Mick's Vietnam Project (Terrain idea for BSC page 7)

[carlos marighela]

Carlos,

Your T55s look great  - which colour did you use?

Thank-you for the links to the decals.
I got quite excited and added some to the shopping cart.
Then I saw the cost including shipping to Switzerland ouch.

I will consider carefully what I actually need.

Standard Tamiya rattle can  TS-28 Olive Drab 2. Funnily enough, I just opened up the box to start on another one (going to open up the loader's hatch this time) and saw that Tamiya suggest TS-28. There's serendipity for you.

The dirtying up is down to Mig and Vallejo pigments.  I used to faff about doing Soviet Green but eventually came to the conclusion  that most olive greens are much of a muchness and weathering makes up for/ hides most of the differences.

Surprised that postage would be expensive from France to Switzerland. You are next door to each other after all.

[Ultravanillasmurf]

No idea what the postage is but, I-94 have some Vietnamese stars for aircraft in pack MI-106.

https://www.minibits.net/i-94-decals/miscellaneous/

I have them somewhere, I will see if I can dig them out.

The odd number forms might be interesting to render.

Apologies for the delay.

MI-106 next to an Empress T55.

More photographs of the decals here: https://ultravanillasmurf.blogspot.com/2021/04/north-vietnamese-decals-i-94.html

[Mick_in_Switzerland]

Ultravanillasmurf - Thank-you

I think they will work very well

[Mick_in_Switzerland]

I have decided to join the Build Something Competition.

This year the theme will be difficult terrain. I have decided to do a tile for a battle on a steep wooded hillside. There were several battles in the Vietnam war that took place on steep wooded hillsides.
I made a wooden easel which holds XPS tiles. I have then started to sculpt the XPS foam. I think this has potential to make an interesting competition piece.


You can follow the project here.
https://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=130670.0

[Ash]

Now that's an interesting idea.

[Ultravanillasmurf]

That makes sense now

"you know that moment when the ophthalmologist shows you a picture, and suddenly it comes into focus and you realise you are going have to spend a lot of money on glasses..."

On the larger screen you can see the trenches (on the other machine they looked like raised blobs).

[tomrommel1]

That is a nice concept!!!