All,

For those of you that have been patiently awaiting the Red Horde, wait no more, they're here.  The vast majority of these are from Warlord Games, but there's a few 3D printed models thrown in here, and there's a field gun and crew from West Wind, which is actually very nice (I'd never seen them before, had heard that they were smaller, but they fit right in to me).  The vast majority of the infantry were bought in two decent sized lots off of Ebay, already painted.  The first lot I bought didn't have any submachine guns (!!!???), so I got on the internet and bought me some submachine gunner, as well as some Maxim machine guns, ATRs, and engineers, all 3D printed, and a pair of 45mm guns from Plastic Soldier Company.  Then the second lot of infantry came up on Ebay and I bought them; there were definite differences between how the two lots of infantry were painted, so I spent some time painting to try and make them look a bit more 'together,' and the second lot wasn't fully based.  The bases were sanded and painted a dark brown, but that was it, whereas the first lot's bases were flocked and had clump foliage affixed to them, though quite a few of the bases had suffered substantially from use and shipping, so I set about working on them to make them a bit more uniform.  Then I had to paint and base the 3D printed models and the guns/crew from PSC, so even though I bought a lot of stuff painted, I feel like I've got some sweat equity in this force as I had to spend quite a bit of time to get it looking like it currently does.

As almost always, the ones I fully painted were done with Contrast paints, and I did something a little different.  This time I primed with khaki, then did the uniforms with Aggros Dunes, trying to get something decent for the Soviet uniform.  Not perfect, but looks okay, I think.


A pair of Lieutenants.


Two automatic riflemen with SVT-40s.  One of the guys did blue collars on a few of the guys, hadn't seen that before.  Anyone know the significance?


A trio of dudes with Molotov cocktails, pretty cool.


A 45mm anti-tank gun from Plastic Soldier Company, painted by moi.


And a 3D-printed Maxim machine gun team, also painted by me.

To see a bunch more photos, please check the blog at:
https://blackhawkhet.blogspot.com/2025/06/28mm-wwii-summer-soviets-from-warlord.html

So there you go, my non-snow covered Soviet infantry.  Very happy with how they turned out, and at the quantity of them  

V/R,
Jack

Fine work again Jack and I do like the Soviet summer uniform and colours .

Simple answer is some units just had blue collars!

Engineering, aviation, cavalry, tank and NKVD also used blue collar tabs.
https://www.cuttersguide.com
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Red Army Uniforms Of World War Ii

Thanks guy!

And thanks Lemmey, simple answers are always best!

V/R,
Jack

Oh, and the guy in blue trousers is the Commissar.
More likely to kill your own blokes than the enemy!

And it's good to see an attached sniper. Vasily Zaitsev would be proud.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Zaitsev_(sniper)

Yeah, familiar with the Commissars, just hadn't seen blue collars before.

And yes, a couple sniper teams, good to have.

V/R,
Jack