Tomrommel1's Vietnam War project

So now that I droped out of the build something Contest 2021, I can post pictures of my build.
Here are pictures of the finished traps:







And of the finished terrain boards:





And a section of Marines moving through:



Many more pictures of the build and the finished terrain boards at: https://wargamesgazette.com/2021/07/07/the-build-something-contest-2021/

Very nice ideas Tom.

Some great looking bamboo and bush. Great terrain pieces.

Excellent. That sharpened bamboo looks a bit nasty

Thanks guys!



Here is another VC soldier with the traditional vietnamese “No’n La’ ” headgear. The head is from Empress as is the body of the figure.

more pictures at: https://wargamesgazette.com/2021/07/14/vc-with-non-la-headgear/

My newest addition to the ranks of my NVA force is a recoilless rifle on the move. This one comes with another one deployed in the same pack.



More pictures at: https://wargamesgazette.com/2021/07/20/recoilless-rifle-on-the-move/

That pointy swinging bamboo booby trap looks evil. These are great game piece ideas.

So back with the brushes and paints. I started doing some hobby stuff again. First of i finished a few figures I had on the painting desk. The first is another VC with a head swap. On the right is the converted figure on the left the original. Both head and figure are from Empress



More pictures at: https://wargamesgazette.com/2021/08/31/another-vc-with-a-head-swap/

Very nice!

Thanks

A RPG armed VC with a “No’n La” hat

Another head swop done. This figure is armed with a RPG and a AK 47. The original figure on the left next to the kitbashed one.



More pictures at: https://wargamesgazette.com/2021/09/02/a-rpg-armed-vc-with-a-non-la-hat/

Great work. Those RPG-7s really have the detail and your painting brings it out nicely.

Tom

Thank you

Here is another RPG armed NVA soldier. I needed a bit more firepower for my NVA force .



More pictures at: https://wargamesgazette.com/2021/09/07/another-rpg/

Nice!
Looks like an RPG-2 this time. I may be wrong. In 20mm that I use, the distinguishing difference is the rear flange on a 7 and none on the 2.

Tom

It is indeed a 2

Today I finished a AA gun team in ground support mode. The team consists of an NCO a gunner and an assistant gunner.







more pictures at: https://wargamesgazette.com/2021/09/09/a-aa-gun-in-ground-support/

I’ve always loved those machine guns on wheels. Nice job.

Tom

Thanks Tom

Another RPG armed VC or NVA soldier. After a longer brake, due to work constrains, I have started painting again. I also started with a bigger gaming project of a campaign of patroling in the Nam. More on this in the future.



more pictures at: https://wargamesgazette.com/2021/10/13/vc-with-rocket-propelled-grenade/

Nice job as always. I’m looking forward to info on your game. Not much gaming seems to be going on around here.

Tom

I am a solo gamer due to no oponents here in my part of the world. But as I have to talk quite a lot during my daytime profesion, I like it as it is.

Last weekend I finished some scatter terrain pieces to be used as swamp area. I am building up the last missing terrain pieces for a campaign game set during the Vietnam war, north of the parrots beak area. This area of Vietnam was a large swamp and abandoned rice paddy area near the border to Cambodia. So an infiltration point for the NVA and VC. But back to the terrain pieces. I want to depict the swamp as individual scatter terrain to be able to have different pathways through the swamp. The whole area will hinder movement due to being difficult terrain.



More about how I build the pieces at: https://wargamesgazette.com/2021/10/18/some-swamp-terrain-pieces/

Nice and useful terrain pieces.

Tom