28mm Underfire Miniatures Us Army Forces

 28mm US Army on the Cold War battlefield!

In this video, I’m showcasing my collection of 28mm US Army miniatures from Underfire Miniatures, painted for hypothetical Cold War gaming and a variety of historical and fictional scenarios from the early 1980s.

One of the main projects behind this platoon is a Fulda Gap campaign inspired by Tom Clancy’s Red Storm Rising—a tabletop "what if?" scenario where US and Soviet forces clash across Central Europe. These figures will eventually go head-to-head with my already completed 28mm Mongrel Miniatures Soviet Motor Infantry platoon.

But the possibilities don't stop at the Fulda Gap.

These US Army figures can also represent forces involved in historical actions such as the 1983 US intervention in Grenada, while their uniforms and equipment make them useful as proxies for the Lebanese Armed Forces in the early 1980s, when American-supplied uniforms and equipment were in use.

I’ll also go over some of my painting techniques for early-1980s US Army uniforms and equipment, including the methods I used to give the figures an appropriately Cold War appearance.

And because no miniature collection is ever really finished, there are plans to expand this force with M113 APCs and M151 MUTT Jeeps, giving the platoon the mobility and firepower it needs for larger Fulda Gap scenarios.

As an added bonus, I'll also show an old Corgi diecast tank toy that I converted and painted for the collection—proof that sometimes the perfect wargaming vehicle doesn't necessarily start life as a miniature!

More to come,

Doc.