And we're back. Something, something, playing too many computer games.
Well here's what I've managed this past week and a half. A start on my National forces.
I'm going for squads of 6, with an RPK, PKM, RPG-7, and 2 UGLs. These're made from a mix of Empress, Eureka and Wargames Factory minis. I'm mostly setting them apart from the other forces by giving these guys American heads and some European camo (mostly) DPM), rather than mostly Soviet camo on the Seperatists (these have plenty on them too). The surplus desert gear also helps.
One squad down, 3 more to go.
Here's the Hilux technical as well. Its not 100% based on that picture from earlier (that wasn't even a Hilux), but close enough.
This one's made by Antenocitis Workshop, who're expanding their modern range and planning on including some more technicals. As with the WIP picture I just slapped some armour on it, and another of those Wargames Factory soldiers on the back. Unfortunately its not the same scale as my other vehicles, coming in closer to 1/43rd than 1/50th (though I've seen worse). I'd say the Spectre MIniature's Hilux is probably more appropriate, but I'm committed now (a second one's sitting waiting to be turned into something or other).
This one may be a bit incongruous. A ZiS-151 which managed to power on for a good few decades after the War to be converted into a cargo vehicle or APC of some sort. Its based on a Tamiya Deuce and a Half (the fuel tanker variant), which hopefully isn't super obvious under the armour. Meh, I think it looks the part.
I scraped through and finished the MT-LB with ZU-23-2. Nothing too outragious with the camo or anything.
MT-LBs are great. Not really a combat vehicle of course, I just like how they look (the civilian conversion seen in the film Siberiade comes to mind; watching it growing up probably had an effect on my opinion of the thing). Hmn, I ought to buy the command variant of it from HLBS ...though justifying one of those showing up within a platoon sized game may be a bit much - unless its an objective. Hmn...
The three BMP-3s (...could have picked some better phrasing there) are done as well. These big green hulks have sat in the gloomful "almost done" state for ages now, till I just decided to give them a dry brush and liberal coat of mud, then call them well enough finished.
They're painted in a slight alternative on the usual tan scheme; substituting it for a light green. I'd seen some recce Tank Destroyer painted that way, though have no idea of the origins. Instead, well, let's just assume that they've either been repainted in the field, or the unit's based in some distant depot where they ran out of paint.
No markings on these for obvious reasons (no, not as I'm crap at painting).
Oh, and the armoured jeep thing which I posted originally is in a sort of limbo state. I think its going to be relegated to being a survivor vehicle for zombie games or something. It has more of a Narco Tank, or Middle Eastern IED vehicle than what you'd see in Europe (especially now that I've added on slat armour). I'll not scrap it, rather its just not really fitting in with this current project much.
05 May 2010, 11:29:02 PM