Hi all, I got the ultra-moderns bug earlier this year and painted up a bunch of Caesar Miniatures insurgents (shameless thread plug http://www.guildwargamers.com/phpBB3/vi ... 00&t=22936). A buddy of mine is collecting the Americans to pit against these guys, but since he's not always available, I decided I needed US troops as well. Here's my first squad, a squad leader with two four-man fire teams, painted in the older 3-tone desert camos:





Group shots:





I have no idea what company these miniatures are; I asked in a thread once and got an answer but have long forgotten! I played in an Iraq War game years ago at Historicon and got a squad of these guys as a participation prize. I finally got around to painting them, maybe 5 years after the fact.

I have more troops (which will follow, as they're nearly done) which will be be done up in ACUs. I decided that of the total force I have, one squad would be in the 3-tone just to mix it up. If anyone's curious, here's how I painted them:

3-tone camo: Base of Vallejo Dark Sand, with splotches of Vallejo Grey-Green (or Green-Grey, whichever is the lighter tone) and smaller lines of Vallejo flat earth mixed with dark sand
Webbing: Tamiya NATO green with a dry brush of Musket Miniatures artillery green (Vallejo Russian green would work too)
Woodland pattern kevlar vest: Tamiya NATO green with a dry brush of Musket Miniatures artillery green, German Camo beige splotches, flat earth splotches, small back squiggly lines
Gun: black
Boots: Khaki Grey
Skin: Various skin tones---I used a generic caucasian flesh tone, GW scorched brown mixed with VJ flat earth, and GW Tau Sept ochre
Ground: Khaki Grey with a heavy drybrush of Dark Sand
A very light Deck Tan drybrush over the whole thing
Army Painter tufts on the bases

I decided on Grey Green for the green splotches on the 3-tone as more green colors looked way too green on a small figure.

Elhiem and Caesar Miniature Americans in ACUs to follow.

Thanks for looking!

nice job.........Mikey

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Thanks for the comments and views! Here's the ACU update:

One squad, plus a sniper team, an M-60 (or whatever it is they call that gun these days, modern gun nomenclature just won't stick in my head for some reason) team plus a platoon leader and his RTO. All Caesars except for the the SAW gunners, the LT and the RTO, who are Elhiem.

The pics:

Platoon commander+MG team:



Fire Team A:


Fire Team B plus the squad leader:



The sniper team:


Group shot with the 3-tone squad:


This gives me two full squads, an MG team, a sniper team, plus a platoon commander--plenty for Force on Force, considering the beat-down one squad of well-equipped d8 troops can give the insurgents! I might get some vehicles at a later date, an Abrams for its brutal sexiness, and a Stryker and MRAP or two for their coolness.

How I painted ACUs: basically, I took the tutorial put up by Elhiem on this forum and modified it for my available paints. All colors are Vallejo unless otherwise noted.

Base: Deck tan
Cover uniform, helmet, and gear with splotches of grey-green (or green-grey, can never remember the damned vague Vallejo paint names, but it's the light, nearly grey color)
Blend olive-grey with grey-green, approx 1:2. Overlay splotches of grey-green with this mixture.
Go back and paint small splotches and dots of deck tan within the grey-green and mixture areas; this helps make those splotches "digital" in appearance.
Paint guns, goggles, nightvision black
Paint flesh tones
Boots are khaki grey
Give the whole thing a light drybrush of deck tan
Bases done the same as my three-tone guys.

I think this is a fairly effective ACU pattern, especially at arm's distance.

To mix it up, I gave some of these guys equipment of different colors/camos: A few woodland-pattern vests, some NATO green or Khakhi Grey pouches/water bottles/etc. Most of my games will probably be placed in the earlier years of the Iraq War, anyway, and there's photographic evidence aplenty to show that US troops had, at times, some pretty mismatched gear.

Thanks for looking!