Here is the next NVA soldier. An Empress miniature with a head swop ( You can get the heads in the vietnam section of the Empress homepage).
Next time it will be more light in the jungle again. Fumbled with the exposure time.
Here is the next grunt for the third fire team. Again Empress miniature sculpted by Paul Hicks and painted with Contrast Paint.
Moore to come!
Today I will show something completely different. I finished the first miniature of the other side of the Vietnam war . Here is the first NVA Soldier. An Empress miniatures figure sculpted by Paul Hicks. I did a head swap as when I purchased the figures there were only 2 different packs available but since then the range has grown considerably and is still doing so. I painted the figure with Contrast colors by GW.
There will be many more following this one!
This is the next member of the 3rd fire team 1st squad 1st platoon of my US Marines.
An Empress miniatures figure sculpted by Paul Hicks. A joy to paint!
As you can see here I made my own clump foliage. I mixed a coarse scatter foliage to be added to my jungle terrain and to the bases of the Marines and the soon to come NVA.
Here is a picture without the foliage and with the foliage:
What do you think ? I personally think with foliage will blend the miniatures better into the terrain.
Here is the first Marine of the 3rd fire team of my 1st squad of US marines for Vietnam.
A Empress miniatures figure sculpted by Paul Hicks.
Here is the squad leader of the 1st squad 1st platoon. A Gringo 40 figure again:
And the 2nd fire team:
I got the new North Vietnamese Army soldiers from Empress Miniatures in the post the other day. As there is not such a big variety at the moment ( there are many more to come from the talented Mr. Hicks!) I started to swop some heads on the miniatures. You can find other heads in the french indochine range of Empress.
The one in the middle is the original miniature. The one on the left and right has a new head. There is a little green stuff round the neck missing at the moment.
Close ups of the two with new heads:
And the next three:
I will do another eight figures with a head swap and hopefully I have enough diversity in my NVA squads then.
Here is the next Grunt for the second fireteam of the 1st Squad, 1st platoon. Again a Gringo 40 miniature, painted with Contrast paints.
More to come in the future. I just ordered two slicks from Italeri in 1/48. Need some air lift capacities for my games.
This is Grunt number VI of the 1st Squad 1st Platoon of my US Marines. Again a Gringo 40 miniature painted with Contrast Colors from Games Workshop.
More to follow!
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