Vietnam Thread

pibber · Post by **pibber** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 5:58 am

My "old" PACV NÂ°2

pibber · Post by **pibber** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 6:00 am

Two RPC with sampans on the Mekong

pibber · Post by **pibber** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 6:04 am

M42 Duster

ACAV et M48 Patton

Again

Bye,

Rutgervanm · Post by **Rutgervanm** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 6:55 am

Great stuff man! So much character for such small models.

Do you also game with them or do you just set them up and look at them all day (which would be just as satisfying I guess)?

pibber · Post by **pibber** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 7:56 am

Hi Rutgervanm !

For the moment, I 'm just about to constitute armies.
I'll play with them, when my terrain will be finishing. This is my big project !
Without terrain, no game !
The game I project to do is 1:1 (!) with a personnal french rule. I work with "Kampfgruppe" on the rule.

Vietnam units I ever possed :
- Riverine force and supply ships (task force 116) & task force 117 (PBR MkII)
- Riverine Medium boat company (LCM-8)
- 3/34th artillery (105mm) on riverine's barges (not finished)
- one US infantry bataillon (with one HQ company, Four infantry company, one heavy weapons company) (Btn not finished)
- one Vietcong company
- one, maybe two, NVA bataillon (not finished)
- one Armored Cav troop (11thCav)
- one LVT Btn (I wait for GHQ making LVTP5 engineer & LVTP5 HQ to complete my Btn.
- Few advanced tactical bases on barges for Riverine forces (nearly finished)
- Two ground artillery fire support bases (not yet create)
- Two spÃ©cial forces bases (size : one small & one medium)
- Air Cav (20 bell Huey - 8 Bell gunship) + 8 Chinook
- South Vietnam Navy (not finished)
- natives junke & sampans (not finished)
- nam farms
- rice paddles, hamlets, villages & one small town near a river (not yet create)
- River & river banks for my terrain (not finished)
- Trees & palm trees (not finished)
- Close air support (Skyraider, Phantom, helico, ....) (not finished)

As you see, this is a very, very, very big project ! with a lot of, a lot of a work !
Photos will comes next weeks and ... next months....

Thomaso827 · Post by **Thomaso827** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 7:35 pm

Excellent stuff. I am waiting right now for my M-48A3s to arrive so I can bring them up to speed. The local game shop has very little in the way of Vietnam gaming going on, and I find it very interesting that my little GHQ troops attract lots of attention every time I have a game layed on. The larger scales that can be seen from across the room never seem to get as much attention to the game they are in, but everyone has to come over and look closely to see what I'm running. Photos I posted to the Piquet gamers Yahoo group were mistaken as 15mm troops, so lots of folks are surprised when they see how much detail is available. I also learned from Pibber's pics to use the US summer WW2 artillery crew figures with my stuff. Having crew figures of some sort just adds so much to the overall look. Mounting a spare 50 cal externally on top of the cupolas on the M-48s will add tremendously. Thanks for the inspirational work.

Tom Oxley

Carl67 · Post by **Carl67** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 10:40 am

Great Job on the M48 and M113.

I am currently building a Vietnam force myself. I have yet to build an Air Cav unit but I do have a small contingent of American and VC to create some small battles. The material that Pibber provides creates a great inspiration to get my units complete and to try a Vietnam scenario at my local gaming hang out here in Cleveland

Carl

pibber · Post by **pibber** » Sat Jan 03, 2009 10:11 pm

Hi all !

Happy new year 2009 from France for all of you and your family !

Few photos of my new US Fire Support Base, for inspiration...

All vehicules are from GHQ (of course !).
Bunkers and watch tower are from GHQ and an another company.
(There's a lot of scratchbuild bunker : they are made from personnal modification)
Sand walls are from GHQ.
Hex bases are self made in MDF (in France we call it "medium")

This FSB is not finishing yet.
I hope new photos of the finish model will come soon this month...

Long life to GHQ !

thetourist · Post by **thetourist** » Sun Jan 04, 2009 12:38 am

Brilliant as usual. Can't wait to see more!

cbovill · Post by **cbovill** » Sun Jan 04, 2009 2:30 am

My God Pibber - that is truly incredible! There is so much attention to detail I don't know where to begin. Even putting the block and tackle and cables on the engineer vehicles.

The research and time and effort required to pull off this incredible scene that you put before us is well worth it and much appreciated. All of your work shows such dedication and passion for what you do.

C'est magnifique! - there's my two years of French in junior high for you.

Chris

thenorthman · Post by **thenorthman** » Sun Jan 04, 2009 3:27 am

WOW!!!

I love the work once again. It gives me inspiration and makes me want to start painting. But I know I would just be disappointed on my paint job if I started to paint when compared to your work.

Sean

Carl67 · Post by **Carl67** » Sun Jan 04, 2009 4:24 am

Pibber

I am in shock.

I am ripping open my unpainted GHQ vietnam packs as I type! (yes I am multi-tasking and I know that is impossible to do). But everytime I see your Vietnam stuff I go crazy.

Keep up the great work --- Happy New Year--- and its good to hear from you!!!!

Carl

Mauser · Post by **Mauser** » Sun Jan 04, 2009 4:45 am

Pibber,

That is a beautiful piece of work! I think I'll have sit to stare at it for awhile....

pibber · Post by **pibber** » Mon Jan 05, 2009 7:07 am

Hi guys !

Thank you for all your comments and your compliments

, they feel me strongly.

Some "old" pictures of my APL-55 barrack ship before others US FSB's pictures
and US ground material arrive... :

The APL during the building :

Vietnam Thread

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Nam by Pibber

Nam by Pibber

Nam by Pibber

US Fire Support Base Vietnam by Pibber

APL-55 by Pibber