Scratchbuilding the Nuclear Truck from On Your Mark --Finished.

Here is the 1/35 Coree UH-60 Pilots set, currently available on Ebay.  The female has a pony tail as well.  She is easy to make w/o the Cav hat w/some putty too.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Legend-LF0100-UH60-Helicopter-Crew-1-35th-Scale-New_W0QQitemZ260539756066QQcategoryZ1189QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp4340.m263QQ_trkparmsZalgo%3DSIC%26its%3DI%26itu%3DUCI%252BIA%252BUA%252BIEW%252BFICS%252BUFI%26otn%3D10%26ps%3D63

Tamiya and Tristar have a female in their Russian Army Tank Crews too.

Hope that helps.

I found a 1/35 figure for my angel. Last night I remembered Aurora-Models (Japan). I purchase two 1/35 female figures from them last year for a satirical diarama I was doing about a local controversy over a beach front park called Jean Klock Park.

I liked the figures because they seemed unique. Pretty, well detailed, feminine and "cute." This time I picked a version of their Red Cross Nurse. The only drawback is that the figures are cast in white metal, not resin. And I will be doing much more modifying of the figure than I have ever done so far.

I will be sanding off the nurse hat, the apron below the waist, reshaping the area above the neck of the apron (the blouse and sleeves) so that the whole thing looks like she's wearing the loose-fitting white robe the angel in the video was wearing, and reshaping the back of her head and the hair above her forehead.

Here's Aurora-model's online photo of the figure:

Hope she comes out looking angelic.  This is the Gundam set I was thinking of.

Its currently in the on-link kit review section here.

HeavyArty

Hope she comes out looking angelic.  This is the Gundam set I was thinking of.

Its currently in the on-link kit review section here.

I like that vehicle!

When I get done with my next project I'll look into picking one up.

My next project is a  Northrop HL-10 (which was the forerunner to NASA's X-38 Escape Shuttle). I found an Awatake drawing/painting of one. He has it sitting (old and a little dinged-up) in what looks like a disused garage was a couple of schoolgirl siting and lying on it reading and doing their homework. I am going to try and recreate the image as a diorama setting.

I received the Nurse figure in the mail yesterday and spent the rest of the day (and most of the night) altering, assembling, and painting her. The figure has a small amount of flash on the arms and legs (they were very thin and delicate). And I have discovered that I like resin figures much more than white metal ones. That metal is hard (reletive to resin) and I ended up leaving the shirt collar around her neck because her neck is so thin and I was afraid of cutting all the way through.

Here she is:

Here are the photos of the completed project. It really stretched my abilities and I learned a lot of new skills. Click on the photo to open a new window and then select "O" to see the full-size originals (8x10).

My next project is the diorama (which I've already started) called Homemade Spaceship in a Garage. The thread's in the Diorama forum and will involve almost as much scratchbuilding and altering as I did in this project. I'll be building the garage and little accessories from scratch, as well as altering some female figures to look like schoolgirls.

After growing increasingly disappointed with the photos of the angel figure, I decided to try and alter the face and head. Using an exacto knife (#11 blade) I trimmed away the remnants of the shirt collar on her neck. Then I carefully bent the head so that she if no longer looking downward. Now it is a level gaze, or slightly upward. I also turned the head so that she is looking slightly to her left. Then, using my scriber, I reshaped the mouth and added eyebrows. I repainted the face and neck, and added a very light tint of red to her mouth to bring out the lips.

I also noticed in the photos that the two other figures needed to have their mouths  (and in the case of the bareheaded guy, his eyes) emphasized. So I worked on them, too. No real alterations, just some dots of paint for the eyes and that red wash to bring out the lines of their mouths.

Nice work on the truck. i realise scratching something from anime leaves a lot of areas for you to fill out, so the final result is quite interesting, and something different. oh, and figures are well done too.

Aussie Muscle

Nice work on the truck. i realise scratching something from anime leaves a lot of areas for you to fill out, so the final result is quite interesting, and something different. oh, and figures are well done too.

Thank you. It was very exciting to see how close I could come with what I had to work with (my having almost no expierience working with styrene sheet and trying to find the various accessory bits like grills, wheels, shovels, and stuff) and still make it look like it could be "real."

Spent yesterday repainting the Angel, trying to get a smoother finish on the paint. Worked some more on her facial features, brightened up her dress.

The sun came out today and I was able to take a photo without the flash. Hopefully, this is the final version of the scratchbuild/diorama/display. (click on the photo and then select "O" for the original really, really big size).