Zvezda miniatures are greatly missed. They were very affordable, available and easy to put together, but have become are scarcer and scarcer after the last few years (for obvious reasons).
Modern armoured support, at last(!) for the workers of Manchester and Sheffield
In the months leading up to the crisis of legitimacy of 1937-38 and the present internecine conflict, the Soviet Union managed to ship in reasonable amounts of military equipment and supplies to support the workers' communes being established in and around the central and northern industrial cities of Britain. Included with this materiel were several contingents of modern tanks, several of which were equitably allocated to the Manchester Commune to enable its bold onslaught along the Mersey Corridor.
The Manchester peoples troops, and their Sheffield Workers Militia comrades, now at last have tanks which should be more than a match for those of the Royalist Army forces and the hated BUF. They will no longer have to rely solely on collections of ancient Renault FT-17s that were just sitting around apparently. They now have fast BT-5s and even an unstoppable T-35 (somehow they smuggled it into the Tyne and brought it west by train with a tarp over it I suppose). A multi-turreted tank like this operates like a platoon in itself and I think it warrants a specific Chain of Command scenario.
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| BT-5 and T-35 of the Manchester Workers Army on an approach march to the front (Zvezda miniatures). |
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| BT-5 closeup. |
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| The terrifying steel monster that will lead the advance through Royalist lines. |
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| Closeup of the T-35 with a simple Manchester bee emblem. (I really need to put more effort into cleaning up mould lines as I'm not presenting the model at its best). |
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