Unboxing: Team Yankee Potecknov’s Bears
January 19, 2016 by dignity
It's been a few weeks now since the Team Yankee Bootcamp and we're finally getting to sit down and relax with some more unboxings from the weekend.
John and I are taking some time to check out Team Yankee's Potecknov's Bears along with the beautiful Golden Hind from the Bootcamp weekend.
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Great unboxing, guys. 😀 As a Veteran of the “Great Lloyodslavian War of 1985″ . . . Justin mentions that Soviet players had 10 T-72s and the Americans had five M1s, and this was daunting for the Americans but they were able to win many victories. Yeah, I would have preferred to have 12 or 15 T-72s. This isn’t just because I was a Soviet player and wanted more stuff (okay, I did) . . . but a quick break down of the values of these units in the game . . . ** M1s shoot twice a turn. T-72s… Read more »
Don’t forget to mention our air-superiority. Those Hinds are really hard to kill but can melt anything on the table with ease.
So it was no real disadvantage to have “only” 10 T-72s vs 5 M1s 😉
When I was building my Hinds I had to realize that there is a bug on the sprue. The rocket pods are 100% identical for the right and the left wing. That means you have two rocket pods for the outer mounting point on one side and two pods for the inner mounting point on the other side. To overcome this I trimmed the rear pins of two pods to fit under the right position.
Completed army. Now some of these T-72s are Zvezda (the ones with the reactive armor panels). The others are the “Boot Camp” special resin kits. But the Hinds are the “real ones.”
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…nice!
Super nice looking set bud.
I’ve been a busy with Team Yankee.
My 10 T-72’s are now supported by a BMP-2 Company (x9) and a BMP-1 OP (When the arty gets here).
I have the Soviet infantry box currently being primed and painted, all 79 of the little devils.
Oh, and 2 Su-25’s.
Karen has expanded with 2 VADS, 2 ITOW and 2 A-10’s.
I had real life get in the way of doing much with my TY stuff, since I came home
Golden Hind for the win!!! 😀
a nice looking unit in the box.
Ferrari red tanks why not they may even go faster?
I will confess that when I prime-coated all my resin T-72s black . . . before I started the actual colors, I was tempted to just leave them that way with red racing stripes. 😀
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Very tempting, but I already play Orks in Warhammer 40K, and run a Goblin deck for MTG Commander. I don’t want to get stuck in a rut of playing the horde army in every game.
I have to say that the models for TY are beautifully made although I have only the resin T72 they were a joy to build even in a short space of time. The Hinds too were nice builds admittedly I did not go as far as adding the fiddly bits.
As to finishing the models they are unlikely to ever get finished. Simple reason the rules ultimately left me cold (pun intended).