20mm - A few Cobra Vehicles

          Added a few more vehicles to the Cobra force. I am staying with the standard black motif since it is easy to paint and it stands out on the table. Also camouflage is for concealment and Cobra wants everyone to know who they are.
          The toy version of the FANG is a armed gyrocopter, which looks a little to fragile to really do anything useful.

 

           I found a couple of helicopters from Matchbox that I am going to use as FANGs. To me they look a little less gimmicky and less likely of being shot down with a slingshot. I still need to add a couple of rockets or pods to the weapon mounts. They will be used for terrain or placed on magnetized flight stands to buzz around the board.

 

 

           I also picked up a bunch of Airfix 1/76 Landrover trucks. That I painted up as transport trucks to get the troopers around and a ambulance that was converted to a communication van.

 

 

 

 





 

          

20mm - Miniature Comparison

Just a quick 20mm comparison .

Liberation Miniatures, Elhiem Figures x2, and SHQ

Liberation Miniatures: Liberation has a large range of figures covering mostly the modern era infantry, some scifi figures, and they also carry the Hotspur range (IRC) of  SCW Figures. These tend to be on the heavier side for 20mm miniatures, which I prefer for survivability reasons (broken ankles). Ordering is difficult since there is no shopping cart on web page, apprently ordering is done thru FAX. More good sculpts in pack than bad.
Elhiem Figures: Elhiem range also mostly covers the modern range from police to modern infantry. These tend to be medium sculpts and have great detail. My only worry is the thickness of the ankles, they are not kid or drunken gamer resistant like Liberation. Can  be ordered directly on the web site or thru Syr Hobbs Wargames (great people) in the states. All sculpts in pack good.
SHQ: I have purchased a few figures (WWII and Vietnam) from SHQ a long time ago. They tend to be smaller than other figures and do not mix well. Hence I only have a couple of Vietnam figs left. More bad than good sculpts. Some poses just do not look right to me.

This is really subjective and depends on how you like your figures to look.

20mm - Old back up

Lack of funds has stunted progress in the Tryant's Legion and I also need to save some cash for next edition. Luckily I have a stash of 20mm stuff to work on; cleaned up the old stuff and painted some new stuff. (still working with the camera to take macro shots)

US Infantry

2 Character models
1 RTO
1 LMG wpn team
1 SMAW wpn team
3 Fire Teams
-  AR/GL, 2 AR, and SAW

Cobra Troopers

1 Charecter model
1 RTO
1 Sniper team
1 LMG team
4 Squads
-  6 AR, RPG, and SAW

Some armor support for the Cobra troops include a tank and a couple of reconnaissance tankettes.

20mm - Buildings

Finished up some buildings and a few trees

For scale



20mm - Support vehicles

Picked up some support vehicles the other day, just need to get another ZiL-157 truck.

20mm - Some adversaries

These are going to be a squad of elites for the the junta, still looking at what kind of support they are going to get, they are going to have at least one BRDM-1.

Also some regulars, I have five squads; 6xAKs, 1xRPG, 1xRPK

20mm - Modern 90's

Finally got around to finishing some of the US Moderns, they are painted for a fictional game in Central/South America.

Three fire teams each with M16/M203, 2 M16, and a SAW

Support team: Officer, Sgt, RTO, Ammo Carrier, M60

Operatives: SAW, M16, Shotgun

Operatives: M16/M203, M16/Scope, Sniper  Rifle

Operatives: M16, MP5, M16