{"id":131,"date":"2010-11-07T11:58:01","date_gmt":"2010-11-07T11:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/?p=131"},"modified":"2010-11-07T11:58:01","modified_gmt":"2010-11-07T11:58:01","slug":"finished-10mm-polish-forces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/?p=131","title":{"rendered":"Finished 10mm Polish Forces"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday morning I woke early and finished the last bits of my Polish force for the Cold Wars LSNC-aganza. \u00a0I had ordered some Pithead C2P artillery tractors. \u00a0I also needed to paint and mount Ursus trucks.<\/p>\n

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C2P Polish Artillery Tractors<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Pithead doesn’t make the horse-drawn machine gun wagons, but I wanted them for my cavalry units. \u00a0I found Russian ones from Pendraken at The War Store. \u00a0Though the machine guns are wrong, in 10mm they are close enough. \u00a0At this scale, any uniform differences are completely indiscernible. \u00a0I don’t believe the Polish had machine guns with wheels on them as shown on these wagons, but again, they are close enough.<\/p>\n

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The "business end" of the machine guns.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mounting the wagons onto bases presented a bit of a challenge. \u00a0With the horses, the wagons were too long for the standard 1.5″ deep LSNC bases. \u00a0I’ve had this trouble with larger German tanks as well. \u00a0I mounted the wagons on 2″ deep bases. \u00a0Also, there was the question of what is the “front.” \u00a0I decided that when the the muzzles represented the “front” of the unit. \u00a0This means that when moving, it will look like the wagons are backing around the battlefield, but they’ll look correct when they are firing at the Germans.<\/p>\n

Note that the axles were not quite long enough on many of the wagons, which is why they look a little “bowlegged” in these pictures. \u00a0Again at 10mm they are okay.<\/p>\n

To finish off the bases, I like to add some tiny gravel and also the “tufts.” \u00a0These come in sheets of static grass glued in clumps to waxed paper. \u00a0I get them from International Models (www.internationalmodels.net). \u00a0Though they are in England, they arrive about a week after I order them. \u00a0You pick the tuft off the waxed paper with tweezers. \u00a0Then I use a dab of white glue and stick them down to the flocked base. \u00a0After I spray dull cote over the entire base, they stick well. \u00a0I think I may have lost one in the past three years.<\/p>\n

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Side view of machine gun wagons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Poles are now fully equipped and ready for action!<\/p>\n