Nathaniel Victor

19. December 201919. December 2019 thomasriepe 28mm, 28mm figure, Empress miniatures, Nathaniel Victor, NVA, Paul Hicks, Vietnam war

The next North Vietnamese Army ( NVA) soldier or Mr. Nathaniel Victor. Again one of the lovely Empress miniature figures sculpted by the very talented Mr. Hicks!

More to come in the next weeks and over the next year!

Charly in the jungle

16. December 2019 thomasriepe 28mm, 28mm figure, Empress miniatures, NVA, Paul Hicks, Vietnam war

Here is the next Empress miniatures NVA Soldier, sculpted by paul Hicks . I painted the figure again with GW contrast colors.

Elefant Grass

9. December 20199. December 2019 thomasriepe 28mm, 28mm figure, Elefant grass, Elephant grass, Vietnam war

As you can see here I started to do some jungle terrain for my Vietnam games. What I missed so far are areas of Elefant Grass. While searching the web for an idea to represent Elefant grass in 28mm I came across artificial grass for gardens. you can find this as test pieces in gardening shops or online. The sample I got is about 2cm high. I started out to do some test pieces on 25 mm round MDF bases I happened to have available.

I cut of a 2cm wide strip of the grass and cut this up in lots of 2x2cm squares, then I glued

the grass squares to the mdd bases:

I then put some DAS modeling putty round the edges to hide them:

The miniature is a US Marine by Empress for size comparison. I think the grass is high enough.

I then put my usual basing grit on the bases and painted it:

I think they look quite nice for just being test pieces. Here they are together with my other jungle terrain, can you find Charly?

A rather green NVA soldier

2. December 2019 thomasriepe 28mm, 28mm figure, Empress miniatures, North Vietnamese Army, NVA, Paul Hicks, Vietnam war

I painted this NVA soldier in an overall green uniform as some people said that there were no Kaki NVA soldiers uniforms. To my knowledge that is not true. I read kaki descriptions of NVA uniforms in many different books. I personally think Kaki and green together looks best.

More to come.

A jungle for my Vietnam project

29. November 201929. November 2019 thomasriepe 28mm, 28mm figure, jungle terrain, The terrain tutor, The Vietnam war

Here are a few pictures of my started jungle terrain for my Vietnam war project. I know that the color of the soil in Vietnam is a lot more red than my soil color but I wanted to be able to use my other terrain tiles with this project so to let them be used together I had to use the color I used on my older stuff ,too.

I got inspiration and a how to from the terrain tutor over on youtube . Have a look here.

I will ad a lot more in the future . Paddy fields , other trees more palm trees , streets and buildings.

Bell UH- 1D HUEY

28. November 201928. November 2019 thomasriepe 28mm, Bell UH-1D, Huey, Slick, The Bird, Vietnam war

Got myself this book to read up a bit about the specifications of the Huey for my Vietnam project. I have got 2 1/48 Bell UH-1D birds to build. Just waiting for Empress to release helicopter crew figures.