Thursday 25 December 2014

Festive Forbodian Tank Regiment

 No Christmas celebrations for the Comrades of course, but a jolly parade to intimidate you decadent imperialists.  All of these toys are in 1/43 - 1/48ish scales and all have been acquired during 2014.

Quality. The understrength T-72 battalion, with only two companies.
Quantity - one of the T-55 battalions, with three companies each of two toy tanks
(each representing five real ones), and the HQ in a snazzy BRDM-2. 
More quantity - the other T-55 battalion, this time with HQ in a GAZ-69.
The regimental assets...
...RHQ with a gaggle of GAZ-69s and a platoon of T-55... 
...Recce Company with a platoon each of BRDM and PT-76...
...Air Defence with a Plt of ZSU-23/4 and the engineers with BTR-60PB and BTS recovery tank.  




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27 comments:

  1. Col25 December 2014 at 09:34

    Comrade Gow!... Where is frozen on the camera's lens, Glorious moment in Soviet/Forbodian relations, lengths of fresh milk pipelines on their specially made tracked carriages on way to installation??? I am swept up in joyful outburst of approval at this celebration of unbreakable bond between the two Socialist camps of two good neighbour nations!

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  2. Springinsfeld25 December 2014 at 10:24

    A terrifying display of Forbodian might. Have a Very Christmas.

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  3. Rob Young25 December 2014 at 11:01

    Merry Xmas. Christmas truce or is that a decadent Capitalist trait?

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  4. Stephen Thomas25 December 2014 at 11:09

    More tanks then you can shake a stick at !!!
    Puts me in mind of a famous comedy sketch:

    Another tank sir?
    No! I'm full.
    Ah! Go on, Just another T55 with wafer thin armour.
    Oh go on then.

    MERRY CHRISTMAS :-)

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  5. Paul Foster25 December 2014 at 11:14

    May Day in December?

    Sweet looking parade!

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  6. doctorphalanx25 December 2014 at 13:15

    Peace and goodwill to all men, except, of course, to enemies of the Forbodian state!

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  7. Don M25 December 2014 at 14:25

    A splendid review comrade, a tribute to the Forbodian
    proletariat in achieving
    this might in only a year!

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  8. JLee11825 December 2014 at 15:30

    Great stuff! Now you just need a battalion of BMP infantry to with them.

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  9. Pete.26 December 2014 at 01:01

    Impressive, I see the Forbodians favour the tank heavy approach. I approve.

    Cheers,

    Pete.

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  10. Archduke Piccolo26 December 2014 at 09:29

    Ooo... Shiny! What a formidably forbidding Forbodian force. Oorrah pobieda, Tovarishch!

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  11. Tim Gow26 December 2014 at 12:46

    Col
    Quite so Comrade. In fact 'Socialist Camp' is this season's must-have look.....

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  12. Tim Gow26 December 2014 at 12:48

    Springinsfeld
    Those who follow the true path to socialism need not be afraid. Personally I'm terrified!

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  13. Tim Gow26 December 2014 at 12:49

    Cal toting of Python
    Truce eh? Well you lay down your rifle first and we'll see how it goes....

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  14. Tim Gow26 December 2014 at 12:51

    Stephen Thomas
    Hey, those T-55s are diecasts with real metal armour! It's the plastic T-72s we should be worrying about...

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  15. Tim Gow26 December 2014 at 12:52

    Paul Foster
    That's the last time I buy such a cheap calendar.

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  16. Tim Gow26 December 2014 at 12:53

    Doctorphalanx
    Spoken like a true fellow traveller comrade!

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  17. Tim Gow26 December 2014 at 12:54

    Don M
    Heroic efforts right enough Don. The day shift in the tractor factory and the night shift on Ebay....

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  18. Tim Gow26 December 2014 at 12:55

    JLee118
    The BMP battalion exists Comrade....

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  19. Tim Gow26 December 2014 at 12:56

    Pete
    Why go for the subtle approach when you can simply crush the enemy with lots of heavy diecast models?

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  20. Tim Gow26 December 2014 at 12:57

    Archduke Piccolo
    More shininess is planned.....

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  21. Archduke Piccolo26 December 2014 at 19:57

    To coin perhaps a corollary to the well known Russian observations about thequantity/quality duality: 'Forthrightness has a subtlety all of its own; and subtlety has itself a forthrightness none else can claim.'

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  22. The Dancing Cake Tin26 December 2014 at 21:37

    Armoured People Power! The Western lapdogs tremble before it.

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  23. Geordie an Exiled FoG28 December 2014 at 00:17

    This is the most scary post I have ever read on your post .. from complete madness and off-the-wall-thinking (I remember shaking my head in complete disbelief when Tim Gow went BIG) .. ti a "I can see his logic" .. scary, where do you manage to put this stuff away?

    Respect, though also "disbelief"

    Have a good Fletcher Pratt tomorrow, sorry I cannot make it!

    :(

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  24. Geordie an Exiled FoG28 December 2014 at 00:18

    "Under-strength" also means (implies) I am going to get some more in 2015!

    True/False?

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  25. Tim Gow28 December 2014 at 12:28

    Dancing Cake Tin
    As well they might. Historical inevitability is on our side Comrade.

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  26. Tim Gow28 December 2014 at 12:30

    Stu Rat
    Quite so. The Bauble replaced the Golden Splonder following the Communist coup. Er, I mean popular uprising.

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  27. Tim Gow28 December 2014 at 12:31

    Geordie
    What do you have to be scared about? It's me who has to fins room for all this crap. Lucky I can stop anytime then....

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