Sunday, 13 February 2011

Greek Infantry Brigade - part 2

I have now finished the Greek Brigade, and offer the (hastily posed) photos below.
Close-up of an M-48A5. I had put off painting these guys for ages due to the camo pattern, but I'm glad I finally got round to it.  All Greek AFVs have a stylised flag (white cross on blue field) painted on either side of the turret.
For those of you with an interest in painting Greek armour, I would recommend the following websites:
http://greekmilitary.net/greekmbtanks.htm (you need to scroll down quite a bit to get to the M-48s)
http://www.microarmormayhem.com/Units_Greek.html
The three rifle companies of the first Infantry Battalion.  I used WW2 US infantry by GHQ. The Dodge 1.5t trucks by CinC.
The rest of the above battalion - Weapons Co and AT Co. 
For the other Infantry Battalion I used the open version of the CinC Dodge with seated troops from GHQ.
The Brigade HQ and AA Battery - all GHQ toys.
The Artillery Battalion - 105mm guns and Dodge 1.5 tonners by GHQ. 
The attached Tank Battalion - M-48A5 and M-8 by GHQ.
A close-up of the M-8.  This functions as the Tank Battalion's Recce Troop.  Painting the flags on this was rather tricky!
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10 comments:

  1. Don M14 February 2011 at 03:52

    Looks like my cold war collection
    everything from M47s to M1s....)

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  2. Paul14 February 2011 at 06:32

    You can never get enough of the MERDEC schemes! The M48 is a true warrior as well. Nice balance of forces.

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  3. Tim Gow14 February 2011 at 08:01

    Don
    I'm sure I can find you some photos of my (Pakistani) M-47s...

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  4. Tim Gow14 February 2011 at 08:06

    Paul
    You can't really go wrong with an M-48. The MERDC schemes are a swine to paint well, but I just go for a vague representation. By the way, that's 11 Greek trucks plus two in the Sov Brigade towards the 'Truck Month' total.

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  5. Don M14 February 2011 at 08:57

    The MERDC schemes are a swine to paint well,


    LOL Try doing it on a real one!
    They come to you all nice and Forest Green...they hand you this FM with line drawings of the pattern and a piece of Chalk...and you have at it...then you get to do a giant paint by numbers! After your first 20 the models are a breeze ! In fact I no longer need the book! LOL

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  6. Tim Gow14 February 2011 at 09:02

    Don
    Thanks for the tip but I don't think the chalk would work on 6mm toys! I just aim to get roughly the correct colours in roughly the right proportions and hope for the best. With a lot of weathering it seems to work OK.

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  7. Bill14 February 2011 at 18:49

    LOL, I'm with you on the chalk out lines! Although I've seen Don paint
    M1's and M60s by eye ball and getting the pattern spot on! I suspect it's due to the large numbers he owns!

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  8. Tim Gow14 February 2011 at 18:55

    Bill
    Are you suggesting that Don doesn't get out much?

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  9. Bill15 February 2011 at 03:12

    Well there is that court order...lol, just kiding but, I think he has something like 70 M-1 and Bradleys , and a similar number of M60s and M113s!

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  10. Don M15 February 2011 at 03:52

    I have to get out..and resupply on paint etc...)

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