WWII Soviet Tanks in a German Town

T-34 tanks rumble through the destroyed shell of a German city in 1945.

Artillery is lined up in support.

Dead buildings look down on the invaders.

Tanks in the distance.

A small town but one that is destroyed.
 

WWII Soviet Tanks

Most of my collection is stored in underbed plastic storage boxes and is labeled with the contents.

These are Mir HO scale tanks, WWII Soviet Union.

T-34/76 and T-34/85 mostly.

Most are painted Rust-Oleum Army Green, but some are painted in a darker green.

I tend to paint them by companies and store them by battalions.

The boxes on the left of the photo are pontoons for a pontoon bridge that I converted from Imex Conestoga Wagons and sheet plastic.

Mir tanks were made in the Soviet Union during the Cold War.  I got them from people in Czechoslovakia who traded plastic model kits from Japan for them.

Simple durable models the company folded when the Soviet Union fell apart.

This is another box with JS-II heavy tanks, also in HO scale.
 

Soviet Parade of Armor

Endless streams of Soviet armor drive past the reviewing stand.

Row after row.

Specialized vehicles too.

This one a bridge launcher on the hull of a T-34 tank.

To allow armor to cross anti-tank ditches or small streams.

Easily transportable and able to keep up with the other tank forces.
 

Commisar Reviews the Troops

Painting the Soviet WWII collection.

Mostly Mir assault guns.

And some anti-tank guns from Plastic Soldier Company.

Getting some of my bridge launchers deployed.

Here they are participating in a small parade on their way to the front.

Past a reviewing stand with a Commissar and some propaganda posters.

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Some troops hunkered down.

One tank had a burning suspension system.

The fire burned itself out.

 

A Hit

Many Americans were down as the NORK tanks pass through.

But not every Commie tank made it.

And not every American was out of the fight.

Individual troops continued to fight or pull back in small groups and pairs.

This bazooka team fired rocket after rocket but to little effect.

A hit!
 

T-34 Tanks Break Through

A recoilless rifle fires at point blank range.

The bazooka fires.

The flamethrower man was killed in this heroic attack.

Close tank combat with grenades.

A hit!

Several tanks break through, even the burning tank made it.
 

The NORKS Drive Forward

Troops bring forward ammo and reload.

The troops use the radio to call the next higher HQ to notify them of the enemy tank breakthrough.

A recoilless rifle fires.

Then enemy machine guns scythe down more infantry.

Another bazooka fires and the round bounces off again.

The Commie tanks roll past more dead and dying troops.
 

Hits Keep Coming

The terrain is mostly flat.

The US Army troops fire bazookas from one side...

And recoilless rifle rockets from the other side.

And bazooka fire again.

The North Koreans return fire.

The Americans continue to fire but to minimal effect only a couple North Korean tanks are knocked out.