From MikeD: 20mm North Vietnamese Army (132 pts)

My current gaming project is to run a campaign of Charlie Company with some friends. It's a rule set published in 1986 for miniature gaming in Viet Nam 1965-1972. It's got elements of a typical skirmish war game, but also some RPG elements. For example, the players represent squad leaders in a single platoon, with one playing the platoon command. Each squad leader may have different levels of experience, and accordingly better command stats. The North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces are handled by the game-master/referee. The campaign will be a tour of duty, I'm thinking about 10 missions.

So I've been painting up a lot of VC and NVA. These are 20mm North Vietnamese Army figures from Britannia Miniatures. It's the second batch I've done for the project so it's mostly heavy weapons, officers, and a few vignettes. And a couple a water buffalo and pigs.

Group Shot

Small Mortar

RPG and Water Buffalo

Captured American Airman

Anti-Aircraft Gun

Tax Collector (I suppose it's healthy to feel a little ambivalence about this hobby sometimes)

Bigger Mortar w Radio man

Heavy MG crew backed up by pig

29 x 20mm foot @ 4pts each = 116

The past month has been crowded with a lot of life's 10000 joys and sorrows so it was touch and go if I would make this cut. I'm so glad I did. 

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Hi Mike - congratulations on "making the cut" - we all know that life (or "1-to-1 scale" as I sometimes lament) can throw a lot of curve balls, and at times our hobby must take a back seat. But you have persevered, and here you are with a fine opening entry!

Gaming a setting such as the Vietnam War(s) is appealing, but daunting! How, after all, does one find rules which can recreate on our gaming tables the elements that made that period, particular the era of direct US intervention, so specific and unique? Congrats on finding and adapting a clever set of rules for just such a purpose.

Your painting is fine, and wow, I fear for whatever patrol might come up against this heavily armed crew!

Note for scoring I added extra points to account for the multiple crew-served weapons int the submission.

Welcome to AHPC XV!

GregB

From DennisC: Viet Cong Battalion 15mm for 'Nam (288 points)

Hello everyone, 

I've been pretty busy this week, painting up 2x companies of Viet Cong each consisting of 10 stands of 4 men each, 2 stands of 2 RPG guys and 1 stand of 3 LMG guys which comes out to 43 models of 15mm, x2 companies is 86 models.   

Battalion HQ is 2 stands of 4 men each, 6 stands of 2 civilians each, then 18 figures around 3 Mortars and 3 recoiless rifles.   124 models in total (248points), plus I have 5 bunkers (3 small 2 large) that I'll be conservative and count as 2x vehicles, so 16 pointsfor the 5 bunkers?

Total would then be 262 pts

This force is building into something special, although Dave will say they are too few and too small. Excellent work, you did under value them though

DennisC NVA vehicles 15mm (136 points)

More painting done between Christmas and New Years, here I have 12x PT-76 light tanks for my North Vietnamese and then 5x Type 59s (Chinese copies of the T-54)

Vallejo paint, Flat green highlighted with Russian Green WW2 and then weathered with USA Tan Earth, Light mud and AK Light mud effects.

                                                                    Pre weathering, PT76s

12x PT76

                                                             Close up of PT76 weathered

5x Type 59

                                                                         Close up Weathering

                            Close up headlights, sightblocks and searchlight

17 vehicles, I reckon thats 136 pts.  

Next up, Roman Velites in 28mm!

These are brilliant Dennis, and enough of them to make the Vietnam war look like the Batle of Kursk. Welcome to Sundays. See you on the chat

Can you make sure you add you name to the title of the post and the labels, so we can find you when searching for the guilty

MartinC

From DennisC: Vietnamese People's Army 15mm (200pts)

Merry Christmas everybody, hope you guys are doing well with painting, I've taken advantage of the Painting Challenge to get an older section of the pile painted: my North Vietnamese Army in 15mm.   I have two full NVA infantry companies and 2 medium Viet Cong infantry companies with all the fixings, plus some PT-76s and some T-54s (Chinese Type-59)

The army built, ready to rock, Dec 20th

NVA Divisional Support, primed black, drybrushed zenithal light grey

NVA BN HQ, 6x 82mm RCL guns, 3x 75mm RCL guns, 3x 82mm Mortars painted with mainly GW contrast paints in the 'slapchop' method

                                                           6x ZPU-1 AA guns and crew

By my reckoning, thats 18 crew served weapons (4pts each)  and 64 infantry and crew (2pts each) for a grand total of ~200pts.  Thats more than my output in Challenge XI !

I have 12x PT-76s on the workbench for next post.      Cheers! 

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Excellent work Dennis! These support units look terrific and I especially like the red hued groundwork, which seems very apropos to the region. With these done, you'll have the proper forces at your disposal to push the Imperialists from Southeast Asia. On to the Delta! 

Well done and keep up the steam!

- Curt