28mm Streets of Hue

Hello All,
I have started my display diorama about battle of Hue. It will be a set of modular streets sections, scratch build with everything I can find. I plan this year to make one road section (20x60 cm) and 6 street sections (10x20 cm each). I take as model some streets of Hue or Saigon from 1968. I just made the first section (to be detailed with electric wires and billboards, then painted). The next sections will be (inspired) :  the Casino cinema, the MITAC (Melia) factory with sewer tubes, bars (King bar, and others), a military compound entrance and a gas station. Of course with battle damages. It should give a representative overview of the fighting in the new city of Hue, waiting for more sections that will recall the Hue citadel, ruins and temples.
Regards, Richard

Cor, that's the stuff!

A big project and a lot of work ahead. Your first photos already immerse us in the battle!

Fantastic start! That is some nice scratch building.

WOW!

Looking good

Very good start indeed . I am working on the same project on and of

Thank you very much. And Tomrommel1, this is a good idea! Looking forward to see your realizations.
I just discover (I am just three years late...), while searching for images of Hue MACV compound, some screenshots of the virtual map from Rising Storm 2 PC game. It seems realistic and historical. I think I will pick up some ideas in the game for that part.
For the moment I added some texturing with plaster + water + PVA Glue and telephone cable wire. Then primed in black. And the old French manufacture is under construction. Next time I will post pictures when painted.

Looking really good.  Love the wiring and extra touches.

Richard, you REALLY have an eye for detail! Those look fantastic!

You are very ambitious. What a project and how good it looks already.

Tom

Excellent Richard! I like the Marianne

Hello,
I made a first set of STL files for detailing my display diorama. The scale is 28mm. Here is an example of the printed result. I made a Wickham trolley (very basic - to be detailed more), a pattern of Vietnamese circular symbols (diameter 20mm each), a pattern of squares for making balcony, the Casino cinema gate, sewer pipes, a triangular pole, two gas pumps, an iron curtain, a traffic gatehouse (only the roof and the bottom) at a crossroad and a 120mm diameter round that could look like an ashtray but that is in fact the base of a bomb crater revealing VC tunnels network. It is very basic design but if you have a 3D printer and are interested by some of them, I can send it/them. Just send me a PM with an email I can send a zip attached (I don't know how to attach a file to a post on this forum).

Nice!

Yes, nice indeed.

Tom

Cannot resist to show the Rap Casino cinema from Saigon ( images ) quite finish and ready to paint... 28mm long and 14cm high. I hope my children will not discover I am looting their Playmobil crates to find bits for detailing...

Richard MARQUIS wrote: I hope my children will not discover I am looting their Playmobil crates to find bits for detailing...

You bad, bad, Dad.

very nice indeed

stunning

Here are some details of the RAP Casino cinema primed. Detailing finished.

And for the old French MELIA factory, refugees lived there in those concrete sewer pipes. It is to recall that fact. Sewer pipes to be detailed as shown on 1969 pictures.

WIP is the King bar from Saigon. Not so easy to build...

Stunning!!

For the gas station, after having watched many pictures from that period, I choose the company. (not a real surprise):

The sign pole is a Starlux one bought on eBay.

You should call your bar The Saigon Gentleman's Club after FOF's members only forum.