Nothing for over a week, then TWO POSTS in one day!? See, I have been painting I just haven’t gotten around to taking pictures and posting them. Lack of time and crappy weather were the main factors…
Anyway…
This is the beginning of a Modern
United States Marine Corps force. WHY and I doing a Modern United States Marine
Corps force!? Well… Eureka
had these miniatures… and they were very pretty… and… well, you get the idea.
I realize painting them in the
Arid (or desert) MARPAT or even the Three Colour Desert pattern would probably
have been more useful… but when has anything I’ve even done made any sense
whatsoever…?
(Remember: click on the pictures
for a bigger version):
The whole force (so far...). As
mentioned these are all from Eureka
Miniatures. What I have there is a full strength section of regular
marines along with a Force Recon patrol and a sniper.
The Force Recon patrol – ready
for intelligence gathering deep behind enemy lines!
The Squad Leader and a Radio
Operator. I know, Radio Operators like this guy would normally be at the
platoon command section… But he came in the pack, so…
Fire Team One Alpha
Fire Team One Bravo
Fire Team One Charlie
Sniper!
Another Sniper!? This figure is actually one of the many
surplus The Assault
Group SAS Snipers I have that I’ve painted up in MARPAT for use with
these marines.
I’ve ordered another two squads
to round out a platoon and a command team and EOD team from Empress
Miniatures. I thought at some point I might pick up an LAV-25 from
Imprint
Models and maybe a plastic ki-tech M1 tank or two… and I should
probably pick up some Hummers of some sort… at some point…
Coming soon on Tim’s Miniature Wargaming Blog:
Lovely work Tim, well done.
ReplyDeleteCheers,
Helen
Vary well done. You did a great job with the MARPAT
ReplyDeleteThanks! I spent a ridiculous amount of time staring at pictures of guys wearing MARPAT before starting these... Unfortunately it's been a grey and cloudy day here so everything looks a lot darker and muted that they do in actuality. If ever the sun comes out again I might take some more pictures...
ReplyDeleteNice!
ReplyDeleteSilly! You should have waited two days until today and posted this on the Marine Corps' Birthday! Nothing you do makes sense. Nothing.
ReplyDeleteSilly indeed! Whatever was I thinking!?
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