1960's Team Yankee - Checkpoint Charlie US Tanks

Team Yankee - Check Point Charlie

Recently I have been painting a lot of plain drab tanks!

They are for my Team Yankee - Check Point Charlie forces. CPC is the Flames of War rules set in the 1960's and 1970's if the Cold War went hot. I already have significant forces for Team Yankee (1980's) and while my Soviets will not require a lot of new models, since I built them as an early 80's force, my US 1980's forces have little to use for the earlier decades. Therefore, I have dove headfirst in painting M48's, M60's and various support vehicles.

To keep this painting momentum up, I set up a little photo shoot of what I've completed. This is the beginning of my US Tank Company equipped with M48's with some supporting M103's. I've completed thirteen M48's and four M103's to make up the bulk of this list.

M114's scouting out front of the tanks.

The Company HQ checking things out.

I used a spotlight from the Centurion kit to make an earlier version.

M103's in overwatch.

T-54-1's ready to attack.

Here the T-54-1's come!

Soviet recon dealt with.

After looking over these photos I went back and painted stripes on all the M48's barrels and drilled out all the gun barrels. The M48's are directly inspired by the real M48's at the Checkpoint Charlie standoff in 1961.