Leopard Lauch Live Blog Saturday 9 – Sunday 10 2016 Sunday

8:40AM Sunday 10

This is how I'd like to wake up...

Some of us are a little tired this morning after going to a friends wedding last night and we need wake up fast... so taking a leisurely flight like this would do the trick!

9:00AM Sunday 10

Assembling the Bo-105 PAH Helicopter

Small, nimble and deadly, Aaron shows use how to assemble the plastic BO-105 PAH Anti-tank helicopter. (I mean the helicopter is small, nimble and deadly - not Aaron; he's nimble, but of average size, and happily his deadliness has never been put to the test.)

9:25AM Sunday 10

Bo-105 PAH Painting Guide

Aaron Mathie breaks out the brushes to paint a Bo-105 PAH helicopter.

10:25AM Sunday 10

Andrew's Leopard 2 Panzer Kompanie

Andrew's Leopard 2 Panzer Kompanie Andrew, one of our more serious list noodler's in the Studio has been coming up with a pile of different lists, but this is the one he has settled on as a starting point. Andrew's Leopard 2 Panzer Kompanie...

10:45AM Sunday 10

German Aufklärungs Preview

We look at the upcoming West German Aufklärungs Kompanie options with the Leopard 1, Luchs and Fuchs.

11:15AM Sunday 10

Battlefield in a Box Fast Food Restaurant

Every small town has a place to get a Burger Queen, a Pizza Hut or maybe some Louisville Fried Chicken. Now your town can have one too. Keep an eye on the Team Yankee website for when we officially spotlight this product later in the month as we will create some downloadable signage so you can personalise it to look like your favourite McPizzaKing.

11:30AM Sunday 10

Big Badda Boom!

As Leeloo says, thats some "Big Badda Boom!" as a Gepard lights up its 35mm autocannons on a firing range.

12:05PM Sunday 10

Leopard lands in the Digital app

Leopard lands in the Digital app Leopard is now available for purchase inside the Digital app. You can get the app here in the iTunes store, or here in the Google Play Store. We are off to take a little lunch break and after that we will be taking a look at your questions in the Team Yankee Facebook group and filming some answers!

12:55PM Sunday 10

Chris' Leopard 2 Panzer Kompanie

Chris' Leopard 2 Panzer Kompanie Chris has gotten swept up in the excitement about Leopard (oh so shiny!) as well and is starting on a Leopard 2 Company as well. Chris' Leopard 2 Panzer Kompanie...

1:45PM Sunday 10

German AA & Tornado Preview

Check out the upcoming West German Anti-aircraft vehicle models – the Gepard and the Roland – and the Tornado strike aircraft.

2:02PM Sunday 10

So what's everyone up to?

Wayne is still airbrushing on his camo, Sean and Andrew are taking a break to play a game of TANKS (more photos of this to follow), Casey's pile of finished Soviet infantry keeps growing (I'm a little envious), James is still working on the 2nd part of the Battle Report, and finally Aaron's ducked out to use our usual airbrushing booth to work on the Hind objective... and I'm hiding behind the lens of the camera!

2:25PM Sunday 10

German Infantry Painting Guide

Aaron shows you a quick and simple method of painting West German Panzergrenadiers.

2:55PM Sunday 10

The Luchs Armoured Car

If Top Gear made a TV series about tanks and armoured cars it might look a little like this. The commentary is in German but the short version is "it goes really fast, it turns really well, with two drivers it can reverse as fast as it can go forwards, it can climb over things, swim through water, and be generally awesome!"

3:30PM Sunday 10

Lonnie's Panzergrenadier Kompanie

Lonnie's Panzergrenadier Kompanie Lonnie, from the US office, shares some thoughts about why he picked a Panzergrenadier Kompanie to build. Marders are an impressive looking beast so I cannot fault his logic for wanting to field lots of them. Lonnie's Panzergrenadier Kompanie...

3:59PM Sunday 10

Battlefield in a Box European Farm House

Most commanders like the idea of open countryside where their tanks can advance at speed, crushing their enemies in front of them. That's where you are most likely to come across a small hamlet or a farm like this one.

4:45PM Sunday 10

Khairul's Tornados

Khairul is a prolific painter (and really good too!), and as part of the management team at our Factory he has been known to grab early casts of new aircraft to paint up for fun. Here are a couple of examples of his latest work. Click on them for bigger images.

5:10PM Sunday 10

British Sherman Tanks in the middle of Leopard?

Sean and Andrew took a break earlier this afternoon to play a quick game of TANKS. Andrew's Jagdpanther took out a Sherman with a single shot in turn 1. In response Sean managed to start a fire inside a StuG that ended up burning out the vehicle over the next 3 turns. The Jagdpanther was crowned the king of the battlefield at the end of a hard fought match once it dispatched Sean's Comet.

5:55PM Sunday 10

Inside a Leopard 2 Loaders Position

This is really just an excuse to show a Leopard 2 speeding around and looking awesome - but you also get to see how the loader feeds the massive 120mm gun. Add in a little Rammstein background music and you have a great video that is worth watching. If your German is as bad as mine you can try turning on Google's translation function (hit the settings wheel in the bottom right of the video) but it gets a little confused by the terminology.

6:20PM Sunday 10

Your Questions Answered!

We asked for questions on our Team Yankee Facebook group and received some really good ones. Find out our answers here!

8:10PM Sunday 10

Leopard Battle Report – Part 2

It's the exciting conclusion of the battle between Wayne's West Germans and Chris's Soviets! Stay watching till the end for a chance to win a great Leopard prize (you'll need to head over to YouTube to leave a comment on the video if you want to enter).

8:22PM Sunday 10

Thanks for sharing the Leopard launch with us!

Thanks for checking out our weekend of Leopard and Team Yankee content. We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did.

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