Red Air

Over the weekend I painted some more aircraft for Megablitz. Being that my next scenario is in the east front I decided to buildup my Russian air force. I also decided to start mounting my aircraft with magnets. Here are the pictures of the new aircraft.



Here we have all the aircraft together, 3 light bombers and 3 fighters. Behind them you can see one of my new flight stands. Not as pretty as the Warhammer, but it works with the new magnets

For early war ground support, I've got a division's worth of SB light bombers. These were all made by Scotia. The first two are early models done in the bare metal which was common in the early days of the war. The second one has some improvised camouflage applied shortly after the invasion. The third one is a late model SB3 and is done in the official Soviet camouflage.



Now for the fighters. (The picture doesn't do them justice.) I was originally planning to paint 2 Russian I-15 fighters and my Finnish Buffalo. I then noticed that my two I-15 fighters looked different from each other even though they were both from H&R. At first I thought I got an old and a newer molding of the aircraft. However, after some research, I realized I instead had a mis-packaged Hs-123. So I now have a new German aircraft. Not that I mind, it's just that now I need to buy another Russian Biplane as the scenario calls for about 2 regiments.

Anyway those are the new planes. I'm not sure what I'm going to post next, though I do plan to play in Christain's Victory at Sea game on the 23rd.
Anyway those are the new aircraft

Cruiser Modification and Other Things.

I recently got some new ships for my next game of Shipwreck and just finished painting them. There was a little modification involved with this group. I had ordered the Skytrex Galveston class cruiser. Unfortunately the Skytrex Galveston was the regular missile cruiser version, not the flag ship version I needed. So I had to modify it to make it look like the flag ship I need. I didn't take a picture of the model before I started cutting it up, but here's what it looked like before.

USS Galveston cruiser of which only one was modified.

 Here's what I needed.

USS Oklahoma City, 6th Fleet flagship.

 Now, behold the butchery!

I would later realize that I glued the 5" turret on its side.

 And now the final product, which doesn't look too bad.

I'll probably end up repainting the top of the command center.

Now for the rest of the ships.

Here we have the Belknap CG USS Sterett.

Two Gearing class destroyers. Built at the end of WWII and modified with helipads and ASROC launchers, the Gearings were a workhorse of the throughout the Cold War until they were replaced by the Spruance class in the Mid 70s. They went on to serve in many allied navies including: Greece, Turkey, Pakistan, Taiwan, and South Korea.

Finally I decided to expand my Vietnamese navy for some early cold war action with 3 P-6 PT Boats and a Komar PTM. The Komar is just an Osa I cut in half, which is pretty much what the real one is.

Anyway those are the new ships. I hope to use them in a Vietnam scenario soon.