ajlafleche wrote: |
I still think you'll have to paint his black and white. There will be color shifts, reds will be browner, etc, but I still think you won't get the effect you want. See if you can find a pair of green sunglasses and hoild that beteween you and a painted kit. That's what you're going to get with a normally painted figure. |
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I already have a couple of sheets of the green film. It's made by Midwest Products and is labeled "Green PVC, .005 x 7.6" x 11".
I've got three sheets. When held up together, they create right about the correct green that I'm looking for. However, I do see what you're saying about the colors. But, for the scene that I'm going for there's really not all that much "color" to it. Iraq is all blan unless you're in the cities and looking at (mostly) womens' clothing. The figure I'm going for will have mostly browns, tans, greys (as I've found greys to be the best for ACU), and blacks. I'm also hoping that the green FO lighting to be used will help as well.
I figure that drilling out the figure won't be too bad. I'm thinking of a central drill hole through the core and down one leg. I'm going to need to light-up IR tabs on each shoulder, three on the helmet (both in white light so it's very bright), the PVS-14's will be lit so that the light reflects off the face, and the acrylic rod "laser" will be lit as well from the PEQ-4 on the rifle (both with green lights).
For the base, I'm thinking of putting the figure in the "corner" of a room. Something that will help close him in and cut off most of the surrounding light. If needed, I can always add a "roof" coming off the viewers window to help "shade" the dio.
Does anyone have idea if the fore-mentioned IR led with IR tabs would work? I guess I could always light up the model with IR lights and pass out NVGs to everyone to look at it!?! But then again I think my wife would have choice words about building the most expensive model on the planet....
If ALL that fails, I can always remove the white LED, replace it with a green one, so that all FO lighting coming from the model is green .... Wash the crud out of the fig and dio in dark washes, remove the filter/ film altogether and see if that works!?!