In the beginning the Soviets and America were allies of necessity. Lend Lease was operating and the Sovs had some US vehicles.  (And now so do I!)

I was looking at what I had vehicle and figure-wise and realized that I had a fair-sized Soviet force about 1/3 painted (so maybe 20-25 grunts to go). In looking through my "needs to be painted" cabinet, I came across some of the vehicles I had picked up used at MilleniumCon in Austin last year and new ones from Joe Conejo of Hobby Armor Depot, the same manufacturer. Hmmm... thinks I... Soviets *did* use American stuff for a while, and combined with the T34 and KV1 plastic models I have this could be some serious firepower.

I got the Shermans shown here for $5 USD each and the only things wrong with them were broken gun tubes and no .50 on the top. I had spray painted them a olive drab (good ol' Krylon camo paint from WalMart) before I moved to Utah but had to redo parts of them as one of the black spray cans I had leaked. I dry brushed these pretty heavily and made them as grungy as I possibly could to hide some of the malformed areas on the models. These are probably more to SOTR scale than the others I have posted here. The HAD models are more crude than most models you will come across but are good buys if you are on a budget.   

You'll notice on the bottomleft photo where I highlighted some of the quality issues. I haven't seen many of the HAD line so don't know if this runs across the line or if I just got lucky! Again, these vehicles I bought used for $5 each at MilleniumCon.  (Thanks again Dave, for the bargain!)

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