Show us yer stuff!

[chrisswim]

This is by Fireball.

BTR-152





T-55





BRDM-2 AT-3



I think FB should have more pictures, some with terrain.

GI, great terrain in rice paddies.

[PolishGI]

Thanks Chris!

Nice BTRs and BRDMs...

I have no idea why, but the T-55 and T-62s always appealed to me. Not much these days outside of target practice. But they look cool. Reminds of the old movie "The Beast". Movie follows a T-62 crew in Afghanistan.

Nice detail brought out and the camo scheme looks great.

[chrisswim]

On tan carpet fora desert operation.
It is powdery sand...can’t you tell.

[Guroburov]

Cool stuff Fireball. Chris lovely stuff as always.

[Mk 1]

Polish - I'm diggin' those paddies! Very well done.

Chris - The scope and scale of your collection, all painted and ready to go, is impressive! You would be a terrifying opponent in an "open table (of Organization and Equipment)" game! As he who shall not be named once said: God favors the side with big battalions.

Fireball (via Cris or otherwise) - I have a soft spot for mainstream cold war era vehicles. T-55s, T-54s, T-62s, BTR-152s, BRDMs ... great to see 'em on the table. And who doesn't love a good ol' drag-out Arab-Israeli tank fight?*

Painting the camo and tracks -- always good. Painting the fender markings ... that takes it to another level. But then adding the rubber rims of the roadwheels -- now THAT is dedication. I love the look, but can never seem to bring myself to the work involved.

-Mark

*As a game, that is. I've known more than a couple Israeli tankers, and they're actually not too keen on the real thing.

[Mk 1]

Now for a few more of my own.

Finishing up the TDs for ETO project I started some time back. Except not actually finishing the project. I got stuck, because I wanted to build a proper company of TDs as a core formation for ETO battles. But ... I can't find my M20s!


I mean, I know I have them. It's not just that I remember them (the ol' memory is not as reliable as it used to be), but I have photographic evidence that I have them.


I put 'em into my force when I built my M18 Hellcat company.

But alas, they are not boxed with my Hellcats. And I've gone through I can't even count how many other boxes, and I can't find my box with the M20s.



So I'll have to sort my entire Ready-Forces collection I guess. And who know HOW long that may take.

In the meantime, though, here are the TDs themselves.


Five M36s, five GHQ M10s, and five refurbs of another vendor's M10s. All to make a collection from which 12 can be selected (in mix-and-match fashion) to fit my preferences for any given game.


While the other vendor's M10s are quite compatible in terms of scale/size, they are too clean for my tastes -- I'd go so far as to say they are plane, or even barren. The GHQ models come with towing cables, growsers, tanker's tools, etc. all over. And even at that I tend to add more stuff. So I paid particular attention to festooning the other guys' M10s with stuff to try to blend them in with the more busy-looking GHQ models.


Each TD got 2 crewmen for the turret.


That was a total of 30 figures to select from the "extras" bin and paint up, chop up, glue down, touch up, etc. Actually more than 30, as there was a bit of a casualty rate in the chopping and the handling -- my fumble-fingers don't do a good enough job of holding them securely, tweezers or not, and the pile carpet seemed to eat them at an alarming rate.


I'm pretty happy with how they turned out. But this project was a lot of work. I'm thinking maybe my next unit will be done a bit more simply, just to raise my rate of finished units per man-hours of effort.

-Mark

[redleg]

Wow! Great work you guys! Mark, the dudes in the vehicles are awesome!

[chrisswim]

Aircraft bunkers.
I want your thoughts on painting. Is the dark grey better or the dark grey, olive drab and dark green bunker?
Any other ideas?







oC heavy assault helicopters in a bunker ready to go to work.





Heavy air defense mobile, on M-42 Duster hull. C-RAM and CWIS.





Jagd-Abrams



Two more Jagd-Abrams



Bushmasters getting ready to drop infantry.

[chrisswim]

M113 in Aussie camouflage.



Transported in the last 8 M1A1 that have been refurbished.







Transported in to replace damaged Abrams



A battalion ready to move out.



Another battalion in the same BDE

[chrisswim]

Night time operation to get Osama Bin Laden
More work needed on this piece. Need grass, trees.

[pmskaar]

That is quite a collection you have there, Chris! Mk1, it is nice to see some US TDs getting some love. I will have to expand my U.S. WWII forces at some point but right now I am busy painting the "Bad Guys". to oppose them and my Russian forces.

[chrisswim]

Mk.1
I really like the men in the tank destroyers. Nice. They come alive.
Pmskaar, thank you, hope you like the stuff.

[PolishGI]

Thanks Mark!

And Mark, love love love the collection of M10s and M36s. Having crew in the turrets adds so much.


Chris, the bunkers look great! Where did you get the bunkers or are they scratch built? I like the camo pattern but I am NO source on what is appropriate. Lol That’s nuts you are putting together a OBL compound to attack. That is way cool. Great idea for a skirmish game.

[chrisswim]

GI,
Thank you. The bunkers were 3-D printed I think. Got them from a guy selling off stuff. Bunkers, OBL compound, 3-D print C-130 and C-141, hanger, etc., etc.

[redleg]

Today is the US Army's 245th birthday. To celebrate, here are some pics of US Army vehicles:






Here are a couple of tanks from the 1st Infantry Division at Fort Riley, KS:


Here are a couple of tanks from the 3rd Infantry Division at Fort Stewart, GA:


Here are a couple of tanks from the 4th Infantry Division at Fort Carson, CO:


Here are a couple of tanks from the 1st Cavalry Division at Fort Hood, TX:


Here are a couple of tanks from the 1st Armor Division at Fort Bliss, TX: