Today it is time for the section leader of the NVA section I am painting at the moment.
Again an empress miniature sculpted by the very talented Paul Hicks.
North Vietnamese Army section leader
Month: May 2020
The first Hue building
Here is the first Hue city building for my ongoing Vietnam war project. On the picture below you see an old scratch build building of my WWII collection. From a time 3D printing wasn’t available jet. On the left you see the start of the first building of a series of buildings from the citadel of Hue. think base line green. The STL file comes from a Kickstarter by WOW Buildings
I wanted the pavement to fit with my other buildings so I build it the traditional way, foam and scribing. The walls surrounding the building are from WOW ,too. The base is PVC .
Above you see a few pictures of the build I added some debris to the broken wall .
the base coated building shows clearly the problem with 3D printing. You see the different print layers.
But after painting these vanish more or less.
The finished building with plants and grass added:
For me the way to go is to combine 3d printing with traditional modeling. i think the finished building is presentable.
Private Leonard “Gomer Pyle” Lawrence
In the first part of the movie Full Metal Jacket, the recruits graduate and receive their Military Occupational Specialty assignments. Pyle is assigned to Infantry. During the platoon’s final night on Parris Island, Joker discovers Pyle in the head loading his rifle and executing drill commands, and loudly recites the Rifleman’s Creed. This awakens the platoon and drill sergeant Hartman, who confronts Pyle and orders him to surrender the rifle. Pyle shoots Hartman dead and then commits suicide, while Joker helplessly watches in horror. The figure above is an Empress miniature cast for a different story line. Empress assume Pyle doesn’t shoot Hartman and doesn’t commit suicide and in doing so reaches the NAM as an M60 gunner.
Pyle was played by Vincent D’Onofrio. D’Onofrio heard of the auditions for the film from Modine. Using a rented video camera and dressed in army fatigues, D’Onofrio recorded his audition. Despite Kubrick’s saying that Pyle was “the hardest part to cast in the whole movie”, he quickly responded to D’Onofrio, telling the actor that he had won the part.D’Onofrio was required to gain 70 pounds (32 kg).
Where is the pilot?
An NVA regular armed with a AK47 looking for the downed chopper crew.
Eightball
In “full metal jacket” Dorian Harewood plays Eightball a member of Jokers squad and Animal Mother’s closest friend. A sniper shoots him repeatedly in an attempt to lure the others into the open, before killing him.
Here he is as a miniature from Empress miniature :
MG on the march
The next NVA soldier is a MG gunner. again Empress Miniatures.
Animal Mother
Adam Baldwin plays “Animal Mother”: The nihilistic M-60 machine gunner of the Lusthog Squad, in the movie ” full metal jacket”. Animal Mother is contemptuous of any authority but his own, and attempts to rule by intimidation. Animal Mother believes victory should be the only object of war.
The second figure, I painted, from the full metal jacket miniatures sculpted by Paul Hicks for Empress miniatures.
Checking the chopper
The next North Vietnamese Soldier. Armed with the typical AK47 and stick grenades.
Sergeant J.T. “Joker” Davis
Today it is “Jokers” time a main character of the movie full metal jacket played by Matthew Modine. Private/Sergeant J. T. “Joker” Davis is a wise-cracking young recruit and later Sergeant and squad leader.
While patrolling Huế, Crazy Earl, the squad leader, is killed by a booby trap, leaving Cowboy in command. The squad becomes lost, and Cowboy orders Eightball to scout the area. A Viet Cong sniper wounds Eightball and Doc Jay, the squad Corpsman. Believing that the sniper is drawing the squad into an ambush, Cowboy attempts to radio in tank support to no avail. The squad’s machine gunner, Animal Mother, disobeys Cowboy’s orders to retreat and attempts to save his comrades.
Another follower of father Ho
The next NVA soldier finished.
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