Hue 68 - UD 26/4 more buildings references

[Silent Invader]

Given that there are a now couple of threads on soon to come ranges for the fighting in Hue in 1968, I thought I’d start on some  terrain in anticipation of releases.

I’m going for a ‘take the block’ and/or ‘rescue’ game, probably with the VC etc as a non player force. The buildings are on A4  (or 2 of A5) sections of 4mm MDF.  As well as the block, I’ll likely have lines  of building facades to two sides, from which the USMC etc can launch their assault. Trees and other decor items will be individually based.

Edit: I’m setting my game in The Triangle, which was the newer part of Hue City.

Here’s the first constructs:

A walled garden with a Buddha statue, using the excellent walls from OSHIRO Model Terrain:





A very-WIP large house:







A medium sized house with garden with mesh fencing to rear (on 2 xA5):





I probably won’t paint or flock until I have completed all of the assemblies. Next up will be either a chapel or a pair of small houses.

[OSHIROmodels]

Looking good 

The big house looks impressive and I like the idea of the smaller 'tiles'.

[Silent Invader]

Ta. 

I’ve still got to add a lot of detail to the big house (obvs). The smaller tiles add a bit more flexibility to the layout and also reduce the likelihood of warping on properties with long gardens.

Btw, having seen how well Dr De’ath’s catacombs came out, I might well use some sort of pimped-up vinyl tile for the road surfaces.

[Dr DeAth]

It's all coming together, going to be an interesting board to play on

[traveller]

Looking good! I need also to start building to accomodate the Vietnam hordes that being thrown at us by Crucible Crush, Gringo and Empress...

What are the really the specific characteristics of Vietnam city architecture?

[FreakyFenton]

Looking good! 

[Silent Invader]

Thanks all 

What are the really the specific characteristics of Vietnam city architecture?

I should have pointed out in my first post (now edited) that my board will be set in The Triangle, which was then the newer part of Hue, south of the Citadel and separated from it by a broad river.  I’ve looked at a ton of images both on-line and in books, focussing on a mix of different property types that were present, which in The Triangle were often either modern or earlier 20thc French colonial style, concrete rendered usually with shutters, often with  high walled gardens to the rear. I’ll mostly be making residential buildings, with a mix of larger and smaller. Two points of note, my church will be based on one from outside of Hue (the ones present were so big they’d dominate my board) while my walled garden with moon gate is actually influenced by the Hue section of Full Metal Jacket.

[Ultravanillasmurf]

What does he call his gun?

It has been a while since I saw that, I had forgotten who was in it.

With all this Vietnam stuff about, I am going to have to dig out my Campaign 4 book.

[OSHIROmodels]

Vera!

 

[Silent Invader]

Vera!

 

Seriously.... he called it Vera?!

[Elk101]

That's an excellent start Steve, I'm really impressed. I look forward to playing on it! 

[OSHIROmodels]

Seriously.... he called it Vera?!

Not in FMJ, no 

[Wyrmalla]

The video game Rising Storm 2: Vietnam has a good representation of the old and new portions of that city if you're looking for references (including interiors). At least going by that game there's was a good deal in variety of the architecture in the area, and whilst different styles did have defined boundaries in places, you could just cross a street and go back centuries in terms of what the buildings looked like (which is just fine for wargaming boards...).




Particularly what I felt set the locations in that game apart was all the contemporary cars and street furniture. Which isn't really something I'd seen much at wargames show boards covering the setting unfortunately. I couldn't speak for actually sourcing any vehicles from this period however, well outside of old diecast ranges (which I suppose as a load of the vehicles in Vietnam at the time were from the West, wouldn't make sourcing diecasts as difficult as it could be).

Great work so far. How is everything going to fit together? Are you going to stack each of those panels together, or will they fit into slots on a pre-defined board? As they are just sticking some roads and green areas in between would be enough for a board, but well, that's probably oversimplifying things.

[Malamute]

Very good start indeed.

[Silent Invader]

@W

Those are really good shots and comments. Very representative of a lot of the imagery (note the high walls to the gardens in the top photo). Shutters are indicative of the shops though I don’t have any commercial buildings planned at the mo, just aiming for a residential block of which some were described as having big houses on one side of the street and smaller on the other. I’m glad you mentioned civilian cars as they perhaps should feature in any Hue game, both as line of sight blockers and to be co-opted  by the marines for moving men, supplies and equipment.  I have a  claimed 1/55 1960s VW Beetle by Siku on its way but I haven’t found any others as yet. 

@M

Thank you - maybe  you’ll play ?!