A jungle for my Vietnam project

29. November 201929. November 2019 thomasriepe 28mm, 28mm figure, jungle terrain, The terrain tutor, The Vietnam war

Here are a few pictures of my started jungle terrain for my Vietnam war project. I know that the color of the soil in Vietnam is a lot more red than my soil color but I wanted to be able to use my other terrain tiles with this project so to let them be used together I had to use the color I used on my older stuff ,too.

I got inspiration and a how to from the terrain tutor over on youtube . Have a look here.

I will ad a lot more in the future . Paddy fields , other trees more palm trees , streets and buildings.

Bell UH- 1D HUEY

28. November 201928. November 2019 thomasriepe 28mm, Bell UH-1D, Huey, Slick, The Bird, Vietnam war

Got myself this book to read up a bit about the specifications of the Huey for my Vietnam project. I have got 2 1/48 Bell UH-1D birds to build. Just waiting for Empress to release helicopter crew figures.

Another Gringo 40 marine

27. November 2019 thomasriepe 28mm, 28mm figure, Gringo 40, US Marines, Vietnam war

Here is another US marine for my Vietnam war project. Again a Gringo 40 figure.

These are still miniatures I purchased during the summer. I didn’t even start basing the new ones I bought at Crisis jet.

In the jungle there are NVA soldiers

25. November 2019 thomasriepe 28mm, 28mm figure, Empress miniatures, NVA, Paul Hicks, Vietnam war

More and more north Vietnamese soldiers are coming to south Vietnam . Here is the next Paul Hicks sculpt available from Empress .

Another NVA Soldier with a head swop

21. November 2019 thomasriepe 28mm, 28mm figure, Empress miniatures, NVA, Vietnam war

Here is another NVA Soldier with a exchanged head. Both figure and head are from Empress miniatures.

the third member of the second squad

19. November 2019 thomasriepe 28mm, 28mm figure, Gringo 40, US Marines, Vietnam war

This time a very iconic miniature . Again by Gringo 40

Grunt No II of the second squad

18. November 2019 thomasriepe 28mm, 28mm figure, Gringo 40, Vietnam war

Here is the second Grunt of the second Squat of my US Marines. A Gringo 40 miniature.

The first miniature after Crisis 19

14. November 2019 thomasriepe 28mm, 28mm figure, Empress miniatures, NVA, Paul Hicks, Vietnam war

So back to normal after Crisis 19. Returning on Sunday I thought it might be nice starting to paint some miniatures again. I had purchased quite a lot more Vietnam war models so I will continue to ad to my collection by painting them up through this winter. By the way I bought some MDF 25mm round bases. As I always ad a magnet to them, for easy storage, how would you do that with these bases? I used plastic slota bases up to now.

Here is the NVA figure I painted ( Empress miniature by Paul Hicks)

Crisis 2019 Convention report

11. November 2019 thomasriepe Convention report, Crisis 2019, Crisis Antwerp, Tin Soldiers Antwerp

So Crisis has gone by very quickly again. Many thanks to the tin Soldiers of Antwerp for hosting this mega event again. Like in the years before it was wonderful to see all the demonstration and participation games . these were all of a very high standard as you can see in the pictures below. There was a host of traders selling their goods alas there were some spaces free as not al british traders attended because of Brexit. Anyway it was great to meet so many friends again and to make a few new ones. Can’t wait for Crisis 2020.

Below are the pictures I took during the event, enjoy!