H.I.S.S. tank and G.I. Joes (Vamp added, May 17, 2013)

[Parriah]

Are you planning to use the Reaper Chronoscope Natalia fig for the Baroness? Would work great!

[area23]

Painted red, this makes a Hyena tank from the Red Shadows! 

[maceswinger]

I can not believe that i missed the not-H.i.s.s tank a year ago i searched everywhere for someting like this!

[Michka]

Are you planning to use the Reaper Chronoscope Natalia fig for the Baroness? Would work great!

That's exactly the miniature I plan to use. I'll be painting her up once I've finished painting the first ten Victory Force Cobra troopers.

Also, I built five new bases for the finished Joes so far. I'll get a picture taken as soon as the bases are painted and attached to the figures.

And now you know...

[anevilgiraffe]

I so want one of those tanks - as a Hyena of course 

bit pricey after postage to the UK 

[Trysop]

Hello,

On the basis of this thread I ordered a HISS tank from Shapeways and it has just arrived.

There was minor issues with recognition of the shipping address by the automated form, but after an email to the company the problem was dealt with very quickly allowing me to place my order.

The model turned up very quickly (about a week from the US to UK) and was well packaged.

It is really nice model, but I had not expected it to be hollow! I might pour some resin to the body to give it a little more weight . I have  not cleaned it up but there does not seem to be any flash or mould lines which I would susopect is due to the way they are made. I think it will just need a light wash to remove some of the powdry dust on the model.

So long story short, it is a great model, the company was a pleasure to deal with , thanks for the heads up Michka  

EDIT: forgot to say this will become a Hyena tank to support my Red Shadows, just need to find a Red Jackal proxy I like the look of...

[mpennock]

Shapeways (and pretty much every other 3D printer I've found) base their cost on the volume of material used, so a hollow model is significantly cheaper than a solid model. Wherever practical, I design everything to be hollow.

I'm glad you like the model. 

[maceswinger]

I'm glad you like the model. 

I really do!

Now I checked out the Victory Force stuff and they do make decent Cobra Troopers, but has anyone found a good Viper model?

[Michka]

Well I finally took some pictures of my newest Joes. Here are Scarlett, Duke and Beach Head.







Scarlett is a Hasslefree Pistol Packing Eve. I moved her right arm down to her side and modified the left hand pistol into a crossbow. The only crossbow I had on hand when I started working on this was from a Warmachine model. After much carving and scraping I got it down to a somewhat reasonable size. It's still too big, but it's G.I. Joe so I think it works. Duke and Beach Head are both unmodified RAFM SWAT team members from their Modern Heroes line.   

[Commander Vyper]

Scarlet yup very nice, but not keen on the other two sculpts tbh, that's nothing to do with your painting just the proportions of the sculpts.

What's next?

[Parriah]

SWEET Scarlet dude!

[shadowking1957]

brilliant love it  nice collection hehe

[Ironworker]

Man I've been wanting to do this project for a while now.  This is really making me want to get it going.  Great Work so far!

[Doomsdave]

Scarlett is spot on.  Fantastic. The other two are very recognizable, but the sculpts don't stand up to your excellent painting.

[Michka]

As mentioned before, I'm using the Victory Force German Wehrwolf Half Squad 1 for my standard troopers. I've got ten painted, but only five have the bases done so far. And here they are...



Here they are with a H.I.S.S. tank.



and her they are with Zartan. (He's in disquise.  )



Thank you for all the nice comments. I really appreciate the feedback. I have to agree that the Duke figure isn't great. I don't mind the Beach Head figure though. Then again he's not one of my favorite Joes. Next up I should be getting the other five standard troopers based and ready. Then there's the Baroness. By then my second H.I.S.S. tank should be arriving.

Now does anyone have a good idea for the what to use for my standard Joe troopers? I'm looking for a basic figure that can be modified slightly to match the original line up. Guys like Grunt, Clutch and Breaker. I'd like them to be somewhere between Victory Force sized and Chronoscope. That's not too much to ask, is it?