15mm Sci-Fi US Deep Strike Colonial Marines.

These boys are from Khurasan and are now up to platoon level with vehicles (I need to get more) plus gunship support. I liked the way they looked and would like more to be added to the range but I doubt it, I will be adding more marines in less bulky armour as well for Recon duties.

Have painted them quite basically denoting marines but also for the simple sci-fi look I want, although this will be challenged by the paint job I decided with the alien Garn!

I may have to add a unit emblem to the armour and also I need to find some rules, I need simple and small like the genius AKULA rules........

Platoon leader or sergeant....

15mm Painted IrishSerb's US Marine AAV-7A1's.

It's been a cluster feck of a day, the area manager who wasn't scheduled to come down today came down  and we spent the last 4 hours doing verbal and numerical test exams for his new job he's applying for within the company and my head is fecked along with his and he went and I have a fecking headache and I'm fecking stressed and not even applying for the fecking job.....

These are a lovely pair of 15mm vehicles and come from IrishSerb's Miniatures, all resin, 4 parts, no imperfections at all, a real joy and I know I need to paint the guns (MK19 grenade launcher and .50-cal browning machine gun), possibly do something with the tracks, maybe some markings but I wargame them so I'm not too worried and will try to do some of this at the weekend I hope....

Postie needs his stash escorted this weekend at Skirmish 2012 Wargaming and Modelling show at Sidcup, it's near and won't take long as it's quite a small show, have a good weekend if you can people.....

15mm Modern Painted US Marine Humvees.

Some US Marine Humvees (they have a deep wading exhaust and intake unlike the army version seemingly) from Peter Pig, not too bad a model (a lot of mold lines), the crew figures are cast with their weapon, a mixture of .50 cal HMG's, Mark 19 grenade launchers and a TOW launcher.

Cavalier 2012 Show and Generation Kill Book.

The Rejects will be at Cavalier 2012 this Sunday and hope to see some fellow gamers and bloggers there, it's the first show we attend every year and it's a small but good show and we will do a few pictures and words next week!

Just finished this book (it only came out in 2004!) and it's a fantastic read of the authors time (rolling Stone journalist Evan Wright) with the US marines First Recon Battalion during the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the insight into this elite unit within the marines (the details of their training is amazing), although the marine commander Major General James Mattis called them "cocky, obnoxious bastards".

What you get is a tale from Evan who was mistrusted at the beginning to say the least but gained their respect by riding in the lead humvee and sometimes reluctantly carrying a weapon, it's a tale of aggression, misuse of this unit, poorly supplied, sometimes poorly led but always ready for whatever came their way and looking out for each other but it's also a tale of sadness, no real overall plan, comradeship, lucky escapes, the death of civilians.......

The marines themselves are brutally honest in their opinions (some of them got into trouble later) and as aggressive as their Devil Dogs nickname (supposedly earned in 1918 from the Germans they fought at Bellau Wood during WW1 were they were called hounds from hell in German dispatches), they used to ambush each other at night whilst waiting to be deployed and nick each other with their combat knives on each others ribs.....

A great read and now to find the TV series.....

15mm Modern US Marine Corpsman and Casualties plus Force on Force Rules....

....and why did I buy them?

15mm Peter Pig modern US marine corpsman plus assistance and marine casualty figures, there is one navy corpsman normally per marine platoon, also bought these rules that my brother funded with an amazon voucher at Christmas....I may have bitten off more than I can chew as I usually like my rules like me....simple but we'll give them a go anyway!

15mm Painted Modern US Marine Sniper Teams.

...from Peter Pig, not 100% sure how many make up a full team but they do work in pairs, one team has a Barrett M107 sniper rifle and the other has a M40 sniper rifle, the other 2 marines provide security.

Have a good weekend my friends if you can......

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......

15mm Painted Peter Pig US Marine EOD Team.

The Hurt Locker was on again last night and while it's a very watchable movie it wasn't a six oscar movie, this is my EOD (Explosive Ordnance Disposal) team for my marine platoon for Franonia, the pictures aren't great but they're not bad up close........I hate taking pictures!