More Um Bum

 So I got right into things!  I assembled all the Um Bum buildings, they go together very quickly.

First up is the chapel.  I've added some GNW figures for size reference. The grey ones are the new resin figures from Kordegardia, and the brown ones are the Warlord Games plastic WSS (marching pose) and Warfare Miniatures (the other ones) so there's a bonus size comparison!

The building interiors are detailed, and for the 'Mediaeval Town' series (including this chapel), easily accessible.  Buildings in this series size reasonably well with 28mm figures.

The rest of the buildings are 1/87 or HO scale, so are undersized for 28mm figures.  But that's not necessarily a problem, as there's a viewpoint (often expressed by Doug!) that buildings should be a bit undersized compared to the figures.  I've used a Perry Miniatures DAK rifleman for scale in the following photos.

First up is the 'Collective Farm Office', complete with a choice of three flags and three different banners!  The flags are for the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic, the Ukrainian SSR and the Belorussian SSR.  You need to look at them pretty closely to see which one is which, however!  The three banners read 'Glory to Labour!', 'Five Year Plan in Three Years!' and 'Our Goal is Communism!'

The building interiors are decorated, but it's a bit of a bother to lift off the roof.  I won't be opening the buildings for a typical game! 

Here's the first of the two churches. This one is based on an 18th Century church from the Karelia region northeast of Leningrad.  

And this one is based on the Church of the Intercession on the Nerl, dating back to the 12th Century.  This church is located in a rural area in the Vladimir Oblast east of Moscow.  Maybe not quite typical of a Russian village church in 1941, but too pretty a building for me to leave out!  And it's to scale!

This little factory is built around boilers - the idea being to boil water, then distribute by pipelines to individual buildings.  Again, I don't know if these would be present in villages, or if they'd be limited to towns and cities.  But for gaming purposes, it's nice to have the option to include a brick building, which can provide hard cover, compared to the light cover that the other buildings could offer.  The brick walls are not very sturdy - I'll probably need to scotch tape them if I want to use this on the gaming table, or else they'll be knocked over too easily.

And to round things out, here are the three new houses.  I was a bit careless in my purchases, the one with the green trim is a duplicate of one that I picked up last year.  My 20th Century Russian/Soviet village now potentially includes seven houses, two churches, a boiler/factory and the collective farm office, as well as a few sheds and other outbuildings.  I guess I should come up with some fences and/or hedges to  put around the various buildings!