Soviet 6mm Micro-Armour

I have been playing "Battlegroup Northag" at my local club, for which I have a 10mm British force.  I love the game, and was thinking about building a 10mm Soviet battlegroup, but I must admit the idea of going through the paint job all over didn't appeal.

I really wanted two armies, for different reasons :

-  To showcase the game for new players, if my opponent with 10mm Russians was not available

-  To play solo now and then

-  To try the game playing in centimetres rather than in inches, which I am pretty sure will play very differently (the alternative would be to enlarge table size 2.5x, but that is a little impractical...

I thought about simply using counters, but that is not quite as much fun.  So I decided to buy some 6mm Heroics and Ros.  On the other hand, I will be using counters for the infantry, more of that later.

 

So here is my Soviet armoured battlegroup.  

MBTs : T-64B ERA in front, older T-62s behind

BMP-1s and BMP-2s

BTR-60s, BTR-70s, ZSU-23-4, 100mm AT, Command & Control Vehicules

 

 

The paint scheme is quick and simple :

-  The base with Technical Astrogranite

- A white undercoat, sides, front & rear sprayed twice; the top sprayed once, twice for tanks

- A wash of undiluted 50/50 Militarum - Black Legion Contrast over the tracks or wheels

-  A wash of mildly diluted Militarum Contrast over the rest

-  A drybrush of  Sand Yellow

-  A glaze of slightly diluted Militarum Contrast

-  A light drybrush of Sand Yellow over the top only

-  An "edge highlight by drybrushing" over the silhouette of the vehicule (sides, front, rear and turret) 

-  Matt varnish with Mat medium mixed in

-  Seraphim Sepia on the base, with large blobs of Athonian Camoshade whilst still wet, and same smaller blobs of Ork Flesh Contrast

-  An Earth Brown base edge, with a Brown Sand edge highlight