I just wanted to post a quick update of what I'm working on. The Romans I showed last time were a bit of a chore, so I decided to do something completely different and revisit some Modern 20mm topics. For this I chose the old Vepa 1/72 US Army figures now sold by Empress. They are the best 20mm metal moderns - it's just too bad that most other ranges don't come close.
For now I'm doing a squad in Universal Camouflage Pattern (the grey kind) and another in Multicam (the newer green camo).
Here's a contrast between the two. I'm doing the UCP guys as 10th Mountain Division in Afghanistan in the mid 2000s, and the Multicam ones as contemporary 82nd Airborne.
I just wanted to share a quick update on some Modern Russians I'm painting. These are made by Alex miniatures, sold by Tankograd internationally. I highly recommend them as the best 20mm Russians available. They go very nicely with the Xan US I have been working on.
I have been wanting to recreate in miniature some of the Russian Special Forces units seen recently in Syria. Elhiem make some figures that will work, and I enjoyed painting them in the past, but my tastes have changed. I prefer the Alex Miniatures Russians now, but they require some modification.
I purchased two of the Alex sets, and some special forces AKs and heads from Elhiem, and did some conversions.