A North Vietnamese soldier charging. Empress Miniature sculpted by Paul Hicks.
Charge
NVA
North Vietnamese LMG gunner
The next figure is a NVA light machine-gun gunner. This time in classic green again.
Hiding in the bush
another North Vietnamese soldier. Again from Empress.
A Vietnamese soldier in classic green
Here is another Vietnamese NVA soldier painted with a red party scarf.
take aim!
Another NVA jungle fighter. I painted the backpack in a unusual light grey. As always taken the color from the excellent reference book by E. Emering.
Another NVA fighter
Next NVA soldier. This time in a unusual colored uniform. But it is a authentic color . You can look it up in this book:
More to come.
The next NVA lot
Here is the next NVA soldier . The first figure of the miniatures I bought at Crisis 19 in Antwerp. He is another Empress miniature. I painted him wearing a black pair of trousers ( you need new ones after a while on the Ho Chi Min trail) and a traditional blue and white Vietnamese scarf.
Finished the first lot of my NVA soldiers
Here is the last NVA soldier of the lot i bought at the release date last year. Empress Miniatures NVA soldier , sculpted by Mr. Hicks.
And the last three together:
Next up ” throw smoke!”.
NVA Soldier waiting….
Another NVA regular . Figure by Empress miniatures.
Just one more and the first lot is finished.
New picture frame
Now that there are only three older NVA soldiers left before I start on the Crisis19 ones, I thought it would be a good idea to change my photo setup. Until now i took the pictures on my gaming table . The lighting wasn’t perfect there so I decided to make a small framework for my painting/modeling desk as light there is no problem. So I took two pieces of extruded polystyrene and glued them together with my hot glue gun.
You get something like this then. I glued sand and grid down like I would do on a piece for my gaming table and started painting it with my usual ground colors.
Then I painted the backdrop a light blue color and used a second even lighter tone of blue to simulate light clouds.
So when used correctly you get a picture like this:
Now you can use different scatter terrain pieces to change the layout as you like. Here are pictures of another NVA soldier using the plain photo frame I described above:
I think you get much better pictures like that . What do you think?
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