I need to set things up better for proper photos. The phone camera is handy, but I should get out the old digital and day bulb lamp.

And yet neither of those tyrants were overthrown by their people. That only happens rarely, and never if the people in general are doing okay.  (I do not count dynastic civil wars. That's jus...

@JTam  I recall you mentioning your Squad Leader before, different battalion I seem to recall. I was in the Heavy Mortat Platoon, Combat Support Company 4/502nd. If I did know him, his name ha...

You say the truth, Alessio : the parallel is obvious for me. Except that Napoléon, Emperor, screwed up generous ideals, while Hitler propagated "stinky" ideas. The result is almost the same ...

I note that the Pyrrhus (I) period corrresponds with a very strong expansionist trust of Celtic tribes towards Eastern and Southern Europe. This is the great period of the "Gallic" raids towards E...

@Geoff Maybury  The M113 remains in wide spread service with ALL of the Army. Sheridan was retired out of the 82nd decades? ago.  

@Geoff Maybury  The Battle of Hue (good beer) was early '68 and there's no ERDL to be seen.  Not sure how long it took to get to the field.

@Mark Dewis Fantastic as usual  a tallented squad that will fit most systems.

@JTam Thanks Tam I hadn`t seen any pictures of Marines waring ERDL only tiger stripe on the pathfinders and Rangers. Even black and white photos show camo, and I`ve amasssed quite a few. that would...

Plot twist. If you paint them with ERDL camouflage you can use them from 1968 to pretty late.    I would argue there is no discernable difference between ERDL and woodland when painte...

@JTam @Grumpy Gnome New I could count on you two, thank you both, it`s a bit better than I thought. Play about change of some helmets, add bits of more modern types of weaponary. Wood land camo and...

@Grumpy Gnome  I think your right that the USMC doesn't do helmet bands.  Which is weird as they obviously did in Vietnam. For the unititated we are talking about this thing: It help...

@Grumpy Gnome  Did you know a guy named Aikens?  My first Squad Leader.  He was a Berlin BDE guy and 11C.

@Grumpy Gnome  Whoops.  You're a 100% right.  The M113 family is still going strong in the US Army.  The 4.2 inch is gone, but now it's 120mm mortars in the back of M113s (M1...

I think@Caratacus  just wants to see WGA avoid something like the admitted well made but perhaps contentious sculpting of Brother Vinni.

@Geoff Maybury Yeah, if they gave you the ability to switch tails so you can have dog tails for dog heads and made them less bodybuilder buff (and add Sci-Fi weapons), it would improve them signifi...

  @JTam Ah, you make fair points and jog my memory some. I concur with your observations and recollections. Good shout on the webbing suspenders over instead of under the armor, however that...

Pretty much concur with @Grumpy Gnome here: There's a few things worth discussing. 1.  I don't believe the USMC has ever had a sizeable presence in Europe. To the best of my knowledge...

@Grumpy Gnome Warlord actually supply metal sprues of Monmouth caps to add to any human models that aren't already wearing a headdress:

@Alessio De Carolis  For the Death Fields sets MAYBE sci-fi crests and antennas to glue on the historical heads is the way to go.   Certainly would have made more sense for the D...

@Caratacus  Suitably well dressed and the ancient world are SEMI-incompatible.  People showed a lot of skin.  All the time.  Why are you in combat naked?  It's disturbing....

@Vitor Soares  I think the RGD Amazons are Scythians (or are supposed to be).

I would prefer either fantasy Amazons, or Scythians. 

US Army supply services can be less uniform than some folks might suspect. In Berlin 88-91 some of my platoon had the latest woodland camo kevla flak jackets but some, like me had the older, softer...

The "Fritz" helmet started to enter in service in early '80s, but f.e. in Lebanon marines had yet the old M1, probabilly it was widespread for the mid '80s.

@JTam great image, realistic armour, no fanservice, it has a retro-sci-fi feeling.

Bear in mind I am not quite old enough to have served in ’Nam.... The minis should work fine if you paint them in Woodland camo for up to mid-80’s in my opinion, for regular Army/Marin...

The wool Monmouth cap on the Warlord ECW sprue makes a fine modern day wool watch cap.

Guys the Rubicon figures that I`m using for "Nam", how versitile could they be as "Marines in Europe. How long could I stretch the time period of these with just painting schemes. I realized as I w...

@William Ings Good find - this is another Ancients faction that could do with some attention.  I would have thought it would be possible to convert most Illyrian infantry types from kitbashin...

@JTam Bronze Age Terminator... that would be a fun game idea in itself.  You thought it was difficult enough to beat him in 1984 with motorised vehicles, firearms and automated factory equipm...

@Mark Dewis That is indeed a cracking idea you have there - I was looking up the Perry AWI sprues only a few days ago as a possible idea for another project and noticed that, like Warlord's ECW spr...

Because the RGD set now exists I'd rather WGA focus on other things, but as the RGD ones are not the pinnacle of sculpting greatness, if they really wanted to make an Amazons set I'd rather they ti...

It looks like I've been found out but yes, Strike Witches was indeed, a major contributing factor but the real story is so much longer about how this became to be.But in the mean time, here are the...

@Steffen Seitter  What was lost? Mastery of small machinery and computers similar to this: That allowed them to create self aware automated helpers like this: Unfortunately these mac...

@JTam that I do! I'll look that up. David M. Glantz's book is the main work on it; as long as this isn't too derivative of that it should be good. Seems to mostly be told from the German viewpoint,...

Googled "Space Amazons" to see what a Deathfields Amazon team might look like. This was the best result:

@Red Bee  A touch of this then?  

@Mark Dewis  I think @Caratacus is the true zombie/skeleton pirate fan.  But that's a fine idea.  Labor and cost intensive for an army.  But maybe for a regiment or a Mordheim...

Yeah, not sure how small Lizardmen is more verboten than human sized Lizardmen.

@JTam Just had a thought. The Perry AWI kits have that seperate hat thing they do on their older kits. There's some tricorns in those sprues I think - potentially they could be slapped on skeletons...

Slowly getting there, some more touch ups before weathering, but here you go:  

Yep. Only the arms/weapons are Stargrave (Mercenaries kit, IIRC). Everything else is Bulldogs except the left arm on the leader, which is from Cannon Fodder.