Baz's Berlin Brigade

 
My mate Barry from Adelaide has sent me some phots of his preliminary work on his British Berlin Brigade for Team Yankee...

 
Apparently its hotter 'n hell down there at the moment, so he has wrapped for the year, but I think you'll agree he's made a cracking start - particularly as the BAOR supplement is not expected until mid year at the earliest - not in Australia at any rate - I'm still waiting for both of my initial release preorders to come in!

 
He is going ultimately for 2 x 4 tank troops and 2 in an HQ plus lots more 432's. 

 
As you can see these are bog standard Chieftains and FV432 APCs, before the introduction of STILLBREW armour on the Chieftain and the Rarden Gun turret on the APCs.

 
Barry didn't say but I think these models are from QRF.



 

 
Here we can see them having a run out on the Jungfernheide training area...they seem to have endexed a lot of the trees - lots of paperwork upon return to Smuts Barracks!

 
As you can see Barry has totally mastered the dramatic and unique urban camouflage scheme unique to the Berlin Brigade...

Well after 22 years in the British Army's elite Royal Horse Artillery you would expect so....

 
Box formation - must be laager time - 'horses first, soldiers second, officers last' - then the lager!

 
His excellent photos have spurred me to rush out and photo what I've been working on for our inaugural Team Yankee game on the 17th Jan....

 
A medley of US and Soviet APCs/MICVs and some long range snipers...

 

 

 
These Soviet BMP-2s are from Skytrex, and have so far merely been sprayed with PSC Russian armour green.

 
These M113 APC are lovely plastic ones from Battlefront I had left over from the Vietnam range. I am painting these in MERDC Summer Verdant...

  

 

 
Also left over from the BF Vietnam range are some M109A1 155mm SPG's, again in Summer Verdant....

 

 
A fitting note to end on a blog post about a former Royal Horse Artilleryman I think!

Quo Fas Et Gloria Ducunt  (trans - Don't drop 'em short you c*#@!)