ANZACS and the return of 'Them', ( & Cthulu Kong, Goldylocks etc!))

Finally for thus series of project updates I did some Canadians , pretty much the forgotten modern army. How come I plumped for Canucks?

A few years back I had a few Americans I remembered for my Afghanistan force. I vaguely remembered doing a small Marine Recon team in Boonies ( really nice Empress figures) . As it happened when I fou f the figures there were 4 of them and 8 helmets Rifle team.

What had got me to think about these figures was me looking through Empress miniatures Modern Vehicle range and finding the sci fi esque Stryker.

Who used it ?

Due to a Google cockup on my part, it showed a Canadian one, and hinted it was a Canadian vehicle, so I thought convert the above Americans to Canucks as kit and cammo are similar just need to paint a Canadian patch on fatigues..  Pf course I now know that it is predominantly American but the die was cast.

This decision was supported by the fact I had found two documentaries on the Canadians in Afghanistan.

So I purchased above  and looked for a pack of figures to boost the Rifles to a full 10 man squad..

By sheer chance I had dug out my Mars Attacks box for some incidental terrain and found 5 little bags of  completely metal figures. Which on opening was 4 Rifleman , One specialist wpns team, plus 2x .50 and a Recoiless Rifles with Afghan crews for the back of Technicals..

So heeeeyyy@

Now strangely I started my Canadian firce build with the Styker  but it ended up being the last to be Finished when other things got in the way.

Painted pretty much as I did the Aussie Vehicles , with a fictional ( it looked nice) decals added from mainly leftover Centurion and M113 decal sheets.

The Canadian Infantry were going g to be a challenge to match the rather nice cammo I had managed on found figures.

They were done before the Projects system   before Contrastcand Speedpaints so I had no idea how I had done them, Now I know a lot of people keep little notebooks on past painting projects, but that doesn’t work fo me as I suffer from tenosynovitis which preve ts me writing more tha a few readable words. .

Now I thought the biggest problem would be matching the base shade for cammo, but this turned out easier than thought.

I started with putting some GW Apothocary White contrast on a wet pallette , the adding small amounts of a contrast light green till I got a good match. The palette allowed easy matching on future batchs of figures as I had a guide. Also thus blend did do sone nice base shading on the white undercoat.

Then it was thin lines of GW wraithbone followed by Speedpaint Absolution Green lines,  all washed in a 50/50 water thinned Agrax Earthshade.

Bases were easy to match as the sand texture came from the same tub of left over scatter from my Hexon texturing.