VC/NVA in spider holes.

Easy to do and useful on the battlefield.

VERY cool! Are these cut down figures or cast as torsos?

Thanks!

Cut down figures.

Very cool - thanks Paul!

Very nice work!

Yes, they look great.

I did something similar in 20mm for low to the ground bunkers. I made the bunker and put the head-and-shoulders in it.

Tom

As an aside, I was reading about NVA/VC fortifications in one of the Osprey guides. It made the point that, where possible, the NVA/VC would dig-in deep, so that when they were in their firing positions, they were effectively eye level with the ground. The NVA/VC would then remove all the lower branches from the bushes around their bunkers (but leave the upper branches in pace). This meant that if you were flush to the ground in your trench/bunker, you still had a good field of fire, and could see anyone approaching your position. But if you were walking upright you could see very little. Very smart I thought.

That is a neat idea

General Castries wrote: The NVA/VC would then remove all the lower branches from the bushes around their bunkers (but leave the upper branches in place).   

Oh yes, this is often how troops knew they were in either at the edge of a bunker complex or a well-set ambush location. When you see cleared fields of fire you know you're about to be in deep trouble.
There is a flip side though, and I have often read that despite the cleared fields of fire VC/NVA bunkers in III Corps tended to be built somewhat taller than elsewhere because of the hard clay layers, which would not allow them to dig too deep. This meant there could be defilade in front of the bunker, and with the cleared field of fire it was much easier for GIs to crawl up and toss a grenade into the aperture.

Anywhoo, lovely painting ans excellent spiderholes!