An M113 for my ARVN force

13. July 2022 thomasriepe 28mm, 28mm figure, 28mm Wargaming, ARVN, Empress, Empress miniatures, M113, Paul Hicks, Vietnam war, wargaming

I got the wonderfull 3D STLs from BobMack for the Vietnam war. There are nearly all versions of the M113 included. I printed the M113 with my resin printer and enlarged it to 1/50 to fit in with my other vehicles from Empress Miniatures. the crew and Infantry figures are by Empress, sculpted by Paul Hicks.

The 1st squad of my ARVN platoon

7. July 20227. July 2022 thomasriepe 28mm, 28mm figure, 28mm Wargaming, ARVN Infantry, Empress miniatures, Paul Hicks, Vietnam war, wargaming

Sometime last year I bought some of the ,then new, Empress ARVN Infantry figures. Now I finished the first squad of them. We’ll see how they perform on the gaming table later.

So here are the pictures of the first squad

And many more pictures of each fighure in the squad:

The LVPT5 is finally finished

28. June 2022 thomasriepe 28mm, 28mm figure, 28mm Wargaming, Empress miniatures, LVTP5, US Marines, Vietnam war, wargaming

This time it took quite long until I could find time to write this post. That doesn’t mean that I did no modeling or painting in the meantime. I just couldn’t find the time to take pictures of the finished projects.

So here is the first finished project I had time to take pictures of. The 3D printed LVPT5. I printed the vehicle on my resin printer. You can find out more here: https://wargamesgazette.com/2022/01/16/the-start-of-my-lvpt5/

So here it is in all its glory. The crew is by Empress Miniatures.

Here are some closeups of the “Mean Machine” and the crew.

I hope you like my effort…. More to come hopefully more regularly again.

A firebase somewere in Vietnam

11. April 202211. April 2022 thomasriepe 28mm, 28mm figure, 28mm Wargaming, bunker, entrenchment, firebase, firebase vietnam, sandsack bunker, Vietnam war

So for the Build something contest over on the LAF forum I made the firebase you can see above. These are two terrain pieces roughly 40x80cm big. The fit against each other to form a 80x80cm terrain piece.

The Sandbags and other parafrenalia are 3d printed on a resin printer. The rest is scratchbuild. The roofs of the bunkers can be lifted up to place miniatures inside.

Here are some pictures of the bunkers during the build :

Next I build a base were the individual bunkers fit in:

The white sandbags were made out of DAS clay. Now the ground got a basecoat of paint and I added some smaller items like smoke grenades, C ration bags, warm food containers etc.:

Then all the bunkers emplacements etc got a black basecoat.

And this is the finished firebase:

I build the two terrain tiles to be able to insert a middle par as needed. So I will build different middle parts in the future like gun pits or a landing pad for choppers etc.

The start of my LVPT5

16. January 2022 thomasriepe 28mm, 28mm figure, 28mm Wargaming, Empress miniatures, LVPT5, Vietnam war

This is the project I started over the x-mas hollidays. A LVPT5. The model was printed on my resin printer in 1/50 scale. The figures are from Empress. Here is the picture which I took for refernce:

Here is a picture of the printed model:

And some pictures of the finished model before painting. The sandbags are made from green stuff, the c ration boxes, bags and ammo boxes are resin prints.

And the vehicle with added basecolors.

The miniatures will be painted with GWs contrast paints the rest will be done the traditional way….

More to come shortly

The missing mortar gunner on the move

24. November 2021 thomasriepe 28mm, 28mm figure, 28mm Wargaming, Empress miniatures, Paul Hicks, US Marine mortar, US Marines, Vietnam war

Sorry that it took so long to post the missing Marine for the mortar group. Here he is, carrying the ammo and bipod for the mortar.

Here is the complete mortar on the move:

US Marine Mortar on the move

8. November 2021 thomasriepe 28mm, 28mm figure, 28mm Wargaming, Empress miniatures, Paul Hicks, US Marines in Vietnam, Vietnam war, wargaming

Here is the first part of the mortar team moving the mortar to a new emplacement. The figure is humping the base plate and tube of the moertar.

The second gunner is following shortly.

A US Marine 60mm mortar team

3. November 2021 thomasriepe 28mm, 28mm figure, 28mm Wargaming, 60mm mortar, Empress miniatures, Paul Hicks, US Marines in Vietnam, Vietnam war, wargaming

Here is my latest painting effort. Painted with GWs contrast paints. The figures are from Empress Miniatures sculpted by Paul Hicks. A lovely little viginette.

Morte to come in the future as my painting mojo is back

VC with rocket propelled grenade

13. October 2021 thomasriepe 28mm, 28mm figure, 28mm Miniatures, 28mm Wargaming, Empress miniatures, NVA, Paul Hicks, Viet Cong, Vietnam war, wargaming, wargaming miniatures

Another RPG armed VC or NVA soldier. After a longer brake, due to work constrains, I have started painting again. I also started with a bigger gaming project of a campaign of patroling in the Nam. More on this in the future.