Die-cast 20mm Taliban technicals

These are die-cast toy cars, Matchbox Datsun pick-ups and a pound store Ford pick-up.  The crews are Taliban AA HMGs (Dushkas) from Britannia.

 

Vehicles were undercoated light grey and then painted black green or ivory.  They were then distressed by dry brushing areas likely to be scrambled over or scraped with gunmetal.  Then specific areas were washed with strong tone ink mixed with a little orange ochre to simulate rust.  Windscreen and windows were painted azure and dry brushed white.

Figures are Blu-tacked in place, but I need to get some stowage to help hide the bases.

From the back.  You can see the dark red highlighted door, simulating a visit to the scrap-yard to replace a shot up original door on the Ford.  The Datsun branding was added in black grey or ivory.

Hopefully these will be making an appearance in Andreivia at the end of March.

As ever, thanks for looking.

15mm Matchbox Oshkosh MRAP

Over Christmas, I was working up these four Matchbox Oshkosh MRAPs.  The vehicles are just repainted, some were originally orange and some sand-coloured.  They are painted tan yellow and NATO black, washed with matt varnish and army painter strong tone ink.  Windows are azure, dry brushed white and the vehicles are dry brushed white with black dry brushed basalt grey.  HMGs are spares from the Plastic Soldier British M3 halftrack set and the USMC crew figures are Peter Pig medics cut in half and glued in.  These are going to find a place on the table for 15mm games of Force on Force, Tomorrows War and AK-47.  Purchase price £1.30 per vehicle, well worth getting on my knees and rummaging through the big boxes of toy cars on the bottom shelf of the toy counters in supermarkets - thanks Tesco's and Morrison's.

Thanks for looking.  Next in the pipeline will be my "Wild Geese" mercenary force.

15mm Matchbox Coyote conversion

Happy New Year everyone.  Let's hope 2015 is a great one!

Just before Christmas I converted these two Matchbox Coyote vehicles.  The open rear engine compartment and open side windows were covered with plasticard.  A balsa block and pair of HMGs (actually removed from the Corgi Jackals) were added to the roof to form a twin barreled remote HMG turret.  Undercoated light grey and painted light brown with flat earth splodges edged with chocolate (it was Christmas after all) - hey presto, a pair of lightly armoured recce vehicles for a modern/Sci-fi skirmish game.  Not bad for an investment for the pair of £2.60 plus paint and an hour or so of time.  Not sure of the scale for these vehicles, I think they are 1/84th but they look fine alongside based 15mm figures (see last photo), so I'm going to use them in that scale but suspect they wouldn't look too small alongside 20mm as well.

Thanks for looking!  Enjoy the rest of the holidays.