[Apache6]

Excellent figure. Looking forward to seeing more? I have war-gamed T2K, though, I have to admit my figures were war-game quality and nothing near as well painted as yours.

I agree with Jason Weiser, 20mm is the scale for Twilight 2000 gaming. I gamed this extensively back in college days. I enjoyed modeling forces for this, as you didn't need 42 man platoons and 14 tank (or IFV) Companies, all painted up 'uniformly.'

I mostly used 1/72 figures, though I have some 1/76 and even 1/87 scale (railroad HO scale) figures. I prefer plastic figures as they are very convertible. You can use a huge range of figures for T2K, modern figures, cowboys, WWII resistance fighters, I even had some based on Zulu figures. Back around 1989 or 90 I bought a box each of ESCI US Special Forces (Vietnam Era) and a box of ESCI Warsaw Pact troops and based them individually on washers. With a handful of models and die cast vehicles my gaming group and I played a dozen or so enjoyable war-games. I latter bought ESCI NVA and Zulu figures. Arm and torso swaps (easy with plastics) gave me 'Zulu' like figures armed with AK-47s, M60s and RPG-7s. You can also use many HO scale civilians figures. You can easily do 'paint' conversions and a NVA figure with an AK-47 becomes a resistance fighter wearing blue jeans, hiking boots, and a BDU shirt… You can also cut a modern figure off at the waist, and mate it with the legs from a historic cavalry figure giving you M16 or AK-74 armed cavalry…

As for vehicles, I 1/72 models are easily available and relatively inexpensive. You can mix 1/76 vehicles in since you are likely to have only a few vehicles. T2K is good for this as it is fun to customize to reflect the ad-hoc nature of T2K. Toy Cars: "Matchbox type" also offer great ability to field commercial trucks, pickups, "technicals" and even bulldozers. You can convert the vehicles with plastic sheet armor plating to represent expedient armored vehicles.

I big advantage to 20mm is the size for storing and transporting the figures as well as size of the table you need. I think the biggest/best game I played had the PCs with about 15 combatants (3 or 4 Players Characters, the rest NPCs) equipped with a LAV-25, a HMMWV mounting a TOW system missile (w 2 missiles), a captured BMP-2 (no missiles and limited 30mm ammo), and a 5 ton truck (overloaded with wounded soldiers and refuges). Against a T-54, a BMP-2 and a ZU-4 (nomenclature may be off, the Soviet towed AAA with 4 x 14.5mm HMG) and 15 dismounts with Ak47 and 2 RPG-7. This was played out on a ping-pong table, covered with a green sheet underneath which books and other stuff was placed to create hills.

I don’t have any photos of T2K games (sigh) but here are some of a “modern” Iraq scenario using 1/72 figures. The buildings were made from foamboard.