USMC Recon

11. August 2020 thomasriepe 28mm, 28mm figure, 28mm Wargaming, Empress, Empress miniatures, Paul Hicks, USMC Recon, Vietnam war, wargaming

Another member of the USMC Recon squad by Empress miniatures. Armed with an M14 if I am not mistaken.

Will he get that tank?

7. August 2020 thomasriepe 28mm, 28mm figure, 28mm Wargaming, Empress, Empress miniatures, North Vietnamese Army, NVA, Paul Hicks, RPG, Vietnam war

Another RPG gunner on the move. I like how he carries an AK47 as a secondary weapon.

USMC Recon squad

6. August 2020 thomasriepe 28mm, 28mm figure, 28mm Wargaming, Contrast colour, Empress, Empress miniatures, Games Workshop, Paul Hicks, USMC Recon, Vietnam war, wargaming

A few month back Empress miniatures released a 6 figure USMC Recon pack. I just started painting these. I thought it might be difficult to paint the camouflage uniform, but i think i found a way to paint it quite easily and quickly. It took me about 1 hour to finish this miniature.

The Marine is armed with an M16 and a sawn of shotgun.

I painted the uniform like I do all my marines. You can see the stages here.

After that I used Vallejo sky grey again to ad the camp stripes:

Then I added dark brown ( Snakebite leather ) and bright green ( Warp lightning) on the sky grey patches.

The rest was done as in above mentioned link described. Now just the the missing 5 figures to do.

Actual of a new US Marine Squad

30. July 2020 thomasriepe 28mm, 28mm figure, 28mm Wargaming, Empress, Empress miniatures, Paul Hicks, Prick20, US Marines, Vietnam war

Here is another combo of NCO and Radio operator with a prick 20 radio. I did a head swap on the NCO figure. The head I used is a sculpt of my head done by Paul Hicks.

Here is a comparison with the original model on the left. The Figures are from Empress miniatures.

More to come

Rumble in the jungle

10. July 2020 thomasriepe 28mm, 28mm figure, 28mm Wargaming, Empress, Empress miniatures, North Vietnamese Army, NVA, Paul Hicks, Vietnam war

A NVA regular comrade soldier. This time i put some elephant grass on the base for variation. This works well for a jungle setting but might be a problem later on when I move to games set in Hue.