I’ve started my next diorama. Hopefully it won’t take too long to make. Here are three Vietcong guerillas from Dragon. I have one more figure to make and then I’ll start the base and accessories. As always all comments and critiques are greatly appreciated.
Interesting!
Really nice job on the figures.
Yeah, they came out great!!!
Looking forward to seeing how you use them!
Wow! Impressive!
You received a compliment of sorts from my wife.
When I showed her the pictures, our conversation went this way:
Susan: “What are they standing on?”
Bob: “Corks.”
Susan: “Corks? Corks aren’t that big!”
Bob: “No, that’s true. They’re corks, I assume, from wine bottles.”
Susan: “But…” And then the light dawned. “Oh! I thought they were actual men dressed like Viet Cong!”
I am quite sure that my epitaph will say, “He could never paint model figures so they look real.” On the other hand, if I were to try to paint a model Viet Cong figure, he wouldn’t look like your Viet Cong.
I was in South Vietnam, with the U.S. Marines, early in 1966. My battalion was soon engaged in combat, at first taking light casualties, and arresting Viet Cong POWs, like these I photographed:
They were thin, poorly dressed and poorly armed. The only armed VC I saw, before I myself was wounded by a rifle bullet and evacuated, was killed by a Marine in my squad. He was just a kid wearing dark trousers and a white singlet and armed with a bolt action Mosin–Nagant carbine, probably dating back to a Finnish model produced in 1938. The images above are included in my photo essay, “37 Days in Vietnam: Photographs by a Marine Corpsman,” at https://www.ephemeraltreasures.net/imgs/vietnam-war-slideshow.pdf.
Bob
Hey Pawel, Keavdog & Gamera thank you for your comments. Hey Bobstamp please extend my sincerest thanks to your wife for her comments. To you I say ‘Welcome home Doc’ and ‘Calm winds and following seas’ and thanks for your comments. I was reading your pictorial. Nice photos. Semper Fi.
Wow Bob that’s fascinating.
And the cork story is hilarious, nice to add a little levity to the truth about the VC which is kinda depressing.
I’ve often wondered about how Dragon got the sculpt for the squatting dude. It’s not really deep enough for that classic Asian squat, which is almost sitting on the heels.
From photos of captured arms, there probably ought to be a touch more bare metal showing, where the finish is worn away. The grenade portion of RPG are a Medium Green/Nato Green sort of color. The metal tail out of the RPG stock ought to be worn to bare metal, as well.
The PRC mag bags are a fery medium green, but can vary from a near yellow-green to an ugly blue-green.
All of which can help break up the monotony of all-black uniforms.
Still a great job on the figures, especially gettign to stand on those giant corks.
Sorry I haven’t updated much, was busy with something else. But here are two WIP photos. One is a faded brown wooden floor and the other is a bedroom set w/night tables in resin along with the final figure that still needs to be tweaked. I am scratchbuilding the diorama but things are coming along.
HI;
I would say this.,You may have stepped on your tongue.Those look more like V.C. regulars to me. The V.C. Guerillas we captured or killed looked more like the Kid in the picture later in the article. With out-dated weapons, that although old, could take out an American.
All in all a good job with figures though!
Hey Tanker-Builder you’re right but the VC kit I built & painted were made by Dragon Models. Dragon provided the AK-47’s although I have some of those outdated weapons you mentioned. But according to the diorama I’m building a lot of the VC were a shadow of their original strength but still better equipped. Thank you for the comment.
Well Shoot!
I commented because I like what you are doing! The subject matter is good and all. Now, gotta ask, What’s with the guy in his green Boxers in a military Dio? Someone caught almost with his pants down?
[:D]. Thanks buddy. I appreciate your comments. Now if I tell you at this moment about the guy in his shorts you’d get the idea behind my diorama. I’m not ready to disclose that just yet. Soon, real soon.
Here is the last figure of my diorama. Definitely not my best pic, but now on to finish the base and remainder of surrounding features.
Here are some more WIP photos. These are all scratchbuilt and don’t worry the window will be getting tweaked. So far all my components are coming together.
Very cool!!! Love the figures and the furniture!
Hey Gamera, thanks for the comments. I’ve been slow walking these last 2 weeks, but I have gotten some work done and most of my components are almost done and then I put the whole diorama together. Here is one component that went together well. Hopefully more to come in a few days as I call it a completed job.
Well!
Geez! lamps with webs and furniture as well as windows. OOOH! this has gotta be good.
Oh Boy!
This little dio says a lot and yet is simple in execution. See, Simplicity is definitely better where figures are concerned in nature!
Very cool! Looking forward to seeing her all come together Tiger.