Group Build Title: Operation Barbarossa
Group Build Description: To commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Nazi invasion of Soviet Russia
At midnight on 21st June it will be 80 years since Nazi Germany made the fateful step of invading Soviet Russia… and we all know what happened nearly four years later.
Both myself and my nephew, a fellow modeller, are planning to build two vehicles each to mark this anniversary. We have both agreed to build the diminutive Panzer II and the massive multi-turreted T35. We originally planned for this “David and Goliath” campaign to be a kind of mini group-build, however it occurred to me that others might like to participate.
Proposed start date/time would be midnight on 21st/22nd June and end date to be 24th December. A short timescale I admit, but in keeping with the original timetable of the German high command. Acceptable vehicles would be any that featured in the initial Barbarossa campaign, so that would include all the early German equipment, plus their Czech stuff, even the captured French rubbish that they pressed into service. On the Soviet side you could choose from either a KVI or II, very early T-34’s or maybe something from the BT range, not forgetting their light tanks, maybe a T26. Although I have chosen to torture myself with two vehicles, only one model would be required from each participant.
I’ll get in on this! Have many candidate kits from both sides available in my pile… Even a T-35, a T-28, a few T-26 and T-34, couple of Pz.II, a platoon of appropriate Pz.I, Pz. III, Pz. IV, Pz. 38(t), various Sov and German armored cars, assorted tiny Sov “tanks”, etc., etc. etc. I guess that I still have about 3 weeks in which to actually decide on the victim(s)! Choices are good!
I hadn’t really thought of any rules, the aim was for us all to have a bit of fun (in between searching for that tiny piece of photo-etch in the carpet monster ). Bearing in mind the rather tight deadline how would everyone feel if we said no more than 50% complete?
Might join with the trumpeter Kv-1 Ehkranami, depends where I get to on the other builds I have on the go, or perhaps it’s a good excuse to go buy the Kv-2
). Bearing in mind the rather tight deadline how would everyone feel if we said no more than 50% complete?
