EKO Set 4508 - Swiss Infantry

A group of not Swiss infantry based up for CD.

While I have been busy of late, I have found time too paint up another set of Eko figures (Click Here to see the PSR article). These were sourced through the good offices of Glenn, and I will admit I enjoyed painting them.

In CD terms this would equate to a strong rifle company of four rifle platoons, a HQ section and a patrol/recon element.

The Swiss Army of the 1970s is not a force that I could see myself getting a great deal of gaming use out of, and while painting them up in their intended scheme would have been quite pleasing, I felt that I would bring out the character of the figures more if I opted for a different scheme. With that in mind, I have gone for a scheme that should let me add them into a number of different factions that I use in my moderns games.

The BUA has lots of CD friendly places to put troops in!

I also found time to finish off two buildings that I have been working on for around two years. I figured it was either finish them, or deep six them. Now that the wife has moved up here and the unpacking has started in earnest, I should be able to set up a proper painting desk again, and get a good size table organised.

Building A: The view from above.

 I have a few more little BUAs planned as I hope by making lots of small ones, I can place them down to cover large amounts of a table in urban sprawl.

Building B: Same-Same but different!.

Perhaps I will even manage to finish off some other projects? - One can but dream!

EKO Set 4515 - Arab Legion

Recently I acquired a couple of sets of EKO figures from Glenn. He picked them up from a seller at the last bring and buy held at the Woolston Club in Christchurch, and figured that given my love of weird types of plastic figures I would be very interested in them.

Plastic Soldier did a feature on EKO figures (click here for more information), goes into the history of the figures in more detail, and over at Small Scale World, there are a number of posts on EKO (click here for more information)

The original factory paint job.

The figures are presumably intended to represent troops of the Arab Legion, but i figured that I could paint them up for use in my ongoing Harad games. I did decide to go with a paint scheme that would capture the feel of the original figures. With this in mind i was able to make three infantry stands for CD, and two command stands.

The flag stand could also be used as a command infantry stand.

 The intent is to paint up some stands of Airfix/Hat Arabs to add to the force with the same patterning on their keffiyeh (or shemagh if you prefer), this should give the force an overall theme to tie it together.

Two command stands

Painting the headdress was a challenge, and I don't think I fully cracked it. The last figure I did (the rifleman on the stand with the grenade thrower) I just painted the head dress red and just put lots of white dots on. I predict I may use the same technique again in the near future!