28mm Streets of Hue

Thank you.
And Redfox your document contains hand painted shop signs I did not know. Excellent. Thank you for sharing it.
I will share what I collected later too.

Great painting job in yours minis Richard! I like the brand mix! Only children minis are very big! Not?

Chiltern? Yes... massive compared to the rest of the usual suspects. But I HAVE seen them mixed and matched.

BravoSix wrote:Chiltern? Yes... massive compared to the rest of the usual suspects. But I HAVE seen them mixed and matched.

Yes We can!

I've been absent for a while. Great work!!!

Tom

Thank you. I just finished the latest figs before painting terrain accessories (jars for shops that I made from beads painted ) and civilian vehicles.
Once again a mix of different manufacturers, many Gringo40s that time. Basing is not complete.



I hesitate to zoom more: you will be disappointed. level of details is a question of balance between skills, time spent to paint and unit size. I try to paint my collection by bunch of 40 figs, mixing manufacturers. I have today maybe 20 different colors to apply. I always finish by faces: my weakness. it is long, too long (as I still have 300 figs to paint) but when the 40 are finished, I feel ready for another tour.
Last thing: I paint my minis in stand up position with a table at the level of my neck: I find that much more comfortable for the neck.

Amazing!

Do you have a link to the supplier of those beads?

I fact my daughter had these wooden beads for yeas but this is very close: ( https://www.amazon.com/MEOLY-Colorful-Multicolor-Various-Project/dp/B07CY173QH ). Some have a tear shape. I will try to find the info and the references. You know I just paint them in white color and glue some decorated paper on them to simulate Chinese ceramic.

Thanks! Yeah I've made some village pottery in the past using beads from Michaels store, with appropriate sized jump rings as the rim tops. Then I just used milliput inside the top of the jar to simulate food contents. Simple and effective.

So the first 20 cm long base is almost finished. Not 50 shades of grey but only four...but I had some fun anyway. The palette I used is a bit dark but I wanted to contrast with the turquoise and the hand painted shop signs. While painting the other bases maybe will I converge on a more lighter palette. Let's instinct decides.
And it was the opportunity to test some rusted metal rendering.




The advertisings are movable: it was just to test with some. They are not all from 1968 and I found them on the web.

Amazing work, loving this!

These look great. Really love the weathering.

WHOA!

Thanks. In case you do an urban terrain, I recommend to do the pavement with plasterboard scrim tape. The rendering is not bad.


I scratch built a sentry gatehouse that I could see on some photos of Hue along Sainte Jeanne d'Arc high school.
I am working on the trees now.
I terms of other terrain items, I have only a food stall to do, a wrecked cart, barbed wire, urban rubble small bases, a traffic tower and an abandoned lion dance costume.
That with all the cars I have will be enough.
For the lion dance head, I will use that : https://www.etsy.com/fr/listing/519344132/chinois-dansent-lion-perles-plaque?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=lion+dance+head&ref=sr_gallery-1-8&organic_search_click=1&col=1

These are just phenomenal!

Great job, build , painting, just thinking it up in the first place; all conbined in an excellent result.
The electric cables are a particularly nice detail.

Hello,  I have continued to build more urban bases in 28mm like this US embassy gate. It will be to display the MPs from Gringo40s. The front wall is 3D printed. I can share the stl file if you need.
Next is the USO entrance, an abandoned French cemetery, ARVN memorial, Hue Bunker Hill, Ste Jeanne D'Arc high school and building in front of MACV Compound along highway 1. I will post the pictures when painted. it is more satisfactory.

That is tremendously cool.

I sure missed a lot of things here. Your work is truly beautiful and very resourceful.

Tom

But I forget to do the VC sappers breach... I have to fix that. Waiting for the sappers, I quite finished the Hue building that is today the Duy Tan Hotel. It looks like from far to the building beside the big gates in front of the MACV compound. This is my last complicated building for my diorama.

Wow, outstanding detail!! Totally unique terrain.

Richard, this project is so impressive. I love all of it. You have to put it on at a convention!

Thank you. Putting the turbo to finish my buildings, then the vehicles, then the minis...
I was looking for a ARVN memorial for open areas of my diorama. I finally choose an enthusiastic 1/32 toy soldier. Any of them could fit.
28mm Genghis Khan from Wargames Illustrated will be a good former Vietnamese National Hero general statue too.

What a superb collection. Great to see the WIP pics of how you put these together. The finished result is spot on.

Absolutely great stuff. Love the Embassy wall particularly.