"Sir. Does this mean that Ann-Margret's not coming?" - Sigur's Vietnam

[Freddy]

A great looking bunch of figures, congratulations!

[Mick_in_Switzerland]

Wonderful painting - well done.

[Sparrow]

Looking really good 👍

[Battle Brush Sigur]

@carlos marighela:

@ultravanillasmurf: All my life I've been waiting for someone to say that to me.

@Freddy: Thanks! Modern military figures are weird, especially with such amounts of kit, all of which being some sort of green, but still having to look somewhat different.

@Mick_in_Switzerland: Cheers, greetings to our Swiss neighbors!

@Sparrow: Cheers, much appreciated.

Heyhey. I wasn't quite happy with the background-only photos, so I improvised some "in situ" backdrops from stuff I had lying around.


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Hope you like them and happy easter, everybody!

[gamer Mac]

Great photos of some lovely models

[AKULA]

Fantastic photos 

[Ash]

Gorgeous result on all the figures. Fantastic weathering on the LSSC, and your bamboo looks superb.
Great photography as well.

[mikedemana]

Wow! Looks fantastic...love everything about these pics! 

Mike Demana

[CapnJim]

Love the "in situ" pics.  Well done!

[M Blakey]

Wow! What amazing painting skills. These are exceptional 

[dickiegranthum]

As always - lovely work!

I was at the Melbourne Shrine of Remembrance in November - they had an amazing Vietnam portion in their museum portion; it wasn’t of course just Australian, but ANZAC.

Full Metal Jacket is one of my all-time favourite movies, too! Ermey was originally to be the chopper door-gunner until he was determined to be the classic role he ended up with. And that made him until his end days!

[Russ justice]

They are absolutely stunning, it looks more like stills from a film 

[Battle Brush Sigur]

@gamer Mac: Thanks very much!

@AKULA: Cheers! It's fun to look back at those.

@Ash: Thank you! Yeah, I did a little bit of research and extra work on that boat. For that alone it warranted putting a bit of effort into the photos.

@mikedemana: Thank you, very kind.

@M Blakey: Many thanks for the comment! I doubt what I do a LOT, it's very exhausting, so these comments really help, as silly as it may sound.

@CapnJim: I know I haven't replied in quite a while, but the term "in situ shot/photo" stuck with me and over the past 12 months I used it a bunch of times!

@dickiegranthum: Cheers! I got this pipe dream of a 15mm Vietnam collection. I keep buying figures for it, but never seem to find the time! My idea was to do ANZAC infantry as well as Vietcong/NVA. Read a bunch of stuff on ANZACs in Vietnam, specifically the New Zealanders. About Full Metal Jacket - it's funny how when I was young of course I preferred the first half of the film, now I vastly prefer the second half, especially so the combat stuff with the sniper in the end. Snipers creep me out. Anyway, a few months ago I watched Platoon again, and what a film that is. Hadn't watched it in years, but it's really good.

@Russ justice: Thanks for the compliment!


Right, a year has passed, I haven't proceeded a millimetre with my own 15mm Vietnam ambitions. But at least I got to painta few more 28mm figures for a gentleman in Austria. And an ox cart!



Cart, mortar teams and RPG-chap by Empress, the other ones I'm not sure about. Poses are slightly more static  and they're a fair bit larger than the Empress/Hicks figures. Anybody got a clue?




Hope you like them!

[Elk101]

Love that VC ensemble!

[CapnJim]

well, I must say, those chaps (and the oxen) do look snazzy!