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.

Thanks for looking

Winttrix Out

Iraq ??

Yes, something new once again. Let's hope this gets finished.

My finished group of US soldiers. Three fireteams, one .50 sniper team, a TOW HMMWV, and an ambulance have been finished. The Bradley has been show before. The figures are Ceasar and Revell. Elhiem figures will be used to round out a platoon.

Three conversions to work on until I make that Elhiem order. Two Ceasar figures modified into CCTs and one Airfix conversion for Saddam's Army. 

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!

Winttrix Out.

M2 Bradley Diecast Repaint

I bought this Dragon diecast a while back and finally I've painted it. It was originally finished in NATO

three color woodland, but it's now a kind of greyish sand which is actually darker than it is in the photos. It is more suitable for the middle east even though I will use it against my Russians, but I figure:

1) Vehicle camouflage doesn't really work when you have lumbering, noisy monsters like these;

2) Most US vehicles are ready for middle east deployments so they would not have time for a temperate repaint;

3) This color is more suitable in an urban environment (especially one with smoke and rubble) than three color camo. 

But in reality I'm just cheap and don't want to have one vehicle for Europe and one for the Middle East. 

I don't have any MIG pigments so I made my own out of colored blackboard chalk. 

This is an excellent model that was a steal at just $10. 

Winttrix Out

AH-64

Here's my AH-64 by Academy. It's generically marked so it can be used with my US forces, my Dutch forces, or with future British forces. I can't wait to use it on overwatch against some tangos!

I hope Gunbird doesn't mind about the glass effects...

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. 

Thanks for looking!

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. 

NATO Barret Sniper Team

Here's my first post of a new blog!

This is a Barret .50 Cal sniper team for NATO/Coalition/ISAF forces in FoF. The shooter is a slightly modified (with a partial Milliput Ghille) Caesar figure, from their first Modern US Army set. The spotter is a prone Esci WWII US infantryman, with a full Milliput Ghillie. It is all based on thick card. 

The two are wearing MultiCam underneath their Ghillies.