"Mayhem in the Hood" wip 9-21 (humvee question)

uh oh... well I'm going to models place if it's the end of the world- he's been casting parts for a limitless supply of resin figures in case of just an emergency! lol but yeah, nice work on those googles, why the brush strokes??- acrylic... lol jk

camo junkie wrote:

easy there cowboy...LOL. while all the signs point to appocolypse...the acrylic clears are usually all i ever use! however, based on my previous statements...i can see where your heading with this scott! whatever...right? yeah...you need to get things moving. havent heard anything from ya in a week or more! dont know about you buts its raining here. perfect for painting etc. only problem is i need to get all my stuff together for the weekend with the inlaws. (and some modeling...). come on big daddy kick the tires and light the fires!!!

You got me, camo! LOL!

The weather here has been really nice ... hot ... but nice. That's one of the biggest reasons I've not been at the workbench. But that's really neither here nor there. I do owe my postings an update or two ...

maybe a few postings! glad its hot there...we've had one really solid nice week of weather here...and its july!!!! hmmmmm....well, swam in the pool for about 5 of those 7 or so days! but that too is neither here nor there.

Camo, Just go for it. If needed, you can always CAREFULLY move the driver's seat back. Granted you may not want to do that, but its an option.

The other thing that you could do is to take all the XYZ measurements for the driver's "compartment" in the HMMWV, scratch up a mock-up real quick, say out of styrofoam, and use this during the construction of the figure to make sure that it fits.

If you find that its a tight fit, don't worry about it, so do all the real drivers in Iraq/ Afghanistan!

Just IMO ... I think that have the driver covering something outside the veh w/ a weapon is a little unrealistic. Not that it hasn't happened, but in my experiences the driver drives, period. Plus, one thing to think about b/c you've modeled an M1025 is that they have a lot less room inside for the driver than in the good'ol 998 series.

I think that I've pointed this out before, but the driver and the gunner work as a team to maintain the truck as a mobile gun turret. I used to always tell my guys that the truck was build for the turret, not the other way around.

Maybe consider mocking up the driver so that he's pointing at something through the window in the same direction as the gunner is pointing .... as if they're talking about something on the headsets ....

Just a thought ....

camo junkie wrote:

ok bud. good 2 know and i will use that as the basis for my guy. definately want to make sure i get it as close to accurate as i can! thanks for that.

"Hey, Forest! Why don't we put our backs together so we don't have to sleep with our heads in the mud." ....

Anytime brother....

Happy 4th .....

Hmm ... that's a good possibility actually. I'd mock it up and check it out. At the very least, you'd have to add some legs down to the knees ... THAT, I know you could get away with.

If you can get by w/o the legs, just add a piece of wire to the bottom of the torso so that you get the right height "sitting" in the seat.

lol YEAH PICS!! haha jk camo and don't worry we wont give up the secret about the units new driver: "stumpy"

hey grimmo! havent heard from ya in awhile. i am using the verlinden set. was going to use the warrior's set because i liked their poses/clothes better but the cost ultimately decided that fate! so, it will work for what i need! was going to use both of them but after placing them around my dio, i am thinking more of just using one of them. i think it will still get the point across and set the mood! the dead one's that is. will be using another set for the balcony.

chris, yeah, i suppose we could...seems to be working out that way. im hoping i can pull this off without having to change the title. not that it matters in the long run. the lack of shooting soldiers may make it difficult but i wont know until i get everything how i want it! hmmm...

no...dont mind at all. they are from verlinden. they make both brass plants and brass leaves/palm tree. they run about $8 if i remember correctly. you might want to check ebay as well. you can find them on their site. www.verlindenonline.com 

hope that helps ya! btw, they are having a 4th of july sale at the moment!

well guys. today i actually did something. i painted my dead insurgent. looked pretty good. did it all in oils. blended highlights, blah blah blah. final thing left to do was to paint the jacket. so i went and painted it black like the box art. only problem is i painted his shirt white. so in the end it looked more like a dead fonzy then a dead iraqi insurgent. . used alot of mineral spirits this evening to remove all the paint!!!!!!!! got it all off except his sandles had already dried. fine...they can be "touched up" anyway. all that work today for nothing! im going back tomorrow to redo it and screw the oils (except for the flesh) going back to my humbrols. dont ask me why i did it the way i did...more experimenting than anything else. only trouble is i really like the results...that is until fonzy showed up. alright c'mon guys let me have it....lay the jokes on me....oh boy cant wait!! all i can do is laugh at times like these!

i dont care anymore if they're clothing is black/white/green or gold!!! im making it to my liking and if that means they'd get heat stroke or whatever...so be it...doesnt matter anyway the guys dead!

AAAaaaaaaa .... durka durka.

HAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!

AAaaaaaYyyyyyeeeeeee!!! (HAHAHAHAH!!!)

No harm done .... B@stard! HAHA!!!