tonydawe
A Fixture
Battle of Long Tan -Naked Army 315mm
Hi guys,
Here are the first pics of my latest project.
This is my first conversion done to a Naked Army figure.
I've cut the head off the stock figure with my dremel tool and replaced it with another head (from the Libya 1941 figure) because this face was similing and had more character potential.
I have also cut the bush hat off the original figure and will stick it back on the new head (which was wearing a steel helmet). I've also thinned the edges of the bush hat and gouged some chunks out of it to make it look more battered and distressed.
Both the new head and the hat are held on with blu tack to give you some idea of what the finished figure should look like.
This is the fifth Naked Army figure in 315mm polyresin that I have started work on, but the first to be converted. If this figure goes well, it probably wont be the last.
The figure depicts a Private from D Company 6 RAR who together with less than 100 fellow diggers, held back wave after wave of relentless attacks from a Brigade force of 5,000 North Vietnamese regulars at a rubber plantation called Long Tan in Phouc Tuy Province South Vietnamn August 1966.
Following the battle, 18 Australian's were killed and 21 had been wounded. Over 245 dead NVA soldiers were counted, although the number would almost certainly have been much higher given the NVA's practice of retreiving their dead from the battlefield by dragging them by canvas loops attached at their ankles. The official estimate of NVA killed was over 1,000.
D Coy 6 RAR was awarded a US Presidential Unit Citation for its bravery at this Battle, and the site of the battle itself is one of the few places in Vietnam where the Vietnamese government have allowed a war memorial to be set up to honour foreign soldiers in their country.
Cheers
Hi guys,
Here are the first pics of my latest project.
This is my first conversion done to a Naked Army figure.
I've cut the head off the stock figure with my dremel tool and replaced it with another head (from the Libya 1941 figure) because this face was similing and had more character potential. I have also cut the bush hat off the original figure and will stick it back on the new head (which was wearing a steel helmet). I've also thinned the edges of the bush hat and gouged some chunks out of it to make it look more battered and distressed.
Both the new head and the hat are held on with blu tack to give you some idea of what the finished figure should look like.
This is the fifth Naked Army figure in 315mm polyresin that I have started work on, but the first to be converted. If this figure goes well, it probably wont be the last.
The figure depicts a Private from D Company 6 RAR who together with less than 100 fellow diggers, held back wave after wave of relentless attacks from a Brigade force of 5,000 North Vietnamese regulars at a rubber plantation called Long Tan in Phouc Tuy Province South Vietnamn August 1966.
Following the battle, 18 Australian's were killed and 21 had been wounded. Over 245 dead NVA soldiers were counted, although the number would almost certainly have been much higher given the NVA's practice of retreiving their dead from the battlefield by dragging them by canvas loops attached at their ankles. The official estimate of NVA killed was over 1,000.
D Coy 6 RAR was awarded a US Presidential Unit Citation for its bravery at this Battle, and the site of the battle itself is one of the few places in Vietnam where the Vietnamese government have allowed a war memorial to be set up to honour foreign soldiers in their country.
Cheers
