Some time ago I purchased a large number of Skytrex Firefight 20 figures from the UK. While long out of production these figures still have a great deal of character and their sculpting style lends itself well to my style of painting.
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| Armed with a mix of AK-47s, SVD-63s, and RPKs |
The purchase was made up of from a variety of their modern ranges, including:
- Dogs of War
- Vietnam War (both North Vietnamese and US Forces)
- Cold War East Germans
- Cold War Soviets
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| I like the look of these larger stands with prone figures. |
Unfortunately there wasn't quite enough of the East Germans or the Soviets to make a reasonable stand alone force. So I decided to combine the figures into one force and paint them all in my usual Soviet paint scheme.
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| Crew served support weapons. |
One of the nice things about this selection of figures is the number of support weapons that is present. I was particularly pleased to discover two packs of AT-3 Sagger ATGMs
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| Close up of the Sagger stands. |
When these figures were produced information on Soviet and Warsaw Pact produced weapon systems was hard to get and was often based on blurry photographs and speculation.As a result the detaails and scaling of some of the weapon systems are a little off.
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| AGS-17 stands. |
The biggest error is in the size of the AGS-17 Automatic Grenade Launcher (AGS). It is rather larger than it should be. I did debate replacing them with a more accurate version, but I decided against it as it would have involved a great deal of effort removing the weapon from the gunner (it is a one piece casting) for ultimately marginal benefit.
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| 82mm Mortar stands. |
The mortars are most likely meant to represent the model 82-PM-41 82mm mortar a WW2 era system that soldiered on in the Cold War. While the 2B14 Podnos 82mm mortar had entered service during the 1980s, the bipod for that weapon attaches further down a much longer barrel, so it is very unlikely to be intended to represent that weapon system.
Other support weapons include a couple of RPG-7s and a pair of SA-7 Grail MANPADS. The SA-7s are rather chunky and held at an angle suggestive of being an anti tank weapon rather than an anti aircraft weapon.
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