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[Guest]

Morning Steve - I haven't done a full black uniform at his scale, and I think the problem here will be the smoothness of the finish - not a lot of creases and folds. Definitely a head swap, as this is one of Tamiya's 'cartoons'. Have a good (quiet?) day at work.

Neil - Many thanks.

[Guest]

Hi Peter.
Here ars a couple of black uniforms that I painted.

https://www.scale-models.co.uk/threads/5th-regiment-death-hussar.25304/

https://www.scale-models.co.uk/threads/prussian-leibhusaren-5th-regiment-death-hussars.24384/

[Steve Jones]

Wonderful work Peter. Two outstanding figures. I will watch with interest on the next figure as I struggle to make a black surface look interesting.

Nice link Ralph. Top work

[Guest]

Ralph - Many thanks for the link and great work. I think I may use combinations of German Grey and Luftwaffe uniform for the highlights - it's worked before at 1/35.

Mr Jones - Many thanks.

[Guest]

This one is now ready for painting:



The parts fitted perfectly, as one would expect from Tamiya, and the the only filler I used was to fix a tiny hole at the collar. I removed the moulded shoulder straps, as they ran along where the body halves met and made replacements from card, sprue and etch.

I decided to use a head from a batch sent to me by Ralph - not sure of the manufacturer, but I thought it would make a change to have a bare head and smiling face. For that reason he will be holding his cap. I initially used the hanging arm, but couldn't find a hand that held the cap at the right angle, so I changed to the other one supplied with a Verlinden hand.

[Guest]

This should be fun.
The head is either Rollcall or Kirin.

[Guest]

Cheers Ralph - just found a picture of the Kirin box.

[Neil Merryweather]

Good start - let' s see the Tamiya head Peter?
You said it was one of their cartoons.....I'm curious.
and I'm watching avidly to see what you do with the black

[Guest]

Hi Neil.

Well, perhaps 'cartoon' is a bit strong, but it is a bit odd. Also reminds me too much of an ex-politician turned TV presenter too (who may also be described as cartoonish):



Aaaargh!

As for the black, this is a 1/35th I did recently;



Will probably go along the same lines.

[Neil Merryweather]

Hi Neil.

Well, perhaps 'cartoon' is a bit strong, but it is a bit odd. Also reminds me too much of an ex-politician turned TV presenter too (who may also be described as cartoonish):
Aaaargh!

Thanks Peter- you're not wrong! It's terrible. I know I have moaned before about the prevalence of 'Adonis' types but you wouldn't really want to look at this for long.
He just doesn't look very German, though , does he? I think he got his nose from Picasso....

[Guest]

Neil - No, not very anything really. Tamiya also adapted this head for their Adolph Galland figure, and funnily enough, with a moustache it looks quite like him.

And that said, I hit a problem with the first head, the Kirin, which I ended up abandoning. Unfortunately it was just too lumpy on one side, and even though I took sandpaper to it mid paint (not a good idea normally) it just wouldn't work. Keen to keep the smiling, bare-headed theme, I used another one of Ralph's:



This looks like a Moz Corry sculpt to me. It's a bit too big and slightly odd, but it has some character.and will do the job.

[Guest]

Looking good Peter :smiling3:.

[Mickc1440]

What to say, pure quality as always.

[Guest]

Cheers Ralph and Mick, but I've ditched the second head as well. Went for a lie-down and when I came back a couple of hours later I thought it looked terrible. I tried it on the body and it was also too big, so I've spent a couple of hours fixing up a third one.

[JR]

Wonderful work Peter. Two outstanding figures. I will watch with interest on the next figure as I struggle to make a black surface look interesting.

Nice link Ralph. Top work

That's because you only like camo ! Steve .:smiling::smiling2::upside:
Sorry Peter butting in.


Great work, you are as good as any professional from what I've seen .
John .