Wednesday 25 May 2016

BK-2 Soviet Riverine Gunboat in 28mm from Barrage Miniatures

The harbour is under expansion and there will of course be more space for ships and boats. This one, the BK-2 Soviet Riverine Gunboat from Barrage Miniatures, is a welcome addition to the fleet that is already crowding the waters in the present harbour. The one under construction will be 6’x4’ compared to the present 3’x3’, so there is certainly a need for more vessels.
In the kit you’ll find the one-piece hull, a turret and also an insert for the open cockpit (seats and a machine-gun mount) and a heavy machine-gun. I skipped the latter two parts as I wanted space enough for a miniature to stand in the cockpit.
The hull needed a tiny bit of green-stuff to fill a couple of small bubbles but otherwise everything was great.

I painted with a brownish green colour, stippled on different metal colours and gave it several different washes to make it look well used.

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    1. Boats and ships in 28mm is rather uncommon overall, and combat craft even more so.

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  2. Oh crap, now I've started thinking about going back to the very beginning of my war, Hanoi Harbour 1946.

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    1. Hahahaha! That Viet Minh warrior was all that was needed.
      You know I have all sorts of other appropriate vessels :-)
      And a harbour...

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    2. And that's an excuse to do early VM and French Colonial forces. And the Brits were still there. And re-armed Japanese under British command.

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    3. You're mad!
      In a good way :-)

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  3. That's a nice addition to the fleet.

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    1. It sure is. I think I will have a slight pause in fleet-building now.

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