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Author Topic: Help with painting 28mm seated crew figures.  (Read 1057 times)

Offline Johnny Boy

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Help with painting 28mm seated crew figures.
« on: January 03, 2017, 08:33:53 PM »
Evening Folks and a Happy New Year to you one and all.
For Christmas I had 2 SAS JEEP Squadrons and a couple of LRDG Chevy's. All in said 28mm. As you can see that's an awful lot of crew so I was hoping for some suggestions of how to "hold" them while painting. Standard based figures I just hot glue to bottle tops but obviously that won't work on this occasion.
Many thanks in Advance. JB

Offline Captain Blood

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Re: Help with painting 28mm seated crew figures.
« Reply #1 on: January 03, 2017, 09:20:42 PM »
If you've got a fine drill, drill a 1-2mm deep hole in the bum of the seated figure, tiny dab of superglue in that hole, then poke in a wire spear or other piece of stiff piano wire. Then sink the other end of the wire into a cork - the type of corks with plastic tops attached like you get on port and sherry bottles are ideal.
Hey presto, you have a handle to hold the figure while you paint it at your leisure.
This is how I always do riders, seated and lying figures...


Offline psullie

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Re: Help with painting 28mm seated crew figures.
« Reply #2 on: January 03, 2017, 09:24:36 PM »
For these and mounted figures, which I tend to paint separate from the horse, I drill a small hole in their bum and glue them onto stiff wire pressed into a wine cork. The hole can be used later to pin them in place.

beaten to the post   :D

Offline Captain Blood

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Re: Help with painting 28mm seated crew figures.
« Reply #3 on: January 03, 2017, 09:26:56 PM »
 lol

Great minds...  ;)

Offline FifteensAway

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Re: Help with painting 28mm seated crew figures.
« Reply #4 on: January 04, 2017, 05:56:36 AM »
Miniature buggery - with photographic evidence to prove it - and perhaps rum as well.  Then all is needed is the lash for the quote to be complete!   :o

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Re: Help with painting 28mm seated crew figures.
« Reply #5 on: January 04, 2017, 06:04:20 AM »
Sodomy, surely? 
 ;)


Offline Johnny Boy

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Re: Help with painting 28mm seated crew figures.
« Reply #6 on: January 04, 2017, 07:28:34 PM »
 lol!! Many thanks for the suggestions chaps and the Savage Amusement. Tho not sure how I'm going to implement said suggestions in good conscience. . . .

 

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