My Latest project is based on The Vietnam War, of all the modern wars this is the one I want to game the most, I find this war tragic and sad, but at the same time I find it has captured my imagination, I will be doing this one in 28mm and using miniatures from companies such as Baker Company, Westwind studios and maybe even TAG, either way this is going to be my most ambitious and expensive project yet.
I recently started to think of and sketch down ideas for my terrain board (pictured above), which should accommodate as many scenarios as possible, but must also look and capture the feel and look of Vietnam, So what do you think of the board so far? I am open to ideas and scenarios which would contribute to the overall look of the terrain board, please post your thoughts.
I have also been thinking about Rulesets, and for squad level skirmishes FNG by 2 Hour wargames keeps getting recommended to me, I have a copy and I'm reading it at the moment, any suggestions for rules would also be appreciated, troop types to be used? I have come up with the following list so far (this may change):
1x Squad of marines
1x Squad of air cavalry
1x Kit carson scout
1x Spec ops team
1x ARVN (maybe)
1x Squad of local force VC
1x Squad of main force VC
1x Squad NVA Regulars (PAVN)
1x M113 APC Acav
2x Transport Hueys
I am half way through painting my Marine Squad, I will post more on this project as I complete different parts of it.
So firstly, you can all blame Shelldrake for getting me all excited about my all time favorite modern war, with all his cool Nam trap ideas, he's effective terrain and well painted miniatures, If you haven't checked out his blog ... get over there, its full of great ideas that you can pretend are your own ! , all this has resulted in me starting up yet another! project, which I will call 'Welcome to the Nam' , now that I have finished blaming some one else for my own short comings Hahaha, I want you all to have a look at a couple of Marines I painted up.
So these are 28mm miniatures, they are from Baker company, and are some of my favorite and most characterful miniatures, the sculptor really managed to capture the feel of the Nam, and even some of the stereo typical racial features.... please don't take that the wrong way, all in all excellent miniatures, nice detail, correct period webbing and gear, no flash, minimal mould lines, and to boot Danny over at Baker Company is friendly and fast to deliver the goods, this is my second order with them, you cant go wrong with Baker Company.
With these two guys I wanted to test out the green colour schemes I had chosen and wanted to see if I could capture some kind of a faded jungle look with the uniforms, I 'm fairly happy with the outcome, the uniforms look well used and I hope this has translated into the photos I have taken, as always your comments are apreciated and welcomed, I will try and crank out about 10 Marines, more soon.
