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Thank you. While not to the degree that these guys would have, I have experienced similar feelings so I tried to express that through these figures.

Thank you. I am glad it turned out like it did.

Now that the Platoon Sergeant is done, I glued him into position. These are the initial photos. At some point I will break out the portable photo booth and take better photos. "THOUSAND YARD STARE" is now complete. In the aftermath of a night of fierce fighting and multiple human wave attacks...

Today I completed the Platoon Sergeant by painting his right sleeve and chevron, dirtying his uniform and making sweat stains under his arms and down his back, and applying Blood Effect to various places. Blood on the buttstock of his M16 is from butt stroking some VC when his magazine was...

Thanks, guys I had planned on working on the Platoon Sergeant Wednesday and Thursday, but I wasn't able to. However, I did get to work on him today and got quite a bit done. I painted the left sleeve, the 9th ID patch (after I looked at these photos I saw a small flaw on the patch that I have...

I have started to paint the Platoon Sergeant figure. As I was painting the face, the right arm popped off. Fortunately it was a clean break so it should reattach fine one I paint the right arm and M16. The arm breaking off actually turned out to be a good thing as it was going to be difficult to...

Thank you. I am glad he turned out well. Here are some photos after I attached the figure to the base. Now to start painting the last figure...

I think this guy is just about done. After I took the photos I added a few more spots of splatter to his face and the inside of his arm. The look I am going for is one of exhaustion after having to be extremely focused on fighting for survival, of shock, and the development of the "Thousand Yard...

Well, I had to cut today's paint session short due to rain storms as I did not want to be in the middle of painting some small detail and the power go out like it has during the past two storms. Anyway, I got his face completed minus his hair.

Thanks. I am glad to be back at the bench. I started painting the first GI this evening and hope to have him completed by the end of the week.

Thanks. It is good to be back. This is what I am currently working on. I still have the MEDCAP figures I converted last year and some other stuff not completed that I am going to try to work on, too.

Since then, I have painted the bunker and added an empty bandoleer, some M16 magazines and shell casings, and a claymore clacker. Unlike most of my vignettes and dioramas, I did most of the work on the groundwork first. I just placed the figures temporarily to mark their places, then let the...

This is the basic layout. There is a wedgie of a bunker, three dead VC, a dazed US Infantry Platoon Sergeant overwhelmed by the carnage and the loss of some of his Soldiers, and a dazed Grunt who was wounded during the course of the fight and ended up with a jammed weapon so he continued 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.

It is not totally completed yet, but is done enough for tomorrow's show in Oklahoma City. I still have some ammo cans for the M60 that I need to add that I was not able to get done in time as well as some more figures, but the main ones for the story are present so I feel comfortable showing this.

Thanks MP and Gary. I didn't get much done today as I had a lot of other stuff to do, but I did manage to mask off the base in preparation for applying groundwork tomorrow and I was able to weather the road wheels and tracks.

Yesterday I also started painting the second GI. I completed him this evening. The thing that took the longest was painting the flak vest because the details were soft and not very well defined as the base figure is a 3D printed figure. I also had problems getting the colors to look like the...

Yesterday I painted some cots by Armand Bayardi to attach to the front of the M577 to cover the holes where the shovel was supposed to go. Fortunately I saw some photos of cots being carried there, so it works out well. The Bayardi cots are very well detailed, by the way.

Thank you. Today was a pretty productive day. I got the three Vietnamese kids painted. Normally I would've had the kids selling stuff that was more commonly sold like sunglasses, watches, sodas, and stuff like that, but the items were already part of the 3D printed figures. The hats might be...

Thursday I had also started painting the face of the driver. Today I completed that figure and am in the process of painting the Vietnamese kids before painting the guy in the flak vest.