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Hey everyone. I found this on a wargaming website today and just read it through, very interesting. Hope you enjoy, and thank you Canada!

Russian Motor Platoon

I just finished this Russian Motor Platoon. Orion figs, Trumpeter BTR-80, paint by Model Master and Tamiya. I found the TOE for these units in an old post on a forum of which I can't remember the name. Basically, here it is,

The Rifle squad.

Two MG's. As anyone who owns this set knows, Orion only include two HMG armed figures. The TOE calls for two per squad, and with three squads per platoon, I need six! So I trimmed off the clips from the guns, then replaced them with cut up inc pen tube filled with glue.

Squad leader and squad AT weapon

Two of the four rifles per squad

Sorry these came out a bit glossy, because of Orion's idiotic plastic, paint rubs off quite easily, I sprayed them with "Matte" varnish, yeah right!

Platoon command: junior officer; assistant.

The two platoons and...

one of their three BTR's

I painted them to go mainly with modern Russian, as well as here with Middle Eastern units

Each of these carry one squad

The whole platoon

Shown with a Revell T-80

This is probably the BTR-60, I included it though for the camouflage on the soldiers

These pictures illustrate the camo I'm attempting to replicate. I thank the Army Recognition website for these and many other reference pics. I've got some more surprises in the works too. Thanks for reading.

Some Updates

Here are some of the latest things going on in my HO world.

U.S. Marines in digital woodland. One platoon of three squads. Perhaps some of my followers can help me with this as my reference for U.S. platoon organization is two sections. Rifle: five riflemen. Support: Sniper, rocket, LMG and two riflemen. Command: medic, squad leader.

 

The three squads

To the best of my knowledge, this is the correct organization. If I'm wrong please help me.


Another update is my use of Orion Russian Feds. I've finished the Iraqi unit, this has six squads of two MG's, leader, senior rifleman, grenadier w/RPG, and two rifles. This is based on a reference for Russian motorized infantry.

I'm also about to begin work on some Russian infantry. Two platoons based on the above for Iraqis, just painted in the style of Wittrix and Steven with the new cool digital type camouflage.

Each of these are  a squad.

Some sample figs I painted a while back

Here are a couple more figs to look at, I know it's  a lot to take in be patient.

My NBC team! Not sure if these are really used often but they look cool and I had some laying around.

And, look at the comments on the last post and you will see some great links by Steven that perked my interest in the new MultiCam pattern used by the U.S. Army, this was my first official try at this. The fig is from the Caesar special forces set.

U.S. in Digital Camouflage

Ive been too busy to paint of late. Work and other things (including my new found joy of Call of Duty!) have somewhat distracted me at  the moment. Nonetheless, here are some freshly painted Caesar U.S. infantry, I tried them in my latest attempt at digital woodland camouflage. The sniper is from the Worldwide special forces set, the LMG guy is from Revell as Caesar's first U.S. set does not include a good MG pose. The Revell guy has been updated by me, I trimmed the shoulder pads off the body armor and added a night vision equipment platform on his helmet. I painted all the figs with balaclavas and gloves because, well, they look cool! Hope you enjoy, I'm awaiting the right amount of pennies to base them, plus I'm too lazy to base them now.

I love this pose

And this one