From DaveD - Back to the ‘Nam (115 points)

Ok as I said before , most of my collections are getting some love this  year. The ‘Nam top up for the season is 3xM60 teams , 3xmortar teams , a 50 cal for the fire base set up  , and a couple of singleton figures I missed when I did last years top up, 

All of the figures are by my manufacturer of choice for Nam - “Gringo40s” thought they are of course 28’s . Ged from there just keeps releasing great miniatures that even if I don’t  need I actually really , really just want - hell you know the way….

This completes a top up for my Marines for thus . year 

3 M60 teams and a 50cal 

3 81mm Mortar teams 

A couple of extra grunts .

All the sandbags for the 50 cal base are hand made from milliput - that killed and hour or two! 

And here they are added to all the previous USMC fire support completed over previous challenges.

Lots of bang for your boom! 

15 x 28mm figures = 75

3 Mortars, and Crew served Weapon the 50 cal = 40 points 

Total 115 

This should take me to my challenge target - Huzzah!  And to add to the modern things challenge , I have one other significant entry planned before challenge end , after that I am back on with 10mm Old Guard commission.

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"Miniatures that I don't need, but I just want" - that is the basis for like 98% of my collection, and I am sure is the same for many others. Great painting here as usual Dave, matched by a huge pace of output. These fellows certainly look ready to fight their way into/toward Hue, or the Ia Drang, or even hold out at Khe Sanh!

115 points for you!

GregB 

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