Team Yankee Tank Build

While this is largely a WW2 Wargaming blog, the best of us get diverted and having been excited about the prospect of the Cold War in 15mm with a new ruleset and some great plastic kits I was delighted to see all the coverage for the Team Yankee range online over the launch weekend.

My pre-orders arrived just after and this Christmas break has been the first opportunity to build some of the kits.

I started with the T-72 as I’d recently had a chance to climb all over a real one. There is a basic build sheet in the box but a more detailed guide online. It went together very well and easily, starting with the tracks and hull, and then the turret. The main gun fits well, and the only fiddly bits were the smoke dischargers. Once built it looked great.

I then had a go at the M1. I can remember these thundering around central Germany in the 80s and this is a very nice kit. It includes options for later M1 Abrams models which implies Battlefront is perhaps looking ahead with is kit but I built the 80s version. Again it went together very well, everything snugly going together and no filler necessary. The size of the model even in 15mm shows what a monster piece of kit this was and still is!

I can’t wait to paint these as they are great models and I look forward to getting some M113s and BMPs next year.