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Miniatures Adventure => The Conflicts that came in from the Cold => Topic started by: dsmith on August 12, 2010, 09:35:05 PM
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Here is my first attempt at digital camo with out using the salt technique hope you like (http://i913.photobucket.com/albums/ac340/derekasmith/work%20in%20progress/1219.jpg) (http://i913.photobucket.com/albums/ac340/derekasmith/work%20in%20progress/1213.jpg)
(http://i913.photobucket.com/albums/ac340/derekasmith/work%20in%20progress/1210.jpg)
Thanks for looking and this has to be a record for me 2 post in 1 day ;).
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I like your digital camo. Very subtle looking. Who makes these mini's?
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DFlynSqrl, the 2 figures on the right are from Eureka's USMC recon, the other is from Empress.Thanks for the compliment I really went for a muted look with these guys, but painting the DCU's are slow going I may have to use my vision plan after all.
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Nice work. Gorgeous figures are't they? I've a platoon's worth of the Eureka force recon, still have a team to finish in the desert version of Marpat and soem of the new empress figures are, hopefully somewhere in the postal system.
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Carlos , yes the eureka figures are very nice and all I can say is that Kosta's sculpts are a real joy to paint and I look forward to more moderns from him :) as for the Empress miniatures the are also wonderfully cast and some of the best figures out there by far any ideas as to who their sculptor is? Hope they get to you soon post up finished pictures when you can of your USMC recon.
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very nice
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:-* :-* :-* share how you did it they are amazing, I have been a bit frightened to try and now could be even more :D
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I really like how your camouflage got done :)
By Salt technique you mean hairspray, sprinkling of salt, airbrush and then taking away the salt with a wet brush?
Thanks for posting!
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Very nice work, done some beautiful figures justice there.
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DFlynSqrl, the 2 figures on the right are from Eureka's USMC recon, the other is from Empress.Thanks for the compliment I really went for a muted look with these guys, but painting the DCU's are slow going I may have to use my vision plan after all.
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Thanks for the info. They are some great looking mini's and your painting shows it.
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Carlos , yes the eureka figures are very nice and all I can say is that Kosta's sculpts are a real joy to paint and I look forward to more moderns from him :) as for the Empress miniatures the are also wonderfully cast and some of the best figures out there by far any ideas as to who their sculptor is? Hope they get to you soon post up finished pictures when you can of your USMC recon.
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I've just seen the forthcoming Rhodesians from Eureka. Excellent sculpts, fortunately I have little or no use for them.
Some of my Eureka Force Recon Marines are featured on the Eureka website. Since then I've done a few conversions, removing the radio from a SAW gunner and giving him a rolled up sleeping mat atop his backpack. Platoon medics are armed with the Minim apparentlyi. I've also done one or two head swaps and swapped over the various optical sights on a few weapons. If you look in the Eureka German KSK range, you'll find that there's a standing sniper in a boonie hat with a bolt action sniper rifle. He makes a good start point for a conversion, so I now have a choice of sniper teams. :)
Will get around to the desert Marpat versions after I knock over a few more French, African militia and Colombian drug dealers.
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Oh BTW if you are looking for more conversion options, beyond weapons, heads and paint schemes, Eureka now sell a range of web gear to dress up their Foreign Legion figures. The pack includes chest rigs and these can be used on the USMC figures too.
Portuguese for the 1960s and '70s coming in the future..... :D
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Thanks all again for the kind words :) really appreciate them. Silvrsix the answer to your question is yes hairspray + salt then water and wipe I got fairly decent results on 40mm USMC and some of my russians from HLBS , but felt that the smaller details of the 28mm 's would'nt get the same reults so handpainting it is o_o.
Carlos with out giving away any secrets if you could please tell me how are the Rhodesians kited out SLR's and shorts? the conversions sound great can't wait to see them have'nt brought my self to cutting these up yet , but might get another set and add the Empress heads with googles when they are released , which set of the USMC is yours on the site? 2 different posts there either way both served as inspiration to my stuff.
The african bush has'nt really appealed to me either , but I will get these sets just to paint the various camouflages that these wars represented and they would lend them selves to ambush alley nicely I think as most were small unit actions besides it gives me a reason to make some acacia trees ;D
Thanks all
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Carlos with out giving away any secrets if you could please tell me how are the Rhodesians kited out SLR's and shorts?
In a word... they are bloody gorgeous. Five or six figures, one in bush hat with a GPMG, swathed with belted ammo. Mix of patrolling chaps in the Rhodesian c#nt cap, bush hat and bareheads. There's even a bearded squatting figure, obviously in teh act of tracking an enemies spoor, pointing at some signal of their movement. I've seen the photo this was based on and the likeness and attention to detail is almost scary.
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Thanks for the heads up I have to paint these , I will now add them to the must haves ;) they sound fantastic any ideas of a release date?
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Absolutely stunning work on the camo pattern. I was as Camp Borden on the weekend in Ontario, and saw the Canadian Forces wwodland digital camo up close first hand. Although a different army and colour scheme, you did a terrific job!!
Thanks for sharing.
Regards,
Hitman
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Presumably very soon. I suspect after the initiator of the 100 club request and his cohorts have received theirs, if they haven't already. Usually a photo essay of these on fellow LAFer Chronofus' website in fairly short order of the production run being cast. As the ones I saw were cast up I suppose you could say they are currently 'in production'.
I have a bit of a blind spot regarding Rhodesians, South Africans etc but I will have to buy a set just to paint up, they are just so beautifully sculpted. A guilty secret. Suppose I could can justify it has needing some 'bad guys'.
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I can't wait your descriptions have made me want these now :) even more then before. Thanks hitman have'nt seen much of the canadian woodland camo is it closer to USMC MARPAT or the bundsewhere pattern flecktarn ? might have to paint some up in the future Oh Canada would give me an excuse to pick up some Company B strikers and convert them to LAVIII's with the addition of a LAV turret for service in A-stan. My plan is for Fire teams of all the major combatants serving in A-stan for this project.
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Marpat is much closer to CADPAT as indeed it was based on it. If you can pull off MARPAT, which you clearly can, you'll do CADPAT. Actually I found the marine pattern was nowhere near as difficult as people seemed to think. Pixeated patterns look like small dots at any distance so it wasn't that hard. I'm happy with my efforts anyway. What has got me worried is doing up some Empress minis in the new Multicam, that looks like a real bugger.
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I have reserved 1 figure out of my empress to attempt the multi cam myself , I still have to try my hand at the US armies ACU's without using salt and have 1 on the desk now to attempt this. I can only hope to do as good of a job as Keith did on his I will be using his as a reference I feel he nailed it for sure.
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Well its been another productive week for me started these 2 guys on sunday and I am really pleased at how they are turning out.
They are both Empress figures one is an Army sniper and will be part of an EOD team the other is a Marine converstion using hasslefrees M-16 sprue and pieces of the figures original rifle I was able to come up with this
(http://i913.photobucket.com/albums/ac340/derekasmith/work%20in%20progress/007.jpg)
(http://i913.photobucket.com/albums/ac340/derekasmith/work%20in%20progress/008.jpg)
Both are still works in progress , but I should be done with both sometime next week , then on to an 240G team and RTO.
Hope you like back to painting patterns.
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Brilliant work - the conversion is genius!
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Thanks Keith for the good word, I really enjoy painting these Empress guys they are very well done I have 4 other conversions to do , but they will all only be replacing the rifles this Marine was the most challenging to do because I did'nt want to damage any of the fine details surrounding the waist. The groin plate was added to hide the join at the waist. Looking forward to ordering the Taliban as soon as the support weapons come out to do some heavy fightin' in A-stan.
Thanks again
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Taliban support masters arrive this week - will be available in September :)
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Taliban support masters arrive this week - will be available in September :)
that is some first class converting :-*
anymore masters arrive Mr Keith? ::) ;)
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Keith that's great to hear, will you be posting any pictures as soon as you get the masters back? , and are there other sets in the offing coming in september that you can share?
Thanks MBlakey it really took alot of will to want to cut these beauties up , but I am very pleased my self at how it came out.
Keith can you direct me to where you gave your "how to" on painting multi cam? can't remember where I saw this but it is the next scheme in the que.
Thanks again.
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Picture's will be ready when metal arrives, which will usually be a week or so before release. The masters are a real booger to photograph because they are usually very white.
There's certainly more to come this year - but probably not by the end of September (never say never though). Oh - actually I lie. There will alternative heads for the US figures with Night Vision equipment and mounts etc. which I'd expect before the end of the month too.
http://www.ambushalleygames.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4674
Multicam linky :)
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Great!!! :-* can't wait for these, do any of the heads have regular goggles? or are they all NVG and their mounts
Thanks again for the link thats the one I only hope mine come out half as good as yours.
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