Got these guys finished off last week: a 1:1 Para platoon. They're based for CWC, hence the black-and-white base edges which denote front, flanks and rear. I'll be getting some bits to create some support and CO elements and, of course, some Argentinians at the end of the month. I currently have some of the excellent Timecast Falklands terrain on the painting desk.

Great cammo effect. ! good

Nice work, and welcome to the Forum!

 

And welcome, certainly an impressive entrance 

Welcome Gazza, what an excellent start. 

He'll of a first post Gazza. Welcome. Look forwards to seeing more brilliant work soon.

  Looking rather nice!

Great introductory post, Gazza. Welcome to the forum. 

Thanks for the encouraging comments. These are actually the first 10mm minis I've painted so I'm fairly happy with how they turned out: certainly the Argies will be easier.

Nicely done, Gazza - and welcome 

Nice work mate, loving the DPMs

Just put in a sizeable order for some Argies, a few more Toms and a couple of Scimitars. Hoping to get this lot finished by the end of October. Watch this space! Incidentally as previously mentioned I'm using Cold War Commander for this project, but I wonder if anyone could recommend any other good rulesets for this period?

I reckon Peter Pigs old AK-47 would be easily adapted - it's a really good set of basic mechanisms even without the pregame bits! I'd suggest Modern Spearhead but total troops in theatre are probably about right for a game so you might have to fight the whole campaign as one huge game for it work well

Nice looking troops btw!

Nick Overland is working on a supplement for IABSM...

Oo - would Crossfire with a few tweaks work for rules? It's just been reissued, I believe...

Belated welcome and nice stuff.

Nice work  
The Falklands orbats for modern spearhead can be downloaded for free at http://modernspearhead.wordpress.com
A table for the whole campaign would be awesome modern spearhead recommends a scale of 1 inch equals 100 metres , how big would a table have to be?  

I quick look on Google maps suggests that East Falkland is about 100km across, and perhaps 80km N to S.  Which is perhaps a touch big for 1" to 100m!! This scale is approximately 1' to 1 mile.

There was approx a division on each side, but they where dispersed over a big area. I suspect Spearhead is going to be a bit big in scale.

I'd could be tempted to go with CoC to play out the low level points of attack.

But something for the whole campaign would be good. With a 5' map, you would have 20km to the foot - but there is a lot of long distance movement, with occasional actions.

Yeah, MSH scales well to the total troop numbers but as it's usually @battalion on battalion actions or using a 45' table at reduced scale it'll be a bit awkward to play...

Megablitz would work nicely for the whole campaign though, with theatre appropriate tweaks. Probably don't needs many figures as one stand = one battalion...

But for the actual detailed battalion level actions I still reckon tweaking AK-47 into FN-82 would be bonza. Each unit equals @a company, Brits mostly Pro's, Argies mostly Militia.

Thanks for all your ideas re. suitable rules. I think I'll stick with CWC for the moment, but I will certainly keep some of your suggestion in mind. Not masses to show this time, although I've got plenty on the painting bench waiting to be based-up. First up are three Argentine FN MAG teams:



Next is an image of some of my Paras clambering over scenery I've made specifically for this project (more details and pictures on my blog)



Thanks for looking and, before I close, anyone know the ETA on the Argentine 50 Cals and 90mm recoilless rifles?