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.

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.

Another Gringo 40 marine

27. November 2019 thomasriepe 28mm, 28mm figure, Gringo 40, US Marines, Vietnam war

Here is another US marine for my Vietnam war project. Again a Gringo 40 figure.

These are still miniatures I purchased during the summer. I didn’t even start basing the new ones I bought at Crisis jet.

In the jungle there are NVA soldiers

25. November 2019 thomasriepe 28mm, 28mm figure, Empress miniatures, NVA, Paul Hicks, Vietnam war

More and more north Vietnamese soldiers are coming to south Vietnam . Here is the next Paul Hicks sculpt available from Empress .

Another NVA Soldier with a head swop

21. November 2019 thomasriepe 28mm, 28mm figure, Empress miniatures, NVA, Vietnam war

Here is another NVA Soldier with a exchanged head. Both figure and head are from Empress miniatures.

the third member of the second squad

19. November 2019 thomasriepe 28mm, 28mm figure, Gringo 40, US Marines, Vietnam war

This time a very iconic miniature . Again by Gringo 40

Grunt No II of the second squad

18. November 2019 thomasriepe 28mm, 28mm figure, Gringo 40, Vietnam war

Here is the second Grunt of the second Squat of my US Marines. A Gringo 40 miniature.

The first miniature after Crisis 19

14. November 2019 thomasriepe 28mm, 28mm figure, Empress miniatures, NVA, Paul Hicks, Vietnam war

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)