Well started down a new game route with a game from Battlefront Miniatures - Team Yankee based around the book by Harold Coyle.
1985 August 4th and the cold war has turned hot with the Warsaw Pact lead by the Soviet 3rd shock army crossing into West Germany. NATO forces already on a war footing are in position to delay, blunt, and counter attack.
The scale is 1/100 and these kits are nicely detailed.
The start of my British armoured company, some still to be built:
HQ 2x Chally 1 w/ROMOR armour
Troop 3x Chally 1 w/ROMOR
Troop 2x Chally 1 w/ROMOR
Troop 3x Chally 1
Attached troop 2x Chieftain Stillbrew
3x Chieftain Marksman SPAA
2x MLRS
3x CVR(W) Fox
1x Warrior (Milan) uparmoured
Not in the photo 1x Fox, 2x Scimitar, 2x Striker, 2x Spartan (Blowpipe), 1x Warrior (Milan)
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That looks very cool… Almost a full Cr1 Sqn…very nice 
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I remember reading Team Yankee years ago, it’s a good story. Harold Coyle did another called The Ten Thousand which is worth a read also, very much in the same vein. Those are quite well details for wagons so small.
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Thanks @Johnnych01 & @Maximus8425 These are all primed now and a couple have received a first coat of desert sand, I’ll take some update photos next week as I’m working nights this week so don’t even get near the bench.
Well I find myself running a demo for the hobby club and they gave me a already built M1 Abrams to paint, missing the panels on the back of the turret and the cupola this in the game is Brannon’s tank. Anyway I hide the missing panels with some camo net but not a lot I can do with the missing cupola.
Oh yes a very dodgy V-1 on ramp in the background also built but this time ‘painted’ by someone in the club which I’m also repainting.
So on the subject on WWII some of my Flames of War all still in 1:100.
3x Churchill Crocodiles
A Sherman V, Universal carrier and MMG carrier
3 x Sherman Fireflys
And lastly part of a British Para Company
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They do look cool. The 3 or 4 Arty wagons in fire positions is still something I am thinking of… or a full Cr1 troop in a concealed hide on a small dio … 
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there quite a few of these war games and I’m int in some of them especially British airborne units at DDay and the Vietnam war, are there any you could recommend…i have heard of Bolt Action doing some of there figures.
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David, it depends on what size of action you prefer, Bolt action (28mm) is more of a company size with several squads/platoons and 1 tank while Flames of War (15mm) is more Battalion sized both cater for airborne and Flames of War have special Arnhem themed US and British para box sets at the moment.
For Vietnam you are more limited, Ribicon recently came out with their own set of rules which personally I’ve not seen yet but they do some great figures and vehicles including a Huey. The vehicle models are well engineered and can be built as models or more robust wargaming models. Check their web store as they sometimes offer combo sets eg. 3 Sherman’s for the price of 2
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@Littorio i think the 28mm is the same size as Star Wars Legion, so i would probably opt for those, especially if they use dice to control the figures and vehicles.
i saw on YouTube some company called Oscar Mike but it might be under the Rubicon name that you mention earlier and those do look very interesting indeed.
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David, Bolt action randomised the way units carry out actions, you get one dice per unit and put them in a bag with your opponent’s dice, you then take turns to draw a dice if it’s one of your then you activate one of your units that has not been activated this turn. If you draw your opponent’s dice they activate their unit, so on until all dice have been drawn then you put all the dice back in the bag minus those for units routed off the table or destroyed.
Note although you can use standard D6 there are unit dice as the dice in the bag don’t have numbers on them, rather they have ‘orders’ written on the sides.
Hope that makes sense.
I started Bolt Action and wanted to play Pacific theatre Ozzies but Ozzies against late war Germans don’t have much of a chance, Matilder w/2lbr just bounces off a King Tiger, best I could do was scratch the paint work. Tried to work US Marines into the list but you are so restricted in list building with taking Allies.
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@Littorio thank you for the explanation on the game mechanics. i was looking at some of the Rubicon stuff that covers the Vietnam war but i don’t know how this game works.
as for the dice bag, almost £30 for a small bag and some dice…ouch that’s expensive for what it is.
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You can get away with standard D6 but you’d need to make sure they are all the same colour and size and the same size but different colour as your opponents dice, then write down before game what number on the dice equals what order, eg. 1 = Fire, 2 = Charge etc
Then make sure you have a nice dark bag to put them in.
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@Littorio i see Bolt Action Packs come with all the stuff, dice, rule book etc but i am not sure about Rubicon and the others…is there some forums i can go on to and ask about this? i do have a good collection of Star Wars Legion items from all factions.
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If you are interested in 28mm Vietnam figures, you might want to check out Empress Miniatures.
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@phil2015 Hi mate, thanks for that info, isee they make them using white metal…wow i didn’t know that was still a thing these days!
i have also been looking at Gringo 40 who have some nice stuff as well, do these companies just provide the figures or do they have some package that includes dice, rules etc?
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There are a lot of companies that are just figure makers. Warlord is unique I think in having both figures and rules (I think Battlefront too if they are still the people behind Team Yankee). There are a lot of plastic figure makers now. The metal figures seem to still thrive also.
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@Klaus-Adler I’ve not looked into the Rubicon rules only their vehicles which I was going to use for Bolt Action as they are the same scale 1/56, Several LVT’s, Sherman, M8, Dodge WC but none of the figures, note Rubicon recommend an ABS glue for their kits.
Bolt Action figures are a mix of white metal or plastic so be aware of that. White metal ones need a lot of clean up! Bolt Action vehicles tend to be either resin/white metal or Italeri tooled plastic kits. Be aware that a new set (3rd Edition) of Bolt Action rules were recently released.
I’ve not looked into any forums as I was going to a hobby club, I know Rubicon do have a Model club and attend wargame and model shows, I believe Bolt action has a forum. I can only point you at their respective websites as my (this) work computer throws up a firewall with any site containing the word ‘game’.
Oscar-Mike is Rubicon’s rule set and is VERY new, they were still working on it last year when I attended some of the wargame shows and watched one of the demo games using the rules. I haven’t been to a wargame show this year. If you check their digital downloads page on their website they have 4 downloads (free) connected to the Oscar-mike game.
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@phil2015 Yeap Battlefront are the company behind Team Yankee, Flames of War (WWII), Great War (WWI), Nam, Fate of a Nation (Yom Kippur) and Clash of Steel (1946 see how a Tortoise, T28 or IS-3 stands up against a Maus)
All their own miniatures and rules sets.
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Tamiya makes an ABS liquid cement in a square bottle. It has a blue cap. It is very effective. I’ve gotten it on eBay but any shop can order it for you.
I’ve never heard of this ABS glue, is it some sort of super glue?
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No, it’s just Tamiya plastic solvent cement for ABS plastic (recommended by Rubicon Models).
