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The Pursuit

Aleksandr presents his 1/35 diorama "The pursuit" with a red tachanka, somewhere in Southern Ukraine, Russian civil war, autumn 1920.

A tachanka was a horse-drawn machine gun, usually a cart or an open wagon with a heavy machine gun installed in the back. A regular civilian horse cart could be easily converted to military use and back. The use of tachankas reached its peak during the Russian Civil War (1917–1920s), particularly in the peasant regions of Southern Russia and Ukraine, where the fronts were fluid and mobile warfare gained much significance. With up to 4 horses abreast pulling a tachanka, it could easily keep up with cavalry units and support them with mobile firepower.

Kits used:

- tachanka - upgraded resin kit from Modelstroy,

- figures – conversion of different kit from ICM, heads from Hornet;

- horses - upgraded kit from Masterbox (8th Pennsylvania Cavalry);

- Machine gun (ICM+Tank);

- styrene plastic Evergreen, brass and copper wire, soldering ;

- paint from Tamiya, Vallejo, etc.

Story of building my diorama The Pursuit Live links