Team Yankee APC and Recon vehicles repaint finished

Sadly I haven't been keeping the blog up to date recently, I actually finished these over a week ago!

The Soviet units, a small BMD-2 and two BMP-1 infantry fighting vehicles, are painted to match my T-55s, a simple scheme with limited weathering, inspired by the artwork of the Team Yankee rulebook.

The US units are two M113s for transporting my mechanised infantry, and a Sheridan light tank. I toned down the initial camouflage scheme as it was too busy. I'm much happier with the black and off white sections of the paintwork having stripped it back a little. One of the most common problems for model painters is not to go over the top with a new method or colour scheme!

Here are the photos:

WIP Soviet repaints and M113 / Sheridan MERDC camouflage repaints

Just a couple of photos of vehicles I'm working on this weekend.

The two BMP-1s and BMD-2 are made by S-model and are great kits, solid tracks and tons of surface details. I made these back in 2015 at a time when I had just discovered Games Workshop inks, and consequently inked my vehicles to death!

I have redecorated with the usual Tamiya camo green base coat followed by a generous application of Athonian Camoshade ink to give definition. The next stage for these guys will be some drybrushing around the tracks and possibly some decals.

The M113s in the photos are Easy Model die cast pieces and I'm getting on well with the redecoration. The Sheridan, however, is another story - the camouflage is now too busy and needs toning down before I do anything else.

Reinforcements have arrived...

After a busy Easter weekend followed by a weekend up in York, and with work / daily life activities in between I haven't had a lot of time to update my blog.

The main event to report concerns my Team Yankee collection, which has been significantly bolstered by a visit to the original bunker in Kent. There I was able to pick up the following for my Allied / NATO army:

2x M113A2 Easy Model APCs that I managed to get at an agreeable price on amazon. These are in the photo below but repainting them with MERDC camouflage has already begun. These two will transport my mechanised infantry into battle and provide limited fire support from their .50cal machine guns.

1x previously assembled Sheridan tank. This and its yet to be assembled partner form my reconnaissance vehicles for the Allies. I was debating keeping the darker Vietnam style colour scheme but have since opted for more MERDC because I have really enjoyed painting MERDC previously on my M1 and M60.

Another addition is a small AA unit, in a smaller scale (1/87 I think). The M42 Duster was used in Vietnam and would have been phased out long before the Team Yankee era, but as I don't have the funds for the Italeri M163 Vulcan, it will have to fill the gap. It's one of my few 'Counts As' vehicles. As this Duster is from my Vietnam collection, I will not be repainting it.

Also in the photo below is my first mechanised infantry squad, with a Dragon AT missile launcher at the ready! 

The Soviets also have reinforcements but these will be covered in another post.