Here is another NVA soldier. I am working on a platoon command group at the moment. Next up will be some RPGs then.
As you can see I added some elefantgrass to the base. These were offcuts of the artificial grass mat I used to do elegant grass with for my jungle terrain, more info here
More to come in the next days.
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!
Here is the next Empress miniatures NVA Soldier, sculpted by paul Hicks . I painted the figure again with GW contrast colors.
Weapons and Field Gear of the North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong by Edward J. Emering is a book about field gear and inert weapons and ordnance, that have long been popular items with militaria collectors. The Vietnam War by its very nature offers an incredible range and variety of these items for the interested collector. The North Vietnamese and their puppet troops of the National Liberation Front (Viet Cong or VC) relied primarily on communist allies (Russia, China, North Korea, Cuba and various Eastern Bloc countries of the era) for their weapons and field gear. For this reason, Vietnam represents a microcosm of gear from all of this century’s wars, dating back to World War I,
It is a tome of knowledge for people who want to paint NVA and Viet Cong soldier miniatures like the ones offered by Empress miniatures or Gringo 40. It has a wealth of information and color pictures of equipment and uniforms as you can see here:
Very recommended for the miniature painter, sculptor and collector. You can get a copy here.
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.
More and more north Vietnamese soldiers are coming to south Vietnam . Here is the next Paul Hicks sculpt available from Empress .
Here is another NVA Soldier with a exchanged head. Both figure and head are from Empress miniatures.
So back to normal after Crisis 19. Returning on Sunday I thought it might be nice starting to paint some miniatures again. I had purchased quite a lot more Vietnam war models so I will continue to ad to my collection by painting them up through this winter. By the way I bought some MDF 25mm round bases. As I always ad a magnet to them, for easy storage, how would you do that with these bases? I used plastic slota bases up to now.
Here is the NVA figure I painted ( Empress miniature by Paul Hicks)
Here is the next NVA soldier by Paul Hicks available through Empress miniatures:
More to come !
Here is the 4th soldier of my 1st NVA squad. Figure by Paul Hicks, released by Empress Miniatures. the figure has a head swop with one of the Empress head packs you can get here.
More in the painting line.
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