Back in the late 80s - early 90s I was heavily into micro armor, a bunch of WWII, but an insane amount of modern. UberChris and I had quite the arms race going, getting more tanks and more variety over the years. We used the Challenger II rules set. Eventually our first foray into 6mm-ish died out and the stuff went into our respective cold storage areas...
I must've had some strong nostalgia for times like these:
...and I re-read "Red Army" and some other Cold War fiction classics, and realized we had enough stuff for some pretty kick-ass mega battles using E:A as the basis for the rules. I combined our respective collections into a gigantic one and set about painting it to a table top standard.
I've completed the ground forces for the Warsaw Pact, U.K., W. Germany, and Denmark, with USA, France and Netherlands to go, plus aircraft.
Without further ado, here's some pics. I aimed for speed of painting and taking advantage of the superb detail of GHQ and CinC micro armor with dry brushes and washes.
T-55s with various levels of technology:
T-72
T-64
More to come
Yes, I remember going thru NBC Defense School. Wearing MOPP 4 all day on FTXs. Chemical Alarms, Radiac Meters, VX, Chem Decon, how to send a Chem down wind message, how figure out the yield of a nuc by size of the mushroom cloud, etc.. Good times ! 
