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Here is a 1/48 scale set of WWII U.S. troops

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  • Member since
    February 2003
  • From: Bucks county, PA
Here is a 1/48 scale set of WWII U.S. troops
Posted by Bucksco on Wednesday, July 9, 2003 6:42 PM
Here is a 1/48th scale set of WWII U.S. troops.
http://rongeorge.com/modules/Gallery/figures/GI1
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  • From: USA
Posted by nsclcctl on Friday, July 18, 2003 10:34 AM
Jack, they do not look like US-GIs to me. Whats up with the color of the pants?
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    February 2003
  • From: Bucks county, PA
Posted by Bucksco on Friday, July 18, 2003 12:17 PM
I could be off on the colors. I used an osprey book on WWII U.S. Infantry in Europe. In thebooks color plates the early pattern pants appeared to be a brown drab and the jackets appeared an Earth tan. Some of the later uniforms appeared to have an olive green jacket with the same color pants. Some of the later uniforms also had olive green jackets and pants. As I said I could be a bit off. I guess put more effort into sculpting than painting.
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, July 18, 2003 12:38 PM
Great work. You say you sculpted them yourself.. I wish I was that talanted.
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, July 18, 2003 1:36 PM
OD, Khaki, and Brown-colors look good to me. Nice work.
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    February 2003
  • From: Bucks county, PA
Posted by Bucksco on Friday, July 18, 2003 2:04 PM
Thanks guys. I found a lot of variations in U.S. uniforms for this period. Some of these figures were painted to represent troops just landed in Europe and a few are painted to represent troops in 1945. Believe it or not I sculpted these for a model railroad manufacturer!
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    January 2003
  • From: NE Georgia
Posted by Keyworth on Sunday, July 20, 2003 12:33 AM
Very nice work.
"There's no problem that can't be solved with a suitable application of high explosives"
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    June 2003
  • From: Cavite, Philippines
Posted by allan on Sunday, July 20, 2003 8:45 AM
Id say you got an army going on over there. NIce work. What did you use as base material?

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    February 2003
  • From: Bucks county, PA
Posted by Bucksco on Sunday, July 20, 2003 10:30 AM
The original figures were sculpted 3 to 1 size in a material called Castaline. It is a clay/wax hybrid material. after they were finished I made rubber molds and made hard copies in resin. These resin copies were then panagraphed(downsized to 1/48th scale).
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  • From: Cavite, Philippines
Posted by allan on Monday, July 21, 2003 10:09 AM
Thanks, Jack. Havent tried my hand in resin casting. Sure wish I had your skills.

No bucks, no Buck Rogers

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