A few months back I took advantage of a couple of ebay auctions to “buy into” Team Yankee, the c1985 WW3 wargame from Battlefront. These are all Battlefront Team Yankee 15mm models.
I ended up with 8 M1 Abrams tanks and two Cobra helicopters.
With the benefit of some advice from the forums I added to this more recently with 4 VADs anti-air vehicles, two ITV anti-tank vehicles and a “new” recon unit (M113 and ITV vehicles).
Compostion.
HQ = 2 x M1 Abrams (16 points).
2 x 3 Combat platoons of M1 Abrams (48 points).
1 x 2 Cobra helo’s (7 points).
1 x 4 VADs (6 points).
1 x 2 ITVs (3 points).
1 x Recon platoon (ITV & M113) ( 2 points) (details here).
Total = 82 points
Note: the VADs / ITVs / M113had magnetised turrets (1mm x 5mm neodymium). The Cobra’s had magnets on the rotors and the base pole.
Painting (hand painting).
Undercoat = Halfords White Spray Primer.
Basecoat = Vallejo Game Color (VGC) Yellow Olive.
Camo = VGC Tierra (Earth), VGC Dead Flesh, VGC Black.
Edge highlighting / drybrush = VGC Ghost Grey.
Decals: Battlefront (better varnish these before you cut them off to use – I didn’t and they were awful for falling apart). Not recommended – sorry BF you need to ditch your TY decal supplier.
Finish: Army Painter anti-shine matt varnish spray.
Pictures.
The Older Giant 