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Re: Tomrommels Vietnam war 10.2. Bell UH-1C painting update page 9
« Reply #135 on: February 12, 2020, 09:18:55 AM »
As the paint on the flight stand and the Hueys isn’t dry jet I thought I show you pictures of the next project. A vietnamese hut for a jungle village. As I got a 3D printer for x was I thought to use it to print a hut for my jungle terrain. Or a complete village? Not sure jet.

As I didn’t find an appropriate STL online I designed the hut myself using tinkercad.

Here are the pieces I designed:




More at https://wargamesgazette.com/2020/02/12/a-vietnamese-hut/

Here are pictures of the printed version. Glued to a base.





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Re: Tomrommels Vietnam war 12.2. A jungle hut page 10
« Reply #136 on: February 12, 2020, 02:48:51 PM »
Is that file going to be available? It looks good.
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Re: Tomrommels Vietnam war 12.2. A jungle hut page 10
« Reply #137 on: February 12, 2020, 08:34:12 PM »
Is that file going to be available? It looks good.

Yep, what he said. And I am wondering about legs being added for a jungle hut.
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Re: Tomrommels Vietnam war 12.2. A jungle hut page 10
« Reply #138 on: February 13, 2020, 12:58:25 AM »
Printable Scenery's Caribbean shack is useful for this as well.

Yep, what he said. And I am wondering about legs being added for a jungle hut.

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Re: Tomrommels Vietnam war 12.2. A jungle hut page 10
« Reply #139 on: February 13, 2020, 07:04:51 AM »
Yes, I have another version in the pipeline with legs. I just wanted a few different ones for my village.
I have the caribbean shack, too. It can be used for Vietnam ,too ,at least that is what I do. It is quite a bit smaller though.

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Re: Tomrommels Vietnam war 12.2. A jungle hut page 10
« Reply #140 on: February 13, 2020, 07:06:45 AM »
Oh, sorry forgot to answer the other question . I will probably upload files to Wargaming 3D . But first I will do some more buildings. The city of Hue will be next after the village is finished.

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Re: Tomrommels Vietnam war 12.2. A jungle hut page 10
« Reply #141 on: February 17, 2020, 07:54:14 AM »
The same hut as I have shown you previously, just raised from the ground, as many of the jungle huts ,you can see on historic pictures, were.



Complete with an underground entrance to a VC hideout. Or is it just a storeroom?



More on https://wargamesgazette.com/2020/02/17/another-hut-for-my-vietnamese-village/

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Re: Tomrommels Vietnam war 17.2. Another jungle hut page 10
« Reply #142 on: February 20, 2020, 08:51:14 AM »
I finished the 1/50 models of the Bell UH-1C Huey and the flight stands . The only thing missing are the door gunners ( big hint Paul Hicks!!) Here are some pictures:







And a picture with some US Marines in a LZ:



Many more pictures on https://wargamesgazette.com/2020/02/20/bell-uh-1c-finished/

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Re: Tomrommels Vietnam war 20.2. Bell UH-1C finished page 10
« Reply #143 on: February 20, 2020, 03:09:34 PM »
Your Hueys came out great.
I wish I had painted the windows on my helos,
hides the fact there are  no pilots with the model.
Or saves some time by not painting them,
if the model came with them.
Smart idea.

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Re: Tomrommels Vietnam war 20.2. Bell UH-1C finished page 10
« Reply #144 on: February 20, 2020, 07:42:20 PM »
Looking good (and, yes, another one on the list for Mr Hicks methinks :D).
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Re: Tomrommels Vietnam war 20.2. Bell UH-1C finished page 10
« Reply #145 on: February 20, 2020, 09:17:05 PM »
Very nice.

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Re: Tomrommels Vietnam war 20.2. Bell UH-1C finished page 10
« Reply #146 on: February 21, 2020, 12:48:53 PM »
That's very impressive.  ;)

Yes we will do crew. Problem is do we have a pack of pilots and a pack of gunners so people can choose? 

One really easy way to do windows and vehicle windscreens that the chap at Cromwell Models showed me many years ago was to colour them in with a pencil. You get the right depth of shiny blackness and its really easy to do  ;)

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Re: Tomrommels Vietnam war 20.2. Bell UH-1C finished page 10
« Reply #147 on: February 24, 2020, 02:50:03 PM »
Paul,
Interesting idea about using pencil.
Do you put the pencil colour on the inside or outside of the window?

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Re: Tomrommels Vietnam war 20.2. Bell UH-1C finished page 10
« Reply #148 on: February 24, 2020, 06:24:29 PM »
I think splitting the crews might be a good idea as there are so many different Huey model out there.
The penciled in windows would interest me too.

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Re: Tomrommels Vietnam war 20.2. Bell UH-1C finished page 10
« Reply #149 on: February 24, 2020, 06:29:35 PM »
I was asked which rules I would use for my Vietnam wargaming. I decided to give the “One-Hour skirmish wargames” rules by John Lambshead a try.



The game is a true one figure is one soldier game. Meaning the smallest maneuver unit is not a platoon or squad but a single soldier. The game doesn’t use dice but ordinary playing cards ( think poker) to introduce randomness .



For a full report on a complete turn of the game go to: https://wargamesgazette.com/2020/02/24/one-hour-skirmish-wargames-in-vietnam/

 

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