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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...

I have been working slowly but surely on the third diorama in my "Shopping in Long Thanh" series and this one will be titled "Tour Jackets, Souvenirs, and Trinkets". In this diorama, GIs fron the 9th Infantry Division are shopping at two places - one that sells things like tour jackets, Ao Dais...

Here is something a bit different for me, a vignette of a wedgie of a WW1 German A7V from MModels and an enlisted tank crewman and an officer from Masterbox. I am building this for a friend of mine who is a WW1 history buff. The wedgie makes a good backdrop for the figures and creates the...

Last night I completed the second vignette/diorama for my "Shopping in Long Thanh" diorama series. It is a fairly simple vignette but I think it turned out well. The American Soldier is a Bravo 6 conversion and the Vietnamese girl is from Paracel Miniatures. The M113 "wedgie" that is being...

I started this project on New Year's Day and completed it last night in time for my wife's birthday which was today. The figures are from Masterbox which for injection molded figures were pretty decent. I did not modify them in any way, which is rare for me, but I thought they told a good story...