20mm Winter of '79 Army vehicles

As opposition to the Wallsend Revolutionary Communist Party, I've built my Army unit around a connection to me so, we have the vehicles attached to C Company 4PARA, a TA formation based in Gateshead. The vehicles are heavily weathered to show their hard use status. Saracens are the Airfix kit, the Pig and Snatches are from Sgts Mess. Dougie

The vehicles, went for an urban style of basing, tarmac and bricks

 Sgt's Mess Pig

 Sgt's Mess Snatch with their top cover figures but with liberation head swops

 Airfix Saracen

28mm Grozny Destroyed apartment block finished

Here's some shots of the finished building, I had to stop adding things and tinkering as its so easy to get dragged in to adding more and more details.

Tiny Terrain T62

Picked one of these up to use as a captured Chechen vehicle, It's a resin model and very nice quality, here's a shot of the parts laid out

 The only work I decided to do on it was to replace the turret grab handles with wire ones.

 The dushka is a little gem

 I followed my usual painting format that I've been through before, kicking off with Halfords primer

 Used various products from Ammo and AK to finish the beast

 I was initially going to have the vehicle painted with slogans to show its captured status, however after realising it would then be very limited in use I decided to knock up a removable piece of rear deck stowage with a Chechen flag

A really nice kit hopefully Tiny Terrain will do more.
Dougie

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Just a short message to say I think I have at long last been able to sort the issue out preventing people from commenting on my blog. Please feel free to post comments and I'll answer any questions.
Fingers crossed! Dougie

"Contact Front" rules

Picked up a copy of these new rules by CarlTitterington, published by Gods Eye Games . I got
 the pdf for speed of delivery and after browsing through it set up a game with my son. The rules are platoon level and designed for Afghanistan or similar theatres. Not your normal rules set out its designed round a military course and the rules are straightforward with some nice theatre touches such as the rules of engagement section, if the Taliban are on the table in line of sight but haven't opened fire you can't engage them ! Other rules for civilians and interpreters are also well handled. Lots of full rules reviews on the web so I'm not going to do that here, I thought I'd give a quick run through of the game we played and include some pics. to round off, if modern wargaming is your thing I'd definitely buy a copy of these rules. Dougie

Alex won initiative and picked the Ambush scenario for his British forces. His base force was a platoon command team and 2 sections of 2 fire teams each. On rolling for support he got an 8 and with the scenario additional support of +3 had 11 points to spend, he selected the following;

Infantry Section
Medic
Sniper Team
Arty Fire Controller
off table 105mm battery

My choice was an arms cache to protect and my base Taliban force of 2 Command teams, 2 fighter cells, a RPG team and a LMG team were supplemented with 2 additional LMG teams and a dicker.

Here's the table

 
View from the Taliban deployment zone

The arms cache

 The Brits deploy

The Taliban deploy

A "Dicker", very useful in the rules if your playing Taliban

It all kicks off

Not wanting to give away too many of the rules but if your playing Taliban, saunter around into position don't shoot at coalition forces until you're in a prime position. Open fire too early or without thinking and you're in a world of pain. Think tactically as an insurgent, IED.
A cracking system that will frustrate the coalition player, but of course that's what it should be doing. Great job by Carl Titterington looking forward to more army lists and scenarios!

28mm Chechen civilians

Chechen project nearing completion, here are some civilians.

The very last Chechen fighters!

The very last of my 28mm Chechen fighters, Empress figures.