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Halo Jumpers in 1/35?!
Wakemeup
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Posted: Monday, October 29, 2012 - 04:55 AM UTC
Hi all,
do you know if on the market we have an Halo Jumper in 1/35...or in 1/16?!

Cheers

Ciro
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Posted: Monday, October 29, 2012 - 05:34 AM UTC
Not sure if you want a soldier in parachute, oxygen mask, or just the harness. Short answer = no, not that I know of and I've been asking since the 1990s. BUT there are some resin or bronze statues I've seen in gun magazines that do have soldiers in oxygen masks and harnesses, just not model kit figures.

http://www.bofwusa.com/acatalog/Special_Forces.html

Very expensive...
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Posted: Monday, October 29, 2012 - 05:37 AM UTC
I think Verlinden might do one in 120mm I think but I don't know if its still in production.


Paul
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Posted: Monday, October 29, 2012 - 05:49 AM UTC
Hi fellows,I mean the jumper with parachute and oxygen mask.Probably it's not so popular as subject,I think because it's difficult to set in a dio,anyway it will be cool to have one,as I can see the latest productions of resin figures are oustanding even as a stand alone piece.

I try do to a research about the verlinden one...

Cheers

Ciro
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Posted: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 - 03:39 AM UTC
Don't know if this is what your looking for, but Live Resin have announced, and provided pics, of a modern US soldier in 1/35. It's posted in the Figures Forum. It certainly is an impressive figure.
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Posted: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 - 04:26 AM UTC
I've seen the figure of Yaroslav(liveResin)oustanding work and for sure I'll buy the one with the face armor,I really hope that he'll produce something about the Halo jumpers,who knows?!
Cheers and thank you for the reply!

Ciro
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Posted: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 - 04:29 AM UTC

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Don't know if this is what your looking for, but Live Resin have announced, and provided pics, of a modern US soldier in 1/35.


Not at all. HALO stands for High Altitude, Low Opening and is a parachute insertion method used by Spec Ops to get in behind enemy lines without being detected.

Here is an example of what a HALO jumper may look like.

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Posted: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 - 05:53 AM UTC
How come his knee pads are around his ankles? Did he make an unusually 'hard' landing? Anyway, you're SOL on this subject unless your up for some surgery and sculpting.
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Posted: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 - 03:58 PM UTC

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How come his knee pads are around his ankles? Did he make an unusually 'hard' landing? Anyway, you're SOL on this subject unless your up for some surgery and sculpting.


Someone told me that the kneepads on the knees restrict movement so to make walking easier, the soldiers place the kneepads on their ankles and slip them up on their knees before battle.
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Posted: Wednesday, October 31, 2012 - 03:03 AM UTC

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How come his knee pads are around his ankles? Did he make an unusually 'hard' landing? Anyway, you're SOL on this subject unless your up for some surgery and sculpting.


Someone told me that the kneepads on the knees restrict movement so to make walking easier, the soldiers place the kneepads on their ankles and slip them up on their knees before battle.


As an old "rope jumper," I can say that no "Sky Clod" would ever expect or intend to land on his knees - "standin' landin'" only for those guys. Knee-pads-smee-pads...

However, I do wonder if that jumper plans on free-falling the whole way down just holding that M4 in one hand?

Now that would be just about Hollywood enough to believe... He looks like any of a dozen "Gadget Meisters" that I've known over the years.

"Hey! Who's got a camera?"

LMAO-ROTF!

EDIT: Oh wait! I just noticed that he has his SPR sling on. That'll help, especially wrapped across his O-2 hose...
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Posted: Wednesday, October 31, 2012 - 03:30 AM UTC
It's a battle barbie, not real, so they can dress it up however they want. Like Gino said, MAY look like.

Jim
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Posted: Wednesday, October 31, 2012 - 03:37 AM UTC
Hi Ciro,

i know this one from Andreas Miniatures 1n 54mm
US HALO

Otherwise i konw only 1/6 Action Figures like this one:
U.S. NAVY SEAL HALO UDT JUMPER

Hope it helps
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Posted: Wednesday, October 31, 2012 - 05:31 AM UTC
Andrea make one in 1/32nd
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Posted: Wednesday, October 31, 2012 - 05:48 AM UTC
hey fellows,thank you!it's the first time that I see this product from Andrea..well to be honest I haven't seen their catalogue many times.Not bad however....

Cheers

Ciro
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Posted: Wednesday, October 31, 2012 - 05:49 AM UTC
The Dragon offer is really really nice,too bad it's not resin and to bad that we haven't it in 1/35.Mmmm

Ciro
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Posted: Wednesday, October 31, 2012 - 06:48 AM UTC
There's also one by McFarlane Toys, which is also an action figure. It's quite expensive. A web search will reveal the image of it flying through the air.
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Posted: Wednesday, October 31, 2012 - 08:04 AM UTC
You can see a McFarlane jumper in the air here! These figures look pretty nice and detailed. Too bad they're not the right scale

http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?123299-4-new-soldiers-produced-by-Mcfarlane

How much do these sell for, by the way?

Hisham
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Posted: Wednesday, October 31, 2012 - 10:31 AM UTC

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You can see a McFarlane jumper in the air here! These figures look pretty nice and detailed. Too bad they're not the right scale

http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?123299-4-new-soldiers-produced-by-Mcfarlane

How much do these sell for, by the way?

Hisham


$185 USD new. They must be selling because many websites I've visited say they're "sold out."

Some modelers buy them, strip them, and repaint them. I've seen some in person and to be honest, the photos look better than the actual paintjob on many of them as the paint is intended to give the viewer to illusion of how awesome it looks from a distance. But up close, the paintjob doesn't look so great---blotchy and not the correct camouflage pattern.
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Posted: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 - 04:30 AM UTC
Hi all,

This is the HALO resin kit that i have https://gallery.kitmaker.net/data/27952/S_A_S_HALO_Figure_07.JPG
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