Tidy. Very tidy. Particularly the enviable lens work! :-) Those buildings look good, but maybe a thin black/ brown wash and a light bone drybrush to bring out the detail? Like the removable roofs too.
Thanks fellas! @James... yes, I might go over with a wash. I did that with the Townhouses I'd painted from the same range but wasn't completely sold on the effect. Something about the texture of the MDF material changes the effect a bit.
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Another update in Team Yankee escalation - this time on the Soviet side for me, as I finish up my Soviet Opfor to use against my British and Bundeswehr Bunch (tm).
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Last time the update was massive, covering my Hinds, Acacias, Shilkas and Motor Rifle company. As alluded to in that post, this one will add the "motors"...
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These are BMP-2s from Battlefront - two boxes worth. The BMP set comes with hulls and turrets to build either -1s or -2s and I opted for the latter, mainly because of their somewhat better in-game stats and concomitantly higher points cost. This can be important because of the disparity between points values for most Soviet vs. NATO stuff (USA, GB and West Germany anyway) - those sexy tanks are expensive and you need a lot of Soviet stuff to balance that.
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The BMPs are all injection-molded plastic kits and are very well designed and easy to build. My only gripe is with the tiny searchlight as it is easily broken.
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Such a sleek-looking APC - you know this was a trend-setter among the world's armed forces. Building two boxes (10 models) when combined with the two I built from the Yuri's Wolves set gives me 12 - enough to outfit the Motor Rifle Company. Sorted!
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A project of an evening this week was painting these Shops from TTCombat's 15mm "World War" MDF scenery range.
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I really can't praise these models highly enough. They look great, are easy to build and paint, and are inexpensive to boot. Compare the cost of your favourite resin or pre-painted buildings from MBA or Battlefront to these... it's only 8GBP and change for what you see here :-)
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Scale looks good with these Bundeswehr troops defending their town.
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The buildings all have removable roofs and constructed second floors as well for easy model placement inside. I did a pretty basic paintjob on these and I expect they will do yeoman's work on our Team Yankee tables for a long time to come.
TTCombat are a great bunch - I emailed them with a compliment on including chimneys with these models (the Townhouses I have from them don't include chimneys and that's a bit of an oversight) and I quickly got a message back saying that they'll be adding chimneys to future cuts of the Townhouses. Can't ask fairer than that!
"Team Yankee BMP-2 Company and TTCombat Buildings!"
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The buildings do look good for the money!
December 14, 2018 at 10:48 AM
Very goor models!
We like particulary the blue!
:-)
December 15, 2018 at 10:24 AM
Tidy. Very tidy. Particularly the enviable lens work! :-) Those buildings look good, but maybe a thin black/ brown wash and a light bone drybrush to bring out the detail? Like the removable roofs too.
December 15, 2018 at 1:04 PM
Thanks fellas! @James... yes, I might go over with a wash. I did that with the Townhouses I'd painted from the same range but wasn't completely sold on the effect. Something about the texture of the MDF material changes the effect a bit.
December 15, 2018 at 3:32 PM
Great work Dallas! Can’t wait to see those motor rifles in their first game, now that they have rides :-)
And shooting up those buildings will be fun, when we plan another struggle for a critical McPizza King location...
December 15, 2018 at 4:59 PM
@Dallas - fair play, never worked with MDF myself so not sure how it responds to paint. Happy 10th birthday by the way! ;-)
December 18, 2018 at 4:53 PM
Thanks James - hadn't even noticed that!!
January 29, 2019 at 3:44 PM