The Historical Miniaturist

Welcome! With a historical premise, this blog quickly degenerates into miscellaneous trivia and other serendipitous tidbits regarding miniatures gaming that runs the gamut from historical to whacky to whatever-the-hell genre I’m into at the moment. "Squirrel!" I’ll populate this blog with eye candy and images to water the eye of any visitor whether an unsuspecting layperson or veteran miniature gamer. Please enjoy your visit and thanks for hangin’ out.

Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Little Katy aka KATYUSHA Part 1

Continuing my love affair with Soviet WW2 materiel, I'm finally getting around to completing (rather, starting) a piece of ordinance that's cost effective (read cheap) but devastating on the field thus giving the Soviets more bang for their ruble.

Tovarish Katyusha
Any chance I get to have a pretty girl populating my blog I will take.

One of my favorites, the BM-21 multiple rocket launcher affectionately known by its crews as Katyusha (little Katy) was quite the effective rocket artillery piece for the Soviets. The Germans being on the receiving end of such demoralizing and devastating saturation bombardments dubbed it Stalin's Organ (Stalinorgel in German). Obviously not a term of endearment.

For the Soviet's, it fulfilled their criteria of cheap to build and devastatingly shocking weapons platform. What's not to like?

(click on the pix to enlarge)