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Miniatures Adventure => The Conflicts that came in from the Cold => Topic started by: General Castries on October 15, 2023, 12:55:30 PM
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I love Empress Miniatures for my paras, but set out below are some other figures, intended to put some variety on the table.
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Great conversions! I can tell some of the parts you've used from Warlord games, but with how you combined them they blend well!
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Parachutes and cannisters from 1st Corps, figures scratch-built.
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Very beautiful miniatures! :-*
For which rules?
I'm a french wargamer and I want to choose a rule about Indochina war for my club.
Huguette, Eliane, Dominique... ;)
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Brilliant work! 👍 🇫🇷
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Fabien,
Thanks for your comments. In regard to rules, I've looked at a whole range, from "Bohica", to "FNG", to "Vietnam - the way it was". I even tried "De Cao-Bang à Kaboul". But my go-to ruleset is still "Bolt Action". It's well supported, easy to get an opponent, and has lots of supplements covering partisans, LVTs, etc.
Tim
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Look great, I would love to do this time period but the camo pattern is just too intimidating to even try to paint.
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Tom,
Camouflage can be a bit of a pain, but most French units (Legion, North African, AVN) wore standard fatigues. Even some para units wore US jump fatigues until late in the war. So don't let camouflage be an impediment. :)
Tim
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Viet-Minh regulars, from Empress Miniatures.
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Great stuff. Really inspiring. (And I love the supply drop…)
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Great stuff. Really inspiring. (And I love the supply drop…)
Agree, superb painting.
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Guys, thanks for your comments! And if it's Dien Bien Phu, you have to have M24s
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Very nice work. I hope we can see some games. :o
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Knew a guy called Ben who was a Moroccan Para who fought there. One night, in our local bar, after way too many drinks, he loudly proclaimed that "they (the Viet Minh) weren't supposed to have artillery!"
Oh yeah, lovely figures, lovely painting.
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Very nice
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Very nice.
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Always loved the Chaffee. It's like some sort of quintessential cute cartoon "tank" only it's a real actual tank. lol
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These are some photos of a small BA game we recently played. French paras carried out a sweep operation through the bush and rice paddies, but got pinned down by VM machine-gun fire, and lost a section to a close-assault.
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great looking table
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Very nice looking table, though some of the slopes look near vertical...
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Nice looking game
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Looks good! Did the Viet Minh win?
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So mich to love in this thread. Great work!
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Very nice looking table, though some of the slopes look near vertical...
lol lol lol lol I have had this problem too, for some reason it looks good when you download it but when you post it it goes sideways.
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Wow! amazing stuff! :-* :-* :-*
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From a recent game.
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Very nice looking games. Great stuff!
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Great games!
Mike Demana
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More photos ...
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Way to build anticipation! :D
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Great looking game :-*
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Looking great!
Mike Demana
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Very impressive thanks for posting :)
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Figures from Empress, building from Sarissa (and Adrian's Walls).
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Those shots look great. Well done!
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That lizard camo looks amazing.
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Beautiful stuff! A very interesting period for sure.
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Great looking game - ive used those chutes for my own Cold War game 8)
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Excellent report, now you got me thinking! ;D
Cheers
Matt
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What a collection. Very nice miniatures and terrain :-* :-*
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Camo looks spot on , great result.
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This guy in lizard humping the recoilless rifle is a study in grit. His facial expression is exactly what I'd imagine. And the camo is spot on.
Figures from Empress, building from Sarissa (and Adrian's Walls).
(https://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=143063.0;attach=225232;image)
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Some more photos from the excellent Empress Range:
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Lovely stuff, just lovely…
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That camo is crazy good.
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That camo is crazy good.
The very fine work of the late great Andy Zeck, a member of this forum and also known elsewhere as Suetonius Paulinus. I used to love his lightning-quick work on new releases. Very much missed.
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The very fine work of the late great Andy Zeck, a member of this forum and also known elsewhere as Suetonius Paulinus. I used to love his lightning-quick work on new releases. Very much missed.
Didn’t know he had passed. Indeed he was a great and prolific painter, remember him from the Warlord forum, too. I think he painted new releases as they were being mailed, somehow. Crazy fast!
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Didn’t know he had passed.
Yeah, it was out of the blue back in 2020, way too young. He was still releasing his latest work just a few days before he left us. That one hit hard, I did regard him as a mate.
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Yeah, it was out of the blue back in 2020, way too young. He was still releasing his latest work just a few days before he left us. That one hit hard, I did regard him as a mate.
Wow, truly sad! His work was always inspiring. I think I was not doing much hobby stuff then, probably why I missed it. Still keep in contact with 5 of the guys from the Warlord forum - was over to see them last fall.