Team Yankee US forces so far

The below photos show my US forces so far for my 1/72 Team Yankee / One Hour Wargames home brew rules.

I can now call on 1 M60A3, 4 M1 Abrams, 2 Sheridan light tanks and 2 units of Mechanised Infantry mounted in a pair of M113 APCs to defend Western Europe from the Red tide of Communism. God bless America (and their main battle tanks!)

I got a job lot of Abrams in a lucky ebay purchase so I converted one to serve as scatter terrain. After attacking the hull with some pliers and a liberal application of black / brown paint over the damage, I had a wrecked tank to put on the wargaming table.

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.