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Holy brightly colored patterns on the drummer boy, Batman! That is quite a colorful jacket on the drummer boy and is very well done. The smaller base looks much better on terms of the base not detracting from the story being told with the figures. I just got Mike the Kiwis book the other day...

Crazy, isn't it?

Progress has been slow, but now I have some stuff to show. Here is the bakery with part of it's sign. I have made my own printed materials before, but this one that seems like it should have been pretty simple ended up being very time consuming. I started making the sign by getting on an English...

Looking great, Bro. You are on the home stretch now. I am sure the completed work is going to look awesome and I am also sure you will be glad when it is done as well. I couldn't imagine painting all of those plaid patterns on a flat surface much less with folds requiring shadows and highlights...

This weekend I was able to do some work on the structure representing the bakery at Long Thanh now that the roof arrived. The roof is from Model Victoria and is pretty decent. I hated cutting one of the sides to fit this wedgie of a building, but it seems to work out OK. I did some weathering...

Probably because he can't believe how the Grunt he is looking at let his boots get so scuffed up and dirty. He is probably thinking to himself, "If this GI has me shine his boots, I am going to charge him five times my normal price."

Yesterday I completed another figure of an older sister carrying her baby brother. This figure is from Paracel Miniatures. The photos are of this figure and the other kids from Paracel Miniatures that will be in this diorama. It is quite a bit different painting faces with smoother facial...

Lately I have been able to get some more painting done. I was able to complete one of the other women working at the bakery and a shoeshine boy. The bread lady is a conversion of a figure by Paracel Miniatures with a new left arm and a head from the Dragon Viet Cong kit. The boy is also from...

Wow, you are doing great things with skin tones these days. However, from the title of this thread I was worried that while you were in the hospital that the doctors got you mixed up with someone else and you ended up getting a boob job, too. I am glad to see it was this bust of a knight. lol

Really nice!

I am glad to hear that you are starting to feel better and can get back to modeling. Great job with the skin tones. What paints did you use for the skin?

I have been getting a little done here and there on this project. I had started to paint the woman who is selling baguettes to 1LT Barnes. I had painted her shirt blue and it looked ok, but it did not match how the other figures had turned out and there was very little definition to the...

I thought that may be the case as I have seen several kits from Asian manufacturers who get either the markings wrong or the time and place of the vehicle depicted by the decals wrong. I am thinking Takom either used a display vehicle that was outside of battalion HQ when the battalion was at...

The M114 looks good. Since my dad was one of the original Old Reliables at Fort Riley when they were forming up and preparing to go to Vietnam, anything 9th Infantry Division from that time period captures my interest. Where did you get info that 2d Battalion 60th Infantry had these? I am not...

Thanks, guys. Today I worked on a second Vietnamese civilian. She is from a Masterbox LTD kit and I think she turned out pretty decent after only 5 hours or so of painting. After looking at the photos there are a couple of things I need to touch up, but I think she looks pretty good for being...

Now that I have the figures posed out and primed, I started painting them today. The first one is the girl selling snacks. When I first started painting her I wasn't sure how she would turn out because I was having a heck of a time with the eyes, mainly due to the left hand sticking out in front...

Thanks, Guys. I am glad ya'll can appreciate the thought behind splitting such a potentially large scene into several smaller ones. As I was continuing to prep the figures, I decided that I wanted to include the figure carrying the tour jacket over his shoulder because after I finish this one...

You did a really nice job with this Tamiya Duster. Turned out top notch for a kit from the 1970s. I like that you have the hatches open showing the interior. Did you scratch build the interior or did you use the Verlinden interior set? I built two AFV Club Dusters when I was working at the Air...

As I acquire more and more Vietnamese civilian figures I am finding that this diorama could blossom into something much larger than I intended, so I have decided to break it up into several smaller vignettes that can eventually be displayed together and arranged in a manner that reflects where...

This evening I completed to putty work on the 1LT Barnes figure. Once the putty cures I will clean up the putty debris and scrape and sand where needed before priming and further refining cleanup before painting. His right hand is pointing at the baguettes he wants to buy and the left will be...