Stalingrad, Russian factory at Carronade 2019

Hi all

Many thanks to everyone who came and chatted and took photos of our game. Our game was very well received by the Carronade audience.

Build for Stalingrad...

https://photos.app.goo.gl/kp6UPBEbksmbo1Gr9

Stalingrad full set of pictures...

https://photos.app.goo.gl/PcFCW4Ls1WqHXc8E9

Well... this is some pictures and a game report. But to begin... this is what we did prior to the big day...
As you can see its a big game. With lots of detail. The large building represents hall 6 at Stalingrad. Its a 2ft mdf kit which we completely reworked into 6 foot long, with additional entrances, new windows (3d printed), with 28mm sizes brick paper pasted onto the mdf walls. All scratch built. Trust were made for the roof. Then Russian WW2 posters, weathering, pipework, electrical wire runs etc. were all added to make it authentic.

Internally we 3d printed lathes, drill presses, turning machines and even toilets! Boilers were scratch built and roofs made from corrugated iron pictures scaled down and pasted onto cardboard (all cut edges were then painted rust). Brick scatter was made by cutting up thousands of matchsticks and then painting them. Chimneys are all pipes with papered scale brick. Some cut up to match the scene of Stalingrad. At this point I would also say that the book Island of Fire is a great reference source.

This picture below shows the level of detail we went to create the right look...with lathes and drilling machines on the right.and top left.

All vehicles and equipment were accurately represented (T34's, KV, 57mm anti tank guns, Ampulants (flamethrowers), Gaz trucks. For the Germans ...Pz4, Pz3, Sig33, Sig33a, Nebelwefer, Opel Blitz (+ a Maultier), Kubelwagen, Famo, Sdkfz7 etc.). Most are 3d printed. All troops are represented in the unforms of the period. Due to the scale we used about 120 Russians (120 casualities), 120 Germans a mix of Pioneers and Early war troops (120 casualities). All troops are on clear bases to blend into the mat/terrain.

So we packed up the lot and headed for Falkirk, Scotland...

GAME REPORT

The 6ft x 8ft playing board. Main hall (right), Power plant  (just in front of the crane on left). Then on the left upper side some workers building. The Germans started on the left edge moving across to the right.

The power plant has a hopper and as you can see in the photo below we even made a grab for the crane.  

The Germans started their attack from the crane end supported by two Sig33.

The Sig 33 pound the factory wallls, and inner building.

The Sig barrage almost hit a spectator LOL....well nearly.

At the water tower end at the same time a nebelwefer and Pz3 send in a barrage, supported by HMG fire.

The Russians return fire with Katuska (war thunder). This keeps the Germans in the centre at bay.


The Russian generals plan their defense (they are actually using a scale version of the actual Barikady area map).

Germans enter the sewer... This adds a new dimension - but they need to roll a six to get out at the correct place!

German casualities being moved to a cart.

The German transport in the street.

The German command in a 3d Famo.

Awaiting their orders...behind a building.

 The Sigs continue their barrage (3d printed Sigs). 

A good picture of the bricks !....made from matchsticks.

Russians (at the water tower end) have anti tank, maxim, and a 120mm mortor (which proved hard to take out)

The explosion looks effective...and the medic is in the thick of it.The loose brick rubble looks great here.

See below for close up...

A medic treats the wounded with a bandage.

 Some Russians move forward...under cover of a second round of Katuska firing -to suppress the Germans.

The crane looks good in this picture

Looking through the power station building towards the main factory unit.

Walking through the rubble....

A collapsed chimney blocks the rail line (with about 100 bricks)

Rubble...and debris everywhere

 Some pack horses and a Gaz truck suprise (with quad maxim) parked in the lower corner (water tower end).

 Here they come again...PZ3 starts rolling forward.

 Two Stug's appear (with more troop support to the centre).

A Russian second line starts to appear around factory entrance...(water tower end)



Above and Below...The quad maxim causes a .... well a bit of an impact. on advancing Germans.

A lot of German casualities (middle top).

At the other side of the big factory...Outnumber... a Russian looks on as Germans advance. The grey boilers are scratch built (plastic piping with end pieces and bent wire).

Stug ahoy.

This is a good photo of the overall board. the top side large factory (Russian side) with two staff rubbled houses and the powerplant.

No man's land is now a Greman occupied area.

Stugs move across centre with hanomag and troops.

You can see  the Russian on the inside maning the front windows and guarding the enterance.

Below - You can see the troops in between lathes...

The different sized lathes came out well in this photo.

Outside the entrance a SIG take out the 45mm  anti tank gun KABOOM. (far right above)
With HMG support and the  large numbers the Russians fall.

This entrance is is now only defended from the inside...

The Sig 33 moves in KV fires and misses then the Sig returns fire with devastating hit..
The factory definitely looks the part here...

In the middle section Stugs (with troop support) are about to come in through a side wall...

The building roof looks great in this shot (remember...the overall the factory is 5ft long)! 

Really looks bombed out.


and this guy looks very calm in his vehicle!

Meanwhile its hand to hand at the entrance

We placed some Russians and Germans on the same base to simulate the hand to hand combat.

Charge !


Theres a lot of Germans pouring in...

Above - a German officer observers...the carnage.

The first Stug is in and a Russian goes for it!

 Get that turret on the T34 quick !LOL

A good shot of the battle inside.

 Hand to hand ... clashes.

 
It doesn't get any closer.

At the end of the day the toilet block below is the only ground held by the Russians!

It was a great game and I hope everyone enjoys the pictures...if you like it please leave a comment. 

Also have a look at how this game- got even bigger the next time out.

COMMAND HQ

Well today was all about command HQ...

we needed some command officers for our Stalingrad game. So we purchased  a few nicely detailed Rubicon figure packs.
They are nicely detailed figures. An accurate look to the scale , meaning not overly chuncky.

 The Russian HQ are on a clear plastic Base.  This means they can be added to my 3d Gaz truck.

I did the same for the German HQ on my 3d Famo.

 ENGINEERS FAMO.

Maps of the Barricade area were added.

I think they turned out well.

SDKFZ 11 3d print

Did a Sdkfz 11 on the 3d printer. It looks OK when you add a drivers head, spare petrol cans, a passenger, mg 34 in front passenger side and a wooden box.

It amazing how compact the 11 is.

It's a great little addition to the German armoury. ..

Sig 33a, Sig, Pz4, sig, Famo, the 11 , three Opel Blitz, Kubelwagen...

Russian Factory , Power Plant

So we decide to add on the power station to the factory (see factory at Targe Show  page). This will allow us to place the generators and boilers into the separate area. More like the original.

So we purchased a plastic injection kit... but again we decided to upgrade it, and make it larger.  We removed the Base and replaced it with mdf. Ensuring it overlapped to give us a pavement. The mdf is about 30 inches x 18 inches.

We covered it with concrete paper in order to blend with the main factory.

We the set to work on the walls. We cut out the windows and excess mould. 

As we wanted the building to fold flat we placed magnetic strips on all the corner's. 

Then covered the wall in brick paper and weathered  them. We 

also re enforced the pillars with balsa.

The pillars were also covered in concert paper and walls with brick paper.

We then used a corrugated iron paper (its a picture repeated and printed) to make the roof. 

See other post on making of the corrugated sheet.

So this some near finished photos...

 We also made some more boilers for the outside.

So it's now looking the part...

Can't wait to see it on the mat... see other posts.

Stalingrad 28mm corrigated iron sheets.

So we are preparing for Carronade at Falkirk 2019. 

We will be showing our Stalingrad factory. But we thought our factory needed some more detail because the roof was gone (to allow acces) but we had no roof debris. So we had a look at some of the materials available... A4 plastic sheet is good but expensive, plus it would need to be cut up. So in the end we came up with this idea...

Build for Stalingrad...

https://photos.app.goo.gl/kp6UPBEbksmbo1Gr9

Stalingrad full set of pictures...

https://photos.app.goo.gl/PcFCW4Ls1WqHXc8E9

MAKING CORRIGATED IRON SHEET.

We photographed some sheets then sized them to 28mm. We then copied them. Then kept copying until we had a large sheet at 28mm.

So we then printed out the sheets, took a nice think cardboard and sandwiched between the photo sheets. We tried pva but found pret sticks better for sticking them together. We then cut them out.

When doing this we also cut them out at different sizes , shapes in 2,'s  4s etc.

At this point you can stop...but you will notice that the cardboard edges pop out. So we decided to paint all the edges with rust.

The good thing about cardboard is that you can bend the edges to make it look better and run a rust line of paint along the bend line.

I think these will compliment our brick rubble very nicely.

This method could also be used for gamers that are into "junk yard" style games.

So we will post some pictures of Carronade and let people see the results. See the Stalingrad game report for more pictures.