NVA with liberated blooper gun

9. February 2021 thomasriepe 28mm, 28mm figure, 28mm Miniatures, 28mm Wargaming, Blooper gun, Empress miniatures, Miniature Wargaming, North Vietnamese Army, NVA, Paul Hicks, Vietnam war, wargaming

The next member of the company command. Armed with a salvaged blooper gun. He is wearing a camouflage cape fashioned from a US parachute.

Walls

22. January 2021 thomasriepe 28mm, 28mm figure, 28mm Wargaming, Hue, Hue city, North Vietnamese Army, US Marines, Viet Cong, Vietnam war, Wall, wargames terrain, wargaming, wargaming miniatures, Wargaming scenery

As I had a lot of shorter 3d printer filament pieces, too short for bigger projects, I printed these walls to finish them off with something useful. Walls like these can be used in between buildings or around parks and along streets. They are not only useful for my city of Hue project. So here they are:

The 3d stl files are from a WOW kickstarter campaign. I always based one wall and one pillar on one base to make them generic enough to be placed on my gaming boards in a multitude of ways.

Here are a few shots of a US Marine fireteam looking for the NVA/VC or is it the other way round?

Pottery for my Vietnam table

20. January 2021 thomasriepe 28mm, pottery, Vietnam war, wargaming

I wanted to add some things to give the buildings of my Vietnam war village and city a more lived in look. So I started with some pots were Rice or salted fish or firearms? can be stored in. I got some cheap wooden beads from e bay :

I glued them to MDF bases and painted them in different colors . They look like this now:

You can use them as focal point for gaming, too. Lets say a US squad has to search a village to find weapons etc . There is enough space beneath the base to mark them with the content of the pots.

Here they are on my gaming table:

The villagers

15. January 2021 thomasriepe 28mm, 28mm figure, 28mm Wargaming, female 28mm figures, Full Metal Miniatures, Vietnam Village, Vietnam war, wargaming, wargaming miniatures

Here are all the people living in my Vietnam war era village. I finished the last Full Metal Miniature yesterday.

So here is the last miniature:

And the village and the inhabitants:

collecting firewood

14. January 2021 thomasriepe 28mm, 28mm figure, 28mm Wargaming, Full Metal Miniatures, Vietnam war, wargaming, wargaming miniatures

Another civilian Miniature by Full Metal Miniatures. This time a porter carrying firewood. Painted as usual with GW contrast paints.

Mother with baby

12. January 2021 thomasriepe 28mm, 28mm figure, 28mm Wargaming, female 28mm figures, Full Metal Miniatures, Vietnam war, wargaming

Here is the next Full Metal Miniature. A woman with a baby.

The snake catcher

11. January 2021 thomasriepe 28mm, 28mm figure, 28mm Wargaming, Full Metal Miniatures, Snake catcher, Vietnam war, wargaming

This is a figure of a snake catcher. Figure by Full Metal Miniatures. He is carrying a Y staff for catching the snakes and a basket with lid for disposing the caught snakes.

I see purple smoke

7. January 2021 thomasriepe 28mm, 28mm Wargaming, Marker smoke, Smoke Grenade, Vietnam war, wargaming

Last year I build a burning smoke grenade in the classic way, by using an armature and self made colored upholstery foam. You can read about this here.

Now As I got a 3D printer last year and I acquired some STL files for smoke effects like missile exhaust , explosions etc from Deadly Print Studio I tried there smoke marker STL . I modified the file a bit to get different sizes of smoke . Then I printed them out based them in the usual way and added a little smoke grenade. Here are the results: