack

Metro Last Light cinematic trailer

OH MY GOD! RUSSIAN DANCING MEN!

I... have...no...words....