Dog Green. Omaha Beach, 6th June 1944

[Gern]

You've reminded me that I started a generic beach landing dio using these figures. Alas, I ran out of steam after only painting about six of them. There are some excellent poses included in the set and I'm looking forward to seeing what you do with them.

[Tim Marlow]

They look pretty good Ron. Didn’t realise Pegasus were softs though, always thought they were hard plastic for some reason.

[Guest]

Some very sobering photos of the beach 570, going somewhere like that really shows what those brave men had to face .
You'll do a great build in that I'm sure .
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[Valeron]

I visited the beach a few years ago.

Looking forward to seeing this build.

[Code no 10]

Thanks for sharing and taking the time posting the photos, Ron.

[spanner570]

Thanks for all your contributions chaps. :thumb2:

I've made a start on brush painting the figures.....

I prefer to paint them on the sprues.

I'm never fussy with the initial coating, it wastes too much time. I just get the different colours on and not bother if they overlap. I do the final cutting in at the very last stage.


Rough as a bear's a***!





Cheers.
Ron

[Neil Merryweather]

looking good ,Ron. its a great set of figures. I bought them for my Higgins Boat but the poses were too 'action' flor what I wanted.
I doubt I'll be using them so they are yours if you want them

[spanner570]

Thanks Neil.
Offer accepted. :thumb2:

I've completed one of the figures to get the paint colours something like. - Only 38 to go!

Nice detail.








There are also large and small sand bases included in the kit


Calling all 'Zoom Merchants' These small figures should only be viewed at a scale distance. Similar to the top 4 shots !

It could be argued that as most, if not all the finished pictures could well be in B/W, there is probably no need to paint the figures in the first place. At least with doing so, there should be a bit of contrast.

Cheers.
Ron

[Neil Merryweather]

Thanks Neil.
Offer accepted. :thumb2:

No worries ,Ron , you are very welcome.
I have been the recipient of several similar gifts from chaps on this forum, so I feel it's only natural to continue to 'pay it forward'

[Valeron]

Looking really good Ron.

How many colours per figure and long to paint per figure? I'm just interested.

Mike

[spanner570]

Thanks again Neil and thanks for your interest, Mike.

Number of colours - 10. 11 if you include the blue life preserves some are wearing. (As is the figure above)

It's impossible to write how long to paint one of these Ranger figures. I tend to start with one colour and paint all the figures with this, then move on to the next colour, and so on.......

One thing is for sure. It takes a b****y long time.!

Ron

[minitnkr]

It's the only way to paint this volume of figs, otherwise you'd spend too much time switching about w/paint & brushes. Doing the basics on the sprue is also helpful in my experience.

[Jim R]

Figures look good. Even with a simplified painting process I can imagine the many hours these are going to take. Chin up and paint on :smiling:

[Tim Marlow]

Yep, it’s Tuesday so I’m painting trousers is the only way to deal with batch painting figures. As to time taken, we’ll it will be no more than any other aspect of a good model. Good light, and music with a beat, helps

[adt70hk]

Ron

Sorry, not had a chance to comment before. Just to say love the idea and have no doubt you'll be able to pull it off.

Love the start on the figures, they've started very well indeed!

Keep up the great work.

Andrew