I had painted a Milan Platoon for Francis in May 2022. I new he had bought a complete set of Team Yankee, so I asked him if he wanted me to paint them for him. It took me about two months and I think they turned out really well. He had a Team Yankee British Army Starter Box, 1 X Challenger Tank box, 3 X Warrior platoon boxes, 2 X FV432 or SWINGFIRE troop boxes, a Mechanised Infantry Company box, a Harrier Close Support Flight box, and a M270 MLRS Battery box. I decided to buy a Harder & Steenbeck airbrush. I can tell you that this was a very good purchase. I also bought a fume hood and a cleaning mechanism. Here is my set up.
I am set up in my basement and have the perfect window to place the end of the hose.
I primed all the models in the garage with some flat black primer from home depot. Here are some of the models with the black primer.
My next step was to paint, using the airbrush, all the models with Bronze Green 897 from the airbrush paints. After this I used the airbrush to paint strips using black grey 862. The next step was back to painting using paint brushes. (tracks, soldiers, etc)
The following is a picture of the total force
The following is the pictures of the Army Starter Box.
Two Chieftain Tanks
5 Challenger tanks from starter box and 5 from the Challenger box
2 MLRS from starter box and 3 more from the MLRS box
Four Fox Armour Cars from Starter box
Two Scimitars or Scorpion from Starter box. I actually magnetised the barrels so they could be interchanged.
Two Linx Helicopters from starter box.
2 Warriors from the starter box and 15 from the 3 Warrior boxes.
Francis wanted some of the Warriors to have TOW
FV432 or SWINGFIRE. I built 4 of the models in the SWINGFIRE configuration, 4 in the Mortar configuration, 1 as a forward observer and the other one as a normal FV432.
The following pictures are the Harrier close support flight
The last box was the Infantry Mechanised Company. This actually took me about three weeks to complete as each model had seven different colours plus two types of wash.
All and all 73 models/bases.
Painted: 73
Total for 2024: 184
Working on: By Fire & Sword (Winged Hussars, Polish Dragoons),
Backlog: A Song of Ice & Fire (Crannogman Bog Devils, Stark Heros, and Karstark Spearman), Bolt Action Panzer III, Medium Mortar Team, and SDKfz 251/1)
Total for 2023: 64
Total for 2022: 437
Total for 2021: 437
Total for 2020: 376
Total for 2019: 299
Total for 2018: 375
Total for 2017: 392
