Team Yankee V2 you say….

Well despite my grand plan of working a lot on those during my holidays it kinda…. didn’t really happen.

Anyhow! here is the scout platoon and the ITV platoon that are done!

The first batch of six Abrams are also nearly done and I hope to do an update this week for those too, without any delay here are the pictures!

How to paint those….

Mig Jimenez A.MIG- 206 FS 34079
Apply through the airbrush as is, do not dilute it. I diluted it too much on the M113 and they ended up shiny….

Camo

Vallejo 873 Us field Drab

then

Vallejo 847 Dark Sand

then

Vallejo 950 Black

Source for the pattern:
https://www.team-yankee.com/Portals/0/Documents/TeamYankee/MERDC-Templates-All.pdf

Vallejo 995 German Grey on skirts(M113), tools and the lenses on the M901

Vallejo 863 Gun Metal for the side of the tracks + tools

overall drybrush Vallejo 847 Dark Sand

Overall gloss varnish

Battle Damage Sponge german grey + dots in metal (Bolt gun Metal) and rusted metal (Runelord Brass or Warplock Bronze)

Pigments Mig production Black smoke P023 and Europe Dust P028

Matt Varnish with the airbrush (Mig Jimenez yes not the same MIG I Know Lucky Matt Varnish)

Can’t believe it’s been so long since I updated this projet.

Well… 3 forces are done, one force and my actual first Team Yankee force remains…. the Americans. I started my holidays today and here they are

Already undercoated black 3 more Abrams, will pre highlight them this afternoon and base color them tomorrow morning.

Might base color the 3 M901  later today.

As for the Abrams one question remains….. MERDC or Foliage green…. tempted to go Foliage green for historcal accuracy but also currently a bit worried about the time required for MERDC, it also means that potentially I could do a second company of Abrams in MERDC in the futur if I want to expend that army (very likely), anyway comment if you got an opinion on the matter 🙂

And they got Hinds… behind (sorry I still haven’t gotten over it from the bootcamp :P)

THis is a bit of a omage to one of my opponent from the Bootcamp @oriskani Who I met on the field of battle with his Russians and my Proud US Tank Company (who are still not painted… but it’s the next army).

Without due the picture of the addition first!

Damn it no Lloyd shot! oh well, the Russians win or die but do not retreat. (lame excuse I know)

And the whole 100 pts force

Also here are the steps 🙂

I must say that due to a spirit that was a bit “I just want to get it done” I did not take a picture for each step 😉  But considering that I have already ideas for what will come next…. if there are comments on it, I might do a step by step tutorial with pictures of each step.

Base coat AK4134 Green Khaki (airbrush)

Black wash

AK4134 Green Khaki (drybrush)

80 % AK4134 Green Khaki 20% Vallejo Iraqui Sand 819 (drybrush)

Gun mantelet + barrel holders in Green Brown 879
50/50 Brown/water wash

tracks

base Vallejo US Drab 873

Bolt Gun Metal Dry Brush

Black Wash

MG:
German Grey base

Bolt Gun Metal Dry Brush

Black Wash

Rubber side Skirts : Black Grey 862

Black Grey 862 + Iraqui Sand 819 50/50 (drybrush/Stippling)

gloss varnish

decals

gloss varnish (paintbrush)

Black wash in the slides between the plates

Battle Damage Sponge german grey + dots in metal (Bolt gun Metal) and rusted metal (Runelord Brass or Warplock Bronze)

Pigments  Mig production Black smoke P023 and Europe Dust P028

Matt Varnish with the airbrush (Mig Jimenez yes not the same MIG I Know Lucky Matt Varnish)

So I was bad I didn’t really do any during the work update.

But I finished my 3 Leopards 2 and my Tw…. I mean three Jaguar , I couldn’t leave the last one out, especially as it would have left a box on the shelves and a unit incomplete.

So here are the new boys!

Here is the whole army (and the tiny addition that I couldn’t leave out)

Also if you want the guide, here it is. the base of it is the Nato color set from  AMIG7114 also the Mig Europe Dust and Mig Black smoke 

Black undercoat (spray)
white pre highlight (spray)

base coat Mig Jimenez A.MIG-084 airbrush

Black camo Mig Jimenez A.MIG-046 airbrush

Brown camo Mig Jimenez A.MIG-085 airbrush

Tracks base vallejo German Medium Camo Brown 826 + dash of Iraqui Sand 819 10/2

track bits 862 Black Grey

Dry brush 819 Iraqi Sand over all to define model details

887 Brown Violet for MG ammo box + flexible sleeve behind gun mantlet

862 Black Grey for smoke launchers

GW Leadbleacher + nuln oil for metal parts

for the wood
Chocolate brown 872
flat earth 983 highlights

Gloss varnish

Decals

Gloss Varnish

pin wash in Nuln Oil

Mig Europe Dust and Mig Black smoke 

Matt Varnish

DONE! when you think about it it’s fairly straight forward and you can do big numbers fairly quickly.

Next the Soviets! admitedly can’t wait

Hello everyone,

Well I kinda lacked the post your progress steps on this one. admitedly I was working on my FOW project and also on this. And since I finished the Russians I been working that.

So without further due, here is the british reinforcement!

And the family picture

Damn I just miss one Chieftain to complete a FULL squadron…

And then I started hammering up the Soviets. Which I might have started to build when painting the British >P

And Friday night while I was aibrushing those for the base coat Disaster stuck the Glorious soviet army. my AK 4134 Green Khaki ran out….

Reorder has been issued, and they are luckier that the WWII Russian I wanted to do for the other project who got no decals but the decals have been put on back order >D

Kinda recieved the new British book and the rules for World War III Team Yankee and a shiny box of a certain new tank squadron force… so of course I had to put the new models together, and god are they nice.

Proof in the shot below

Hello Everyone!

So the last platoon has been assembled, stowage put on it, undercoated with a rattle can of Chaos Black and zenith of Corax white.

Next they shall meet the airbrush for their basecoat.

I know they’re not done but the photo boot was up so they got a propper photoshoot already

So apparently the big box of doom is late…. never fear! I did get myself a regular box of Chieftain, which means I’ll be able to do the last Troop of Chieftains with Stillbrew armor, have an extra one to have a full HQ and keep the last one to do a Troop of regular Chieftain with the 2  that will be in the new box of doom.

Meaning that if I get an extra box of Chieftan at like… Salute…. I could do the HQ and another troop to have a second Squadron of those lovely tanks… DAMN you brain!