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I wasn't very pleased with the front of the interpreter's trousers, so today I added the fly and defined the front pockets. I think he looks better now...and his gig line is pretty straight. :)

Here is the figure of the interpreter. He is a conversion of the ARVN Soldier from Masterbox's "Somewhere in Saigon" kit. Since I had already started him for an earlier project, all I did yesterday and today was add a Hornet head wearing a boonie hat from one of Bravo 6's LRRP kits, use arms...

Here is the Battalion Surgeon preparing to listen to the heart and lungs of a young patient. He is a conversion of a German figure from PanzerArt that I had started a year or so ago as I was originally going to use him in another diorama and had already sculpted most of the jungle fatigue...

Thanks, Gary. Glad you like what I have been doing.

The other guy pulling security and watching the target practice session is a very slight conversion of a figure I sculpted back in 2020 which is now produced by Custom Dioramics in their YANKS figure line. All I did was change the head with one from Hornet, add a boonie hat from one of Bravo 6's...

The guy pointing to the next target for the slingshots is a conversion of a WW2 German figure from Bravo 6. Eventually he may have a weapon slung over his shoulder, too.

The Vietnamese boys from Paracel Miniatures did not have shirts on. The pictures I have from MEDCAPs performed by the 9th Infantry Division show kids wearing shirts, so I sculpted them out of Magic Sculpt. I dropped the kid with the slingshot and his right leg broke off. I reattached it and...

I had modified the Platoon Sergeant figure even further by adding a XM177E1 slung over his shoulder. To get it to sit just right and look natural, I slung mine over my shoulder while wearing a jungle fatigue shirt and looked in the mirror to get proper positioning, etc. I normally wouldn't glue...

Although I am still going to do a diorama featuring the "New Guys", I am changing focus towards a diorama of a MEDCAP being conducted. In the background there will be a building facade with US personnel treating Vietnamese civilians. Infantrymen providing security for the medical personnel will...

Thanks, Barney. Never heard that saying with the donkey included, but I like it better with it. Glad you like the figures. Because I have been working slowly, more ideas keep popping into my head, so now I am doing something a little bit different which I will take photos of as the figures...

Thanks. I spend a lot of my modeling time looking through my stash of aftermarket heads to find ones with just the right expression and when depicting certain individuals faces that look like that person. He does resemble SGT Peterson or "Peter San" on the Green Berets largely due to the hat...

Thank you.

And I also started working on this guy who is waving at the new guys while working on something. The body is from the Bravo 6 kit of two dudes cleaning their weapons. The head is from Hornet, and the left arm is from Cosar Rex or the Bodi. I cannot remember which manufacturer but it was one of...

When Alpine Miniatures recently released a couple of DAK figures, I found this one to peak my interest, not as a DAK Soldier, but as a US GI through a simple conversion because I liked the pose. I was originally going to have him wear the stateside OG-107 fatigues, but since the folds were...

After working on figure placement, posing, and overall diorama composition for my next diorama I found the waving right hand of the first converted figure in this thread just did not work with the current storyline, etc. I think the figure looked pretty darn good, but I did it before really...

Ditto that ditto. Looks really nice.

Here are some photos of the 2d new guy/FNG/replacement with his arms. When I originally applied the putty to make the sleeves, it may have been a bit too thick and it just didn't look right, so last night and this morning I scraped away some of the excess, carved some new folds in the front, and...

Looks outstanding, Mike. What did you use for your tall grass?

Last night and Wednesday I worked on another figure conversion of the second of two new guys for my upcoming diorama. The base figure was an MP from Bravo 6. I replaced the head with one from Hornet and the cap is from ICM. I sculpted the pockets, name and US Army tapes, and the waist adjustment...

Here are two more that I am working on...one is a conversion of the Marine machine gunner from Evolution Miniatures to depict a guy named Russell Fant who was a member of 2-47 IN (Mech) who was KIA in 1969. It is a tribute piece that I am making for a family friend who was his fiance at the time...