will tamiya's Russian assault infantry fit a Dragon T-34 Mod. 41?

Thanks in Advance

No problem - only thing is (and I can't remember offhand) is if the infantry have shoulder boards, you'll have to take them off as they weren't in use until 1943.

Gonna post some pics?

i will post pics, but i have to get the ball rolling first so to speak, thanks for the help

Hey TL2,
I assume your doing a diorama with early Soviet troops riding a T-34 Mod.41.
If you don't mind a doing a little clean up...... errrr...make that a lot of clean up, you could use Zvezda's two old Red Army Infantry 1940-42 sets #1 & 2.
Theyre not exactly Tank-Riders but they don't have the shoulder-boards that Jimbrae mentions you'd need to remove off of the DML set.
The Zvezda figures need some work, moulding seams and flash abound and you may want to replace the heads but they are from the correct early period of WW II,
They're wearing puttees and early pattern Soviet helmets and are equipped with the Mosin Nagant 91/30 & Tokarev SVT rifles, PPD submachine gun and DP machine gun.
Zvezda have released a new set of Soviet Tank Infantry #3544 but they too have those shoulder-boards.
Looking forward to see what you end up doing.
Cheers

jjumbo

As an example of 1941 uniforms, have a look at this plate



as well as having no shoulder boards, the shirt also has a turned down collar unlike the post Prikaz 25 uniforms modelled by Tamiya.

If you don't mind the figures running alongside the tank, why not look at the new Master Box ones that are wearing the correct uniforms. Zvezda's figures were a god-send when they first appeared in the early 90s but they now look a little crude.

David

Hey Drader,
Yeah, calling those old Zvezda figure sets crude is being very polite and gracious :-) .
Like I said before, they require a great deal of clean up and replacement heads.
These new Master Box WW II Soviet Infantry 1941-42 and "Hand to Hand Combat" sets will be far and away a better solution to modelling early Eastern Front subjects.
My old Zvezda figures sets are going to consigned to the trash bin as soon as the MB sets are available here in Canada. :-)

Cheers

jjumbo

Hi jjumbo

They must have boosted Hornet's sales figures considerably over the years....

The personal equipment in the sets is still good though, and they have rifles too, something Tamiya completely overlooked. Since Zvezda have now put both sets in the same box I was very tempted to buy them all over again last weekend.

David

are the Zvezda Red Army Infantry kit of running /charging Russians? i looked at the kit but couldn't tell if they were running or not, as the only Pics, of them i can find are the box art.
Can they be used in a winter Dio?

Thanks for all the help

Hey David,
I actually have 4 sets of the #1 and 2 sets of the Red Army Infantry 1940-1942 figures,
And they're the original releases by Zvezda, in the old style of "Eastern Bloc" cardboard boxes.
Nothing at all like Zvezda's more recent packaging or they're Italeri incarnations.
They have, as you put it, some very crude photos of the assembled and painted figures on the back of the cartons..... Can you say "popeyed" ? :-) .
Your right, the personal gear, the Mosin Nagant and Tokarev rifles and the PPD 38 submachine gun are well crafted.
The rifles even have seperate bolts, something only Dragon has recently started to do with their Generation 2 figure sets.
I'm tempted to get out my collection of Hornet and SMA replacement heads and have a go at them.
It might be a wasted effort, but that's part of the fun of building.
Cheers

jjumbo aka John

update:

Hey TL2,
The Red Army Infantry figures are on foot in a variety of fighting poses.
Each set has 4 figures, set #1 has a junior officer waving a TT mod.30 pistol and 3 riflemen, 2 with Mosin Nagants with bayonets.
Set #2 has 4 infantry men, 2 with rifles & bayonets, 1 with a PPD 38 submachine gun and 1 figure with a DP mod.27 light machine gun.