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WEHRMACHT TANK CREWMAN-(OFFICER?)

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  • Member since
    September 2005
  • From: Illinois: Hive of Scum and Villany
Posted by Sprue-ce Goose on Monday, June 11, 2012 11:07 PM

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    November 2005
Posted by Anonymous on Monday, June 11, 2012 1:35 PM

...or this one:

  • Member since
    April 2006
  • From: ON, Canada
Posted by jgeratic on Monday, June 11, 2012 12:56 PM

Is this the one?

I did this over a decade ago.  Agreed, it is a nice sculpt but there something odd about the face.  From the view I provided it looks fine, but the side profiles something just doesn't look right.  If you intend to build more figures in this scale, you'd be well to pick up an appropriate Alpine kit and use the spare head as a replacement and relegate the Tamiya one for practice.

Marion Ball provides an excellent tutorial on how to paint faces in acrylic - youtube.

regards,

Jack

  • Member since
    August 2008
WEHRMACHT TANK CREWMAN-(OFFICER?)
Posted by tankerbuilder on Monday, June 11, 2012 10:24 AM

I have before me a really nice figure , at least I think so. He seems well molded.AND he did,t require a whole lot of any kind of primer. I did use some MR COLOR primer on certain joints.This is only my third figure in over thirty years.

What I would like to know is how you fellas get the faces so real. I have been working on a 1/35 scale figure to try the VALLEJO face painting set and I believe I,ve got it about half right( he looks like a young JOE STALIN right now).Like my planes (another rare thing for me) I use exclusively brush painting.

Considering his cost on my limited budget I want him to come out VERY right. Like ones I have seen at shows I want him to pop.Kinda like you would expect him to turn his head and in GERMAN, state "VOSS IS LOSS?)I think that is correct.Can anyone tell me where I can do his face better? Any help would be greatly appreciated.         TANKER-builderP.S. he is TAMIYA,S FIGURE-36301-800

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