Updated: Added The Squad from Special Forces One of the joys of ultramodern military wargaming is the absolutely massive amount of reference material. Reality is obviously a starting point but modern and near future can pull from a huge number of different media sources, from games to movies to tv shows. There is also a…

August has been a pretty quiet month for me – I spent most of it on holiday (either in Edinburgh or down in Leeds) or hard at work. However, I did manage to get some more models painted up. Apart from some new weapon teams and their crews, all of my Afghan OPFOR are ready…

Cranking on with the painting, I’ve finally got my 10 US Army infantrymen painted up. I had tried an early version using multiple colours but the end result was way too green (it almost looked like MARPAT) so I redid it. The squad is only the very basic version with its basic TOE setup(1 squad leader…