BKCII - The Build Up Part 3

Just a quick WIP update, the batch of T-34/85's (Heroics and Ros S09) needed to create the 32nd Tank Brigade are now fully undercoated in fact they have now all received their detailing (tracks, etc):


They, along with the half tracks for I./Pz.Gren.Regt. 114, should get finished this week.

The 32nd Tank Brigade is slightly different to the normal Russian tank brigades as it appears to have had two tank battalions each of 31 T-34 's from May 1943 through to the end of the war where as most other brigades changed to the 3 battalion (21 tanks each) TO&E issued in November 1943. This makes the individual battalions within this brigade much stronger.

The other brigades (25th & 31st) were organised in a more conventional fashion (2 battalions to start with changing to three in the late summer of 1944) except they too were strengthened when they were reorganised in early 1943 as at Kursk in July 1943 each of the two battalions had 31 tanks (T-34/76 in one and T-70 in the other).

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BKCII - The Build Up Part 2

Over the last few nights I have found time to base up a few new models from Heroics and Ros:

On the front row we have some T-34/85's (S09) (the first of a batch of 23 to finish one tank brigade and add a new one). On the second row are some Panther G's (G017) which will form part of the first of 4 companies of Panthers from I./Panzer Regiment Grossdeutschland which was attached to Panzer Regiment 11. Finally on the back row we have the Sdkfz 251/9 (G041) and Sdkfz 251/2 (G021C) to complete the 2 companies from I./Panzer Grenadier Regiment 114 and a single Sdkfz 251/7 (G151) as transport for the engineers from II./Panzer Regiment 11. All are now undercoated.
Next up are the completed Panzer Grenadiers that form most of the first two companies for I./Panzer Grenadier Regiment 114:

These have been repainted to bring them up to the same standard as my new models and the bases re-flocked. Each of the two companies consists of 5 Sdkfz 251/1D, 4 bases of Panzer Grenadiers (1 on the left with a Panzershreck) and 1 base of tripod mounted MG-34/42. On the top right of the photo you can see the engineers for II./Panzer Regiment 11. I took a few more close ups:


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