An angry “mama san” and her brother who lost his leg to a booby trap. They seem to be quite inocent.
But ever so often you find out, the hard way, that inocence is not very often to be found
They got a little present from up north , in the form of an old german MG.
She is on her way back home after a long day in the family rice paddys.
Or is she on her way to join the other VC of the village tonight?
Both miniatures together:
This is another one of the VC in disguise by Empress Miniatures. A very nice sculpt, especially the face.
But if she gets disturbed, she runs to the hidden weapons and gets the gun out:
And both figures next to each other:
Is he really on the way to the market?
Or on his way to kill someone?
The next VC in disguise. Always check every sack of rice !
This Vietnamese village elder looks proudly over the rice paddies of his village, or is he looking for the imperialist enemy?
OOPs, he had a rifle hidden in the elephant grass behind him… better look more closely next time!
Here are all the civilian/VC figures I finished up till now.
More to come…
Just a innocent farmer…..
Or a bit of firepower for the VC!
Here is the next Civilian or VC in disguise armed with a light MG.
Another civilian miniature. This time a female one. She is carrying an upturned wicker hat draped with a piece of cloth. This was very typical for carrying goods. So after leaving the goods purchased on the market she goes to the weapons cache to do some hunting…..
Another guerrilla fighter to wreak havoc….
The next figure pair in the civilian range I am working on. This time a village elder to frail for a fight?
not really I would say. Better look twice!
Last week I got the new Vietnamese civilians from Empress sculpted by Paul Hicks. Very nice figures indeed . I ordered each figure twice as I wanted to change one each by swiping heads or adding some green stuff to get an even wider variety of miniatures. So above is a female civilian, the left figure is the original the middle and right pictures show what I did.
Left original right the changed figure
I will paint them up over the next coming weeks . Paul Hicks sculpted the same miniatures with weapons! So you can swop miniatures in your games and turn an innocent villager into a VC!
Pictures by Empress Miniatures
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