The last couple of painting sessions was for a small mixed batch of moderns, consisting of:
- A Battlefront T-72 painted in Indian United Nations colours (Somalia, Congo and Sri Lanka),
- Two Zvezda BTR-80s converted to BTR-80As in generic camo (but based on what the Hungarian army used in the Balkans in the 90s),
- A Zvezda BTR-80 in generic Soviet green, and
- Some Eureka Miniatures modern Russians as Serbian police in Kosovo in 1999 that needed touching up after I dropped them about a year ago.
The BTR-80As were easy to convert, using some spare 2cm WWII German AA guns, some plastic sprue cut to size and greenstuff.
A slow burn project is Haiti in 2004 when the UN (mainly Brazilians) went hard into a shanty town to get a drug lord, but the reporting on the event has conflicting accounts - shooting innocent bystanders, etc. I find it interesting in that respect. That and white vehicles and blue helmets. So I’m just adding random stuff to that now.
For the Balkan theme I just started collecting for the conflict, but realised no one really is interested in it so my modern Americans will be an OpFor the Serbs. There’s a great Hollywood film with Owen Wilson, 'Behind Enemy Lines', that shows off some nice kit and has a great antagonist (Sasha the sniper) - he's the guy in front.
I sort of imagine these for an infantry-heavy company level game (originally Flames of War, but I guess Team Yankee with minimal tanks/AFVs, etc). Or a skirmish game like Ambush Alley on a grander scale.
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