"What do you mean I can't play with it. It's my army."
As I'm working on my project for the Russian-Anglo war in Central Asia and the British Raj using The Men Who Would be Kings (paid link), I envisioned it taking place in my fictional universe sometime between 1895 and 1905 to give me the maximum use of figures that I like for the game. As I mentioned earlier, I am not an expert on the Imperial Russian Army of this time frame and guess what? I bought the wrong Russian Maxim machine gun. This is what it should look like: The caption reads:
The caption reads: "In postion. Mounted machine gun before an enemy attack," and is credited to Special Correspondent V. Taburin of Niva.
The gun above is the PM M1910 and was used by the Imperial Russian Army during World War I and the Red Army during the Russian Civil War and World War II. Interestingly, the gun saw service in the Korean War and the Vietnam War.
Decisions, decisions. I found many manufacturers that sell the correct Russian Maxim for the period and they do look great. As you probably can guess since you can see the pictures of the completed models, I just decided to go with what I bought. Fictional War? My Universe? Too lazy to order another model? I report, you decide. (Don't be surprised when the British Indian Army show up wearing shorts prior to World War I!).
I'm using The Men Who Would be Kings (paid link) for the upcoming tabletop battles and a machine gun per the rules has a crew of 4, one of which is an officer. The Copplestone Castings White Russian Maxim blister for the Back of Beyond range comes with 3 men; I added a figure from the European Advisors in the same line to be the officer for the machine gun.
Капитан Ричард Брайтонов (Kapitan Richard Braytonov commands the deadly Maxim. He is wearing a privately purchased tujurka, a short grey coat for travelling.
Ефрейтор Патя Алексеева (Corporal Patya Alexeev) is in charge of the gun crew.
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