Manda (Amachan) goes to the Eastern Front

The bad news that got me completely down in the gutter yesterday has been resolved today luckily, but I was still very tired from a very bad night so I spend another day as a blanket burrito.

Today I am going to take a bit more of a dive into the battle for the Caucasus in order to help me set the scene for my bases and eventually terrain. I managed to get my hands on a digital copy of ‘Images of War The Battle for the Caucasus 1942-1943’ by Anthony Tucker-Jones and will be using that as my source a lot in this post.

So, the first picture is going to cause the first problem. These are Soviet prisoners at the end of October 1942 and the Soviet models I have are not wearing winter uniforms like these guys do.

And then there is this image of Soviet troops clearing a mountain road in the Northern Caucasus. They wear a different winter uniform closer to the summer uniform the models I have wear, but still not the same.

And then I have not even gotten into the German uniforms…. So that means I won’t be doing winter 1942. Luckily the raids done by the 9th Guards Cavalry against the 1st panzer army started in September, so that will be my focus. The following photos will give a good idea of what the terrain looked like and what I am going to do with my bases.

Here are some more pictures from ‘Images of War The Battle for the Caucasus 1942-1943’ by Anthony Tucker-Jones during the summer and autumn of the battle of the Caucasus.

And here are some colour photos I found on the interwebs from the same battle, these gives me a great idea of what colours I need to look at.

So that all gives me a great amount of detail to work with for now and I’ll be sure to follow up on this with my basing tests.