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Author Topic: Tomrommels Vietnam war 13.3. Another Ford Mutt page 47  (Read 77272 times)

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Re: Tomrommels Vietnam war 20.1. NVA soldier page 8
« Reply #120 on: January 23, 2020, 10:40:38 AM »
As a break from painting miniatures and as I like building terrain as much as painting miniatures, I started to do some more terrain for my Vietnam gaming table. I decided that my jungle wasn’t dense enough so there have to be more jungle scatter pieces. There were only a few palm trees so there have to be done some more. But most important I wanted to do some bigger elephant grass patches and a landingzonye for my choppers.



The elephant grass test piece was done by glueing pieces of artificial grass to a plastic base , adding filler round the edges of the grass to blend it all in , adding sand and scatter and of course paint.


So this looks like a small path through the grass doesn’t it?

Next up my LZ ( landing zone) done like the elephant grass with a wider central free space for the choppers to land in





More on https://wargamesgazette.com/2020/01/23/more-terrain-pieces-for-my-vietnam-project/
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Re: Tomrommels Vietnam war 23.1. more jungle terrain page 9
« Reply #121 on: January 23, 2020, 02:32:00 PM »
Love your terrain.
Will be great to play on it
when you do.
« Last Edit: January 23, 2020, 06:30:10 PM by Marine0846 »
Semper Fi, Mac

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Re: Tomrommels Vietnam war 23.1. more jungle terrain page 9
« Reply #122 on: January 23, 2020, 04:09:38 PM »
Thanks

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Re: Tomrommels Vietnam war 23.1. more jungle terrain page 9
« Reply #123 on: January 23, 2020, 07:12:51 PM »
Super, that grass looks fantastic.

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Re: Tomrommels Vietnam war 23.1. more jungle terrain page 9
« Reply #124 on: January 23, 2020, 07:30:10 PM »
That grass looks great!

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Re: Tomrommels Vietnam war 23.1. more jungle terrain page 9
« Reply #125 on: January 24, 2020, 09:18:12 PM »
Indeed. Love that stuff. Excellent terrain. You can't go wrong with that. ;-)

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Re: Tomrommels Vietnam war 23.1. more jungle terrain page 9
« Reply #126 on: January 27, 2020, 06:55:15 AM »
Thanks gents!
here is another addition to my NVA army. I know that the Vietnamese figures from Empress depict NVA and not VC. But i thought after weeks on the Ho Chi Min trail the original uniform might have been unserviceable and the soldiers would wear what ever they could find. So I painted the clothes in the black color of the VC fighters. After all they might have provided their brother NVA after there long trek south. So here he is a NVA soldier in the traditional VC black. Painted mainly in GW contrast colors.



More at: https://wargamesgazette.com/2020/01/27/the-black-pyjama/

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Re: Tomrommels Vietnam war 27.1. the black pyjama page 9
« Reply #127 on: January 30, 2020, 07:20:00 AM »
The last figure in this batch. Another Empress NVA painted up as a VC complete with red scarf!



Next up will be a couple of Bell UH-1C choppers for my Marines! More at https://wargamesgazette.com/2020/01/30/another-charlie-in-the-bush/


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Re: Tomrommels Vietnam war 30.1. another Charlie in the bush page 9
« Reply #129 on: February 04, 2020, 07:50:50 AM »
What is Vietnam wargaming without the iconic helicopters the US forces were using there. After painting up some Marines and NVA, VC figures I thought it would be time to build some choppers. The Marines used the UH-1C and the Sikorsky H34 during the first years of the conflict . I start with the UH-1C.
As I got two 3d printers a resin and a filament printer I tried to print a Huey on both of them and wanted to find out which printer would do the better job.

Here are pictures of the filament printed Huey:



As you can see you can see the printing lines quite clearly. I didn’t like that very much and they would have shown after painting even more. So I printed one in resin:



I like that one much more. So I will work with the resin printed ones. I started printing a second one and built a flight stand out of an old car antenna:



The chopper will be attached with a magnet. More pictures at https://wargamesgazette.com/2020/02/04/the-bell-uh-1c-huey/

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Botou os ingleses na roda
3 a 0 no Liverpool
Ficou marcado na história
E no Rio não tem outro igual
Só o Flamengo é campeão mundial
E agora seu povo
Pede o mundo de novo

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Re: Tomrommels Vietnam war 3.2. Bell UH-1C in 1/50 page 9
« Reply #131 on: February 04, 2020, 01:50:06 PM »
nice model Carlos

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Re: Tomrommels Vietnam war 3.2. Bell UH-1C in 1/50 page 9
« Reply #132 on: February 06, 2020, 01:46:37 PM »
I starrtet to paint the 2 Hueys I printed. One as a medevac/dustoff chopper the other as a slick.





As you can see I used white decal paper. Not a good choice for the letters in “MARINE” as I have to pint in the proper background again ,but i had no clear decal paper available. Have to order some more. But for the other decals it worked quite nicely.

more pictures at https://wargamesgazette.com/2020/02/06/huey-painting-started/

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Re: Tomrommels Vietnam war 6.2. Bell UH-1C painting started page 9
« Reply #133 on: February 07, 2020, 02:58:58 PM »
I like your Hueys.
When I saw it before it was painted,
I did not think it looked so good.
But painted, it turned out great.
Hats off to your painting skills. :)

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Re: Tomrommels Vietnam war 6.2. Bell UH-1C painting started page 9
« Reply #134 on: February 10, 2020, 06:33:27 AM »
Thanks Marine!

Here is a little update:

I did the main rotors and added some filters and dirt. The only thing missing now is a bit chipped paint here and there and a bit of gloss varnish on the windows.



I painted the white background of the “MARINES” lettering in the appropriate color.

before:


after:


more at :https://wargamesgazette.com/2020/02/10/huey-progress/

 

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