Dont toss out those old Tamiya figures

M. Brindos

If I could get more tricks and tips for this stuff I'd be happy. Too bad he's not around, but maybe he'll show up eventually and I can perhaps learn some new stuff.  :)

I'm still trying to figure out why most of us are so afraid to get into serious figure painting. Its all the same bag of tricks we already use on other subjects. But I thought if I can help show people that it's not as challenging as people seem to think it is, then I'm doing us all a service lol.

 

I have been doing figures for years, but then when you do dio's, figures are pretty important. I think one of the things that might put people off figures is the skin. I struggled with it for ages, in fact it was only last year that I started to get a grip on it. I still have a long way to go, especially when it comes to converting figures. Some of the stuff in that and otehr books i have seen is amazing, with people making limbs and even complete figures from putty.

Thanks for posting this, everything like this will help.

Hello!

I'm with you and Hans von Hammer, recently also known as Sgt Rock Fury - those Tamiya figs can be suprisingly good after some sanding, and most of the time the price is unbeatable. In some cases though, they just beg for resin heads - the faces are hard to save. My results with plastic figures can be seen here (scroll a little for the Command Figures set):

http://www.vietnam.net.pl/M55mod2en.htm

and here (some more resin and less Tamiya):

http://www.vietnam.net.pl/M42mod6pl.htm

Good luck with your builds and have a nice day

Paweł

If I could get more tricks and tips for this stuff I'd be happy. Too bad he's not around, but maybe he'll show up eventually and I can perhaps learn some new stuff.  :)

I'm still trying to figure out why most of us are so afraid to get into serious figure painting. Its all the same bag of tricks we already use on other subjects. But I thought if I can help show people that it's not as challenging as people seem to think it is, then I'm doing us all a service lol.

I was put onto the book by Hans von hammer who unfortunately has not been on for a while. But he is big into this sort of thing.

I'll have to see if I can get a copy of that book, Bish. I can always use more information!

Some nice work there Mike. I still have some of the very early Tamiya German figure sets as I think they still have there use's. I have only started converting figures recently but its really nice to be able to get the figures to match the dio rather than the other way round. There is a book published by Squadron and written by Bill Chilstrom called Converting and Detailing Plastic Figures, which I have found very useful.