Nice looking set-up, Bill. I've never tried the Arc of Fire rules. Are they a skirmish type rules set? As much as I like Command Decision, I've never felt an operational level rules system really does justice to Vietnam-era small unit actions.
Agreed - yes Arc of Fire is skirmish. Instead of lifting a single figure as an element, I lift a whole base. I mount 3 per base so the results are the same.
Wow, nice pic, Bill. Got some more? Maybe a wider-angled shot or two? I'd surely love to see more of that battleboard.
I spy with my little eye:
- Nicely done huts. The paint job on the grass roofs is very good. What colors did you use? But are the walls actually gray? Or is that a by-product of photo/lighting?
- Very nicely done figs.
- Palm trees done in the GHQ fashion.
- Beautiful terrain. The differnces between the mud and the grass are intriguing. Sure would love to see more of it.
- Hand-painted numbering on the one Huey (A9) that's down. Ooh I just LOVE it when other guys also eschew decals in favor of hand-painting the details!
Huts are primed black, dry-brushed white, stained with Vallejo Burnt Umber. Dry brush finish when stain is dry: Roof-Vallejo Gold Brown, Walls of hooches - combo of old thatch from Musket Minis paints and Khaki from Vallejo.
I will post more shots when I put new ones up on my site. However, if you want to look at a wide variety of stuff visit my site: www.soflgamers.org
You can see a number of shots on the "collage" page.
"I was worse scared than I was at Shiloh" - Sam Watkins
Perryville, KY - October 8, 1862
You realize that stretch of brown water on the far right of the picture just cries out for a couple of PBR's, ASPB's, or LCM monitors!
David (hopeless brown-water navy junkie.....; as if you hadn't already guessed that from my previous posts on WW2 Soviet BKM river gunboats)
My friend Jeff has the riverine stuff. That is exactly why I did the brown water terrain. I can also use this for the Mississippi River for my ACW 1/600 games.
"I was worse scared than I was at Shiloh" - Sam Watkins
Perryville, KY - October 8, 1862
See, I KNEW we'd be even more impressed if you showed us more of the battlefield! Oy, that is some NICE terrain! Yow! I can almost hear the howler monkeys in that jungle on the edge of the board...
Pushbike:
Oh my my, those are nice looking! You've got the touch when it comes to the weathering techniques!
-Mark 1 Difficile est, saturam non scribere. "It is hard NOT to write satire." - Decimus Iunius Juvenalis, 1st Century AD
Pushbike, best use I've seen for the bottom of a paint bottle (Tamiya ?) yet. Is the self-propelled 88mm on halftrack one of your conversions?
I like the Tamiya paint! All ranges have their best colours and the Tamiya Olive Drab is just the most accurate and really conveys that US military green. You can probably see in the pictures next to the Russian green. Most of my other most used paints are Vallejo. An excellent range of military colours and most importantly, to me, water based.
The Sdkfz conversion was a quicky from left over bits from an Ebay scrap box purchase, The Chassis from a SdKfz 7/1 20mm FLAK 38 trimmed and a 88mm gun added.
researching this just know it appears that it should actually be based on a Famo ie
Here are some of the many pictures of it you can find on the net.
