Flamethrower Up! **FINISHED**for real! pg8

They look great!! And that plane section's pretty cool

I think you could write a tut on those leaves even if you cant ID the 1:1 leaf

Awesome work

Think I have a handle on the palm frons, these are cut from real leaves. If anyone can identify the leaf please let me know..I may do a toot if anyone is interested..

Looking great- are the leaves... masking tape strips perhaps?? They look great, just wondering how you pulled it off. What's the item closest to the lense? Looks like some kind of sheet metal and appears to have a rising sun on it- part of a fuselage perhaps? Hard to tell from the angle

Comeing along real nice

Here is the redone  camo...

A10, thanks for the feedback....my wife pointed out that he looked like a zombie...I didn't say it to her but she may be right!!!

No prob Jim..it is 1/35..at least the figs..everything else is just eyeballed..might not be exactly to scale...hope you can get to bed earlier tonight..sleep well!

looks good keep up the work

PS he does kinda look like a zombie

Looking great Stern0!

Really like that base work, and camo pattern on the marine.

Glad you can use that- I think he has a build log somewhere on UKs Military Modeling website, but I don't remember how I stumbled across it...

If I recal he added a lot of scratch detail to the fig. alone!

Can't wait to see your highlighting!!

MC, At least I was thinking big!!! I invisioned a 30 foot ark of flame going into the bunker with a massive hellstorm at impact....I may be able to handle the primer flame!!

agentg, Thank you for the positive comments! As far as the utilities go, I am just going by the box art..which parallels my research...looks like, we mixed and matched camo with the green and some still had only the sage green herringbone twill (at least the grunts)...I will have to see which color pattern was used more...the brown makes more sense for sure. Thanks for the info sir

Getting that pilot light done up would be pretty cool. I don't know if this is the same kit figure

http://www.missing-lynx.com/gallery/usa/m4a2tarawasz_1.html

But I'm not too sure if it would be visible inside that little nozzle. Unless it's actually outside of said nozzle

HAHA ... NP. Anytime. I guess I wasn't as clear w/ my FT question though ... although yes, flaming the hole (hmmm.....) does sound like fun, I was more thinking about how you were thinking to do the little flame thats always lit at the end of the FT.

I think that someone once before posting something about using a small piece of shiny ribbon!?! Don't know ... that's just the first thing that popped to mind. ....

Lookin forward to it .....

CJ, Will do...thanks a million!

Chris, I was being silly .....thats an incredible compliment, thank you...yep..everything to date except for my frozen germans are OOB..Thanks for noticing..I think..

MC, I am going to try to fit all four of the figs in...originaly I wasn't going to put the flamethrower in, was going to have him implied...The pictured Marine is the one yelling FLAMETHROWER UP! so I think the FT will be behind some debris at the end of the wall getting his command....having him flamming the hole would be awsome, but not in the cards on this one...id like to develop good fire first. You do as I do I take a little from each how to and customize it to fit your needs..I finally found a face technique that I can work with (hope it shows) but need to work on those highlights...standby for questions! Thanks.

Stern0 wrote:

...I know what I like and I know how things should look and I try to get it that way by method ...back to highlighting..you guys have that down and just want to try my hand at it because it looks awsome.....

As far as highlighting goes .... As I said before, even though I almost strictly use acrylics, I like highlighting w/ enamels. I have found that acrylics just dry too fast. Enamels give me the time I need. As far as colors to use .... I either use the base color (or a variation of it) or for OD green equipment (as Camo taught me) I use pale yellow. When I started back into modeling I basically read a bunch of how to's and kind-of combined a few methods from each one ... Hard to explain exactly how I finish my figures, but I'm pleased w/ the results.

... and yes, as indy pointed out, I continuously try to improve my finishing skills.

... or maybe we could stay away from inflamitory comments to begin with ...

Stern ... glad that you got the pants re-painted. Just keep working it, and when you hear the "ding", then you know you're done. HAHA!!!

How many figures are you planning for this one again!?! ... and are you looking to "animate" the flamethrower? (ie .... flaming cotton balls, etc.) ... just curious.

p.m. me with your ?'s buddy. i'll help ya however i can.

CJ, Good points all around....I know what I like and I know how things should look and I try to get it that way by method ...back to highlighting..you guys have that down and just want to try my hand at it because it looks awsome..and humility....please...the minute anyone thinks they are the best is the minute they see something that makes their work look terrible..a little humbleness goes a long way!

Scott, many thanks! I think that is my journey now...trying to find a techniqe that works, that can be a little taxing.

Indy, I have a pretty good filter when it comes to things I can use to improve my modeling,  But I have yet to read a mundane opinion or come across a mediocre modeler in here...I think that its all relative...I'm very glad to see that you used a broad stroke when saying that. You can bet your boots i'll be striving for improvments!

Chris...Stop making fun of me!

Good to hear indy. And also glad you agree with me on Steve's great portrayal of emotion.

But I agree camo! Lets see these new pants!! haha

anyhow...can we get back to stern0's build!

psstoff995 wrote:

Going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that you mean mediocre minded modelers in a broad, non specific way and you weren't taking jabs at anyone in particular on this thread there indy...

Stern0- when I think of small dioramas with a clear subject/theme at hand- yours quickly come to mind. Hope we all can continue to bounce ideas and inspiration off each other. You put so much emotion into little plastic people (and usually OOB from what I can tell) and that's something I think we all strive for and few achieve.

Going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that you mean mediocre minded modelers in a broad, nonspecific way and you weren't taking jabs at anyone in particular on this thread there indy...

Stern0- when I think of small dioramas with a clear subject/theme at hand- yours quickly come to mind. Hope we all can continue to bounce ideas and inspiration off each other. You put so much emotion into little plastic people (and usually OOB from what I can tell) and that's something I think we all strive for and few achieve.