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Miniatures Adventure => The Second World War => Topic started by: ivelilla on March 03, 2014, 10:41:25 AM

Title: vepafigures.com new range in ww2, new miniature added 10-03-2015
Post by: ivelilla on March 03, 2014, 10:41:25 AM
Hi to all

Im Ivan Velilla from vepafigures.com (old vepaminiatures), we are a company that usually make modern soldieres like USA troops, rebels, modern russians...

But we have begin a new range for WW2, and we decided to begin with german soldiers.

i attach here the firsts renders.

We are happy if you say all your opinion about these renders.

thanks to all
Title: Re: vepafigures.com new range in ww2
Post by: cromojaro on March 03, 2014, 01:03:34 PM
They looks great!  :o
Title: Re: vepafigures.com new range in ww2
Post by: redeaston on March 03, 2014, 01:19:26 PM
What scale are these going to be?
Title: Re: vepafigures.com new range in ww2
Post by: ivelilla on March 03, 2014, 02:55:41 PM
They will be 1/72 and 28mm.  Good for a lot of games and also people that want to make dioramas. 

We always look for a good quality in our miniatures, if someone see something that is incorrect, please tell us.

best regards
Title: Re: vepafigures.com new range in ww2
Post by: Mainly28s on March 03, 2014, 04:01:20 PM
They look interesting. What material will they be?

As for feedback- the top figure looks a bit odd- the head, arms and hands look incorrectly proportioned to me- too small. The other figures look good, though.
Title: Re: vepafigures.com new range in ww2
Post by: ivelilla on March 03, 2014, 05:52:38 PM
We have always produced our miniatures with lead ( not lead but the material currently that is lead substitute)

With some miniatures we made long time ago (some russians WW2 soldiers mounted in tanks), we used  resin and our customers were happy. But we decided to use ''lead'' because I think that are more hard for players and always we looked to give the best quality, we work with Griffin Moulds, in my opinion one of the best foundries in world.


thanks for your opinion, yes maybe he has small hands jeje. We usually use a real photo to make the models and maybe this soldier he had small hands jeje, but we will try to fix it.

thanks
Title: Re: vepafigures.com new range in ww2
Post by: Conquistador on March 03, 2014, 06:04:12 PM
No criticism of the figure but the right hand top image at first glance looked like a shirtless jungle fighter.   ::)  Old eyes is my story and I am sticking to it.

Yeah, the top figure looked odd but after the no shirt moment passed I was hesitant to mention anything. Maybe the angle of the image shot was odd and affected the figure?

Otherwise (despite being a size I don't use) I like the initial appearance of the figures,especially the gun crew.

Gracias,

Glenn
Title: Re: vepafigures.com new range in ww2
Post by: BattlewagonBruce on March 03, 2014, 09:43:40 PM
Looks very interesting. Are they digitally modeled?

I looked into that for one of the companies for which I consult. What I did learn is that you can get them printed out in ABS plastic which can be used as masters for a production mould without being submastered in resin.

Are you using a company to print out your masters?

I agree the arms on that one guy need beefing up. The FJ smock was quite baggy.

Good luck with this - I will be ordering the 1:72 versions when they come out.

thanks

Bruce
Title: Re: vepafigures.com new range in ww2
Post by: ivelilla on March 04, 2014, 06:09:08 AM
yes, you have to send them to print to printer 3d companies.
 the printers that are made by people ( you can make one seeing youtube videos), cannot make good miniatures, they have still bad printing quality. maybe in the future they are better and people will be able to print their armies at house jejej and the miniature companies will only make the render
Title: Re: vepafigures.com new range in ww2
Post by: ivelilla on December 18, 2014, 11:28:49 AM
hi to all, we attach some new renders. We have made the soldiers a little bit ''big'' because proportions don't look correctly.

We send these renders this week to print
Title: Re: vepafigures.com new range in ww2
Post by: ivelilla on December 20, 2014, 05:29:48 PM
Printing test
Title: Re: vepafigures.com new range in ww2
Post by: moiterei_1984 on December 21, 2014, 09:43:03 AM
Looks promising. The head seems to be a little bit on the small side though  :? All in all the helmet definitely seems to be too small (http://www.worldwar2-militaria.com/images/web_pix_Para.jpg)
Any chance to see those test prints with some dark wash aplied to it too get an idea about the details?
Title: Re: vepafigures.com new range in ww2
Post by: carlos marighela on December 21, 2014, 02:08:48 PM
You know if you did some of those moderns in 28mm as well, you'd get some buyers.
Title: Re: vepafigures.com new range in ww2
Post by: Koinsky on December 22, 2014, 03:15:07 AM
Heads a bit little, the rest fine.
Title: Re: vepafigures.com new range in ww2
Post by: ivelilla on December 22, 2014, 04:47:15 AM
Thanks

We will solve this error. We like to show some miniature building procces, so people can give their opinions.

The serie will be 14 miniatures with this detail level, for 1/72 and 28mm. And also a small cannon.

Sometimes is very hard to maintain real proportion with miniatures. If.you make a too real weapon its very slim.and small and can brake later. If you don't maintain proportions people begin to say that the miniature has bad quality.....

For modern period we are making more USA and russians, but we are not a big company and we don't like kickstarter, and take some time to make these new product lines

Also we are beginning to work with Xan miniatures to make some ww2 USA troops for 28mm
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Post by: FATROC on December 22, 2014, 06:56:57 AM
Looking forward to the 28mm paras. Can't wait to add the 75mm recoilless gun to my collection.
Title: Re: vepafigures.com new range in ww2
Post by: carlos marighela on December 22, 2014, 07:39:00 AM

Also we are beginning to work with Xan miniatures to make some ww2 USA troops for 28mm

If you do could we please have a change from all of the existing ranges that do US army in M41 Parsons Jackets and gaiters? M43 pattern jackets and double buckle boots would make a nice change. Nobody currently makes them and late war US infantry can also be utilised for Korea.
Title: Re: vepafigures.com new range in ww2
Post by: moiterei_1984 on December 22, 2014, 08:30:22 AM
If you do could we please have a change from all of the existing ranges that do US army in M41 Parsons Jackets and gaiters? M43 pattern jackets and double buckle boots would make a nice change. Nobody currently makes them and late war US infantry can also be utilised for Korea.

Second that!  ;D
Title: Re: vepafigures.com new range in ww2, new miniature added 10-03-2015
Post by: ivelilla on March 10, 2015, 10:35:06 AM
Hi to all¡¡

I attach a new miniature that will be present in our WW2 range
Title: Re: vepafigures.com new range in ww2, new miniature added 10-03-2015
Post by: Ballardian on March 10, 2015, 03:57:19 PM
The officer mini is very cool indeed, excellent pose & not one you see often.