SISU! BT-42 Assault Gun Platoon for Flames of War Mid-to-Late War Finnish Forces in 15mm/1:100 (Battlefront Miniatures FI010 with TigerAce1945 Printed Turrets)

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BT-42 Assault Gun Platoon for Flames of War Mid-to-Late War Finnish Forces in 15mm/1:100 (Battlefront Miniatures FI010 with TigerAce1945 Printed Turrets)

Another one of those posts with way-too-long titles today! We’ve returned to my Finns with some of what was supposed to be Battlefront models, except that two of the three kits I purchased had warped resin turrets. I got onto Battlefront’s customer service and they said they’d get right onto it… when they next have some stock arrive… in a couple of months. So those have still not arrived, and I decided I didn’t want to wait until an indeterminite time in the future to paint and finish the models. So I found a BT-42 STL turret model by a sculptor called TigerAce1945.

BT-42 Assault Gun Platoon for Flames of War Mid-to-Late War Finnish Forces in 15mm/1:100 (Battlefront Miniatures FI010 with TigerAce1945 Printed Turrets)

I did also print three more complete BT-42s as well. In fact, the turret STL also came with a hull STL in the archive file, so my first plan was to simply print a trio before later deciding to print the replacement turrets that you see here. While looking up images of BT-42s I was taken with the look of the Feldgrau models, so I decided to paint these three in the nice looking field grey (though mine have turned out a lot less clean, and more weathered and mucky) and to paint the fully printed ones with their slightly less detailed hulls in a camo scheme that would distract from the less detailed models. They’re still WIP at the moment, but hopefully we’ll see them completed soon!

BT-42 Assault Gun Platoon for Flames of War Mid-to-Late War Finnish Forces in 15mm/1:100 (Battlefront Miniatures FI010 with TigerAce1945 Printed Turrets)

Thanks to John from justneedsvarnish I’ve got the Ps.numbers for these assault guns (Ps.511.), so I’ve gone for 1, 2 and 3 and added number decals in a similar style to the hakaristi decals on the turrets, but with all of that on the rear glacis I didn’t feel up to trying to freehand another trio of tiny little hakaristi on the rear – and my stockpile of decals is limited and the Axis Allies Decal Set supply isn’t great for top-ups (and they ain’t cheap, either!) – so I need to be tight when it comes to top-hull/turret, front and rear decal use on most of these.

BT-42 Assault Gun Platoon for Flames of War Mid-to-Late War Finnish Forces in 15mm/1:100 (Battlefront Miniatures FI010 with TigerAce1945 Printed Turrets)

As per usual, I added some stowage to individualise both vehicles with some plastic spare parts from other kits – jerry cans, crates – as well as some milliput bags and bedrolls. As for the delay between posts, I wanted to get some vehicles finished before posting terrain – so I could have painted ones (and in the case of 15mm, recently-painted ones) for the size comparison pics. But I had to wait for the decals on these to come from NZ, as well as the decal set with some key bits for the next models in line as well…

These three little assault guns are also more fodder for Dave Stone’s Season of Scenery ’25. I know I’m speaking for the whole blog community that we have here when I say that we’re hoping to hear from Dave soon that he’s on the mend.

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    • Thanks John – just finished the camo ones tonight and sprayed them with matt. Only thing left for tomorrow will be adding some muck to them to hide the non-detailed tracks and some soot on the exhausts and gun, and then I can add them to the photo queue!

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    • Thanks Mark! The stowage just makes them look a bit more interesting to me – more like they’re actually lived in – a bit like adding weathering, I guess!

      There’s more Finns to come as well! 🙂

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    • Cheers mate – a shame it often cockblocks me from getting models done as it’s another annoying bit of friction in front of the fun stuff – actually painting. Still, it always looks worthwhile when the models are done!

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  6. Very nice work on these latest vehicles, mate. Its really nice that your printer can help speed up your hobby process as well. That is an added benefit that I wouldn’t have thought of.

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    • Cheers, Kuribo. I’m finding that the “next day delivery” of models I need via Flippy for the low price of a few cents really changes the metrics on some of these models.

      I found a box of two Soviet KV-5s a few days ago, I’d bought them around the same time as these TOGs. Checked the list – they come in units of 2-5.

      I didn’t even bother checking prices until now, but they’re out of stock everywhere (OOP for a bit maybe?) and the only place that lists them (as OOS) has them as AU$42 for the box of two.

      What I did was look for an STL, and found I had one in my STL stockpile on my server, and printed three more over the course of 2 days at high detail. They look bloody amazing so far, and they again cost me next to nothing.

      Hopefully I can actually get them painted quickly – got some terrain in the way to finish moving through first, though!

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