After painting up these ESCI classics's from the 1980's a couple of years ago I have finally got round to basing them this weekend. I plan to use these as African or Cuban Paratroopers (read Red Dawn). Using standard Soviet formats as three Platoons to a Company and two or three Companies to a Battalion I based them up. Above Command stand with ESCI Modern Russian Paratroopers Spetsnaz on the left and a Warsaw Pact Troops figure, which is probably a East German pose on the right. Both armed with AKM's.
Rifle Platoon with two ESCI Paratroopers with the bod on the left armed with a Snayperskaya Vintovka Dragunova (SVD), of which one per Platoon was the usual standard.
Final Platoon with figures both from the Warsaw Pact set. Gunner in front is armed with a 7.62 PK General Purpose Machine Gun, while the figure at the rear shoulders a RPG-7 which was carried at squad level.
Company pose. Most pleased to get these based, 2nd Company tomorrow.
That´s what I call a good idea...nice one
ReplyDeleteWay cool, very different
ReplyDeleteI think I may have those very figures Paul, my thoughts are a turning on an African project, hmmm!
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Figures that I hadn't seen for quite a while mate!!
ReplyDeleteGreat painting Paul!
You are full of ideas!! :-)
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Cheers for the comments. I quite like the Cold War period, it was my time in the sunshine so to speak!
ReplyDeleteThano's I certainly am full of something!
Geordie get them out you will not be dissapointed mate.
Great looking figures.Not enough cold war figures produced for my liking,but elhiem figures and britannia figures are trying to fill that gap.
ReplyDeleteCheers, yep I think that they should re-release Matchbox's NATO Para's for a start!
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