Tomrommel1's Vietnam War project

Thanks Sam , hope you had a wonderful time too.

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.



More at https://wargamesgazette.com/2021/01/11/the-snake-catcher/

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



More at https://wargamesgazette.com/2021/01/12/mother-with-baby/

If you build a city you need some groundwork to place it on. As my terrain tiles are all grassland and not suited for a build up environment. I started building thin overlays as ground for the city/village. I will build streets running over the rest of the terrain in a similar way later. I uses PVC sign makers tiles for this.As the tiles are very thin( but not warping) you can take them with you to other locations quite easily. As you can see on the picture. The setup is on our dining room table and not on my usual gaming table in the basement. This could be a nice lockdown project as you get everything you need on the net.



More at https://wargamesgazette.com/2021/01/13/the-streets-for-hue/

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



More at https://wargamesgazette.com/2021/01/14/collecting-firewood/

More steady progress. Well done!

Thanks!

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





More at https://wargamesgazette.com/2021/01/15/the-villagers/

A Vietnamese village well:


A 3D print

More at https://wargamesgazette.com/2021/01/18/the-village-well/

That turned out really well. 3D printer gets tempting from time to time...

indeed it does

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 used wooden beads for these.

More at https://wargamesgazette.com/2021/01/20/pottery-for-my-vietnam-table/

I printed some walls with a short rest of FDM filament I had lying around. 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:



and in action:





Many more pictures here: https://wargamesgazette.com/2021/01/22/walls/

Nice stuff Tom.

Thanks Bravo six !

Here is the next building for my Hue city project. Another 3D printed building from WOW buildings. It is from the world in ruins kickstarter set. It is intended for a “Saving Privat Rian” setting, but I think it works for Hue too.









Many more pictures at https://wargamesgazette.com/2021/01/25/a-colonial-style-building-for-my-hue-project/

I thought that a small train station for my Hue project would be nice. There is a complete Hue train station in the WOW Vietnam kickstarter but for me it is just too big. So I started with some tracks and a Diesel engine from another WOW kickstarter.



Many more pictures and a how to about the rust effect here: https://wargamesgazette.com/2021/01/28/a-diesel-engine-for-my-train-layout/

You have sure been busy turning out neat stuff.

Tom

Thanks Tom!

And after a longer hiatus here is the next miniature. A NVA NCO blowing a whistle.



More at https://wargamesgazette.com/2021/02/08/nva-company-command-section/

More great work. I totally missed the train post. Neat!

Thanks!

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



More at https://wargamesgazette.com/2021/02/09/nva-with-liberated-blooper-gun/

Here is the signals NCO of the company command I am building and painting. The flag is freehand, not my best..



More at https://wargamesgazette.com/2021/02/10/the-company-command-trumpeter/

Nice. I really like the guys with the whistle and bugle.

Tom

Here is the completed company command squad for my NVA army. A really nice pack of figures from Empress Miniatures full of character .



The last missing figure, my company commander .



More at https://wargamesgazette.com/2021/02/11/the-complete-company-command-squad/

Sorry somehow the forum cut the picture of the complete squad

That means the pic is too big. The image needs to be re-sized. I usually re-size mine down to 900 x whatever the width is.

OK so hopefully this isn't to big then



The 60mm mortar by Empress