Here is the next NVA soldier. An Empress miniature with a head swop ( You can get the heads in the vietnam section of the Empress homepage).
Next time it will be more light in the jungle again. Fumbled with the exposure time.
Here is the next grunt for the third fire team. Again Empress miniature sculpted by Paul Hicks and painted with Contrast Paint.
Moore to come!
Today I will show something completely different. I finished the first miniature of the other side of the Vietnam war . Here is the first NVA Soldier. An Empress miniatures figure sculpted by Paul Hicks. I did a head swap as when I purchased the figures there were only 2 different packs available but since then the range has grown considerably and is still doing so. I painted the figure with Contrast colors by GW.
There will be many more following this one!
This is the next member of the 3rd fire team 1st squad 1st platoon of my US Marines.
An Empress miniatures figure sculpted by Paul Hicks. A joy to paint!
As you can see here I made my own clump foliage. I mixed a coarse scatter foliage to be added to my jungle terrain and to the bases of the Marines and the soon to come NVA.
Here is a picture without the foliage and with the foliage:
What do you think ? I personally think with foliage will blend the miniatures better into the terrain.
As i have to do some terrain for my ongoing Vietnam war project. I need a lot of clump foliage for my jungle terrain, so instead of buying it I thought about doing it myself. I know someone who does upholstery as a profession and he gave me offcuts of upholstery foam seen here:
I cut it into smaller peaces with a pair of scissors and added these together with some water into a blender. I blended them for a few seconds and had this:
So this doesn’t look like terrain clumps as the color is all wrong. So I put the still damp foam shreds int a bowl with household paint and some PVA:
And this is what came out after mixing the foam shreds with the color:
two different shades of green clump foliage and some brown:
This took me about half an hour to do. The clumps have to dry now for 24h and will be ready to do a coarse scatter for the jungle bases and the bases of my miniatures.
This wasn’t my original idea to be fair, though I nicked it from Mel, aka the terrain tutor.
you can see a video by him about the process here
I will post more about my vietnam terrain as I create it.
Here is the first Marine of the 3rd fire team of my 1st squad of US marines for Vietnam.
A Empress miniatures figure sculpted by Paul Hicks.
I managed to paint up the VIIc U Boat at the weekend. I am rather proud on how it came out. Hope you like it.
An authentic picture:
A size comparison with the warlord E boat:
And with my Hunt class destroyer:
The boat will be available for purchase here. Next will be a diving and a surfacing as well as a submerged U Boat. I think these could be useful in games.
Here is the squad leader of the 1st squad 1st platoon. A Gringo 40 figure again:
And the 2nd fire team:
I got the new North Vietnamese Army soldiers from Empress Miniatures in the post the other day. As there is not such a big variety at the moment ( there are many more to come from the talented Mr. Hicks!) I started to swop some heads on the miniatures. You can find other heads in the french indochine range of Empress.
The one in the middle is the original miniature. The one on the left and right has a new head. There is a little green stuff round the neck missing at the moment.
Close ups of the two with new heads:
And the next three:
I will do another eight figures with a head swap and hopefully I have enough diversity in my NVA squads then.
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