NVA company command section

8. February 2021 thomasriepe 28mm, 28mm figure, 28mm Wargaming, North Vietnamese Army, NVA, NVA soldier, Vietnam war, Vietnam War wargaming

Here is the sergeant of the Company command pack by Empress miniatures. Very nice sculpt. Unusual weapon!

A Diesel engine for my train layout

28. January 2021 thomasriepe 28mm figure, 28mm train engine, 28mm Wargaming, 3d printing, Engine, Hue city, Train, Train engine, Vietnam war

I thought that a small train station for my Hue project would be nice. There is a complete Hue train station in the WOW Vietnam kickstarter but for me it is just too big. So I started with some tracks and a Diesel engine from another WOW kickstarter.

I wanted to try out the salt and hairspray method of rusting up the engine therefore I base coated the complete model in Vallejo orange brown, my base color for rust and a heavy coat of varnish to protect the base coat.

Then I fixed the salt with water to the parts I wanted to be rusty later on

When this was dry I sprayed the model with hairspray and let it all set over night. Then I airbrushed the main color over the complete model.

Then I took a coarse brush and brushed of the salt. And with a little water added streaks of rust by rubbing of the color and the hairspray to let the orange brown shine through. After adding details like windows lights etc you get this effect:

Here you can see the Engine and track in front of the next project. My train station:

The train station is a WOW 3D stl file too.

A “colonial style” building for my Hue project

25. January 2021 thomasriepe 28mm, 28mm figure, 28mm Miniatures, 28mm Wargaming, 3D printed scenery, 3d printed wargames scenery, Building 3d printed building, Hue city, Marine Recon, NVA, NVA soldier, US Marine, Vietnam war

Here is the next building for my Hue city project. Another 3D printed building from WOW buildings. It is from the world in ruins kickstarter set. It is intended for a “Saving Privat Rian” setting, but I think it works for Hue too.

Here are some pictures of a Marine Recon squad searching the building:

Will they find the NVA hiding in the building?

More Building to come….

Walls

22. January 2021 thomasriepe 28mm, 28mm figure, 28mm Wargaming, Hue, Hue city, North Vietnamese Army, US Marines, Viet Cong, Vietnam war, Wall, wargames terrain, wargaming, wargaming miniatures, Wargaming scenery

As I had a lot of shorter 3d printer filament pieces, too short for bigger projects, I printed these walls to finish them off with something useful. Walls like these can be used in between buildings or around parks and along streets. They are not only useful for my city of Hue project. So here they are:

The 3d stl files are from a WOW kickstarter campaign. I always based one wall and one pillar on one base to make them generic enough to be placed on my gaming boards in a multitude of ways.

Here are a few shots of a US Marine fireteam looking for the NVA/VC or is it the other way round?

The village well

18. January 2021 thomasriepe 28mm, 28mm Wargaming, 3D printed scenery, 3d printed wargames scenery, 3d printing, Vietnam war, village well, Wargaming terrain, well

This is the last item for now I did for my Vietnam village. The next pieces will be for my cityscape. I found the STL file on thingiverse I think, but I can’t remember really as it is quite a time gone by since I printed it. It is an asian well. I thought it might be nice to have as another ,maybe, entrance to a VC tunnel system.

The villagers

15. January 2021 thomasriepe 28mm, 28mm figure, 28mm Wargaming, female 28mm figures, Full Metal Miniatures, Vietnam Village, Vietnam war, wargaming, wargaming miniatures

Here are all the people living in my Vietnam war era village. I finished the last Full Metal Miniature yesterday.

So here is the last miniature:

And the village and the inhabitants:

collecting firewood

14. January 2021 thomasriepe 28mm, 28mm figure, 28mm Wargaming, Full Metal Miniatures, Vietnam war, wargaming, wargaming miniatures

Another civilian Miniature by Full Metal Miniatures. This time a porter carrying firewood. Painted as usual with GW contrast paints.

Mother with baby

12. January 2021 thomasriepe 28mm, 28mm figure, 28mm Wargaming, female 28mm figures, Full Metal Miniatures, Vietnam war, wargaming

Here is the next Full Metal Miniature. A woman with a baby.

The snake catcher

11. January 2021 thomasriepe 28mm, 28mm figure, 28mm Wargaming, Full Metal Miniatures, Snake catcher, Vietnam war, wargaming

This is a figure of a snake catcher. Figure by Full Metal Miniatures. He is carrying a Y staff for catching the snakes and a basket with lid for disposing the caught snakes.

I see purple smoke

7. January 2021 thomasriepe 28mm, 28mm Wargaming, Marker smoke, Smoke Grenade, Vietnam war, wargaming

Last year I build a burning smoke grenade in the classic way, by using an armature and self made colored upholstery foam. You can read about this here.

Now As I got a 3D printer last year and I acquired some STL files for smoke effects like missile exhaust , explosions etc from Deadly Print Studio I tried there smoke marker STL . I modified the file a bit to get different sizes of smoke . Then I printed them out based them in the usual way and added a little smoke grenade. Here are the results: