vepafigures.com new range in ww2, new miniature added 10-03-2015

[ivelilla]

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

[cromojaro]

They looks great! 

[redeaston]

What scale are these going to be?

[ivelilla]

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

[Mainly28s]

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.

[ivelilla]

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

[Conquistador]

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

[BattlewagonBruce]

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

[ivelilla]

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

[ivelilla]

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

[ivelilla]

Printing test

[moiterei_1984]

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
Any chance to see those test prints with some dark wash aplied to it too get an idea about the details?

[carlos marighela]

You know if you did some of those moderns in 28mm as well, you'd get some buyers.

[Koinsky]

Heads a bit little, the rest fine.

[ivelilla]

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