Courage and Steel. Stalingrad 1942

[longlance67]

Howdie all,

this has been a project ive been sitting on for a while, and ive finally figured out how to tackle such a large event in history. Having always wanted to depict the brutal fighting in Stalingrad ive came up with this a subject. I plan to depict a section of germans troops clearing out a bombed out factory building when they engage in hand to hand fighting with the russian defenders inside, all is going well till a russian tank (im thinking of a T80) shows up outside, volenteering to take out the tank a pair of german troopers dash from cover with mines and a hollow charges on a one way sortie, i aim to show the human courage on both sides displayed during the battle

some pics from the net for inspiration

the factory building from miniart

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the first batch of troops come from masterbox with minor convertions and kit from DML gen2 sets, some more putty work has yet to be done and each figure is gonna be repainted

Squad Leader:
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Trooper with hallow charge:
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i have more figures been worked on at the moment but their far enough along yet


more to follow soon,

thanks


shane.

 

[spud]

sounds really interesting Shane

 

[andrei383]

the figures are well detailed! looking forward to seeing this project progress!

 

[TRM]

Off to a great start Shane!!! Love the idea too!! Keep it coming!

 

[longlance67]

Spud,andrei and TRM - thanks for the comments lads, glad to have you along



Been working on some other figures to add to diorama, so after digging around in my spares box i got these chaps

Sapper with demo charge:





the main body came from masterbox, the head and equipment are from DML

Trooper with AT mine:





this chap along with the guy with the magnetic mine will be making their desperate dash to knock out the russian tank. Just wondering does anyone have any information regarding russian tanks operating within stalingrad ?
any info there would be great.


the figure got a resin head from hornet replacing the one from the kit, this required some putty work to blend the neck and chest areas of the figure as well as the collar of the jacket that received some damage.



im not the best with milliput, but im happy how it came out





more to follow soon lads


thnaks,


Shane

 

[Steve Ski]

Ooh, this is gonna be a good one. Looking forward to seeing all the work to follw, base and all. Great start on the figures, standing by for more.

Cheers, Ski.

 

[longlance67]

thanks Steve,

havent got to do much of late, due to time restraints with college and what stuff, but i'm doing a little bit of building and painting when ever i get the time, should have an update very soon i hope