SISU! Landsverk L-62 Anti II for Flames of War Mid-to-Late War Finnish Forces in 15mm/1:100 (Battlefront Miniatures FI160)

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The indomitable Finns return again today with a follow-up to my previous post. This time we have a pair of Landsverk Swedish Anti-Aircraft vehicles in Finnish service. These are the Battlefront models, made from that combination of a resin hull and turret with metal tracks, gun and crew heads. Both were painted in Finnish tri-colour camoflague, using the variant that features sand rather than grey.

My subsequent Finns will be painted in a combination of plain Russian Green for some of the captured vehicles, as well as Finnish tri-colour. Not sure if I’ll use both the sand and grey versions yet. The Landsverks were kept in Finnish service right up intil 1966, though the hakaristi was, rather unsurprisingly replaced with the newer Finnish Roundel post-WWII

I have again gotten the Ps. numbers “wrong” in the case of these Landsverks (though I’m not sure what the correct number is for these), and so I figure there’s about a 50/50 chance I go back and try to fix them with teeny tiny freehand or just leave them be to work on other models instead.

Again, I added some stowage to individualise both vehicles with some plastic spare parts from other kits – jerry cans, spare road wheels, crates – as well as some milliput bags and bedrolls.

With some luck, I’ll get some more Finns painted during June (we’re going through May’s models right now) and this little force can grow a bit!

16 thoughts on “SISU! Landsverk L-62 Anti II for Flames of War Mid-to-Late War Finnish Forces in 15mm/1:100 (Battlefront Miniatures FI160)”

  1. Very nicely done! 🙂 I’ve noticed in a very recent book that the “grey” is shown as a sandy shade and a look through various model pictures shows a “sandy grey” predominating, which I think looks good! According to “The Eastern Front – Armour Camouflage and Markings 1941 to 1945” By Zaloga and Grandsen, the Lansverk Anti carried a “Ps 455” number and there were six in service on January 1st 1945.

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    • Thanks John. I looked into it a bit and the consensus seems to be that the Finns used both a grey as well as a sandy colour for the third colour in their camo at different times. The sand just looked a little more interesting to me, so I went that way with it. Thanks for the Ps. number as well – I may well end up going back to tweak these…

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      • In case you haven’t already checked for Ps numbers, Zaloga and Grandsen list the following:

        BT-42 – Ps511, 10 in service Jan 45

        T-26E – Ps161, 19 in service Jan 45 (I think this is the Vickers 6-tonner)

        T-26 Model 1933 – Ps163

        T-26 Model 1937 – P164, 75 total Model 33 and Model 37 in service Jan 45

        T-28 – Ps241, 7 in service Jan 45

        StuG – Ps531, 47 in service Jan 45

        T-34 – Ps231, 7 in service Jan 45

        T-34-85 – Ps245, 7 in service Jan 45

        KV-1 Model 1942 – P271, 1 in service Jan 45

        KV-1 applique – Ps272, 1 in service Jan 45

        Hope this might be useful!

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