By Morten
In Morten’s previous article he showed us how to paint Team Yankee Danish infantry. Now he will show us how to paint their vehicles.
In 1980, the Danish Army decided to paint all their operational vehicles in a two-tone camouflage pattern. Prior to this, all the vehicles was just painted green.
By Kreighton Long
World War Two served as both the testing grounds and the high water mark for airborne operations. All the major powers trained and equipped their own airborne corps with some getting more attention than others. The Germans were the first to gain notoriety for their use of airborne forces during the early war period and the United States and Britain learning from Germany’s successes and improving upon them in their own airborne operations during the mid and late war periods.
By Kreighton Long
During the 1930s, the Soviet Union began developing a camouflage pattern for use by scouts, engineers, and snipers. The amoeba camouflage pattern, officially known as makirovochnyi kamuflirovannyi kostium or MKK, was produced and utilized throughout World War Two. The amoeba pattern was produced in summer/spring green and autumn/winter brown versions. I decided to paint my Soviet Scouts in the green version to better match my current terrain collection. The paints I used are Vallejo’s Russian Uniform (924), Black (950), Chocolate Brown (872), and Buff (976).
Royal Canadian Dragoons photos
In my previous article WWIII Team Yankee – NATO Forces Book – The Canadians – No Dice No Glory I discussed the new lists for Canadians in Team Yankee. The possibilities for Canadians in Team Yankee are now so exciting that many people are considering doing up a Canadian army. Battlefront has done a good job of showing Canadian camouflage patterns, but not such a good job of getting the colours right and some different ways of painting vehicles.
I realize that Battlefront wanted to come up with a common camouflage pattern for Canadian vehicles, but it’s not that easy. During the Cold War and beyond, Canadian vehicles had different paint schemes depending on the vehicle and when it was in service. The options were German Gelboliv, Canadian three-colour, NATO three-colour, or plain NATO green. I will discuss my recipes and recommendations for the different colours from the late 1970s onwards. Then I will discuss which colours and patterns to use on each individual vehicle.
By Mitch Reed
I have been hiding a secret from many of you, over the last three years I have not been painting. I have mentioned this on podcasts numerous times and if you ran into me at an LGS or a convention, I probably told you bluntly, “I have not painted in years.” I have no idea what caused this, perhaps from playing too many board games? Could it be that I have all the painted models I need to play the games I love?
No matter the cause, the passion was gone, however recently my passion returned, and the flame was relit.
By Kreighton Long
On October 7 I had the opportunity to compete in the Bolt Action tournament at the Call to Arms convention in Williamsburg, Virginia put together by veteran Tournament Organizer Kalissa Skibicki. Eight players competed throughout the day in three rounds of games using the Heartbreak Ridge, No Man’s Land, and Key Positions scenarios.
As always, the tables were a true treat to play on, drawing in many passersby, and creating gorgeous photo opportunities. The atmosphere was relaxed and friendly. Kalissa’s tournament highlights echoed this remarking on the friendly and good nature of all players, an overall feeling of relaxation, and overhearing several suggestions between players giving opponents better cover advantages and better placement of objectives.
By Kreighton Long
The German Eichenlaubmuster, also known as Oak Leaf, camouflage pattern began being issued in 1941 and was used by the Waffen SS until the end of the war. Below are the steps I take when I paint Oak Leaf camouflage. The paints I used are Vallejo’s German Cam. Pale Brown (825), German Cam. Black Brown (822), German Cam. Dark Green (979), and German Cam. Bright Green (833).
By Jim Naughton
A BMP for ALL SEASONS – the BMP-1P
Nordic Forces had a pequena sorpressa [little surprise] when I first read it. The first faction in the book is the Finns, and after shaking my head about a Finnish 1985 tank with KONTAKT-1 ERA I found the ‘Finnish’ version of the BMP-1. No missile, but upgradeable to the 9K111 Fagot (gotta love Soviet names; it means BASSOON) or in Western parlance, AT-4 SPIGOT. The picture was spot on. BMP-1P.
By Kreighton Long
In my previous article, I described my first foray into mold making. In this article, I’ll share how I took the cured casts and painted them to look like generic cobblestone sidewalks. I spent some time looking at different cobblestone sidewalks on Google Images to try to find out how to paint mine. In the end, I decided to go with a basic grey color as a safe neutral to fit most settings.
By Kreighton Long
Over the years I’ve slowly been building up my collection of urban terrain and as my tables experience urbanization I’ve come to realize that the next step is to include sidewalks. Adding sidewalks to my terrain collection will help to fill in some void space in my town, and will help the town become a more aesthetically pleasing, lived-in, setting.
At first, I looked for simpler options such as printing cobblestones onto card stock or buying mousepad cobblestone rolls and cutting to size but none of those gave me the modeler look I desired. Eventually, I rolled up my sleeves and declared, “Fine. I’ll do it myself”, with my best Thanos impression.
