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Hi,

This time, I'm proudly presenting you my US ARMY forces: -US III. Corps, 2nd Armoured Division.

I want to build a large REFORGER force, so I chose the 1st Brigade/2nd Armor -the only one with 4 battalions -2 armored, 2 mechanized infantry (the second was more important to me, I'd like to build a large mechanised force).

First, here are my O8 made M1(A1) Abrams tanks -beautifully sculpted ones, it was easy to paint them. They received a mixed camo, and a different basing -both will help me to make a difference between companies.

1/66th Armored Regiment

The whole battalion -with some FAO/FAC, and a Chapparal/Eng support

A lot of small detail on the tanks -I tried to make every one of them as unique as possible..

1/3rd Field Artillery Regiment in support.

The trucks here are just for the photo..



Some self propelled mortars -M106/125

The AA -a Stinger +HMMWV, and a supporting Chapparal/M163 from the 2/5th Air Defense Artillery Regiment.

Supporting elements:

17th Combat Engineer Battalion's M728 (still waitong for some AVLBs..)



A HEMTT is just an objective marker.

FAO

(All my HQ units are on 20mm round bases -also my FAO/FAC units -FAOs are represented by armored units, FACs by jeep/softskin vehicles. A FAO/FAC is represented by 1 miniature/base, HQs by 2 -3+, and 40mm bases will represent COs)

Just for fun -an Anrams in a small town (still unbased, GHQ paper buildings) -somewhere around the dutch/german border, with a unit of Recce (inf).

Great details on those models and camera work makes them look so much bigger!

Wow, really nice! I like the use of camo & track damage to show company on the Abrams

Excellent example of basing against the color scheme of the figs, too!

Yeah, I really need every small trick o this scale -the base is 20x20mm (old Epic square base).

However it's really hard to make a correct force composition -there's only hipothetical (not historical) OOB in case of the US IIIrd Corps. Only a small part of it was ever deployed phisically in Germany! The others only existed in paper/on POMCUS sites..

US OOBs are more confusing (than soviets for example -all the WARPAC/soviet units had the same OOB -easy to understand), having battalions attached to different brigades, confusing unit numbers, etc.. I totally don't understand the reason of this, but I try to stick to the historical infrmations/facts.