Platoon banner bearer

28. March 202028. March 2020 thomasriepe 28mm, Bannerbearer, Empress, Empress miniatures, female 28mm figures, Miniature Wargaming, North Vietnamese Army, NVA, Paul Hicks, Vietnam war, wargaming

The NVA used quite a lot of banners for morale and command reasons. This is again a Indo China range figure by Empress miniatures.

More shortly.

NVA HQ signals bugler

27. March 2020 thomasriepe 28mm, 28mm figure, Empress, Empress miniatures, North Vietnamese Army, NVA, Paul Hicks, Vietnam war, wargaming

This is the HQ bugler of my NVA platoon. The NVA used buglers quite often to relay orders in the field. The figure is again from the Empress miniatures Indo China range.

Will post more these days, to get your thoughts from Corona! Stay safe Stay at home!

NVA medic

26. March 202026. March 2020 thomasriepe 28mm, 28mm figure, Empress, Empress miniatures, medic, North Vietnamese Army, NVA, NVA medic, Paul Hicks, Vietnam war, wargaming

This is the medic of my first NVA platoon. He is from the French Indo China range from Empress miniatures. Fits in quite nicely with the new NVA range.

More to come!

Waiting for the enemy

24. March 2020 thomasriepe 28mm, 28mm figure, Empress miniatures, North Vietnamese Army, NVA, Paul Hicks, Vietnam war, wargaming

Another NVA Soldier. waiting for the action. Empress Miniatures NVA soldier.

Next up Platoon command .

Rice Paddies

23. March 202023. March 2020 thomasriepe 28mm, 28mm figure, Rice paddies, terrain, Vietnam war, wargames terrain, wargaming

I hope you are all safe and sound in this world wide pandemic! here in Germany the normal life doesn’t exist anymore and that is good to battle the virus. As we are more or less all at home and boredom will set in sooner or later , I will try to post something every other day to keep you a bit more occupied and to divert your thoughts away from Corona.

So for a start here is a rather big update. I finished my rice paddies for my Vietnam games.

I got the STL files from 3D Alienworlds.

Here are pictures of the printed paddies.

As you can see the paddy itself comes blank. So you can just paint it as an empty field or you can ad strips of rice plants to have a field with rice planted. The file is done to be able to ad artificial water effect to it.

As I didn’t want to use a water effect I changed the STL into this one:

So now it looks like the plants are partly submerged. I will use paint and gloss varnish to create a water effect like i did with all my water features for my gaming table.

So here are pictures of the finished rice paddies: