I haven't posted here for a while but wanted to chuck these in here as I've just finished these two and looking for a little feedback for anything I can tweak before I get on with painting them. I think I've covered all my bases but if you see something you think I've missed sing out.

These are made up from a set of legs, two torsos, two heads, four hands, two sets of boots, wire, putty and Mr.Surfacer ( that's covered in full in the build log but can't be buggered rewriting it all here ).

These are covered in full on my build log HERE , this is just the finished result. They're a bit shiny ( as is the Steyr which is actually a darkish, dull red. I'm working on changing my halogens for neons to give more neutral lighting for photographs ( deep dark winter here, so not much in the way of decent natural light these days ).

Looking good. it looks like the injured guy has actual weight and is having to be really dragged out. The only thing I'd possibly change is the lifting guys' face, have him grunting/shouting, just a liitle more expressive.
Well done.

Nice work.

Al

Will this be a commercially available resin figure?

I wouldn't know where to begin to do that. I just made these for a build I'm doing. I generally like to do my own figures as thee's a seldom a readily available one that is perfect for my wants and needs.

Very convincing poses. I would have to agree about the rescuers facial expression though. He looks too non plussed?
J

That should change with the painting, it's hard to see in the monotonal colour but he has his teeth gritted. Hopefully once the faces are painted that will come out more.

Very nice bit of work there Dean ... know all to well what you mean about finding the perfect figure for the model your building ..i've never gone as far as you did with these little works of art ..I just cut and slash and putty to get mine to look right lol . oh you wouldnt happen to be the same Dean from Trademe by chance ? if you are its been a little while since i dealt with you there's this Famo conversion which is really catching my attention lol

Cheers

Phill

Hi Phill, that's me, also on Kiwimodeller and my own little spot www.militarymodels.co.nz.

Drop me a line if you're interested in the FAMO conversion.

lol well aint it a small world after all mate dont know if you remember but i told you about a conversion i was going to do on a E100 to turn it into a E100 Panzerjager ? kinda got side tracked with that project ,,been working on a rather large dio for a friend ,,then something crossed my path ..check this thing out ,,will need the barrel for this new project ,,, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koksan.. this thing is right up my alley and if the word is right Trumpeter are making the E100 panzerjager in 1/35 ,,i dont mind cheating but yes i will drop you a line soon about that conversion ,,soon as i'm back to work and making money .. got hit by a car ..so not in great shape at the mo ,hell of a way to get time for models lol

Yeah I remember that. Man you like them with big guns don't you.

Trumpeter is supposed to have the E-100 out next month and I kinda like the look of it myself.

If you made it to Model-X last month I was there on the Sunday with the Waikato club sharing the IPMS Auckland table.

After being bonked by a car travel aint that easy at the mo and so i missed Model X again!! damn it !! spend most days just sitting around trying to get my hip and knees to heal ,,well the hip anyway .. the knees are stuffed and need replacing ..oh well lol .. as to liking big gun ,,oh you damn skippy matey ,,when i saw the Koksan i knew that was what i wanted .. T-55 hull with the gun that big on it ..oh hell yes ,,its like what i'm building at the moment ..you can check it out on the What if campaign ..another big mean machine and this thing is packing serious fire power but thats me lol

Ever thought of scratchbuilding a Ratte ?

Ratte ? as in the huge 1000 ton German super super tank ? oh trust me i have thought about it ,...and yes the thought is still there .. would be a hell of a project and massive to boot ..the barrels would have to be custom made as i am unaware of 1/35th scale 16in gun barrels lol but where theres a Phill theres away lol

I'd be more concerned with the tracks. The 16in guns would scale out at close to 1/2 an inch so you could just use a couple of .50cal barrels.

This is them painted. Any input is welcome. I already know my face painting sucks, I need to work on that. I also need to try a few different settings on the camera to lose the funny "edge" against the background and sharpen up the images.



More images HERE

It may just be the camera but the uniforms look very glossy. I'd give them a once over with dullcoat. Good job so far.

Yeah that's the light, they're not that glossy IRL. I'm trying to get better photos, I've decided it's time to invest in a high end camera and a decent lighting setup now that I'm putting more time into the website. Currently I have to rely on natural light and being the middle of a dreary winter all I ever get is gloom or brilliant sunshine at the moment.

Dean ,,heres how i take my pics ..at night in my dark lounge ..i just use the flash and its taking pics i am more than happy with ,,even tho i would love to be able to take super close up pics with my camera but I'll need a macro lenses for it ..so thats still on the cards
Heres a pic taken in a nearly black room ..



So not all hope is lost ,,for now hehe

Those look good, what flash setting do you use ? I gave it a try but the flash still made everything too shiney. I might hunt out my old camera ( my daughter has it somewhere ) and try that as it had an option for a diffused flash which this camera lacks.

Did these ones outside this morning in the early morning light before it got too bright, they look a little better. I still need to play around with the background colour though as the blue still creates a sort of ghosting ( the black worked okay for close ups but loses too much detail further back ).









Few more photos HERE

Hey Dean .. the camera i use is a Fuji Finepix S3500 and as for the flash settings its the one the camera uses lol .. havent played around with it at all and i dont think it has any control over how bright it flashes ..its a 6x optical zoom with 4 mega pixels ..surprises me the photos it can take ,,its nothing amazing but still does a pretty good job now i know what works with this thing
I had to play around taking photo's to see what works best ,,now its sweet ,,but like you said in your last post time it might be to buy a mega camera for all your site work ..then there is nothing stopping you