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Author Topic: (COMMERCIAL) Empress Miniatures' NEW Vietnam Range  (Read 384714 times)

Offline Paul @ Empress Miniatures

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Re: (COMMERCIAL) Empress Miniatures' NEW Vietnam Range
« Reply #2775 on: February 22, 2021, 12:46:26 PM »
New artwork   :D




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Re: (COMMERCIAL) Empress Miniatures' NEW Vietnam Range
« Reply #2776 on: February 22, 2021, 01:49:22 PM »
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Re: (COMMERCIAL) Empress Miniatures' NEW Vietnam Range
« Reply #2777 on: February 22, 2021, 02:03:21 PM »
Worried about that  :-* symbol for the back end of an elephant.  lol

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Re: (COMMERCIAL) Empress Miniatures' NEW Vietnam Range
« Reply #2778 on: February 23, 2021, 12:23:56 AM »
To Bombay a travelling circus came
They brought an intelligent elephant
and Nellie was her name

One dark night she slipped her iron chain,
and off she ran to Hindustan
and was never seen again... :D
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Re: (COMMERCIAL) Empress Miniatures' NEW Vietnam Range
« Reply #2779 on: February 23, 2021, 12:54:37 PM »
The beginning of the 28mm Empress Miniatures VC forces is due to arrive in the shape of local village based figures that link to our recently released civilians.

These guys and girls link into the recently released civilian packs and so the gamer can suddenly turn his villagers into a defensive force against any enemy that he thinks a threat.

Obviously these people work for many periods and Asian countries and for a long period of time. They are armed with weapons that were common following WW2 in the Vietnam region and so work for FIC and beyond the Vietnam war.

Therefore they work for early ARVN militia, Ruff Puffs, and of course local village based VC.

These should be due out in a couple of weeks so stay tuned.


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Re: (COMMERCIAL) Empress Miniatures' NEW Vietnam Range
« Reply #2780 on: February 23, 2021, 02:00:40 PM »
These are really great - well done.

I think it is a very clever idea. :o

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Re: (COMMERCIAL) Empress Miniatures' NEW Vietnam Range
« Reply #2781 on: February 23, 2021, 02:57:20 PM »
This is outstanding indeed!!!!! What great scope for real guerrilla fighting!!
Could they stand in for PF ( popular forces) too?

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Re: (COMMERCIAL) Empress Miniatures' NEW Vietnam Range
« Reply #2782 on: February 23, 2021, 03:12:43 PM »
This is outstanding indeed!!!!! What great scope for real guerrilla fighting!!
Could they stand in for PF ( popular forces) too?

Basically anything.

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Re: (COMMERCIAL) Empress Miniatures' NEW Vietnam Range
« Reply #2783 on: February 23, 2021, 03:17:36 PM »
Very nicely done, really well thought out range.

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Re: (COMMERCIAL) Empress Miniatures' NEW Vietnam Range
« Reply #2784 on: February 23, 2021, 06:40:23 PM »
Brilliant...  :-*
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Re: (COMMERCIAL) Empress Miniatures' NEW Vietnam Range
« Reply #2785 on: February 23, 2021, 07:35:02 PM »
PF and RF and even their predecessors like the Civil Guard tended to be uniformed and their weapons somewhat less eclectic than those here. They were centrally armed and equipped and typically trained in government regional training centres, usually with foreign advisors.

The larger religious sects that maintained their own paramilitary forces in the 1950s and even up to the start of the 1960s, like the Cao Đài and Hòa Hảo also had a preference for uniforms. Photos of the Cao Đài militia in the 1950s and very early sixties show uniforms essentially indistinguishable from French colonial forces of the time.

Very nice, the inclusion of an MG-34 is brill. Quite significant numbers showed up during the war. You should do an AA mounted version, there are a number of photos of them being used in that fashion, even up in the North.

I’m hoping that there will soon be some more with less nón lá hats, a few more in shorts and a mix of WW2 Soviet and US small arms particularly carbines.
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Re: (COMMERCIAL) Empress Miniatures' NEW Vietnam Range
« Reply #2786 on: February 23, 2021, 08:39:45 PM »
...early ARVN militia, Ruff Puffs...

did these have female fighters, too? Or male and female mixed?

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Re: (COMMERCIAL) Empress Miniatures' NEW Vietnam Range
« Reply #2787 on: February 24, 2021, 02:36:02 AM »
Lovely, a great stat to my regional force part timers.

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Re: (COMMERCIAL) Empress Miniatures' NEW Vietnam Range
« Reply #2788 on: February 24, 2021, 10:01:30 AM »
Carlos a head swop with different head gear is no problem. What kind of headgear would you use?

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Re: (COMMERCIAL) Empress Miniatures' NEW Vietnam Range
« Reply #2789 on: February 24, 2021, 10:25:58 AM »
Pretty much every photo I’ve seen of VC in action or posed for action shows them either bareheaded or wearing a floppy bush hat. I have seen the odd one with a khăn rằn scarf wrapped around the head as a turban, which was also a popular peasant style in the southern parts of the country.

I’m not suggesting that nón lá were not worn by VC. They certainly were at times, especially by local guerillas trying to blend in but they don’t appear to have been used much in combat. None of the photographs of KIA that I’ve seen has show them and that includes plenty of photos taken at ambush sites ir as part of battlefield recovery, ie not posed photos of the dead. It makes sense as the nón lá would not be a very practical item to fight in.

Still, it’s a popular trope so nothing wrong with having chaps in conical hats in your units.