1/18 G.I soldier W.I.P

plasticboy · Post by **plasticboy** » Mon Jul 12, 2010 7:45 pm

snake wrote:Fantastic custom figures,plasticboy.

You have a great talent,and I am sure that the 1/18 armour crowd are lining up for some of your lifelike figures.

Have you thought about doing 1/18 pilots?Always the weak link in aircraft.

Yes, snake. I've collecting most of all the 1/18 scale WWII airplane and few jets. I'm thinking to make some pilots or ground crews for fun.

snake · Post by **snake** » Mon Jul 12, 2010 8:01 pm

plasticboy wrote:
Yes, snake. I've collecting most of all the 1/18 scale WWII airplane and few jets. I'm thinking to make some pilots or ground crews for fun.

Would these be prepainted?

If they were,I would be interested.

You,and Pickel must be the most popular members on the forum right now.

plasticboy · Post by **plasticboy** » Mon Jul 12, 2010 8:44 pm

HIDEOUS ONE wrote:Sweet, can't wait to see the casts. What kind of price tags are we looking at?

The prices have to depend on the casting cost where I'm expended.
Once the cast have done, I'll let everyone knows.

plasticboy · Post by **plasticboy** » Mon Jul 12, 2010 9:02 pm

snake wrote:
plasticboy wrote:
Yes, snake. I've collecting most of all the 1/18 scale WWII airplane and few jets. I'm thinking to make some pilots or ground crews for fun.
Would these be prepainted?

If they were,I would be interested.

You,and Pickel must be the most popular members on the forum right now.

Thank you,snake!

I think the figures are much more like static model figure kits when casted, that there are coming 5~6 parts like head、helmet、arm x2、body、low part of body by PU resin, that the parts needs to glue them with super glue then painted.
I’ll mark the unpainted and painted price tag on the forum; For sure, the prepainted price will go higher, coz I have 2 hands only.

plasticboy · Post by **plasticboy** » Wed Jul 14, 2010 7:30 am

Let's get it done!
Driver’s head have the open mouth expression on it, he might saying “get out of the way”, make 2 cylinder ready for arms; As usual, starting from the rough shape and right proportion then go through details, that is the sculpture basic rule.

I’ve try those two soldier’s on the Willy jeep, which fit well too. The Willy jeep seems comfortable then Dodge truck. The driver’s arms have completed at the last shot.

pickelhaube · Post by **pickelhaube** » Wed Jul 14, 2010 8:47 am

Dude,

How long does it take you to sculpt a figure ?

Simply amazing.

Razor17019 · Post by **Razor17019** » Wed Jul 14, 2010 9:21 am

You have real talent. Simply amazing!
Please let us know when you are ready to sell.
Do you do custom work for people?
There is a real need for eras that no company had touched:
Korea
WWI
Russian WWII soldiers
Civil War
Sino-Japanese War (ok- just kidding on this one-

)

PM me details on custom work - Thanks!
Razor

GI546 · Post by **GI546** » Wed Jul 14, 2010 1:08 pm

now lets see em' painted!

plasticboy · Post by **plasticboy** » Wed Jul 14, 2010 5:05 pm

Razor17019 wrote:You have real talent. Simply amazing!
Please let us know when you are ready to sell.
Do you do custom work for people?
There is a real need for eras that no company had touched:
Korea
WWI
Russian WWII soldiers
Civil War
Sino-Japanese War (ok- just kidding on this one- )

PM me details on custom work - Thanks!
Razor

Those subject are great, which what I'm play with 1/6 scale action figures.

Guys are talking 1/18 scale are already dead in the market, that we are kinda surviver here. I posting my 1/18 scale to local static modeling forum that people seems not interesting in this scale, some of them suggest me to make 1/16 figure. I don't have lot of time to have fun with other scale, just 1/18.

ram04 · Post by **ram04** » Tue Jul 27, 2010 7:18 pm

plasticboy, how about a update on your figures

plasticboy · Post by **plasticboy** » Tue Jul 27, 2010 10:09 pm

ram04 wrote:plasticboy, how about a update on your figures

Soon! I'm waiting the casting back then painted them, that needs few days for me. I'll post them at this weekend.

lalo · Post by **lalo** » Fri Jul 30, 2010 4:15 am

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Congratulations plasicboy. Actually, you can realize your dreams. ...... Jorge.

plasticboy · Post by **plasticboy** » Fri Jul 30, 2010 7:36 am

lalo wrote:... Congratulations plasicboy. Actually, you can realize your dreams. ...... Jorge.

Thank you!

Gentlemen's! Just got some PU resin copy back, I can't wait to assemble them then get to paint them but not complete yet. The set of G.I soldiers price tag is 18.77 USD. If anyone interested in those 2 soldier please PM me. Thanks!!

Razor17019 · Post by **Razor17019** » Fri Jul 30, 2010 8:55 am

Plasticboy,

Couple of questions for you:

The 2 soldier kits you are selling, do you paint them or are they unpainted?
What does postage cost to get a small envelope/package to the US?

Great looking soldiers!
Razor

plasticboy · Post by **plasticboy** » Fri Jul 30, 2010 9:11 am

Razor17019 wrote:Plasticboy,

Couple of questions for you:

The 2 soldier kits you are selling, do you paint them or are they unpainted?
What does postage cost to get a small envelope/package to the US?

Great looking soldiers!
Razor

Thank you!
The figures are following the pics, which is unpainted price.
The shipping method will be the small packet, that I estimate a set of soldier's postage around 4 USD to US.

thehun · Post by **thehun** » Fri Jul 30, 2010 9:33 am

This is the most impressive freehand custom work in 1/18 i have ever seen, If you can do this by freehand, You can do anything, Sky's the limit,
Again, Very nice and Impressive work.
TheHun

ram04 · Post by **ram04** » Fri Jul 30, 2010 9:47 am

Can you imagine if the hun, plasticboy and picklehaube were all working in their own shop together?

Who would need ALL-GO or any of the rest?

We can only hope

HIDEOUS ONE · Post by **HIDEOUS ONE** » Fri Jul 30, 2010 1:36 pm

This is the future. Let's talk articulation, is it possible for you to fully articulate figures? I love the static figs don' get me wrong. I guess I am just hoping that there are posibilities in articulation. Are you going to display some painted pieces? I am loving it man.

plasticboy · Post by **plasticboy** » Fri Jul 30, 2010 5:29 pm

HIDEOUS ONE wrote:This is the future. Let's talk articulation, is it possible for you to fully articulate figures? I love the static figs don' get me wrong. I guess I am just hoping that there are posibilities in articulation. Are you going to display some painted pieces? I am loving it man.

Thank you!
I understand it is fun for fully articulate figure, that I enjoy as well.

Let's make example of 21th figure, that comes about 15 parts to be an action figure. There are going with steel mold (injection mold) to produce them; Steel mold is the expensive way for the cost, which has to be big quantity then make the cost recovery. Let say ten thousand pieces for one product.

If I create fully 4 inches articulate figure then sell them for＄90 each one, I don’t think people will interested.

I can't afford to make that way, I rather to make static figure then having very limit resin copy will do.

I’m painting a set of them for the moment, I’ll post them soon!

plasticboy · Post by **plasticboy** » Wed Aug 04, 2010 11:26 pm

It's time to complete the figures, I'm going to attending model expo this weekend.
Everything start from the flesh that I’ve apply Gunze acrylic flesh (orange+white) as primer then use oil paint (black + brown mix) apply on the concave area all around the head, having another clean brush to brush oil to show the gradient. I leave it a day to dry a bit then apply the light flesh tone on the Zygomatic bone、forehead、nose、amount under and the chin to emphasize gradient of the head.

I used my favorite Humbrol paint for the rest part.

The oil paints for the gradient again which is a bit darker then the primer basically; the clean brush to do the last job again.

gouchy · Post by **gouchy** » Thu Aug 05, 2010 1:31 am

This is most excellent, great skills plasticboy!

plasticboy · Post by **plasticboy** » Thu Aug 05, 2010 2:23 am

gouchy wrote:This is most excellent, great skills plasticboy!

Thanks, mate!

Spray the flat coat while the color has done but the oil paint is not 100% dry yet that I’ve leave it for a day at least. I’m pretty sure this stage is safe!
The flat coat dry fast that can go through dry brush which have the primer color to brush top of them to soft the entire tone. The pants I have pick the light brown to dry brush on the top to show more gradient.
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I've hand paint the 34th Infantry Division for those soldier, that the insignia of sergeant and staff sergeant for them too.
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I used the aluminum foil as helmet strip then paint the Humbrol color.
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Complete shots.
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pickelhaube · Post by **pickelhaube** » Thu Aug 05, 2010 5:28 am

Man they do look great !!

YT · Post by YT » Thu Aug 05, 2010 9:10 am

Those are fantastic! I was in the 34th ID, so I like those even more. Will you be offering those for a while? I want a set, but I promised the wife no more spending this month.

1958Zelda · Post by **1958Zelda** » Thu Aug 05, 2010 10:57 am

Great work,much needed positions,how about Russian tank riders in the future for Pickelhaube's up coming T-34 ?

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1/18 G.I soldier W.I.P

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