Crooked Dice: Army Privates - OUT NOW

[uti long smile]

These beauties went for mastering today. Four Army Privates with SLR - and there are four more coming with Sterling SMGs - with hopefully all eight released in October.

These are the first 3D prints from Ernst Veingart since he moved to sculpting with Z-Brush and to say we're delighted with the results is an understatement. Bigger pics over the coming days…

[Andym]

Top notch! The guy second from the right reminds me of someone! 

[NickNascati]

Oooh, perfect for so many settings, real and imagined.

[Big Martin Back]

They're nice.

[NurgleHH]

Very nice. They are very useful and good sculpted again. Ernst Veingart is amazing and not so static like other. Looking forward to the release

[carlos marighela]

Looking good, although the berets look a bit flat on top, overall effect is more pastry chef than squaddie. That said they look like very nice sculpts. I''m definitely interested in these.

I know I'm not the target market but would it be possible to do some head variants, like tin hats? Some extra kit, like kidney pouches and water bottles and maybe a variant with GPMG? Some of us would no doubt use these for Cold War scenarios, I know I would.

[Johnno]

We asked and you answered! 
Very nice! I can't wait to see those with the Sterlings.

[Redmao]

Very impressive.

[marrony]

Very nice

[Arlequín]

Looking good, although the berets look a bit flat on top, overall effect is more pastry chef than squaddie.

I'm surprised you missed that there are no toe caps on the boots either.  

To be honest I recall some real 'bad berets' from '60s & '70s TV... actors don't have a clue. So in that sense they do indeed look like 'TV soldiers'. I agree though that it would be great if they were had more cross-over potential by looking a little bit more like the real thing.

That aside I'm really impressed with these sculpts, the faces have bags of character!  

[Mike Bravo Minis]

To be honest I recall some real 'bad berets' from '60s & '70s TV... actors don't have a clue. So in that sense they do indeed look like 'TV soldiers'. I agree though that it would be great if they were had more cross-over potential by looking a little bit more like the real thing.

And there's the rub - do you go for TV/Hollywood authenticity, which may be ahistorical, or do you go for the 'real thing' but miss the feel of the tv show/film?  Or do you down the commercially questionable route of catering for both?  (I currently have this dilemma with one of our lines where the correct webbing for the film is wrong for the uniform they are wearing, if wanting to use them for real-world scenarios.)

[carlos marighela]

I'm surprised you missed that there are no toe caps on the boots either.  

To be honest I recall some real 'bad berets' from '60s & '70s TV... actors don't have a clue. So in that sense they do indeed look like 'TV soldiers'. I agree though that it would be great if they were had more cross-over potential by looking a little bit more like the real thing.

That aside I'm really impressed with these sculpts, the faces have bags of character!  

Well now you mention it. Actually it's the webbing gaiters with DPM style trousers that's more annoying. Should really be puttees unless you are doing early 1960s. That's not a biggie I suppose, A bit of work with a file and/or cover the gaiters with greenstuff or the simple expedient of lead foil.

Hopefully constructive criticism but these look a little chunkier than the earlier figures. That may just be a factor of the image and the jackets look a tad long. Still overall pretty good, it's mostly the berets that seem to sit high and flat that are off putting.

[uti long smile]

Well now you mention it. Actually it's the webbing gaiters with DPM style trousers that's more annoying. Should really be puttees unless you are doing early 1960s. That's not a biggie I suppose, A bit of work with a file and/or cover the gaiters with greenstuff or the simple expedient of lead foil.

Hopefully constructive criticism but these look a little chunkier than the earlier figures. That may just be a factor of the image and the jackets look a tad long. Still overall pretty good, it's mostly the berets that seem to sit high and flat that are off putting.

We've always gone for hysterical rather than historical accuracy. TV soldiers have very much been the inspiration.

[Ssendam]

Those are fantastic ... just what I've been looking for.  I'm assuming they will complement the 'Army Section'? Any chance you are thinking of a boxed set?

[Brummie Thug]

That would be a grand idea!