Hi all,
Well I recently (ie today) decided to sell of the Heroics and Ros Dutch army that I had and buy a new GHQ one! The price was about 3 times greater but I like to think that my painting has improved as much over the past few years ;)
I am going to include in my force the 41st Armoured and 42nd Mechanised Brigades, I am not sure what air support if any will be included.
I was really pulling my hair out in trying to find out when the Dutch began to paint their equipment in the NATO camo scheme - sources said that they were an early adopter but it was unusual to see a vehicle not in plain green before the 1990s! After asking on some of the forums I frequent I decided to base my force on the look of the army during the 1988 Free Lion exercise.
Below are some excellent videos to get you in the mood:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jPu_9v36Ss (Dutch in 1987)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSg3-OYChI4 (Germans, Brits, Americans and Dutch in 1988)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7V1V1F67ZU (Dutch in 1989)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZWhMiTBuN0 (Dutch in 1994)
Thanks all, pics of the models forthcoming when I have had chance to paint them!
Peter
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