Kiev Grenadiers

 Wow, 2nd post of the month.  Pretty lame, but not as lame as last month.

Getting back to the one true scale and the one true era, below we see the Kiev Grenadiers, recently deployed to 'the' front, whichever front that is.

As with almost all my Russian Napoleonic figures, the figures are from Front Rank.

The Regiment formed up in Column.  No doubt in preparation to advance and introduce some uncouth French interlopers to the fine art of the bayonet.

The 1st Battalion in line.  The musket may be a lazy fellow, but it does come in handy when you can't get to bayonet range with a slippery opponent.

The 3rd Battalion also in line.

That's all for now.  I have grandiose plans for next month.  We'll see if workload and the weather allow me to get to them.

Speaking of weather, I hope you're all situated for Winter.  My arthritis is telling me it's going to a damp one, and since we normally I get first snow in October, I guess we'll find out soon.

So much lead, so little time.

Old Stuff

Hello, it's been a while.

As my efforts to clean up the game room to the point where I can actually walk all the way around the table without stepping on any figures progress, I uncovered the below treasures from a decade ago or more.

Way back when Flames of War first came out it rekindled my interest in WWII, which resulted in the below.  Unlike so many of my collections, a fair number of these actually saw some action on the table top, once or twice.

Earlier this year I sold off all of the unpainted American forces, but these German figures still remain, at least for now.  I was a little surprised at the number of German figures I had once I had them all laid out on the table.

And with that, on to the pictures, in no coherent order.  Almost all of these are Flames of War miniatures, with a few odd Command Decision figures (from the 1990's)

A battery of 3 Nebelwerfer's and 2 75mm Anti-Tank guns.

A recon element.  Two sdkfz 222 and one sdkfz222 (Rad) and 8 motorcycle/sidecars.  Motorcycles and Machine Guns, how can you not love that combination.

Self propelled anti-aircraft and more transports.

More soft skin vehicles.  Kubelwagen on the front left, Schwimwagen on the front right.  

Some Infantry and Engineers 

Mortar's, Machine Guns, and I think that's a Panzerbuchse.  It's been a long time since I looked at these and I'm not sure.

5 Panzer III G's.  They look a little better if you enlarge them.

5 Panzer III J's, (late war) if my notes on the bottom of them are correct

Three Panzer III L's.  If you click and englarge you should be able to see the 9th Panzer Division insignia near the driver's vision block.

Two Stug G's, and two Hornisee

More trucks

Finally, some of the big guns.  Three Panzer IVF2's and one Panzer IVG

Five Panzer IVF1's

A platoon of 4 Panzerwerfer's

I also found these which seem to be the only American Infantry I got around to painting.  A couple of Engineer stands, 3 bazooka teams and 2 heavy machine guns.

But wait, there's Mooore!

These are from Command Decision, two Panzer III E, and one Panzer II (I think).

US vehicles, from Command Decision as well.

That's all for now.

So much lead, so little time