French Armoured Car find and Orion conversions

I decided to take a look at some miscellaneous poses from numerous sets in the past. I noticed a couple of poses from the Israeli set that I could use for a French Army VBL that I found today which I got from a good friend of mine a while back. It's to scale, so I put that ol' exacto-knife to the test and converted an otherwise useless pose for a great vehicle.

Here it is. Found it in an old container on the shelves in the basement. Hadn't seen it for months, but it felt good to find it and put it to use.

Yes! It's to scale! Now to just find a figure to use.

Looks like a found a winner. Sorry, bud, but you have to get half of your body cut off.

Looks like it's a perfect fit. Now just for the paint job and then the gluing... my favourite part.

Looks to be okay. I had to look up French army camouflage for the project, which I turned out to be good at painting it.

Maybe I'll it for any upcoming games. What? It's not cheating to put 2 allied armies against 1 huge army. Since this is French, I might need to pick up a French set somewhere to support it. I don't really feel like basing this one, just the wheels will do. Stay tuned!

The Israelis have arrived!!!

I am very pleased to say the long-awaited Israeli Army set has come today. Very glad!

A barely-visible Female officer

A Rabbi. The IDF has many Rabbis

Here's an officer

A guy with a Mitzefet. A Mitznefet is a helmet cover that many soldiers in the IDF use. It's sort of a camouflage technique.

A tanker. Too bad I don't have a good Merkava tank to go with him.

An M4 and a Grenade launcher

A signalman

This guy is probably talking to a comrade, maybe the crouching guy below.

A sniper wearing a ghillie suit

Another tanker.

Now onto set 2. Here's a charging rifleman.

He's maybe launching a grenade at a Hamas safehouse, but this is Standoff, so he may be launching it at the Russian HQ!!!

At first I thought this guy had an Uzi, but then I found out that it was a Galil.

The ol' Captain Morgan stance

A guy with the classic Uzi.

Here's one in an NBC suit.

A Frogman with a Galil.

Another Galil.

A crawler with an Uzi.

Here's another Galil with a boonie hat.

This figure doesn't have a helmet, but he has a yamakah. 

Well, that's all. Updates on the painting soon. Stay tuned!

Upcoming buys

Since I have some extra coin on me, I figured I would head on over to eBay and pick up some more miniatures. I figured that I might show you guys what I bought.

Set 2 was what I first looked at (considering it is first) and I decided that a good Israeli set would be nice to have around for a good game of Standoff.

Though the boxes are almost identical, the poses are very different. I'll show them to you when the new troops arrive. Both are from Orion, a manufacturer I am coming to like very much.

The Russians are coming, the Russians are coming!

The Russians are coming! They literally are, too. I've finished 2 of the Orion Russian Federals so far, and they ARE on there way to fighting the Rebels, whenever they may be done. I'll probably give them really stereotypical (not against any Russians out there) Russian names, like Ivan, or Boris, or Nikolay or Dmitry. Either way, they're still the same old miniatures!

Here's one of them, with a blue Paratrooper (or VDV as their known in Russia) beret. It took me about 25 minutes to paint one of these. Patients is key, my friend, patients is key.

Here's the other one, in the glory of his goatee. I might change that, but hey, maybe not. 

The Ruskies and the Rebels have arrived!

I am very excited today, because my Russian Federals and my Chechen Rebels arrived in the mail.

A tale of two sets. Though I show you guys the figures on the sprue, theres quite a bit, so I'll show you that later. Cheers and happy Cold War month!