US Expeditionary Force on Atlantis - NEW AERONEF PHOTO

[Bullshott]

Now that I've committed to running a US force for the Atlantis campaign, I thought I should start posting pictures of the force as it gets completed. To start with, here are the US Marines. I've posted pictures of some of these before, but I want to use this thread to show off the entire force as it develops.

US Marines:

Figures are all US Marines from the Redoubt Boxer Rebellion range, with the exception of the officer and sergeant in the second picture, which are Parroom Station US Infantry

Support Weapons:

Colt machinegun is from the Redoubt Boxer Rebellion range, crew are Redoubt and Tiger Miniatures. Driggs-Schroeder 1pdr gun on landing carriage and its crew are Tiger Miniatures.

Command - Captain N.R.A.Heston and Sergeant Eastwood:

Both figures are Tiger Miniatures. Sergeant Eastwood is a converted army mule handler.

Steam Tech - Iron Man combat suit:

Parroom Station model.

I wanted to give my marines the appearance of troops drawn from several ships/detachments, with variations on equipment. The majority are from Redoubt because I like the 'campaign-worn' look about them. To break up the standardised look of these figures I used a few Tiger and Parroom Station US Army figures as weapon crew and additional command figures (avoiding adding Tiger riflemen into the marine rifle units because the Tiger rifles are way out of scale compared with those of Redoubt). When finished, these marines will be good quality troops with plenty of mobility and light support weapons. However, they will lack heavy armour and artillery.

Next up:
Light scout walker
US Navy landing party
US Navy light aeronef

[Doomsdave]

Beautiful I love Heston and Eastwood.  Wish I had thought of those names. 

[Chairface]

 

Awesome!

[Ray Rivers]

Nice collection!

Can't wait to see the reinforcements!

 

[Red Orc]

Lovely work there Bullshott, and it's good to see the guys 'in the flesh', so to speak. Hopefully they'll see a bit more action in coming days, or at least get to go a bit further from Port Harrison than 12 miles up-river and back again...

[mortimer]

great stuff here!! 

[Gluteus Maximus]

Lovely work!

It's very interesting to see how well the Parroom and Redoubt figures fit in together. Worth investigating further 

You've even managed to make the Tiger minis look good, so full marks to you, sir!

[Dr. The Viking]

Hi!

Those are great.

If I hadn't decided to do Martians next, I would definitely get into doing some US!

[Jonas]

Hi!

Those are great.

If I hadn't decided to do Martians next, I would definitely get into doing some US!

No reason to stop with Martians  ha ha ha

Anyway, they look great, very nice colours and great hut back drop...

[Arrigo]

Like it,

I was thinking about some tiger miniatures americans, and from what I have seen there I definitely will order a coupe fo test package.

Arrigo

[redaskari]

I've looked at Tiger Miniatures site and I agree the Americans look good to me and some interesting sets.

your collection is an insperation for me to practice my painting.

[Bullshott]

The period of self-imposed isolation following the American Civil War mean that US forces saw few benefits of modern 'steam age' technology until the US re-emerged as a world player in the 1880s. The lumbering steam walkers of the Civil War era were obsolete by the standards of other nations, so the army purchased British Lowen Steam Walkers, manufactured in the US under licence, to fill the gap in their resources whilst new US designs could be developed. When the US Marines serving on Venus realised their urgent need for walkers in that environment they were loaned two of the army's walkers. These proved so sucesssful that the Marines adopted this design as a standard part of their armoury. As such, it would have been unthinkable for the Marines not to have taken their beloved Gatling armed walkers with them to Atlantis:



Also supporting the Marines on Atlantis are US Navy landing parties, this one commanded by Ensign Thomas Cruise:

[Malamute]

Great stuff Dave, glad to see the Lowen walkers being pressed into service by the Yanks. I think we will be seeing quite a few of these on Atlantis

[Gluteus Maximus]

Splendid moustache on Ensign Cruise. It "takes my breath away" as you might say 

[Malamute]

Splendid moustache on Ensign Cruise. It "takes my breath away" as you might say 

Groan.

Have you noticed though he bears no relation to the real Thomas Cruise, the figure's too tall, he should be 20mm instead