Make it Simple: Painting Soviet Paratrooper Camo for Team Yankee [How I Paint Things]

[@michaelbarbour9827]

I saw Red Dawn in theaters when it came out in 1985. I was a high school senior at the time. I read Team Yankee when it came out in 87 (I was 2nd year at university). My local hobby shop has the full Team Yankee line in stock, always. If I ever get back into miniatures & war gaming, this is going to do it.

[@michaelbarbour9827]

Sorry, Red Dawn was 84. The memory isn’t the same after 50. 😂

[@loupiscanis9449]

Thank you , Troy . 🐺

[@Fredeye63]

Way cool. My son just started playing Team Yankee so perfect timing. It makes me feel old when he asks me what M1s looked like in the 80s when I was stationed in Europe. I was in USAF.

[@larrluck]

Received my boxset yesterday. Thank you for the guidance in how to achieve this look.

[@paulwestern3687]

Very cool bud.

[@lord1napalm]

Nice, pre ordered the box, this tutorial will come handy !

[@tdnavy1066]

Awesome paint job they look great.

[@petermerz2704]

Very cool! Thanks for sharing. 😎🇨🇦

[@Andrew-se4tg]

I love these videos! Please do more fow/team yankee painting tutorials!👍🍻

[@andreaspenzkofer]

They look fantastic! Another great 15mm painting tutorial from you. Thank you very much and best regards, Andreas

[@Ishpeck]

@5:40 Wins the day.

[@andrewmorris9764]

I love the team Yankee range and I’m enjoying g putting a 82nd airborn together. This is great as have my preorders in for red Dawn thank you 👍

[@robisonwells1]

Man, I wish I could get my 15mm looking half as good as yours. And I have three boxes of Epic Scale Waterloo sitting on my shelf...

[@RyanK2036]

I’d love another Team Yankee video about painting BDU camo for the new US plastic infantry releasing next month

[@paintwithniloo]

It was really beautiful and wonderful. I felt good after watching the video. I am also a novice painter. Thank you for viewing my paintings😍😍😍😍😍

[@johnkelley9877]

I always enjoy and learn from your tutorials on 15mm models.The figures look really good and are quite realistic. Thanks for sharing this, it was great to watch.

[@ZAKKANWAKKAR]

Commanded by a great Soviet Snooker champion, Inoff the Red.

[@Gamerswithcoffee]

Thank you this was helpful

[@rjlarose5271]

I really do have to play team yankee. And flames of war if u keep doing this to me.

[@alessiodecarolis]

On this scale (not mine) it's an incredible feat to achieve a realistic camo, expecially so well detailed. P.s. for black normally I follow your early suggestion, black followed by VMC Black Grey, and the effect is OK

[@Castillo525]

Despite me loving these, I have to say I'll stick with bolt action 😅🤣 ever thought of painting more konflikt 47 btw?

[@irishtom30]

Still finishing a flames of war army, and therefore trying hard to resist a team yankee force!

[@popburnsy3207]

Wolveriiiiiines!

[@wolfehoffmann2697]

Ah yes. The VDV before they became an endangered species this past year.

[@honzabalak3462]

Since I only paint the models but don't play the game (no one does in this country, unfortunately), could someone answer this question I have? Did the Red Dawn VDV replace the Afghantsy VDV units rule-wise or do both exist in the game? Not that it matters to model building but I'm curious how these guys are implemented. Edit: BTW, you have made a slight mistake in the painting process: AK-74 mags are made of polyamide, not of metal. They were distinctly orange or plum colored at the time.

[@sprucemoose6311]

How exactly did you base them?

[@toferkrz946]

Team Yankee and other alternative timeline Cold War/World War 3 settings hit a bit differently in 2022...

[@SonicSledgehammerStudio]

Eeeh, I can understand why, but I've always found them a little easier to deal with owing to at least knowing they -haven't- happened.

[@theofficerfactory2625]

I understand but to me, not so much as technology and uniforms has advanced so much since the 80s that they feel so different.

[@aaronsomerville2124]

I guess impacts are relative to the individual (I can't tell anyone how to feel!) but current events don't really strike me as related to Team Yankee at all. The USSR no longer exists... all those T-80s would probably have been made in Ukraine anyway. It was a different time with different political alignments. The whole premise is the invasion of West Germany, a country which no longer exists! I also play Flames of War, and I'm not bothered by the fact that you have knuckleheads like the SS and NKVD running around. In real life a lot of them were really terrible people, or at least people who were willing to do terrible things for reasons I do not understand. The subject matter of the games is the hypothetical (or counter-factual) material scenario; it has no moral, political or social implication or significance.

[@abram4806]

I made my guys look like modern day troops…. Like EMR and tried to make them look like the battle of homstel

[@sweatilaa5325]

are the soviet paratroopers meant to have UN blue beret?

[@peterclarke7240]

They've worn blue berets since the tail-end of the 60s, I think.

[@sweatilaa5325]

@@peterclarke7240 oh, they have? i missed that completely. always associate that color with the UN and thought that maybe they all agreed to let blue be the UN color for their various activities.

[@peterclarke7240]

Yeah, I was at first thinking it was some game-specific thing, but then I googled it and learned my largely-useless-factoid-of-the-day. 😂

[@sweatilaa5325]

@@peterclarke7240 the best kind of knowledge, the “um ackshually” knowledge! Like the fact that factoid means “an invented fact believed to be true” and that it has then been used wrong for so long that it then got the 2nd official meaning “briefly stated trivial fact.” Very smart to give the word two opposite meanings!

[@peterclarke7240]

@@sweatilaa5325 Huzzah! My quota of factoids for the day is full again! Thank you 🤣

[@ratelmike8825]

Terrific video as usual.