The last miniature in this batch. A kneeling M60 gunner. A joy to paint.
Next up Full Metal Jacket ( the movie) characters.
Kneeling M60 gunner
Lt Col. Ernest C. Cheatham ,”Ernie”
Lt Col. Ernest C. Cheatham (July 27, 1929 – June 14, 2014) who served as the CO of the 2nd Battalion 5th Marine regiment during the battle for Hue in Vietnam. Was a veteran of the Korean War and the Vietnam War, a recipient of the Navy Cross, and American football defensive tackle who played for the Baltimore Colts and the Pittsburgh Steelers.
An Empress Miniature figure sculpted by Paul Hicks.
Last member of 2nd platoon 1st section
this is the last missing soldier of the above mentioned unit . This one is painted in black (Viet Cong sponsored) fatigues . He is wearing a traditional Vietnamese scarf.
The complete section:
M60 gunner standing up
here is the next Marine , this time a M60 gunner standing upright shooting. Would this be possible without supporting the gun on a wall etc for support?
Charge
A North Vietnamese soldier charging. Empress Miniature sculpted by Paul Hicks.
Obituary for Andy Zeck
With great sadness I have to inform you that Andy Zeck aka “Suetonius Paullinus” passed away on 19th April 2020. I am not sure if I am the right one to write an Obituary for him but I will do so anyway. We met quite regularly in London at the Salute conventions in the last 10 years and I loved to take to him about our shared hobby, family and other interests. He was one of the fellow members of the old “Steve Dean forum” and on “Lead Adventure forum”. I admire his painting style which is really stunning. What can I say more….
Best is to let his figures speak to us once more. Here are pictures I saved for later inspiration from different sources. i hope it is alright to show them here.
My thoughts are with his family and his close friends!
I will dearly miss him. May he find freedom and happiness were he is now.
Radio Operator and NCO
Here is the next figure or better group of figures for my US Marines in Vietnam. This is more like a little diorama as I placed two figures on one base. it is a radioman and an NCO using the radio. So they are connected by the Radio handset line and i couldn’t find a way to base them separately. At least convincingly.
First the NCO:
second the Radioman:
Notice the wounded hand the ripped trousers and the fag in the mouth of the radio operator . These sculpts are so full of character indeed. I loved to paint the pair.
North Vietnamese LMG gunner
The next figure is a NVA light machine-gun gunner. This time in classic green again.
A bigger river
Above you see the river I build for my gaming table a wile ago. Now that there will be brown water navy boats available in the near future, at least after the Corona lockdown is lifted, I thought that I would need a wider river to accommodate 28mm boats. I have a modular gaming table layout with extruded polystyrene squares for variety. The approach to the new waterway is a different one. I have a gaming mat permanently beneath the styrene squares which is used for naval wargaming. I thought about just building “shore” tiles and use the gaming mat as the river surface. In that way i can have the river as big as I like or I could even build a shoreline for amphibious landing games. Here is the result:
The half wide “squares” are the new tiles I build.
What do you think?
Another Prick 25 radio man
Here is another radio operator . This time i put some more foliage on the base to differentiate the figures a bit more.
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