Preparing for Team Yankee

Team Yankee by Battlefront is coming soon. Thus I started preparing my forces. I am not sure what side I will play thus I have incentive to paint both Russians and Americans. I have enough American army figures by Rebel Miniatures to create two full Team Yankee platoons. One is almost finished.
For Russians I have modern Zvezda T-72 tanks, which are historically inaccurate, but so are T-72 tanks by Battlefront, as in 1985 in Germany Russians would have used T-80 and T-64 tanks. I have 4 T-64BV tanks that need last coat of paint. But I don't want to use them as inferior T-72s. I think of creating count as force using American rules. I will use figures by QRF/TSS and have everything replaced by soviet stuff that Battlefront is not making. This way with photoshopped cards it should create less confusion than using for example Hind and saying it is Cobra.  I envision this count as force this way:

Soviet replacements    - USA

T-64BV                       - M1 Abrams
BTR-80                       - M113
BRDM-2 (AT-5)         - M901 ITV
SA-9                            - M163 VADS
2S29                            - M106
2S3                              - M109
Mil Mi 8 Hip E           - AH-1 Cobra

For infantry I'd probably use Eureka Miniatures modern Russians painted like 1985 Soviet troops. They could represent afghanka uniform wearing soldiers in body armour.

Sneak peak of US Army infantry platoon. Painted figures by Rebel Miniatures, unpainted by QRF/TSS - those are designated marksmen from current TO&E. All figures are based individually and magnetised to FOW style bases.

Quick Info.

In 2 weeks this blog should get some new life. Next week I will have my final exam and then everything will be back in normal state. Probably I will post here some of my other painting projects, not only DBA. Time will tell.

No news ?

It's been a while since my last post. There where no promised photos and one could think I have died. The lack of posting was due to the fact that I was ill, the weather was bad (witch meant no undercoating or varnishing) and I had little time.

Alas I did paint. I've painted 4 DBA camps and some camp followers bases. The Hittites have received their sand, so did few other figures, and now they are waiting for right moment to get it painted. I'm writing now a university paper that will end first stage of my university studies. That's why I can't promise when there will be new photos added (I'll try to do the Hittites this month). But I'll write more on various wargaming and non wargaming subjects.

Unpainted lead waiting for spare time.

Those are the things that are currently waiting for paint:

Untouched, uncleaned:

-DBA Mitanni Army

-DBA New Kingdom Egyptian Army

-DBA Viking Army (in post)

-DBA Kassite Army (in post)

-DBA Early Polish Army (in post)

-3 Bases of camp followers: 1 Roman, 1 Macedonian, 1 Greek.

Cleaned, base coated:

-DBA Macedonian Army

-DBA Macedonian Army

-DBA Hittite Army

-DBA Polybian Roman Army

-DBA Polybian Roman Army

-8 Bases of Italiotes

-8 Bases of additional miniatures to make more Macedonian successor options.

-3 Camps: Roman/Greek palisade 1, Roman/Greek palisade 2, Ancient Near Eastern wall part.

Things to come:

I plan on doing a review of Mick Yarrow Miniatures Hittites and putting here my completed DBA armies.