SF Technical - "Truck" Fast Build Entry

That was fast!

I had all day so I went cracking when this Guild build theme was announced.

I already had been planning to do this so I had most of the bits ready. In the morning I built the roll bars out of steel and copper wire, swapped the ridiculous toy wheels for airfix ones, and mounted the machine gun. Later in the day I painted the guy (a total conversion of a Ceasar figure with an S&S head) and made the stowage. Then I undercoated and painted. At about ten at night I finished the painting and then based it. I just finished the flag and did the pictures. Sadly my camera is messed up and I had to use my mom's iPhone. I think the photos are terrible.

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Recon in Nkizuna

The Republic of Nkizuna is a mineral rich, impoverished Central African nation in the 21st century. The year is 2016 and the populations of the west are resource hungry in a world with increasingly depleted resources. What was originally a race between the west, Russia, and China to grab onto remaining sources degenerated into armed conflict.
American, German, and Dutch forces are holding a thin defensive line between a Russian expeditionary force and the Nkizunan chromium mines. Refugees fled days before. Today a small contingent of US SOF and Dutch Kommandotroepen hold a defensive position on the edge of an urban slum. It is up to them to blunt the forward motion of Russian mech units until heavier support can arrive. They have air assets in the form of an AH-64.
The Russian mission is to probe the NATO lines. This is a recce unit, and it cannot withstand continuous fire. 

The initial set up.

NATO lies in wait.

Russians enter the table.

Hold your fire!

50. cal sniper provides overwatch.

Russians move slowly and carefully up the road. 

The battle begins.

Apache called in!

BTR is heavily damaged

Smokescreens deployed, 1st squad moves up in force.

RPG takes out the G-wagen

BTR no. 1 killed by a lucky .50 to the fuel tanks

Apache death-cam

More destruction.

One small group is flattened by a NATO airstrike.

The Ruskies return the favor.

RPGster holding the fort

Russians exfiltrate.

In all a minor victory for the Russians. They sustained roughly 1/3 of their force KIA, with one BTR destroyed and one other with heavy damage. The Dutch Kommando are all KIA/WIA and the Americans have two snipers killed by Russian artillery. 

The Russian commander was disappointed by the heavy casualties, but the purpose of the mission was to test how effective NATO forces would be against the T-90!

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"Ghost"

I was commissioned by my friend to sculpt and paint "Ghost" from Call of Duty. He is a heavily modified Caesar figure, with a bergen pack, headphones, kneepads, shemagh, and much more sculpted on to him. 

He is painted with the usual Vallejo. His pants are in MTP camouflage.

Here are the original references:

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GRU Spetznaz Operators

Here are my four GRU (Internal Spetznaz) Operators. The Sphera helmeted figures are Orion and the officer with the beret is an Orion conversion. The female sniper is a slightly converted Caesar figure. 

The GRU Spetznaz are the original Spetznaz unit, and the most experienced. They often wear the uniforms of the regular troops to hide their operations from the military command. One of their possible missions is to destroy US missile systems in the event of war. More recently, their missions have been expanded to include counterterrorism. They have fought in the Soviet War in Afghanistan, both Chechen wars, and the 2008 South Ossetia war. The GRU is the Military Intelligence of the former Soviet Union and now the Russian Federation.  

The camouflage is a Russian-produced urban coloration of M81 Woodland. Paints are Vallejo.

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Dutch SOF Mercedes

Here's my Dutch Army Mercedes guntruck, from S&S models. It's an excellent little kit, and it was fun to work with white metal for the first time. 

Here's my reference photo:

SFOD-D/DEVGRU Technical Support

Here's the transport for my Special Operators. Although it's just an SUV, it's actually uparmoured with Kevlar so represents an "Uparmoured Softskin" in FoF. 

Aside from the gunner, it was a simple conversion of a Maisto diecast. The gunner was originally the PaK 40 gunner from the Italieri "servants" set. I removed most of the detail from his body, gave him a headswap, and then I resculpted with Milliput. I also put the Minimi on a pole and in his hands. 

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SFOD-D/DEVGRU Special Operators

These are my four US special operators. They will serve in Afghanistan and my fictional WWIII conflict. They are limited to one fireteam because in FoF they are troop quality d12, the highest troop quality.

The only conversion is the guy in the baseball cap and shemagh, I cut down his boonie hat to be a baseball cap and made the shemagh out of milliput.