The grenade

15. June 202015. June 2020 thomasriepe 28mm, 28mm figure, 28mm Wargaming, Empress, Empress miniatures, NVA, NVA soldier, Paul Hicks, Vietnam war, wargaming

After a longer weekend here is the next Empress miniatures figure finished. it is a NVA soldier throwing a stick grenade. A wonderful sculpt from Paul Hicks, it was a joy to paint.

Next US Marine PFC

10. June 2020 thomasriepe 28mm, 28mm figure, 28mm Wargaming, Empress, Empress miniatures, Paul Hicks, PFC, US Marines, Vietnam war, wargaming

Another PFC for my US Marine platoon.

One more to go..

bare headed NVA soldier

9. June 2020 thomasriepe 28mm, 28mm figure, 28mm Wargaming, Empress, Empress miniatures, Paul Hicks, Viet Cong, Vietnam war, wargaming

Here is another NVA soldier. I painted the trousers in the traditional Vietnamese color, black. So he is only wearing a uniform shirt the rest is civilian wear. So he probably is a irregular forces warrior , VC.

The miniature is again from Empress , sculpted by Paul Hicks.

Tatooine buildings

8. June 20208. June 2020 thomasriepe Star Wars, Star Wars Legion, Tatooine, wargames terrain, wargaming

My son is heavily into Star Wars Legion and I thought it would be nice to make some buildings for him. So here is a short detour of my Vietnam War project. A Tatooine village.

I printed the buildings on my I3Mega FDM printer. The files are from Thingiverse. There are loads of things to print for Star Wars Legion there. I glued the buildings and water vaporators to PVC card as a base and painted them up with my airbrush. Very quick job.

before painting.

Partly finished

And a few more pictures of the finished stuff:

Have to do a little cantina and paint up the rebels from the core set and then it is back to the NAM.

US Marine PFC

5. June 2020 thomasriepe 28mm, 28mm figure, 28mm Wargaming, Empress, Empress miniatures, Paul Hicks, PFC, US Marines, Vietnam war

Here is another PFC of my US Marines

Attacking NVA soldier

4. June 2020 thomasriepe 28mm, 28mm figure, 28mm Wargaming, Empress, Empress miniatures, North Vietnamese Army, NVA, Paul Hicks, Vietnam war, wargaming

here is the next NVA soldier I painted.

Many more to come.

Made a mistake

3. June 2020 thomasriepe 28mm, 28mm Wargaming, Cowboy, Empress miniatures, full metal jacket, full metal jacket movie, Paul Hicks, Sergeant J.T. "Joker" Davis

OK, i have to admit that I made a mistake when posting the pictures of two characters from the movie full metal jacket. I mixed up “Joker” and “Cowboy”.

So again and this time right:

This is Sergeant “Cowboy” Evans

And this is Sergeant J.T. “Joker” Davis:

Sorry for the confusion!

Full metal Jacket “Cowboy”

2. June 20202. June 2020 thomasriepe 28mm, 28mm figure, 28mm Wargaming, Battle of Hue, Cowboy, Empress, Empress miniatures, full metal jacket, full metal jacket movie, Hue, Paul Hicks, Sergeant "Cowboy" Evans, TET offensive, Vietnam war

Arliss Howard is the Texan Private later Sergeant “Cowboy” Evans who goes through boot camp with Joker. He becomes a rifleman and later encounters Joker in Vietnam, taking command of a rifle squad. In The Short-Timers, the book the movie Full Metal Jacket is lovely based on, Joker mercifully kills Cowboy after he is severely wounded by a sniper trying to draw the squad out. In Full Metal Jacket, he quickly dies of a sucking chest wound while in Joker’s arms, surrounded by the few remaining members of his squad.

Again a wonderfully sculpted characterful figure by Paul Hicks. This finishes off the full Metal Jacket miniatures done by Empress Miniatures. To my shame I have to admit that i missed to do a group shot . That will be rectified shortly.

North Vietnamese Army section leader

28. May 202028. May 2020 thomasriepe 28mm, 28mm figure, 28mm Wargaming, Empress, Empress miniatures, North Vietnamese Army, NVA, NVA section leader, Paul Hicks, Vietnam war, wargaming

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.

The first Hue building

27. May 202027. May 2020 thomasriepe 28mm, 28mm figure, 28mm Wargaming, 3D printed scenery, 3d printing, Hue, Hue buildings, TET offensive, Vietnam war, wargaming, WOW Buildings

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 .