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

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BT-42 Assault Gun Platoon for Flames of War, TigerAce1945 STL file 3D print

I bet some of you thought this one was an error when you saw the title – didn’t we just have this post? Well, kinda but also, no. As I explained in the previous BT-42 post recently, I had some issues with some Battlefront models and ended up looking for some replacement turrets and found a BT-42 STL turret model by a sculptor called TigerAce1945. As well as printing out the extra turrets, I thought I may as well also print out a trio of the full models, as TigerAce’s file also had a hull packed in – which may or may not be Bergman’s BT-7 hull. So here they are!

BT-42 Assault Gun Platoon for Flames of War, TigerAce1945 STL file 3D print

As I also mentioned before, I decided to paint these fully printed BT-42 with their slightly less detailed hulls in a camo scheme to help hide the lower level of detail on these when compared to the Battlefront hulls(!) The Battlefront models also had “normal” tracks, with visible grousers (the sticky-out bits of the tracks) while the printed hull has detail-less strips.

BT-42 Assault Gun Platoon for Flames of War, TigerAce1945 STL file 3D print

Thanks to John from justneedsvarnish once again for the Ps.numbers (Ps.511.). This time I did them on the lower front and rear glacis, as space on the front armour next to the driver’s viewslit is a bit smaller on these printed hulls than on the BF ones, as you can see above.

BT-42 Assault Gun Platoon for Flames of War, TigerAce1945 STL file 3D print

Speaking of the BF models, you get to see a couple of comparison photos showing the differences between the BF hulls with their sharper detail and also the 3-colour Finnish camo vs the Field Grey. In a lot of ways I think I actually prefer the field grey! You can also see here the Dark Earth texcture paste I applied to the tracks to hide their lack of detail.

BT-42 Assault Gun Platoon for Flames of War, TigerAce1945 STL file 3D print

Here’s a comparison with the camo I painted on the Landsverk L-62s. The main difference is the yellowish ochre I painted the third colour in – described as varying from different tones of grey into sandy colours. This time I used Vallejo “Stone Grey”/AK 3rd Gen “Rock Grey” and I do personally prefer this tone to the one on the Landsverks.

Finnish tanks for Flames of War, TigerAce1945 STL file 3D print

Finally, a shot my small but growing Finnish Motor Pool. No two sets of vehicles in the same colour scheme! From Soviet 4BO to field grey to 2 versions of “the same” camo. I guess these are the choices I have for the next armoured units to come for this force – T-28s, T-34s (both 76 & 85) and Sturmis. We may even see more than one of these schemes making a comeback across that spread!

This second batch of BT-42s guns are also more fodder for Dave Stone’s Season of Scenery ’25.

Corvus Games Terrain 3D Prints: Urban Building (15mm)

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Corvus Games Terrain 3D Prints: Urban Building (15mm)

More 3D printed models today – we have the free sample Urban Building from Corvus Games Terrain over on MyMiniFactory. It’s scaled for 28mm, though in this case I resized it for 15mm.

Corvus Games Terrain 3D Prints: Urban Building (15mm)

The building comes in two forms – one with “filled” windows and one with “empty” windows. I decided to print both variants, and mirror one, so I could place them side by side and give the effect of shops in a strip that often have been constructed in that manner.

Corvus Games Terrain 3D Prints: Urban Building (15mm)

As a free piece, Corvus has (obviously) branded it with his own logo and name. This put me in a position where I wanted to make both of these businesses something relevant to Corvus – the sort of place(s) that might sell Games Terrain as part of their business.

Corvus Games Terrain 3D Prints: Urban Building (15mm)

With that in mind, I decided to make them into a pair of shout-outs to a couple of people in the blog circle. I actually finished both of these models early – at the start of last month in fact, but I wanted to finish a 15mm vehicle of some sort so I’d have something of the correct scale to post alongside. The TOG-2 is pretty massive, but then I thought a British tank might work better for the scale shot in this instance over one bearing a hakaristi! Even if the TOG is from the wrong era! (yeah, I need to get some modern 15mm stuff painted…)

Obviously, these two buildings count towards Dave Stone’s Season of Scenery ’25. Hope you’re home & back to painting and modelling soon, Dave!