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Thanks OTB. But now I have lost my excuse for not tackling those three rather intimidating projects.

Tom

I spent the weekend trying to knock these guys off, but there is still a lot of painting to go: one company of grunts with LAW and mortar support teams, a dog team, a ranger squad and various character figures.

I know that some of these are Qualiticast figures, but if anyone can identify the others I would be curious to know what they are - I got them all as a job lot second-hand....



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And these guys will hopefully be coming down the Ho Chi Minh Trail in the not-too-distant future...

Can't wait to see them finished. I definitely need more of that than I have.

Tom

That workbench is the very definition of teutonic efficiency! Nice work OTB!

I somehow missed the Phantom, but it looks sweet.

Definitely a lot of figures on the bench there! Look forward to seeing them all painted up.

My first post-lockdown purchase from a local model shop: The air war over North Vietnam is about to get hotter....



We'll be going outdoors to play the dogfight game...

OTB wrote:My first post-lockdown purchase from a local model shop: The air war over North Vietnam is about to get hotter....

Playing outdoors sounds cool. When I was a kid at home with my parents I played WWI aviation with Aurora 1/48 models in the backyard. My father made flight stands for me that were 6' high.

Tom

I remember back in the day, Lou Zocchi and Gamescience had a set of rules for big plastic kit Star Trek ships that needed to be played out on a gymnasium floor!

I have some air war rules that cover jets, but they are designed for tiny planes and use inches. I was thinking if I use feet or even metres for movement, it would make it more interesting and I could have a game in the yard. I have a shingle yard that might be mistaken for the Gulf of Tonkin and a patch of grass on one side that could pass as a coastal area of North Vietnam....

It turns out my local model shop also has this kit in stock - looks like I need to make a return trip:

Dooooooo iiiiiiiit!

Darby wrote:Dooooooo iiiiiiiit!

(We have A MINIGUN SMILEY!!!)

Figured someone would use it eventually.

I love that smiley. I never noticed it before.

Tom

BravoSix wrote:Figured someone would use it eventually.

MiG-21 Build



OK, it’s time to open the box....

It's a large kit - over 20 cm long (8 inches): almost as big as the F-4 Phantom.



With a nicely detailed pilot figure.

None of the decals are for the North Vietnamese Airforce, so I'm going to have to improvise.



Decals for the control panels is a nice touch:



An easy paint job: a quick spray with aluminium paint and start building.

Reference pics I took of a North Vietnamese MiG-21 at the Military Museum in Hanoi:

Great reference pic OTB. Interesting that they left all the warnings in Russian, but I guess the ground crews were probably trained by Russians so they had a general idea of what they meant.

I'm not sure about the ground crews, but various of the pilots were trained by Soviets during the war. A friend's father even graduated from the Krasnodar military aviation pilots' school. I intend to paint my one up with the same number as the one that he flew.

Looking forward to hearing about that being shot down.