All,

So, it seems I'm a liar.  Not intentionally so, as I intended to game, but instead I ended up painting.  If you haven't noticed, I've been on a tear lately, knocking armies out left and right.  I, like everyone, hit painting ruts every now and again, so it's not that I don't want to game, it's just that I'm on a painting hot streak right now and don't want to waste it.  Actually, it's more than that; I actually want to paint more than I want to game right now.  Don't worry, it never lasts long.

Today I went to work on my Pico Armor 3mm stuff, getting a total of 10 tanks and 10 aircraft finished (from scratch).  I went to work on my two Israeli armored platoons, then worked on all my 'airborne' aircraft.  What I mean is, I am going to model a number of my helos 'on the deck' so they can depict dropping off troops, and, unfortunately, my basing system doesn't allow me to show them in flight and on the ground, so I have to have 'doubles.'


The M-48 platoon.  I'm right proud of the tac marks on the turret (both sides on each vehicle).


And now for the platoon that makes all the ladies' hearts swoon, or at least all the Brits: the Centurion (Shot K'al) platoon.


The composite air wing for my MEU: a Predator, two AH-1 Cobras, a UH-1 Huey, and three CH-46, hmmm, I dunno, we always called them 'Frogs.'


Even in 3mm these send a shiver up my spine.  I know it's outdated, but to me the Mi-24 is, hands down, the meanest helo around, and a pair of these popping over the horizon would have been a Marine's worst nightmare.  During my time overseas I was quite fortunate to never see one in the air.


This is a PAH-2 attack copter to go with my reunified, reenergized Wehrmacht, who will be refighting the Eastern Front, except in the late 90s or early 2000s.

Well, for a bit more explanation and a whole lot more photos, please visit the blog at:
http://blackhawkhet.blogspot.com/2014/03/3mm-israelis-and-aircraft.html

V/R,
Jack

Superb Jack.

I have to ask, how did you do the rotar plates?

you get the rotors with the models I think Jack has blacklined the outside ( I havnt bought any moderns just going by the pictures on fighting 15's website)

Brilliant I love the rotor blades

take care

andy

Thanks guys.

Lemmey, Fenton's right, the rotors come up with models.  But I didn't blackline them; the rotors come on a piece of sticky paper, maybe six or eight per set, so you have to cut them out.  I'm not very good at that (using an X-acto knife or scissors), so in some places you see the black outline, in some you don't, which is simply a function of me uncontrollably dodging in and out as I cut...

V/R,
Jack