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Most Finnish war diaries from WW2 are now available online!
So if you can read finnish handwriting there is a lot of information at the Finnish national archives digital archive:
All diaries are not yet scanned, but there is new material added almost every week.
There is also a project of restoring (and hopefully digitizing and publishing online) about fifteen shelf kilometres of more material from the War archives…
Now I’ve put the finishing touches to my late Sturmi conversion, so here’s a few pictures.
I had planned to do a step to step documentation but I kinda got “carried away”.
Together with Listys guide on the Flames of War forum and the early Sturmi conversion I posted before, most steps should be covered, but each image below does contain some useful notes.
WIP of a Sturmi as it may have appeared in late August 1944.
In addition to my earlier Sturmi posts I have now started to do a somewhat later conversion of the Finnish StuG III.
In late August 1944 some of the Sturmis where completely modified, while some, like in this case, still lacked a few of them.
This particular Stumi lacks the reinforcement plate for the loader and the plates that reinforced the commanders cupola, but otherwise most of them should be in place, inclusive the protective visor for the drivers hatch.
I Still need to add the side reinforcements and convert some crewmen but otherwise it should be completed, except for the painting…
I’ve just received the second part of the “Jaktosodan kautsaukset” DVD-collection so I’m posting a few random screenshots.
The second part deals with the period 1942-1944, including the Soviet summer offensive of 1944 which is my main interest, though the Finnish army were so busy fighting so the material from that period is quite limited.
I’ll get back on this collection when I have watched it some more, after all, there is almost 24 hours of footage.
Part two in the Continuation War Newsreel collection has now been released, Jatkosodan katsaukset 2 – Kamerat asemissa (“Cameras in defensive positions”).
I’ll get back as soon as I can get my hands on a copy, but in short, it’s 12 hours of more wartime footage, from 1942-1944 (so, maybe some Sturmis…).
See for more info (in Finnish):
http://www.finnkino.fi/dvd/2891
There is also another collection of Winter War newsreels, “Talvisodan katsaukset” released in 2007 (2 discs).
A quick paintjob on the log cabin.
Since I can’t just do one thing at a time I’ve been fiddling with some east front buildings, this is the first one, a small cabin.
Small log cabin made of bamboo skewers, matches and cardboard...
I think the result is quite nice but it’s rather time-consuming building houses log by log…
Some artillery Iv’e been working on, posted mainly to show my new photo setup, I still need another light source though and I probably should change to daylight bulbs .
76mm K/02 WIP
Just a few conversion I’ve been fiddling with lately, a prone LMG guy and an engineer clipping up a gap in an barbed wire obstacle, both based on the prone NCO from the various Finnish blisters.
They still lack some green stuff to fill up some gaps.
The DP-27 LMG is from the Soviet motorcycle with sidecar blister.
A couple of converted Finns.
You may have noticed a certain drop of activity from me, this is partly because my hobby room has been turned into a bedroom for my 1 year old daughter, so now I have moved into the basement instead.
This is actually not a bad thing because, after I spent some time sorting out the mess down there, I now have a space fully dedicated to painting and modelling where I actually can leave projects until the next time I have some time for modelling and painting.
My basement workspace
