Team Yankee Painting Guides?

Extra Crispy · Post by **Extra Crispy** » Sat Oct 17, 2015 6:26 am

I'm still on the fence about doing moderns. I have some counters I printed up that let me test out rules on the cheap. But I enjoy FoW so am looking at doing Team Yankee in 6mm possibly.

Since I needed some other packs, I ordered up a pack of T-72s and some BMPs just for kicks. Wondering is this another period where the Soviets are just a wave of green or do they do any interesting camo?

And what green do you like for Soviets?

(I'll be asking about US forces too as I got some M1s and Bradleys).

SKeeM · Post by **SKeeM** » Sun Oct 18, 2015 3:34 am

I just started painting my Team Yankee and here are some pics. Almost finished and then I have to base them. Next up will be Team Bravo, the infantry and support assets.

SKeeM · Post by **SKeeM** » Sun Oct 18, 2015 3:43 am

This is my Russian T80 Battalion, I didnt think they would go with only T72's in the first release. But no biggie because I want to buy 31 T72's and 10 BMP1's because of the new molds. Now I have a good reason to buy them

pmskaar · Post by **pmskaar** » Sun Oct 18, 2015 5:03 am

Nice work there Skeem. It looks pretty impressive to me. What are you using as your bases for the vehicles and what are the dimensions?

Pete

SKeeM · Post by **SKeeM** » Sun Oct 18, 2015 5:18 am

Thanks man, I am very hyped to get them on the table and play some games. The bases are Flames of War medium bases for their infantry teams and they are about 2" x 1". I plan to use the small bases for my 6mm infantry teams and those are about 1" x 1". I think they work out perfectly for 6mm. Plastic Soldier Company makes similar bases for much cheaper and so does LITKO. I like the FoW because of the angel of the rim. They look good painted

RedLeif · Post by **RedLeif** » Sun Oct 18, 2015 6:08 am

Thats a really nice Soviet force. Excellent job on the helos.
thanks for sharing

Extra Crispy · Post by **Extra Crispy** » Sun Oct 18, 2015 8:19 pm

I'm also going to use 1/2 size bases. Infantry/medium bases are 2" x 1.25" Smaller bases are 1 x 1.25" (those for for command squads, LMG teams, FOOs etc.)

I use the steel bases from Wargames Accessoeries, and just have him cut me custom sizes (I also do Flames of War WW2 the same way). For the small bases I actually use 15x15mm. That's as small as I would ever go and it won't really affect the game.

I don't like the FoW bases for 6mm because I like my bases as thin as possible...

SKeeM · Post by **SKeeM** » Sun Oct 18, 2015 8:34 pm

Thanks for the compliments but honestly I think the color I used on the Russians is too dark and i'm looking for a new color for the next battalion. I'm looking at using FoW Tankovy green. One of my peeve's is I only use colors that come in both spray cans and pots. Some paints don't go through the air brush so good so I stopped trying to do that. Any color I pick has to come in a spray can. As for the bases I like the FoW bases because to me every model is a small diorama and the edges of their bases look very professional in my opinion. Especially when you paint the edges a different color like I do. But that's just me and the look i'm going for.

Oh and I used the large base for the battalion HQ.

paul · Post by **paul** » Mon Oct 19, 2015 6:30 am

Is the helicopter stands from Game Workshop?

SKeeM · Post by **SKeeM** » Mon Oct 19, 2015 8:32 pm

paul wrote:Is the helicopter stands from Game Workshop?

No they are FoW also. A bit expensive but I like them a lot.

SKeeM · Post by **SKeeM** » Wed Oct 21, 2015 4:10 am

Okay I finished painting Team Yankee and based them. Next I will work on the infantry