6mm Town Revisited

I added some walls to my "Middle East" buildings the other day and am happy with the result.

They are still quite mobile in that only a few of them have the wall permanently attached.

I think these are more suitable for more urban areas. If I make a whole lot more I could do these blocks  repeating.

Another angle from the same setup 

 The parts can then be reassembled into more Afghan looking compounds such as below.

I started the next step in basing yesterday on these GHQ Taliban as well as two more platoons of what will be Soviets

Here are the only parts I had to make with permanent walls. Each building-wall measures 15cm from corner to corner as do the stand alone corners. With just these few pieces I can do lots of variety. 

Thanks for looking and have a great weekend!

Mid-Week Update

Here are the few things I finished recently. As you see, a mix of scales, but all for the near east.

The first is the good old Marder from Revell. I painted it in a real camo scheme that I saw in a modelling magazine.I left the TOW launcher off because the reference photos I saw from Afghanistan didn't have one, only the empty rig. I can also use this against Iranians if necessary :D

Mercedes in the background...

Next up is S&S Models's M-ATV (Mine Resistant, Ambush Protected-All Terrain Vehicle). This as usual is an OK kit. My biggest problem with S&S is that there is no way for them to cast open windows, this leaves us who can't do the "gem" effect with the option of spending hours drilling out the windows and rebuilding them, or painting them gloss green...I chose the former and am happy with the result.

I like how the camera turned out on the ROWS

GPMG team. Chicken in the background...

Finally, 6mm Village. These are generic Middle East village houses I built from chunks of dense foam stuff. I know that for Afghanistan and Iraq walled compounds would be more suitable, so I may add walls in the future.

Another Quick GHQ Update

Here is another quick update for my new GHQ figures.

I used the Brushfire Warriors set for Afghan National Police, and Afghan National Army platoons. I also finished the US Army platoon in UCP.

Three squads, one HQ and two GPMG teams. I may add a "javelin" later because I think I missed that in the TO&E .

The figures have their appeal in mass and distance...

ANP platoon, I used the regular ANA TO&E, if any Afghan in the room cares to object, I will listen.

The Brushfire Warriors set are all wearing soft caps and berets and are carrying AKs and RPGs, very useful for other conversions I'm sure.

ANA Platoon, same figures.

I assure you, BDUs aren't easy in ANY scale!

One of the BTR-60s I bought for the ANA guys. The camera went funny for this pic, my desk really isn't orange, and the BTR isn't lime.

I also finished all the US vehicles I was working on.

Back in the box they came with,
THANKS GHQ!!! 

My new models in my new scale.

These are some of the "bonus" prizes I picked up at the Fall-In hobby show. I got the Mujaheddin  and US Urban combat "combat commands" as well as a pile of blister packs from another vendor.

I'm not permanently moving to this scale, I still love 20mm plastics, I had looked at these sets in the past and looking at them two days in a row in person was more more than I could stand. I believe Jonathan of "My Tiny Things" blog has tried these modern GHQ models as well, other than that they don't seem to have the popularity that I would expect.

I hope to use these some day in FoF, I can envision a running street battle with a long row of these winding through ambushes etc, maybe some day!

Aside from these and the Muj, I bought some of the Brushfire warriors, and some cold war Soviet vehicles which I plan to paint convert to ANA and ANP platoons.

 Anyway, enough jabber...

A "Cougar 4X4." This model came in three pieces.

"4X4 M-ATV," a very ultra-modern looking vehicle! I believe this is expected to eventually replace the HMMWV.

The one "Buffalo EOD" provided in the pack, which makes me happy because of its obvious limited tactical value in a wargame. This came in four parts.

One of the two "Abrams TUSK (Tank Urban Survival Kit)" included in the command.

Everything i have done so far vehicle-wise. 

A few more pieces to finish painting.

 The Comabat Command come with either 40 or 48 infantry I believe, just enough to squeeze a platoon out of. I did buy an additional blister pack of heavy weapons for the m240 and SAW MGs.

I plan to base them all on fireteam stands. The UCP looks OK for this scale I think.

Two more infantry squads to finish. As well as...

the platoon support, and....

Platoon command.

One last pic for comparison of vehicles and infantry.
Hope you like!