My Generation Was Killed - Part 4 - Character Sheets

 

CPL Josh Ray Pearson rocking the Elvis Shades…

‘Sup Killers! Welcome back to MGWK part four, ‘Character Sheets’. Character Sheets you say? Has this moved to like D&D or something…? Nah, this week is all about the main characters in the show and how to portray them in 15mm…! 🤩

SGT Brad ‘Iceman’ Colbert with his M4 and NVGS Scope

The above pic shows the Iceman in typical pose with his M4 out of the window, scanning his arcs. For this mini I used a 3D print sculpt with an added greenstuff NVGS scope. This was fiddly, but I felt it needed to be done. I doubt you’ll see much of Brad once he is inside his Hummer, but we will see…

Next up is Ray doing his best Elvis Presley impersonation…! This one is BF ‘soft sculpt’ AFV crewman mini that I swapped the head with from a hard-plastic BF Infantryman. I added the Elvis sunnies and I am hopping you will be able to see these golden glasses shining out from inside the truck!

LCPL Trombley and M249 SAW / Minimi

I have just realised that I need to alter my Trombley mini as I have given him googles and he clearly does not have any… This mini is a BF hard plastic Infantryman with a shaved head to fit inside the Hummer. I will angle him so that he is pointing his SAW out the window, scanning for civilians, camels, or dogs. Which seem to be his favourite targets…

Next up I have SGT Leandro ‘Shady B’ Baptista’s crew. These are mostly conversions from the BF hard plastic minis. The main add ons are respirator haversacks, goggles, and filling out the bottom of the pants to simulate the MOPP pants that are worn by all. 

MOPP gear… Mission Oriented Protective Profile, or in British parlance, and NBC or ‘Noddy’ suit. Wearing one of these in +50 degree C heat was just the BEST! Even more fun when we had to don our respiratotrs. Now I am wearing a multi layer suit over my combats, AND I have a rubber face-welly stuck on my fizzog 😝

Photo below shows me in my Rover just before the kick off, with a copy of ‘Loaded’ magazine in my hands. I think there was some kind of free subscription deal if you sent in a pic of yourself in a war zone with a copy of the mag, but I never did send it in…! You will notice the small pieces of paper on the sleeves of my NBC jacket. That’s detector paper 1-Color and was in place to detect any droplets, mist, or splashes of chemical agent that may be in the atmosphere. As the lead NBC LO for my REGT, I also had 3 Color paper on the outside of the Rover and I had a CAD / CAM in the truck as well.

Next is me just after we were attacked by artillery for the first time. We were driving into our designated AO and BOOM, incoming… The first part of the chemical safety drill states, “If you experience a bombardment of ANY KIND… Assume a chemical attack has taken place, and adopt the chemical IA drill”. This meant me pulling off the road, getting onto the radio net and shouting “GAS, GAS, GAS” down it on repeat. Lol and I (Lol was the dude I was sharing the Rover with) along with the rest of the convoy then debussed and we started to dig in on the side of the road.

More shells were falling so the hole digging increased, it was around this time that a Cobra appeared and began strafing some Iraqi positions up ahead. Having shut them up, he then buzzed off to another sector. I felt a sense of relief when the Cobra appeared and a slight pang of angst when it left… 

Anyhoo, after some radio traffic, I checked my detection systems for any signs of chem or bio activity. Having found none, I reported this up the chain and was given the OK to conduct a 2-man sniff test… Fun times… That and the individual test was clear, so I got on the horn and gave the order to de-mask. This was not the last time that we went through this little procedure however…

Pic below shows a fairly nervous looking me having just removed my respirator, and our column of heavily armed and armoured, desert-cammed vehicles…😂

Almost forgot, Shady B’s crew…! These will be placed in the open-backed Hummer once painted.

You can see the added bottom of the MOPP pants and goggles here

These are the .50 gunner standing, and Shady B in the passenger seat with Bono’s. He’s converted from a metal BF WWII GI. I added a neck to his helmet, goggles and a respirator haversack. He’s gonna look pretty sweet!

Well my friends, that’s all for this week. Not a whole lot going on due to being in Welly all week for work.

Hope you enjoyed the read, comments as always are welcome!

‘Till next time, Stay Frosty 😉