"1/72 US Navy SEALS circa 1988" Topic
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MILSPEX78 | 18 Dec 2022 12:14 a.m. PST |
In 1988 a unit of US Navy SEALs was tasked with a raid mission. Soviet MRBM launchers were housed in camouflaged and hardened underground bunkers dotted around rural Cuba. As part of Operation ORTSAC '88, one team was to locate and disable a complex near San Christobal before it could fuel and launch nuclear weapons at the good Americans of Florida.
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MILSPEX78 | 18 Dec 2022 12:16 a.m. PST |
Work in Progress… More to come.. |
MILSPEX78 | 19 Dec 2022 1:59 a.m. PST |
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MILSPEX78 | 19 Dec 2022 2:06 a.m. PST |
That "M16A2" (3rd/4th pics extreme left and extreme right) didn't turn out good. It's an M16A1 originally and I scored the barrel cover to make it look like an A2 but the paint filled in my scoring : ( |
MILSPEX78 | 25 Dec 2022 8:00 p.m. PST |
SEAL Platoon complete!
Now to work on late '80s Russkies! Among others I got the recently reissued ESCI Warpac (put out by Italeri in that same old ESCI crisp detail from the day.) set to combine with my Ultima Ratio Soviets.. |
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