If you are new to Bolt Action then we recommend this deal for you. We put it together last Christmas and as it proved to be so popular during the festive period we just kept it running. Why are we talking about it again? With more new players getting involved in Bolt Action every day many…
Treadheads, rejoice! To celebrate our growing range of plastic Bolt Action tanks and the retirement of the resin models that they replace, we’re launching a sale! We’re including all the fantastic plastic Bolt Action tank kits shown below – plus one of their resin predecessors – this will be your very last chance to get your hands on…
By the summer of 1943, Soviets tank commanders desperately needed a new tank to take on the heavier German Panthers and Tigers, complaining that the current generation of T-34 and KV tanks were virtually ineffective. With this in mind, two prototypes were created and paraded in front of Stalin himself. The KV-85 went straight into…
Recently, we received an email from one of our customers, with a couple of rather nice conversions of some mobile gun platforms… we liked them so much that we asked the proud hobbyist if he’d like to create a quick step-by-step guide, so that others might follow in his footsteps (or should that be ‘…follow…
The Soviet ‘KV’ tank series were named after the defence commissar Kliment Voroshilov and were known for their heavy armour. At the onset of the war with Germany they were virtually untouchable by the German Panzers, with only the heavy 88 mm anti-tank gun being able to stop them. The thickness of their armour often…
This week sees the release of two new heavy tanks to help the defence of the Motherland against the invading German Army during Operation Barbarossa – the up-armoured KV-1E and the KV-8 flamethrower tank! The KV tanks were a series of Soviet heavy tanks named after the Soviet defence commissar and politician Kliment Voroshilov and…
The emergence of heavy German tanks on the eastern front spurred the Soviet military into action, looking for up-gunned tanks of their own. Rather than wait for the full development of new tank designs to combat these Teutonic monsters a stop-gap upgrade to the KV series produced. It comprised a KV-1S with the new turret…
When the German army crashed over the Russian border in 1941, Hitler was confident of a short, sharp campaign. He nearly got one, but heroic defence by the massive Soviet armies slowed the Nazi advance. It was done by the simple private soldier, “Ivan” as the Germans called him. Brave, solid, and loyal, these soldiers…
Due to a deluge of correspondence from the community (some may even call it demand!) we have decided to add the Soviet standard bearer from the Ostfront command pack to our range as a single figure reinforcement: View in Store If you haven’t yet picked up a copy of Ostfront – Barbarossa to Berlin then…
The Bystrokhodny (which means ‘fast tank’) series were built in massive numbers, serving the Soviet military well for several years. The concept for these vehicles originally came from the Christie Tank design, unsuccessfully shown to the US military. The Soviets used their contacts to get the plans and specifications over to them, along with two…
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