Author Topic: 28mm USMC Vietnam etc (Read 188999 times)

Ash · « **Reply #1020 on:** 28 September 2022, 09:42:34 PM »

Quote from: carlos marighela on 28 September 2022, 09:19:50 PM

Christ on a bike! Did you hand paint all those helmet designs? They look superb.

I seem to recall it was your suggestion, back on page 53..!

Quote from: carlos marighela on 30 July 2021, 02:00:34 AM

Those look brilliant! The work on the shoulder patches is outstanding. Might as well do the lurid helmet decorations now.

Funnily enough the helmets were less of a task than the little arm badges.

Sparrow · « **Reply #1021 on:** 28 September 2022, 10:51:54 PM »

I’m out of superlatives.. they look great!

CapnJim · « **Reply #1022 on:** 28 September 2022, 11:42:48 PM »

They do look great. And that 113 probably drove through a river. That'll leave all manner of dried crud on it...

Paul @ Empress Miniatures · « **Reply #1023 on:** 29 September 2022, 08:43:43 AM »

Fantastic. Totally blown away by these ARVN and the M113's

Dr. Zombie · « **Reply #1024 on:** 29 September 2022, 10:16:03 AM »

They all look amazing.

Ultravanillasmurf · « **Reply #1025 on:** 30 September 2022, 06:46:52 PM »

Excellent work.

Ash · « **Reply #1026 on:** 02 October 2022, 09:19:18 PM »

Thanks for the comments chaps. Here's the 60mm mortars, from the FIC range.

Rick F · « **Reply #1027 on:** 04 October 2022, 07:50:16 AM »

Excellent as always Ash. Can I ask where you got the shrubs from, they're much better than the ones I've been using for jungle.

Ash · « **Reply #1028 on:** 04 October 2022, 09:58:58 AM »

Quote from: Rick F on 04 October 2022, 07:50:16 AM

Excellent as always Ash. Can I ask where you got the shrubs from, they're much better than the ones I've been using for jungle.

The stumpy Bamboo is just the CPR's finest plastic offerings, cut short enough to fit the slot in the storage box. The bushy bits are small bits torn off a sheet of 'rubberised horse hair', not sure that horses had any part to play in its making, as I think it's coconut fiber marinated in some sort of latex. Then covered in glue and dipped in flock. The flash really lights up the latex bit that missed the brown paint. Then there is some ground up mixed herbs under the plants (given a brown wash & khaki dry brush), and some dodgy home made grass tufts.

Rick F · « **Reply #1029 on:** 04 October 2022, 10:04:37 AM »

Cheers mate, I'll have a go with that horse hair, seen some in my nearest model shop.

CapnJim · « **Reply #1030 on:** 04 October 2022, 04:39:24 PM »

Those guys look good to me!

Sparrow · « **Reply #1031 on:** 05 October 2022, 11:06:38 PM »

Looking great 👍

Ash · « **Reply #1032 on:** 07 October 2022, 12:45:08 PM »

Picked up the 'Barnes & Elias' figures from Studio Miniatures (aka Tom & Will), very close in height to the Empress blokes.
Thought they would be in Vietnam era kit, however they were sporting more modern attire, mollie & rucksacks. Ended up removing the packs and filling the loops, then added more appropriate packs & webbing.