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Author Topic: (COMMERCIAL) Empress Miniatures' NEW Vietnam Range  (Read 384874 times)

Offline Paul @ Empress Miniatures

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Re: (COMMERCIAL) Empress Miniatures' NEW Vietnam Range
« Reply #1005 on: August 08, 2019, 09:02:22 AM »
Is that a tankers helmet Mr Empress??

HUZZAH!

I photographed it the wrong way round to catch Carlos out  lol

Offline Paul @ Empress Miniatures

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Re: (COMMERCIAL) Empress Miniatures' NEW Vietnam Range
« Reply #1006 on: August 08, 2019, 09:03:13 AM »
Todays NVA is Hien.


Offline commissarmoody

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Re: (COMMERCIAL) Empress Miniatures' NEW Vietnam Range
« Reply #1007 on: August 08, 2019, 09:08:47 AM »
Every one say hi Hien!
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Offline Harry von Fleischmann

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Re: (COMMERCIAL) Empress Miniatures' NEW Vietnam Range
« Reply #1008 on: August 08, 2019, 11:13:40 AM »
Oh yes! Funny enough I was looking at those yesterday.

However I am just getting dragged into another part of this project at the moment, which if all goes well, you will see the results in two or three months muhahahahahaha  lol

Hawaii style shirts and Swedish Ks?

Offline FreakyFenton

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Re: (COMMERCIAL) Empress Miniatures' NEW Vietnam Range
« Reply #1009 on: August 08, 2019, 11:23:46 AM »
The snap, drill and glue bit isn't a problem!  :D

And wonderful figures as always!
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Offline carlos marighela

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Re: (COMMERCIAL) Empress Miniatures' NEW Vietnam Range
« Reply #1010 on: August 08, 2019, 12:01:47 PM »
HUZZAH!

I photographed it the wrong way round to catch Carlos out  lol

 :D

At the risk of sounding critical. The pith helmets don’t seem quite right. Most pictures and for that matter the one I have have a shallower bowl and deeper brim. Thusly. Of course it might just be the photos.
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Offline Mr C

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Re: (COMMERCIAL) Empress Miniatures' NEW Vietnam Range
« Reply #1011 on: August 08, 2019, 01:37:00 PM »
Speaking of tankers, any news on the M48? I know I'm being impatient but my Vietnam mojo needs to be fed new releases otherwise it gets distracted by other shiny stuff  lol

Offline Paul @ Empress Miniatures

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Re: (COMMERCIAL) Empress Miniatures' NEW Vietnam Range
« Reply #1012 on: August 09, 2019, 07:44:23 AM »
Speaking of tankers, any news on the M48? I know I'm being impatient but my Vietnam mojo needs to be fed new releases otherwise it gets distracted by other shiny stuff  lol

Vehicles due to arrive in a few days then into moulds and then released. Not long to wait.

Also got the M113 with full ACAV done so that arrives any day now as well.

Phew. :o

Offline Paul @ Empress Miniatures

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Re: (COMMERCIAL) Empress Miniatures' NEW Vietnam Range
« Reply #1013 on: August 09, 2019, 08:01:02 AM »
Todays NVA is Hanh.

Carlos the hat is down to partly angle of the pictures partly perhaps about 2mm too tall, but that's a rough guess and conjectural.  ;)


Offline coldm2231

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Re: (COMMERCIAL) Empress Miniatures' NEW Vietnam Range
« Reply #1014 on: August 09, 2019, 08:07:31 AM »
Loving the NVA..... are the vehicles likely to be available at Partizana week Sunday?

Offline commissarmoody

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Re: (COMMERCIAL) Empress Miniatures' NEW Vietnam Range
« Reply #1015 on: August 09, 2019, 09:36:21 AM »
Really digging the NVA.

Offline Paul @ Empress Miniatures

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Re: (COMMERCIAL) Empress Miniatures' NEW Vietnam Range
« Reply #1016 on: August 09, 2019, 10:38:01 AM »
Loving the NVA..... are the vehicles likely to be available at Partizana week Sunday?

Only the M113.

The rest will still be going through the moulding process.

Offline carlos marighela

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Re: (COMMERCIAL) Empress Miniatures' NEW Vietnam Range
« Reply #1017 on: August 09, 2019, 10:52:08 AM »
Todays NVA is Hanh.

Carlos the hat is down to partly angle of the pictures partly perhaps about 2mm too tall, but that's a rough guess and conjectural.  ;)

I think the biggest problem is that the brim is too flat. They would look fine on Colonial French or Italians but they don’t really look convincing for Vietnam.

The brim on the original article is actually quite steeply angled, the crown and the panel seams tend not to be as prominent.

Sorry to carp but heavily invested in this and wanting the best available sculpts.

Offline Dr. Zombie

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Re: (COMMERCIAL) Empress Miniatures' NEW Vietnam Range
« Reply #1018 on: August 09, 2019, 10:57:45 AM »
While we are talking about the NVA. What colours should their uniforms be? I see pictures of then like above where they are green and others where they are Khaki.
Is it really a bit of a mix of both?

Offline commissarmoody

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Re: (COMMERCIAL) Empress Miniatures' NEW Vietnam Range
« Reply #1019 on: August 09, 2019, 11:35:21 AM »
They did use both. But if your going to Tet, try to keep the uniform the same for a Squad at least. Reason being is that many units were issued new uniforms for the offensive.  :D