Scotia Grendel medium and large modern houses

Two modern houses from Scotia Grendel. Pretty decent buildings, a few casting errors here and there and theres some bumps of resin in the windows of the larger house that cant really be removed so I just left them black. But for £1 and £1.25 each I really cant complain, painted up they look pretty nice and you could build an entire town for 30ish quid.

Bases and scouring-pad hedges not included

Scotia Grendel Vulcan 20mm AA (UM0068)

American stationary anti-aircraft guns, another thing I bought by accident while not paying attention trying to buy some M163s. Actually has crisper barrel detail than the Scotia M163 VADS, maybe they use the mould less often? Might use them as part of an objective or something, but aren't all that useful for TY.

Scotia Grendel Shturm-S

Soviet ATGM vehicle being introduced to TY in the Red Thunder book. Launcher is somewhat massively oversized and could probably do with replacing with a much smaller and thinner piece of styrene rod. Also took a bit of work to get the launcher to fit in the hole, as it wont sit in it like a traditional turret and just falls through. Pretty good, but the BDRM with spandrel is nicer imo.

BMP-2 Scotia Grendel and H&R

Heroics and Ros on the left, Scotia on the right

Wasnt really planning on any direct comparisons between manufacturers but seeing as I have both I might as well. Detail on both is great, Scotia is slightly smaller but probably still compatible, turret peg for H&R was much longer than Scotias, which was handy and didn't need extending. I bought the Scotia models first, but Im probably going to use the H&R, because while the Scotia barrels look nice and realistic, they are very thin and I would be too concerned with them snapping irreparably to actually use them in a game. As with all 6mm minis from these guys, they are cheap as chips, so if you want to build yourself a BMP-2 cheese-list in TY it'll only cost you about a tenner.

H&R T-90

Modern day Russian tank from Heroics and Ros. Detail is nice and chunky, highlights and would probably drybrush really well. Turret is perhaps a little tall? But otherwise a great model.

H&R 2S1 Gvozdika

Finally got some of these guys. Fairly simple model compared to some of H&Rs other casts, Im guessing its one of their older minis. Bit plain, but a perfectly nice, serviceable model

H&R T-80 ERA

Really great models from H&R, perhaps a tad on the small side, but the casting is crisp, especially on the ERA bricks, tracks are good. Not present in TY but I'll probably buy more anyway, really nice mini.

Scotia Grendel Mig-25 Foxbat

As an interceptor this may have limited uses in most wargames, but a nice model none-the-less. Probably should have painted it a lighter grey.

H&R A-10 Warthog

American air support for Team Yankee from Heroics and Ros. The shape looks good and fairly accurate, but there are some bumps and vents absent which leaves the sides and top of the body looking very smooth, but otherwise its pretty good. I bought 4 of these, a few of them had a fair bit of flash around the engines and one of them was a bit miscast, but as it was on the bottom It didnt bother me too much. Overall its pretty good, but not as nice as their Frogfoot model imo.

H&R F-22 Raptor

Not Cold War or Team Yankee but would work for a modern scenario in games like FFoT. Looks nice when painted, but the model is quite plain and there isnt really much detail on the top, not that the F-22 has all that much, but there are little vents and stuff on top and it would have been nice to have some panels to highlight. The angles of the air intakes next to the nose did look slight different too, but 2 minutes of filing and they were fine.

Scotia Grendel T-64 ERA

Nice model of an up-armoured T-64, greatly prefer this to Scotias regular version of the same vehicle. ERA bricks are nicely cast, but some are very shallow and require highlighting in places to pick up any detail, drybrushing will not work on the front hull for example. Nice mini for 6mm TY, even if Phil wont give us ERA-equipped T-64s.

Scotia Grendel M901 ITV

Improved TOW vehicle from Scotia grendel. Launcher and track detail all looks good, my only gripe with it can be seen from the top as the model looks slightly warped, like the kind of warping you get if you apply pressure to the sides of a silicon mold before the resin inside cures fully, or like the driver is going really fast and going full Initial D round a hairpin. Other than that a nice model, I also bought some TOW LAVs which could be used as an alternative, I'll get round to those soon.

Empires at War City Block Kits j-l

Its raining and humid outside again, so I cant use my matt spray varnish on my actual miniatures and they are all too glossy to photograph. So here's another terrain piece, this time from Empires at War. £18 for a set of these guys, but they are pretty sizeable buildings, and they also look accurately/realistically scaled rather than simply being a representation of a building that most are which is nice.
The mdf "frame" went together extremely easily and the mountboard detailing on the outside just needed to be fixed with PVA and a bit of rubbish superglue from the poundshop to keep the corners stuck down firmly.
They all have a removable roof, so you can actually put your blokes inside rather than having to remember that they are in there like you would be resin buildings PLUS you can use it as a storage box for smaller buildings, 11/10 for space saving storage solutions.

Blotz.co.uk multistory car park

A terrain piece this time! Little car park from Blotz, it is a bit small and I couldnt fit all that many spaces into it, but you could buy two and combine them to make a taller one I guess. Not too hard to put together, just need to pay a bit of attention to where the bits go. The Strela team are on a FoW small base for scale. Excuse the janky lines, I also regret painting the columns red instead of yellow.

Scota Grendel BMP-1 PRP-3 "Small Fred,"

Artillery observational vehicle based on the BMP-1 chassis. Would work well as a BMP-1 observation post from Team Yankee. Nice model apart from that chip/dent in the track, not sure if its a casting fault or postal damage but it probably wont bother me too much.

Scotia Grendel BTR 70

The missing link in the BTR series, sat in the middle between the BTR-60 and the BTR-80 I previously posted. Not much to be said, its a great model like the other two.

Scotia Grendel 9K33 Osa Gecko

Cost me a massive £1.15 for this guy Separate turret parts as with the SA-13s, but I just glued it down for simplicity rather than magnetising it, team tankee turret-facing doesnt matter for an soft-skinned vehicle like this. Coming to TY soon so I'll probably buy a few more of these.

Heroics and Ros F117 Stealth

Classic Gulf War plane that everyone liked as a kid because it was black, cool and had "stealth" in the name, introduced in early 83 so still suitable for Cold-war-gone-hot scenarios. The edges are a little soft and the whole plane looks a little smooth compared to the angular monster that is the real aircraft, but on the whole a nice model.
The weapon loadout of the F117 isnt very close to the A-10 (a single GBU-27 Paveway III compared to several AGM-65 Maverick and the BRRRT-gun), so I'm not sure how well it would work as a proxy in Team Yankee.

Scotia Grendel BTR 60 PA and BTR 80

Wheeled Soviet APCs from Scotia. I really like these, great chunky details on the 80 which respond well to highlighting (and probably drybrushing if you prefer to do that), and the large flat areas on the 60 can be modulated pretty nicely. Ive heard these guys (or something close enough) are coming out in Red Thunder so they may actually see the table at some point.

Scotia Grendel McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II

A pair of Scotia Grendel F-4 Phantom II, Kurnass, Peace Pheasants, Peace Rhine or whatever else it has been named by the countries it is in service with. Again, very nice model, had some minor pitting on the side but other than that its all good. No weapons as with most of Scotia's aircraft, but that's not a deal-breaker for me.