TimW Posted June 12, 2019 Share Posted June 12, 2019 (edited) I started this more or less on a whim a year or so ago. I've slowly been building up the figures, vehicles, etc. The basic premise is sometime in May, 1984, the Soviets invade West Germany. Spearheads of 8th Guards Army are verifying they are going in the right direction, with some help from a detachment of DDR motor rifle troops. Edited June 12, 2019 by TimW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimW Posted June 12, 2019 Author Share Posted June 12, 2019 Some more. Out2gtcha and Gazzas 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Out2gtcha Posted June 12, 2019 Share Posted June 12, 2019 Nice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimW Posted June 12, 2019 Author Share Posted June 12, 2019 Thanks. There will also be a T-64 on the board, but it's not done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aircommando130 Posted June 16, 2019 Share Posted June 16, 2019 1984? You should have one of those guys at the bus stop looking at the sky watching a 4 ship A-10 formation rolling in! Soviet armor for some reason attracts depleted uranium 30mm rounds. All joking aside...great job so far! Cheers...Ron Gazzas 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimW Posted June 16, 2019 Author Share Posted June 16, 2019 9 hours ago, aircommando130 said: 1984? You should have one of those guys at the bus stop looking at the sky watching a 4 ship A-10 formation rolling in! Soviet armor for some reason attracts depleted uranium 30mm rounds. All joking aside...great job so far! Cheers...Ron Yeah, was going to make a joke about some F-4s dropping CBUs. We have a couple of ex-USAFE guys in our hobby club. Tim W Gazzas 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wurzacher Posted June 17, 2019 Share Posted June 17, 2019 Fulda? Just about 362 kilometres form where I am. Straight up North. Traffic jams, and a Russian tank here and there... Gazzas 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimW Posted June 17, 2019 Author Share Posted June 17, 2019 1 hour ago, Wurzacher said: Fulda? Just about 362 kilometres form where I am. Straight up North. Traffic jams, and a Russian tank here and there... Well, the traffic at Autobahnkreuz Bad Hersfeld was too heavy, so... Gazzas 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John1 Posted June 17, 2019 Share Posted June 17, 2019 On 6/15/2019 at 11:22 PM, aircommando130 said: 1984? You should have one of those guys at the bus stop looking at the sky watching a 4 ship A-10 formation rolling in! Soviet armor for some reason attracts depleted uranium 30mm rounds. All joking aside...great job so far! Cheers...Ron I was in the Infantry at the tail end of the Cold War. We were told that if the Warsaw Pact ever invaded, to expect most of NATO’s air power to be stuck on bases that were devastated by long range missiles launched in the first minutes of the war. That goes for the A-10’s forward operating locations as well, Russia was quite aware of them. Any aircraft that got off the ground would survive a short time at best. Thank goodness we’ll never know how the war would have played out! Gazzas 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimW Posted June 17, 2019 Author Share Posted June 17, 2019 I was there 82-93. Kind of my homage to the Cold War. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimW Posted June 19, 2019 Author Share Posted June 19, 2019 (edited) Edited June 19, 2019 by TimW Gazzas, John1 and mywifehatesmodels 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John1 Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 Looking good! Now you just need a scared US Army grunt (me), hunkered down in a foxhole with a couple of puny LAW’s trying to stop all those oncoming tanks! Great work on the T-64 in particular. Back in the day, the -64 was very much suppose to have been an Uber-tank. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimW Posted June 19, 2019 Author Share Posted June 19, 2019 Yeah. Thought about that. What's amazing is how confungulated the Soviet tank design process was. Competing designs, factions, really bad ideas for modifications (e.g., "The Missile tanks," etc). The 64 was a good tank for the time--but it was a lot more labor intensive than the 72 or the 80, which is why those eventually became the domininant tank. Out2gtcha 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazzas Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 Just out of curiosity... which Soviet tank was the first to have a gyroscopically stabilized gun? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimW Posted June 19, 2019 Author Share Posted June 19, 2019 T-34, I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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