Working WWII Soviet Tanks on YouTube

Sometimes you can go off on a tangent in YouTube just following links.  I discovered these cool videos of working WWII Soviet tanks.  Makes me want to get back to wargaming WWII Eastern Front.

Video's with red highlight are dubbed in English.

T-37A Light amphibious tank (wiki entry)

This is a fun video.

MS-1 (wiki entry)

 

T-60 (wiki entry)

 

T-70 (wiki entry)

Lots of mud/water to drive in for this video.

BT-7 (wiki entry)

The driver has to remove the steering wheel before entering/exiting (shown in video). Crazy!

 

KV-2 (wiki entry)

 

 

T-34 (wiki entry)

 

T-34/85 (wiki entry)

 

KV-85 (wiki entry)

Doesn't start rolling until 8 min into video.

 

ISU-152 (wiki entry)

 Another video LINK

SU-100 (wiki entry)

 

JS-2 or IS-2 (wiki entry)

Pretty cool to see inside this tank.

 

T-44 (wiki entry)

Late war WWII training tank, only used on the Far East front.

Ignore the German tank at the beginning.



There are other videos of Soviet trucks and other videos from this same driver:
link

New Miniature!

My wife and I are new proud parents of Paige Alizabeth Elder who arrived May 23, 7 lbs 3 ozs, 19 inches. 

Although, not wargaming related, I thought I'd pass along the good news.  This is our first child.

Elephant Grass Terrain for 10mm Wargaming

For my Ia Drang Vietnam scenario I read there was elephant grass in the battlefield, so I did my research how I was going to create the long grass.  It seems that the best way to represent long grass or wheat people are using is using faux fur.  I struggled to find faux fur at my nearby fabric/hobby stores.  I ended up finally finding it at a decent fabric store in town (Denver Fabrics).  The sales clerk got a kick out of me buying the fur during a snow storm that day, saying I could use it to keep warm leaving the store.

The fur itself is too long for my 10mm scale battle, so I had to figure out how to trim it.  Also I did not find much help online regarding painting, but figured spray paint would work.  So I gave it a try originally with Krylon Camouflage ultra-flat olive green but found it was too dark.

Below is what I came up with.  I might add some more shades to the current green, but it is start.

Piece of faux fur cut as a terrain feature.



Hair trimmer with a 3/8" attachment to trim the fur.



After trimming.




Krylon emerald green gloss spray paint used on fur.

The faux fur after spray paint.  I did spray a lot of paint trying to cover all beige colour.

It starts to get glossier the longer you spray the fur, which I think is okay because it is supposed to be grass.

 

Elephant grass with 10mm NVA figures.  I might try adding some lighter green spray paint patches to tone down the uniform green colour.