I do hope that all is well on your side of the 1's and 0's. I recently finished up the Battlefront's BTR-60 box from their Team Yankee line. I was looking for some additional or alternate transport for my Soviet Motor Rifle folks and thought that the '60 could fit in so many different Cold War settings as well.
The models went together fairly well, you can see some obvious gaps in a few of the hull seams...I think those are more operator error than anything else, but the parts were good...they came off the sprue easily and were easy to assemble. In terms of paintjob, I hit the internets and googled a few dozen pics. I ended up settling on a green/desert yellow scheme (picture from Google below). This was partly to try out a different scheme for the platoon/company, but also it let me find one that was suitably neutral or usable for real-life Cold War history and for imagi-nation Afropia history.
In the end, I based in green...either reflective green or vj 894 (can't entirely remember) with a dash of olive green and medium olive to brighten it up a bit. Looking at a few 1980's Afghan pics, I went with desert yellow 'splotches' on the hull...and I ended up lightening these to desert yellow/iraqi sand, with final highlights using straight up iraqi sand. Russian-Afghan war era photo that I found on Google as well, helped guide the painting as well.
Hope you enjoy the pics.
Running up that Lead/Plastic Hill...
Painted
1/200 4
15mm 53, +7
28mm+ 16
Fabricated
Bought 0
Progress +73
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