"Main Force Viet Cong uniforms" Topic
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| Captain Crunch | 15 Oct 2012 6:27 p.m. PST |
I have seen Battlefront's guide for painting US and Vietnamese uniforms but it only covers the NVA. What shade of green would you suggest for Main Force VC, preferably in Vallejo? Were their uniforms similar in color to the US ones? Thanks in advance. Paul |
| Miniatures Of Chesapeake | 15 Oct 2012 6:55 p.m. PST |
I've been using VJ 988 Khaki. |
| Wargamer Blue | 16 Oct 2012 3:58 a.m. PST |
Main Force VC are your black pyjama lads. THe NVA were in the green uniforms. |
peterx  | 16 Oct 2012 4:31 a.m. PST |
Look at photos of Viet Cong main force online. There are a lot of first hand resources. Black silk/cotton peasant clothes are a good fall back position, however, they wore a lot more variety than that. |
| Barks1 | 16 Oct 2012 4:31 a.m. PST |
I always saw Local Force VC as th black PJs. My concept is that Main Force VC would wear NVA hand-me-downs. |
| Wargamer Blue | 16 Oct 2012 4:34 a.m. PST |
Their leaders were NVA. I would have my troops in the Black PJ's, command section/sgts as NVA. |
 Extra Crispy  | 16 Oct 2012 5:27 a.m. PST |
Whether it's right or not, here's what I do. Local Force VC: Civilian clothes, command in civvies, older equipment (bolt action rifles, stolen US stuff, NVA rejects). Main Force VC: Civilian clothes, NVA command in green or khaki, good but limited equipment (AK47, mortars, MGs). |
| Col Durnford | 16 Oct 2012 5:57 a.m. PST |
I did my VC/NVA in the following configuration: Local Force VC – all black PJ's with some rice patty hats.
NVA – Polly S F505204 RLM 83 light green. Main Force VC – mixed shirt and pants.
2 squads – black
1 squad – black/green
1 squad – black/tan
3 squads – tan
2 squads tan/green After doing the painting I mixed the patterns within the squads. The Main Force started out from the South, however, after Tet they were mostly from the North. The tan uniform was use early in the war by the NVA and was later called the Export uniform. Vince |
| Darby E | 16 Oct 2012 9:13 a.m. PST |
MFVC units wore hand-me-down NVA uniforms, and indeed were mostly NVA filled by '69 (due to the VC being wiped out during Tet). So, depending upon what year you are going for they could be wearing PJs and sky blue uniforms for the '65-66 time period, then filter to the greens until they are wearing fully green uniforms in '69. Best bet would be to do a patchwork. Have them be mostly green with the occasional black, blue, or khaki pair of pants or shirt.
NVA could be just khaki to differentiate. |
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