Team Yankee - 4CMBG Infantry Platoon

Howdy folks,

I hope all is well on your end of the various isolations and measures. At the beginning of the year I was able to finish up the grunts for my mech platoon. It took me this long to figure how exactly I wanted to base them and get them painted up.

Within the history of 4 CMBG the infantry component comprised rotations of several different battalions of a variety of regiments from the army, including the main Regular Force regiments of today: Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry (PPCLI), sometimes referred to as the army of the west; Royal Canadian Regiment (RCR), based in the East; and the Royal Vingt-deuxieme Regiment (R22eR, or the VanDoos), the French Canadian based regiment.

Each of these regiments have a long-standing history in the Canadian army and have numerous battle honours highlighting their experience. At the time of Team Yankee, each regiment had time overseas in Germany...the Royals were in Lahr from the 70’s to 1984 and then 1988 to 1993 (Lahr’s closure), the VanDoos were present throughout Lahr’s existence, and the Patricias served before Canadians moved to Lahr and served a tour in Lahr from 1984 to 1988.

For the most part there were very few differences between the Regiments...they used the same vehicles, weapons, and uniforms...the obvious difference of course being the English and French language. However, as the RCR had a heavy presence in the Maritimes, you had a lot of bilingual troops as well.

For my grunts, the 113’s are pretty much interchangeable, I modeled them after images from all 3 regiments...but after some feedback from a few buddies, I made sure to have my grunts with predominantly green faces. While I can’t speak for the others, the Patricias were always cam’ed up in face paint...you can certainly see this on google when they were mounted and dismounted. So, technically my grunts are the army of the west, but they’ll work for any timing from early 1970’s up to 1987...for those wondering, 1987 was when Canada adopted a new series of weapons transitioning to the c6, c7, c8, and c9...

Anyway, enjoy the pics...one more platoon to go and the rifle company will be complete...take care.

The platoon with formation commander, or OC of the company out front

The platoon commander along with radio operator on a standard FoW medium base...

The rest of the platoon...

Hike up Lead Mountain 2020
Painted:

28mm               54
15mm               75 (+32, Canadian Mech Infantry Platoon)

Bought:            0 (this pack was bought over a year ago)

Progress:          +129