Tuesday 7 February 2012

15mm Painted Modern Peter Pig US Marine Platoon.

....or my attempt at painting modern (ish) US marines for the Franonian or modern theatre, these were a nightmare to paint as there was a lot of discussion on colours on forums but they'll do me!.

A modern US marine platoon consists of normally 42 men, 3 squads of 13 men divided into 3 fireteams of 4 men and a squad leader and a platoon headquarters element of a platoon commander, platoon sergeant and a navy corpsman.

Humvees, sniper teams, casualties and medics, AAV-7A1's and air support (probably a cobra gunship) to follow.......








Just as a sidebar, I've had to delete the old blogroll as I couldn't add or delete any blogs, so I've had to go through the nearly 1000 blogs I was following and start adding again, bear with me as this will take a little while and apologies if I missed you at the moment......

46 comments:

  1. The good citizens of Franonian can relax nowing that their boarders are protected by these brave young men!

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  2. You're following 1000 blogs? How do you find time to do anything else?

    Nicely painted figures, by the way.

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  3. My Humvee has a missile launcher mounted on the roof. I love America...

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  4. Nice work there Angry. IMHO, camo from any country, any time period is the hardest thing to paint. Great job with these.

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  5. Excellent little platoon, and im liking that camo. Well done

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  6. Nice. I'm liking that they're defending a castle.

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  7. Going through 1000 blogs..lol..that must take a while. Look great the guys with their fists don't need no stinkin' weapons..haha

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  8. This platoon looks awesome, kudos!

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  9. oh, my, Lurk, good luck with the blogroll business :) I see I'm in it as before... :)

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  10. Nice job on those Marines. The camo looks great and what really caught my eye was the goggles. Beautiful job on those. BTW, we don't refer to Navy Corpsmen as "medics". They're Corpsmen, which is short for Hospital Corpsmen. My old job.

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  11. The troops are attention-getters! Great job!

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  12. These guys look pretty American and modern to me. :D

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  13. Did you paint every pixel on the MARPAT? That must have taken forever!

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  14. You are building a mini-army here. The cammo is very good; for a certain distance an US Marine is only a moving brown patch so, don´t worrie about the number of pixels.

    Best regards.

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  15. Awesome, my buddy Thomas has tried to pull me into modern warfare. Very tempting "period" after having rewatched Generation Kill just recently.

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    1. I do, I'll have to drag it out of the cupboard!

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  17. modern soldiers defending a castle. is that right? awesome.

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  18. Wow - impressively detailed painting - hard to believe their 15mm! Best, Dean

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  19. Very nice Fran, some of your best yet!!!

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  20. Couldn't stop appreciating the details,wonderful. Any UFO miniature for this special day?

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  21. Excellent results, love the cam...

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  22. I just love them.

    There, I said it

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  23. I hear you about the blogroll thingy. I stopped updated mine 'cause it was so hard to.

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  24. Superwork Fran. Nice too see some fairly moderns on the table.

    The patterns look great.

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  25. I've always thought the marines were the coolest of the US military.

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  26. amazing work dude!
    MMB is back by the way: http://moviemonstrosityblog.blogspot.com/2012/02/bullhead-in-us-theaters-soon-machete.html

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  27. A fine platoon -- they look like the kind of guys who really mean business.

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  28. Nicely done Fran they are quite characterful for 15mm which surprised me to be honest

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  29. Cool stuff, look forward to the extras

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  30. They.. look pretty decent.. uh.. Sorry.

    I'm just still dumbstruck at that number. 1000 blogs? I don't care if it's spot on or if it's 939, that's WAY TOO MUCH. How do you do that?! D=

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  31. I won't steal your thunder Fran but congratulations on something well deserved.

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  32. Really nice Fran and your steadily racking up points!

    Christopher

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  33. 1000!! i start getting twitchy when mine creeps above 300...respect to your blog commitment!

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  34. Very nice work. The machismo oozes off those figures. I'd have to say with over 1000 blogs, I'm honored to have even one comment from you on my little sites.

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  35. Really like the more modernish take on those, don't see that too often.

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  36. I have always loved these minis, these must easily be PP best range and best sculpts, sooo much character, these are on my do get list for sure, I really like how you have painted them, colors look right as does the camo pattern, great job TAL !

    PS are there a couple of dudes in there with black skin or did you just miss painting them ?

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  37. 1000 blogs holy crap. I thought my 350 was difficult to manage.

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