Little Vehicles for Little Dudes

Hi, I finished up another round of painting. This time, it's a bunch of vehicles.

So first up, we've got a couple of technicals -- civilian pick-up trucks with heavy weapons installed. No spinning rims, no thumping base, no under-body neon, just a guarantee that no one will cut you off:



I'm not super-happy with these. The models are by Peter Pig and they're great, but gluing on the wheels was a bit of a pain. The real problem is that I picked fairly light body colors and when I brushed on the "dip", it made them look really dirty/muddy. Maybe it'll be ok on the table when viewed from a distance, but I should've found a lighter shade of dip for these. Ah well, at least the Insurgents have some mobile firepower now.

Too bad we've also bulked out the US forces with a pair of Humvees:


Again, these are 15mm models by Peter Pig. The turrets are interchangeable and they sell the turrets separately. So in this shot I've got one .50 cal. machine gun turret and a TOW launcher turret and I've got another turret of each type so I can mix and match as I see fit. I also have two leftover HMG turrets so I might get another pair of TOW hummers in the future and have a nice set.

 The US also get one of my favorite vehicles:


The LAV-25 is, in my personal opinion, one of the sexiest military vehicles out there. Fast troop transport capability, good firepower, amphibious, comes in numerous variants, what's not to love? So now I've got one. This one is by QRF minis and I hope to get some more in the future. A pretty easy model to put together and paint, the only issue is that the gun barrel broke off and I had to putty it back on. Oh well. It's nice to have on hand.

Finally, the first of my WWIII models:


Soviet T-80 tanks, the pride and joy of the Red Army and still in use today. These were also from QRF and were kind of a bitch to assemble. There were a ton of extra "bits" and no instructions on where they'd go (Internet research didn't help). Those two drums on the back of the tanks were very poorly designed and took a lot of work to get stuck on there. Still, they painted up pretty well and it's a good start.

So that's all the vehicles. I was planning to move on to some 28mm fantasy figures I picked up at HAVOC, but I need to order/build/paint a building for an Afghanistan Force on Force game I'm running at the end of June. The building should be a pretty fast job, but I want to make sure it's done before committing to other stuff.

later Tom