For Christmas I was kindly given not only the Team Yankee Iron Maiden book I also got a box of the newly released 15mm British Scorpion or Scimitar Troop.
I have been thinking about the paint scheme for my Scorpions and Scimitars.
One choice would be to paint them as part of the BAOR tracked reconnaissance regiment. The kind of scheme they would have in 1985 just as war broke out.
Another choice was to paint them, if they had been fighting World War III for a while, possibly even after a limited nuclear exchange. The inspiration for this scheme is of course GDW’s Twilight 2000 background. These could be BAOR vehicles struggling to find their way home or another perspective could be the remnants of the British Army attempting to maintain control in a Britain broken apart by the nuclear exchange.
Another possibility was to use my own British Civil War background and paint them as Royalist forces, or as their Republican opposition.
In the end though I started them off, with a base coat of a spray of Chieftain Green paint.
Due to poor light I didn’t quite get the coverage I was expecting.
However I do think once I have added the black camouflage and given the model a dark wash, then this won’t matter so much.
