Ultravanillasmurf's Modern WIP - "Ello, ello, ello..." 29/12/2021

[Ultravanillasmurf]

Flame on.






Crooked Dice flamethrower with Westwind SOTR British head with beret and gasmask.

[Ultravanillasmurf]

More UN troops.


Crooked Dice Minions with rifles and Fighting Man heads.

[Ultravanillasmurf]

Former agent.


Emotional and fire support.

[Ultravanillasmurf]

British infantry move up supported by a Scimitar.


The squad Sergeant directs his fire team.


While the corporal sets up his support in cover.

[Ultravanillasmurf]

Post War Bolt Action, first fire team.

Bolt Action Americans with Project Z M16s.

[Marine0846]

You have lots of great figures.
There are so many different sub periods to go with moderns.
I find I jump from one thing to another.
Don't really have enough painted to play a decent sized game.

[Ultravanillasmurf]

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I find I jump from one thing to another.
Don't really get enough painted to play a decent sized game.

Thanks.

I find the same thing, Prelude to Woodbury is possibly the only set of figures fully painted, all six of them ^___^.

[Ultravanillasmurf]

The work Wyrmalla has been showing on his thread has inspired me to start on the kit I bought a while back.

It is not as good a kit as the Imprint/Empress ones.

[Wyrmalla]

Stick a ZU-23-2 on the roof!

[Ultravanillasmurf]

In the best Blue Peter Tradition - here is one I prepared earlier:




Using the Empress Zu-23-2 supplied with the technical.

[Wyrmalla]

Hah, the Empress one comes with seat backs - Spectre's doesn't.

The gun's a bit small on that 1/48th chassis though. There is a 1/48th one out there, but I guess you use what you have.

If I was doing an airborne force I'd have one, then cover it in stowage and a few Red Star tank riders.

[Ockman]

Great minis, love the Crooked Dice guys!

[Ultravanillasmurf]

Thanks.

@Wymalla: not quite sure what I am doing with it, it could be for Twilight 2000 to provide some fire support for some UnderFire Russians or it could be for some militia for my imagi-nation.

That affects the stowage options.

I have seen some photographs of them in full bag lady mode - shopping trolley armour stuffed with bags of stuff.

Not quite sure if that would work for both periods.

Oh, and does anyone know when the blue chemical drums became common?

I was wondering about using them for storage.

[Wyrmalla]

I could find a background on plastic drums, but nothing on when they came into use - other than post 1960.

https://www.bluebarrelsystems.com/blog/history-blue-plastic-barrel/

There's some international standard and naming conventions mentioned in that article, so I guess if you search those there might be some legislation which'll crop up. I'd guess 1970s onward would cover the initial lot, then maybe a bit later for things to become formal (no idea though).

[Ultravanillasmurf]

Excellent article, thanks.

Spaced armour here it comes....