Vietnam Thread
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WOW I love your terrain 6mm! A feast for the eyes. And thank you for alerting me to the fact that there is a Vietnam thread!
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Very beautiful stuff 6mmwargaming
, I love so much your Vietnam terrain, that's the way I want to do my own too (remember my "old" pictures of my US Fire Support Base on this thread, the principe was the same).
Congratulations for your building, they looks very great ! Swamps look very good too, keep on this way !

Congratulations for your building, they looks very great ! Swamps look very good too, keep on this way !

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Terriffic stuff! But how did you do your palm trees? I've tried the GHQ method, but all I ever end up with is a mess...
I know, if at first you don't succeed -- but what about after a dozen or so tries?
Anyway -- thanks for sharing your pictures with us!
Regards,
Tom Stockton
Terriffic stuff! But how did you do your palm trees? I've tried the GHQ method, but all I ever end up with is a mess...

Anyway -- thanks for sharing your pictures with us!
Regards,
Tom Stockton
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The palm trees look like the plastic ones you can get in bulk from cake decorating stores online. I hate the shiny plastic look, but a wash and some dullcote does wonders.
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Yes they are the cheap plastic trees off ebay.
I scored/scratched the trunks to roughen them up and glued some sand to the part where the trunk meets the palms and on the top as well. It helps hide the plastic joins quite well and looks like the dead parts you see in plam trees. Then I painted and drybushed the trunks and sandy bits a brown/grey colour ( I didnt worry if I got some brown on the base part of the palms).
I hope that makes sense
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I scored/scratched the trunks to roughen them up and glued some sand to the part where the trunk meets the palms and on the top as well. It helps hide the plastic joins quite well and looks like the dead parts you see in plam trees. Then I painted and drybushed the trunks and sandy bits a brown/grey colour ( I didnt worry if I got some brown on the base part of the palms).
I hope that makes sense

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Unfortunately, my pledge to only order new models when the current stuff is finished has already failed. I still have the second Phantom to finish, but I already ordered a GHQ and Mainforce VC unit and some Huey gunships from Magister Militum. Better finish the second Phantom quickly!





Unfortunately, my pledge to only order new models when the current stuff is finished has already failed. I still have the second Phantom to finish, but I already ordered a GHQ and Mainforce VC unit and some Huey gunships from Magister Militum. Better finish the second Phantom quickly!
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Vietnam Thread
That is an excellent job on that Phantom. Everything looks great. What did you use for decals?
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The stars came with the decal sheet on the model. However, they don't have the characteristic red strip in the middle of the "wings" so I added that myself. That's difficult work, though, so I ordered a new sheet for the future.pmskaar wrote:That is an excellent job on that Phantom. Everything looks great. What did you use for decals?
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The big letters and small numbers came from an I-94 sheet.
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