Emergency Miniature Work - 15mm USMC Super Cobra
NEXT STAGE: Iraqi 15mm Desert Storm force
With the DAK 28mm force complete, the assault on the Pile of Shame continues with a finish-up effort on the 15mm force I’ve been building for the Iraqis in the 1991 Gulf War.
These are 15mm Battlefront miniatures from Fate of a Nation and Team Yankee, kit-bashed into 1991 Iraqi vehicles (not too much update required except on the Type 59/IIs).
These are still works in progress. I have to finish cleaning them up and then do the detail painting (secondary weapons, stowage, commanders, drybrush/weathering, etc). But they’re definitely coming along.
Work for the weekend consisted of finishing up the dark wash, making and applying the Iraqi flag decals, and hand-painting the brigade markings.
We've got x3 T-55s with side skirts, x3 T-55s without side skirts (wartime photos show plenty of both), x3 Type 59/IIs (upgraded Chinese knockoffs of T-55s, retrofitted with L7 105mm rifles and somewhat primitive laser rangefinders), x5 BTR-60s (BMPs were used almost exclusively by the Republican Guard which these are not), and x2 ZSU-23-4 SP AA vehicles.
Little bit more work required on these guys, including stowage, commanders, secondary weapons, etc.
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