'Nam project - Buddha statue head

As I mentioned in a previous post I found a Buddha statue head that had just become available to buy. The head is listed as a base for putting miniatures on, but I thought it would be great as a piece of scenery for my Vietnam game.

 It arrived on Wednesday and I finished painting and flocking it on Thursday.

Now I need to make a few ruin wall pieces to go near by.

My 40 trees also arrived and I have based them up. I just need to paint and flock the bases and they will be finished.

 I would have liked to have done it this weekend, but I have other commitments that will mean the earliest I can work on them will be next week.

 Oh, I also made my own hot wire cutter - this thing is super effective and I will show some handy work and a photo of the cutter next week with any luck.

Black Powder

I went around to my Mate's place last night and we started a game of Black Powder. It has been around a year plus since we last played a game of BP, so we decided to learn the rules again.

 After cleaning the gaming table a bit we deployed our troops, both sides are from his collection of 15mm French and Prussians.

 This is the set up for the game - we are playing three brigades per side for this game.

My French

His Prussians

As you can see the scenery is nothing special at all for this game - we places a couple of buildings on a whim. Once we know what we are doing with the rules we will add extra scenery for our next game.

 After one turn each we ran out of time for the evening, so we will take up the game again next time I go around to my Mate's place.

'Nam Project - NVA finished

I finished painting and varnishing my NVA yesterday and finished basing them today.

Here is my entire collection of NVA figures:

 The officer in the centre is for scenario purposes, as are the two snipers to either side of him.

 The remainder make up two squads for my game.

 I did have to double up on one of the pack of NVA to be able to make the two squads. TAG make enough VC that I could have two squads with no double ups, but they haven't done the same for their NVA.

 Now the NVA are completed I have some extra VC to paint up - enough to complete my two squads of VC plus a HMG with crew.

 Once the VC are done I will look towards getting some Civilian figures from West Wind Productions.