 deadhead  | 28 Aug 2019 4:50 a.m. PST |
Which was half the problem of course. the trick was to make sure they did not get any further! Well I had thought Ged's Gringos40 range in 28mm was a bit short of opponents for the Marines in Hue. Clearly the range has expanded unknown to me.
Another nice vignette (nice unless you are ARVN of course)
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 Legion 4 | 28 Aug 2019 6:33 a.m. PST |
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| cp models | 28 Aug 2019 12:19 p.m. PST |
Very nice looking figures |
jammy four  | 28 Aug 2019 2:30 p.m. PST |
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| repaint | 28 Aug 2019 2:39 p.m. PST |
they look very nice, Outstanding work. Asians however don't really have 5 o'clock shadow. They are closer to Hezbollah fighters here, I believe it is very easily correctible. |
| oldnorthstate | 28 Aug 2019 4:03 p.m. PST |
They really don't look very Asian…I appreciate seeing the nicely painted figures but I won't be buying them to create diorama's…how 'bout some mounted for wargaming and deployed in a game? |
| Oberlindes Sol LIC | 28 Aug 2019 5:38 p.m. PST |
Only the one on the left has hair that looks right. Maybe the other two haven't washed their hair in weeks, so it's all clumpy and frizzy. |
| jammy four | 29 Aug 2019 2:30 a.m. PST |
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| deadhead | 15 Sep 2019 4:37 a.m. PST |
Now this chap does have that oriental appearance I think. Painted by Andy Simpson
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| Legion 4 | 15 Sep 2019 8:00 a.m. PST |
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| jammy four | 15 Sep 2019 12:33 p.m. PST |
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| Skarper | 16 Sep 2019 8:29 a.m. PST |
That one looks more Vietnamese – though it would be hard to keep his hair so neat. A kind of crew cut or perhaps flat top with the sides almost shaved seems to have been more normal. Just nit-picking. Great figure and well painted too. |
| deadhead | 16 Sep 2019 11:41 a.m. PST |
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| deadhead | 17 Sep 2019 1:11 a.m. PST |
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| jammy four | 17 Sep 2019 3:26 a.m. PST |
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| Legion 4 | 17 Sep 2019 7:30 a.m. PST |
Nice modeling & paint job ! |
| jammy four | 17 Sep 2019 3:25 p.m. PST |
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| deadhead | 18 Sep 2019 10:28 a.m. PST |
another impressive bit of artwork. I would not want my M16 to jam if this chap was heading for me….
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| jammy four | 19 Sep 2019 2:31 a.m. PST |
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| deadhead | 20 Sep 2019 4:43 a.m. PST |
indeed. I imagine this is how most Marines would rather see him, or else supine and staring at the sun
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| jammy four | 20 Sep 2019 4:47 a.m. PST |
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| Legion 4 | 20 Sep 2019 7:30 a.m. PST |
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| deadhead | 20 Sep 2019 7:38 a.m. PST |
I have been catching up with the TV series "The Vietnam War" recently reshown on our BBC4 and still on I-player for a few days more. Missed it first showing and we only get a 55 minute version of what was originally shown on PSB in USA. Great film sequences and enhanced sound. Poor old ARVN hardly feature and it as much about home politics and demos as the conflict itself. But the tapes of LBJ and Nixon are simply staggering. The grinning NVA chap explaining why they massacred so many in the retreat from Hue was chilling. Never knew about the arm marking. I thought this was the VC flag missing the star! |
| jammy four | 21 Sep 2019 12:38 p.m. PST |
Liam the arm marking was exclusive to Hue and was sanctioned by Hanoi and of such colour as to be distinctive,,,though when white cloth was unavailable white paper was used in conjunction with cloth, regards
Ged
gringo40s.com |
| deadhead | 24 Sep 2019 4:53 a.m. PST |
and now a chap with grenades, seen here in retreat also I hope!
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| deadhead | 29 Oct 2019 10:07 a.m. PST |
and they still keep coming. Again the work of Andy Simgleton. Somehow this character has that real hard core NVA look about him. Illegitimi….
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| deadhead | 29 Oct 2019 11:38 a.m. PST |
That was Singleton! Not Simgleton……I find the latter almost impossible to say. Why do I keep getting his name wrong? |
| deadhead | 30 Oct 2019 6:16 a.m. PST |
Chap in a bush hat now…..and a rather fetching scarf. Claret and Blue scarf for me next Saturday, (seven hours on a train to watch 90 minutes of mediocrity)…..at least it is not Rouge.
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| deadhead | 01 Nov 2019 1:41 a.m. PST |
and the latest, painted up, is carrying a B40, the RPG 2, which was such a menace to armour fighting in that built up area.
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| deadhead | 04 Nov 2019 5:58 a.m. PST |
Another nicely painted pair. Seems this mortar team is a mix and match from the two mortar teams in Ged's range;
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| jammy four | 04 Nov 2019 4:55 p.m. PST |
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| Legion 4 | 05 Nov 2019 9:05 a.m. PST |
"Someone call in an airstrike or two!" |
| deadhead | 05 Nov 2019 11:43 a.m. PST |
I'd take naval gunfire, artillery from an FSB, nape strike from a Sandy or a couple of Zippo M60s if it stopped these chaps. Shame was, in the end, it did not….I cannot get beyond feeling that these are too like Waffen SS for my shelves. Illegitimi. Funny thing, I always had far more respect for Vietcong, but that had no real basis beyond the liberal anarchist philosophy of the time |
| Legion 4 | 05 Nov 2019 3:16 p.m. PST |
Any of those should do the job ! But I do have a predilection for airstrikes and Naval Gun Fire. I was trained to call-in both ! Not sure who I dislike more of the SS or the VC ? |
| deadhead | 06 Nov 2019 2:49 a.m. PST |
I meant M48's not M60s for the Zippos, but I am blowed if I can tell the two tanks apart |
| Legion 4 | 06 Nov 2019 8:16 a.m. PST |
Understand … I max AFV ID even as a cadet !  But I build a lot of AFV models in my youth, including both the M48 and M60. And of course later I was around a lot of M60A1s and even a few M48s as memorials, targets, etc. There was an M48 at the entrance to our Mech Hvy Bde's location at Benning. Along with an old M59 APC. The M113's ancestor. Both painted up in the current 3 color camo. Also at that time many of our allies were still using M48s too. GHQ shows some excellent pics of their models of the M48 and M60.
link The turret of the M60A1 is "pointed". The M48 rounded. The M60A1 front hull is flat, not curved like M48. The M60A1 has no muzzle break at the end of it's 105, but a bore evacuater in the middle of the 105. The M48 has a muzzle brake at the end of the 90mm.
Note: there is a version of the M48 with the 105, the M48A5. Check out the GHQ link. ghqmodels.com/store/n17.html |
| deadhead | 06 Nov 2019 8:39 a.m. PST |
The GHQ link is great for this. (What amazing models too! How 1/300 approx. has changed since 30 years ago) I tried Wiki but as I went between the two variants I could not see the difference. Now you point it out, the turret is totally different. The bowed instead of flat front, let alone the gun details. What I did learn from Wiki was that the M60 did not see action until Yom Kippur 73. That was very interesting. I am obsessed with minor details like that! thanks mucho |
| Legion 4 | 07 Nov 2019 12:59 p.m. PST |
Glad to help !
But I'm pretty sure the IDF got M60s during the '73 War. link
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| deadhead | 07 Nov 2019 2:32 p.m. PST |
Yes, that was exactly what I meant. That was the first time the M60 fired a shot in anger. 1973 Yom Kippur. Like yesterday…. Funny thing that Israeli armour and tactics were so based on (if actually better than) an earlier war's panzer divisions' blitzkrieg. Bit like Bf 109s against Spitfires, where we cheer on the former (Israelis vs Egyptians). A Bf 109 with a Star of David, few years after the KZ camps, on the side! Or at least once, Spits fighting Spits…but this is way off VN. Apologies…I "do" tangents… |
| Legion 4 | 08 Nov 2019 9:14 a.m. PST |
Yes the IDF used those M60s to good affect on the Arab armor. And yes, basically most modern combined arms warfare is based on the Blitzkrieg. |
| deadhead | 12 Nov 2019 2:59 a.m. PST |
Great use of colour variation in these two. I may yet swallow mu principles, but then if Ged does soon release new Marines…
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| Legion 4 | 12 Nov 2019 8:54 a.m. PST |
Very nicely done !  |
| jammy four | 12 Nov 2019 4:02 p.m. PST |
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| deadhead | 13 Nov 2019 3:44 a.m. PST |
The Asiatic faces are getting better and better. Love the facial, arm and feet highlights
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| Legion 4 | 13 Nov 2019 8:05 a.m. PST |
Are those "Ho Chi Minh" sandals ? 
Very good job overall !
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| deadhead | 13 Nov 2019 8:20 a.m. PST |
Is the old tale of recycled tyres really true? Never thought of these thugs as early "greens"…. |
| Legion 4 | 13 Nov 2019 3:15 p.m. PST |
From what I've heard yes, but I was not there …so … |
| jammy four | 14 Nov 2019 2:20 p.m. PST |
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| Legion 4 | 14 Nov 2019 2:27 p.m. PST |
Michelin ! |
finds bridges to match the river sets.
