25 Oct 2014

Fireteam Ankaran

Hello guys,

I managed to paint my first actual SAF fireteam, Ankaran. The name comes from SAF phonetic alphabet. Ankaran, a coastal settlement and would be an equivalent of the famous "Alpha".

Infantry team in Slovenian army is pretty standardised. It consists of (from left to right):
a rifleman with F2000S (that would also carry a LAW that I never sculpted to a satisfactory degree)
a SAW gunner, armed with FN Minimi
a grenadier, armed with F2000S with an under slung GL
a section sharpshooter, armed with F2000S with optics (whereas other rifles are armed with red dot sight)

Only one fireteam in a section (that consists 2 teams and a section leader) would have a sharpshooter, but I might just put one in every team for the sake of using them.
I don't have a pre-painting photo unfortunately, but they had their weapons swapped, canteens added on two of them and camo strap fitted to their helmets. Two of them have helmet cams, which I'm not too fond of, but I didn't really feel like removing them, either.

I only one complaint about Empress figures at this point. A lot of my miniatures have leg halves not matching (the mould probably slipped). It's not too visible when painted, but it irritated the hell out of me when I was working on them. I did contact the guys at Empress and I was offered replacements, so that is not a rant over service. In the end, I just kept mine as I couldn't send back half massacred miniatures, could I now?

As you probably can NOT see on the photo below, the camo on them has larger blotches, but also a lot more of white. It's hard to photo standing and prone figures together, but I have to admit I'm quite satisfied with how they all look like, even if there is a lot I wish I'd do different.

Lastly, a random patrol photo below. I wish I didn't paint camo on the Humvee gunner's face, but to be perfectly honest, I wish I'd paint camo on everyone else's instead!

That is it for today, I have only one more team ready to be painted and then I'll have to start converting them again as I took a bit of a break from cutting all the metal. I am thinking about a game as well, so hopefully I'll have an AAR for your next, if I don't manage to paint the other team in time.

Thanks for looking,
Mathyoo

20 comments:

  1. Great job on the camo dude! Lovely fireteam all around. I'm sure these guys could be of use against zombies too.

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    1. Thanks Bob! If I ever come back to my zombie campaign, they will certainly have a role to play!

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  2. It is all coming together rather well I think. Excellent work mate.

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  3. Nice work mate- the camo looks very nice- consistent across all of them.

    Cheers,

    Pete.

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    1. It is not too bad, but I think I should invest more time in photographing them!

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  4. Seamless conversions, dude. Well done!

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    1. Thanks mate, I'm glad it seems this way!

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  5. All of your hard work is really paying off. Very impressive.

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    1. I have to admit I am quite proud to see them painted, just 16 more to go now :D

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  6. I do like the camouflage. Very effective.

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    1. Cheers, I think it is an improvement, but I'd need to be making just a tad smaller blotches.

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  7. Awesome Loving the look of the F2000's dude! Are you still getting the guns cast up? I love how the whole force is coming together now. You need to run a zombie game with them.

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    1. I have a decent supply now :). I got a lot more work and I have to admit I can't wait to get radio man and medic done! And eventually snipers and even a .50 cal!
      I have a decent supply of the guns now, the standard ones get used up a lot, but making a red dot of a scoped version really isn't much work.

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