Small Scale Military Headquarters

I always love the WWII ace fighter pilot when I do modeling in the past, like to know you guys interested ace fighter pilot subject! Maybe not sitting in the cockpit which is standing or resting pose.....

*German ace pilot- Erich Hartmann、Gerhard Barkhorn、Hans Joachim Marseille..........
*US ace pilot- Richard Bong、Gregory Boyington..........
*Japanese ace pilot- Saburo Sakai.......

Would love to see an Erich Hartmann. Would also love to see you do some of the more notable ground commanders like Sepp Dietrich, Kurt Meyer, Omar Bradley; just to name a few.

I'm sure you'd find interest for this idea here.

German Fighters!!!!

I would also love to see some panzer aces. Maybe not the most well know ones but some of the others.

I would buy a figure of Gabby Gabreski as well as a few others.

PLASTICBOY:

I'm still hoping you can do some pilots for the JSI F-14.

I think it would be a good idea Plasticboy.

The only problem is that you need the Aces plane to be done in 1/18 as well.

Hartmann will be done soon, we have a Barkhorn, and a Gallland, Graf, Rall etc.

No "Marge", so Bong is out.

And of course these would have to be painted.

You would have to do a standard pilot from whatever country, and paint the features.

Personally, I would get a good 1/6 figure to display beside the aircraft.

But yours is still a good idea.

I'd like to see a bunch of 1/18 head sculps of famous pilots as well as high ranking military officers and maybe a few movie figures who played military personel in war films/series. Sorta Tom Hanks meets Vic Morrow, meets Alan Alda........
Seems that would be a good way to get more bang for your buck!
I have always wanted to do the crew from Combat!

not only a full sculpt plasticboy...but I would gladly decapitate the head of my BBI or 21st pilots to replace them with the head of Bud Anderson...Pappy..or Sakai

flyboy_fx wrote:German Fighters!!!!

I would also love to see some panzer aces. Maybe not the most well know ones but some of the others.

That's lot of characters can be created in 1/18 to match the vehicles.

dragon53 wrote:PLASTICBOY:

I'm still hoping you can do some pilots for the JSI F-14.

I don't have the F-14 that I'm not able to make pilot to fit in the kit!

snake wrote:I think it would be a good idea Plasticboy.

The only problem is that you need the Aces plane to be done in 1/18 as well.

Hartmann will be done soon, we have a Barkhorn, and a Gallland, Graf, Rall etc.

No "Marge", so Bong is out.

And of course these would have to be painted.

You would have to do a standard pilot from whatever country, and paint the features.

Personally, I would get a good 1/6 figure to display beside the aircraft.

But yours is still a good idea.

snake, you are right! The figure should match the plane.
So most of you guys don't wanna do paint job by yourself from what I know.

Here is my oldie which had done at 2005, since I collected 1/18 war bird for 1/6 figure composite use.

zonetoys wrote:I'd like to see a bunch of 1/18 head sculps of famous pilots as well as high ranking military officers and maybe a few movie figures who played military personel in war films/series. Sorta Tom Hanks meets Vic Morrow, meets Alan Alda........
Seems that would be a good way to get more bang for your buck!
I have always wanted to do the crew from Combat!

We have the same thought of "Combat", it was my favorite series when I was young!
Don't know anyone will interested in Combat characters?

Wow, plasticboy. This is amazing. I would be very interested in german pilots. Maybe Erich Hartmann, Günther Rall, Walter Schuck (would be nice for my airbrush Me26) and many more. What would be the price for one finished figure?
Regards from Germany
Sven

Great looking RAF pilot plasticboy.

PLASTICBOY:

Considering the number of JSI F-14s sold, I think there's a demand for pilots to go with them. The other three sources for F-14 pilots don't appear to be viable, so you wouldn't have any competition.

Suggestion:

1. A pilot figure with torso only (i.e. no legs) so it would be easy to fit in the F-14 cockpit.

Speaking of specific "Ace" pilot figures, we did sort of get a couple:

21c did a specific Adolph Galland figure for his aircraft - the Bf-109 pilot figure with a painted moustache.

The 21c Boyington Corsair had a pilot that had VMF-214 stenciled on the mae west lifejacket, so it could represent Boyington.

Using the head that came with one of the 21c Avenger crew (which seems to look a lot like Boyington) on the Boyington Corsair pilot body, I made a very believable Pappy Boyington pilot for my Corsair

Sounds like you've got some good feedback coming in Plasticboy. I like the fighter Ace idea as well as the panzer / tanker Aces.
Zonetoys hit on something I've wanted for years, Head Sculpts that could replace or supplement the ones that came with 21st's figures. Some with a little more facial expression, talking or yelling for example.
Well lets see where it goes.........your the Artist.
Just want to say your Russian tank riders look great!!

I'd like an Ira Kepford head for my Corsair, as well as Pappy Boyington. Perhaps Alexander Vraciu as well. I'm going to need my own 1:18 carrier for all the planes+pilots I want, haha.

OK Plasticboy, I am sharpening the blade now...let the heads roll!
plus the perfect time to do the swap is comming up...
(July 14th is Bastille Day!)

normandy wrote:Sounds like you've got some good feedback coming in Plasticboy. I like the fighter Ace idea as well as the panzer / tanker Aces.
Zonetoys hit on something I've wanted for years, Head Sculpts that could replace or supplement the ones that came with 21st's figures. Some with a little more facial expression, talking or yelling for example.
Well lets see where it goes.........your the Artist.
Just want to say your Russian tank riders look great!!

Indeed, I wasn't expected to get lot of feedback for it that I thought not many people will interested in figurine. Now I can imagine lot of fun at this era!

Bong