6mm Modern Desert Infantry Forces

All,

Not long ago I knocked out some 6mm Modern forces from Heroics and Ros (you can see here: https://blackhawkhet.blogspot.com/2019/07/6mm-cold-war-soviets-and-west-germans.html) for temperate climates, for use on my Cuba Libre blog.  Well, that is to say, the infantry were based for temperate, because the vehicles are not based at all, and them not being based is actually part of the plan.  See, by not being based, I can use them for both temperate and desert climates, but I still had a problem: no infantry for the desert.  Well, being that I'm looking to play some Desert Storm after I finish off my campaign in (the fictional) Cronistria, I figured I'd better knock some desert-based infantry out.  I went scurrying upstairs to see if I could find anything, and voila!  Seems my massive sale had cleared out enough stuff that I can actually see what I've got lying around, waiting to be painted.

So, what did I find?  I found several packs of Modern UK Infantry, made by GHQ.  Being that using the same style of infantry in 6mm (and sometimes even in 10mm) for each side has never bothered me, I immediately set to cleaning, basing, sanding, priming, painting, then washing those troops, enough for each side to have 18 stands of infantry.  I can't really say who's good guys and who's bad guys, I just painted on two different uniforms, one completely desert colored, the other olive green with desert yellow helmets.

Here is the desert-colored force.  It is of note that I put a wash on the bases to make the sand pop, but I did not put a wash on the figures as I didn't want to darken them too much.  Here you can see four mortar stands, three ATGM (Milan) stands, four SAM (Blowpipe) stands, and seven rifle stands

Here are some mortars and Milans.  If you look closely you can see that my impatience caused me to try and prime these troops when the temperature/humidity were a little bit too high, which resulted in a bit of fuzziness, though not bad enough that I decided not to proceed (recently did the same thing to some new 10mm WWII German tanks, I'm scraping it off with a knife).

Rifle teams and mortars.

Rifles and Blowpipes.

Milans, rifles, and Blowpipes.

And the olive green force, which is set up exactly the same as the desert-colored force.

Mortars and Milans.

Mortars and rifles.

Rifles and Blowpipes.

Rifles and Blowpipes again.

During my spelunking upstairs I also found some old HR ATGM teams.  Now these are really old, so they're pretty tiny, but I painted them up to join the Soviet and West German forces I'd previously finished.

So, quick and easy, the infantry for Desert Storm are knocked out and ready to fight.  Just gotta close out South Leon and Cronistria on my Cuba Libre blog first...

V/R,
Jack