"Vietnamese Huts " Topic

They looks good!.

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Hope you enjoy!

Amicalement
Armand

I don't like them and I was hoping I would so I could buy a bunch. They just don't look like hooches in any way, more like Russian cottages. Oh, well.

Yah looks like they just reskinned the russian huts. It's probably the same roof.

They don't look right at all.

Swing and a miss.

How many Vietnamese huts were two stories (I assume these are, based on their height)? Look how low the roofs usually were:

They really don't look good at all.

Way too neat and regular, check out timecast, excellent models

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I think they are overly large/high to fit figures inside.

The rice paddies look pretty good.

I understood the huts were based on actual war time photos taken during the big tank versus tank battles so common during the US involvement in Vietnam. ;) Rob.

Disappointing. I agree with those who say they look more Russian than Vietnamese. A missed opportunity in my view, which will definitely impact sales as I won't be buying any.

The furrowed rice paddies in my opinion are just as bad. Looked a a fair number of pictures of rice paddies when I was making my own and don't remember seeing any with furrows.

It seems that they took their Russian front WW2 village buildings, modified them slightly, put them in a new box and declared "Vietnamese Village!".

Way to go BF!

Timecast and JR both produce much much nicer buildings for Vietnam. I agree that this lot looks like the Russian village recycled. I won't be adding these to my collection.

The Peter pig huts are very good

Shocked they kept the price point on these :)

Not a fan of these

They look a lot like the house in Extra Crispy's pic to my eye.

I don't usually game in 15mm so I ask this from ignorance, but I have to ask, how many other houses in 15mm have removable roofs and can hold a base or two of figures inside?

In general there are a LOT of buildings for various eras and fronts that fit that criteria. For Vietnam in particular there is only the ones from JR Miniatures. All other companies I have seen that make solid resin hooches which don't allow you to put models inside. That still wouldn't make me buy these, and I normally like most everything that Battlefront makes. These definitely look like repurposed Russian structures.

PaperTerrain has some which would serve.

They come with or without the raised platforms and you can definitely put troops inside. 15mm scale come 8 for $20.00 USD.

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Hmmm … Timecast or PP for resin, maybe?

Phil

It seems that they took their Russian front WW2 village buildings, modified them slightly, put them in a new box and declared "Vietnamese Village!".

Way to go BF!

Actually, these integrated companies like Games Workshop and, to a much smaller degree, Battlefront have a certain number of built-in customers -- they play FoW so they are going to use the official FoW product. So, yes, I actually agree with you, but I mean it un-ironically.

I don't care for the buildings at all, for all the reasons already cited, but I bet they sell shedloads of them.

I'm not sure about the rice paddies, either. I don't know much about rice cultivation, but the combination of furrows and water, yet without any rice plants, suggests to me that they would represent the few days after ploughing and flooding, and before planting.

Still, it shouldn't be too hard to add some representation of rice plants, so I'll probably buy some anyway.

Skeptic,

It depends on the time of the growth. Most of the time its under the water, but you can add small static grass clumps along those ridges for harvesting time.

@Haywire: Yes, I suppose so for "deepwater rice", but perhaps not for other varieties:
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Ricepaddies. The ones I saw in Africa and India looked like fields of long lush grass in rows.

While they do plant the rice in close rolls rows the plowing was done while the paddy was already flooded so you don't really get furrows like you would see with a wheat of corn field. I remember seeing a film about rice growing when I was in school(at the time growing rice was going to solve the future food shortage) and the planters all had a hand full of shoots and they all got in a line planted several shoots to either side and then they all took a small step forward and did it again.

I wonder if the BF paddy fields are based on anachronistic examples of mechanized rice planting?

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I've since found some images of non-Vietnamese paddy fields that were lying fallow, and which look like the BF ones. Apparently, and in some countries, paddy fields are also planted in other crops outside of the rice season.