West Germans are complete (for now)

I've finished all the Team Yankee miniatures I started while deployed.  This brings my painting queue for TY up to COMPLETE for now.

Here's my third Leopard 1 platoon.  I did camo nets on these.  Each platoon has a slightly different camo scheme to tell them apart on the table.  Unfortunately, I have no commander panted for this platoon so the lead vehicle just has an open hatch for now.

Close-up of the detail on that camo netting.

I'll be playing in a TY event this weekend so I finished these just in time!  I'll try to do a write-up on the tournament (if I don't totally embarrass myself there).

I also finished off a platoon of Jaguar 1s.  I though about assembling them with magnets to work as Jaguar 1 or 2s, but that would not have been compatible with my camo netting plans I had for them.  

Close up.  I removed on of the bazooka skirts on this guy.  I also added antenna  and MGs to all three.  The stats say they have an AA MG, but the miniatures don't actually come with one.

Looking into the future, I know I want a M113-mounted mortar platoon and another Marder panzergrenadier platoon.  Now that German tanks can be fielded in platoons of four, I may add another box of the new Battlefront plastic Leopard 1s in there too.

M8 Greyhound 1/35

Throwback Thursday

Here's one I did back in collage.

Leopard 1 Company online!

In preparation for an upcoming Team Yankee tournament, I've been finishing up some Leopard 1 tanks.  I the basic painting of these when I was overseas and have finished them at home.

This is the first batch of 7.  I have 3 more in the pipeline.  Now that I can do field platoons of 4, I may build a few more...

Company Commander.  These are the PCS kits so all hatches can be open.  I used the BF crew.

1st Platoon.  These have the same soft-edge winter camo on top of 3-color NATO as the company commander.  Most of my West German forces are painted in this same style.

Maybe I finally cracked the code on how to do snow on 15mm tanks?

2nd platoon.  I did a subtle variation on the camo pattern to make distinguishing units easier.  These have a hard-edge white camo on top of 3-color NATO.

Like my other vehicles, I painted the 3-color NATO scheme by hand.  I used masking putty with an airbrush to achieve the hard-edge camo look on the white paint for this platoon.