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I am converting the bust of LTC Kilgore from Apocalypse Now into a Staff Officer from the 9th Infantry Division from when the Division Headquarters arrived in Vietnam in December 1966. The additions I made were the addition of strips for Airborne wings and a CIB above his name tape, a 9th ID...

While I was working on the bust of the 9th Infantry Division Rifleman, I found that not only was I enjoying converting and painting bust, but I could assemble several in a project covering the years that the 9th Infantry Division served in Vietnam. But what busts could I use? I remembered that...

Here is a bust that I painted for my wife for our Anniversary back in December. This is a figure of Empress Josephine that was for Christmas. This bust was for her birthday. She has amassed quite a collection over the years that she enjoys looking at. Thanks for looking. Cheers, James

A couple of years ago I bought a bust depicting COL Hal Moore when he was a Brigade Commander in the 1st Cavalry Division in Viatnam shortly after he led his battalion during the Battle at LZ X-Ray in the Ia Drang Valley in Vietnam. It was made by Dolman Miniatures and the sculptor did a really...

I decided to try out some of Calvin Tan's new face painting techniques that use AK Interactive's QuickGEN and GEN 3 paints. To do so, I am going to slightly convert and paint this bust from Young Miniatures. Instead of him being from the 1st CAV, I am scraping away the 1st CAV patch and will...

After having tried working with a larger scale than my normal 1/35 scale, I seem to like working with 1/24 scale figures. This thread will be where I post what figures I am working on and then when they are used in a particular diorama or display, I will make a separate thread for those. This...

I built this vignette just prior to this year's Tulsa Figure Show. It depicts a patrol leader of a nightly ambush patrol preparing to initiate an ambush by detonating a claymore mine. The figure is one that I sculpted over the course of a couple of weeks during downtime during my last tour in...

This is a figure of a Soldier from the 9th Infantry Division returning fire while patrolling canals in Long An Province in 1967. The figure is a cut down conversion of a figure from H3 Models. I added a short brimmed ERDL Camo boonie hat to the figure after I cut him in half to replicate him...

This is a figure I originally sculpted back in 2002 or 2003 that had taken an unfortunate accident in 2013 or 2014 when it got damaged when it got blown off the back of my car while I was gathering my stuff to go inside at the Texas Figure Show. I fixed what I could, used a different head that...

It has been a while since I have posted anything. I recently completed my first 1/24 scale figure from Concept Miniatures. It is a 3d Printed piece that includes the base with a section of a wall. I painted everything with acrylics and used Gamers Grass tufts and preserved plants from...

With the Tulsa Figure show just a few weeks away, I wanted to complete some simple and quick pieces so it makes the trip worth it. I thought this set of hippies would be quick and colorful. There is no story behind them unlike most of my work, just a set to paint for fun. The figures are from...

Normally I just have to convert at least something on a figure, but for once I have built and painted a figure as it was intended to be when sculpted and cast. This figure is from Bravo 6 and depicts an Automatic Rifleman carrying a M14E1 and wearing a mixture of uniform items that was not...

I just completed this figure depicting a very good friend of mine with whom I served with in 3-144 IN from 2006 - 2010. Prior to moving to the US and joining the US Army where he served in Grenada and Iraq, Paul White served in Vietnam in the Australian Army in 1970 - 71. He was a Scout and...

It has been quite a while since I have posted anything on this site. Saul messaged me about that, so here is my latest diorama. I will be doing something a bit different this time. Since the diorama is already completed, I will start with the completed build and then go backwards showing the...

It has been a while since I posted here. For a while I had lost my focus and motivation, but now it is back. I am currently working on a vignette depicting the aftermath of a night of human wave attacks.

Since there is about a month left before the Tulsa Figure Show and I have only two projects completed and the M577 in progress, I figured that I would try to knock out a quick vignette that I had been planning on making for a while. It depicts a Vietnamese civilian woman who was hired to be a...

Several months ago, last July to be exact, I had started working on two M577s - one being made from the Tamiya kit and the other being a kit bash of AFV Club's M113A1 ACAV and the Tamiya M577 kit. The one this thread is about is the Tamiya M577. Some things that I have done to improve the kit...

This is a vignette that I made for a friend of mine, Sharon Bloszko Swift, who was the fiance of SGT Russell Fant of C Company, 2d Battalion, 47th Infantry (Mechanized), 9th Infantry Division who was Killed in Action on 3 February 1969 in Long An Province, Vietnam when his M113 hit a mine which...

It has been a few months since I have posted anything. Medical issues and hospital visits concerning my wife and my mom have been on the forefront and modeling had taken a back seat. Things are settling down, so I am trying to get some modeling done. Since the MEDCAP diorama that I had been...

Not to long ago I had bought the IDF Tanker 1973 figure from Royal Models with the intention of converting him to a US GI in Vietnam. I scraped off the tanker coverall details, sculpted in the necessary details to transform the uniform into a set of 2d Pattern Jungle Fatigues. I then added the...