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21st Century figures re-worked a little.

Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2005 11:26 pm
by 29thLetsGoJoe
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I couldn't stand the German armor officers right arm. It made no sense the way he was holding it out. Looked extremely uncomfortable so I put him in hot water and slowly loosened the arm and replaced it with the right arm from another of the tank crewman from 21st Cent.
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The American tank sgt. kinda bothered me as well with his head at an angle like he was just slapped (by Patton).Also I didn't like him with just an M1 helmet. So I surgically removed his old ugly head and replaced it with the head from... you guessed it another of 21st cent's American tank crewmen with a tankers helmet.
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Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2005 11:36 am
by tmanthegreat
Nice work! I've done some similar projects, namely taking a 32x German tank crewman and making one arm straight and the other arm held up so it looks like he's resting it on the side of a hatch. You can sort of see the resting arm in this picture:

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/shampts@s ... pg&.src=ph

It s the Panther gunner to the far right; contrast with the correct figure standing behind the turret.

I also moved the right arm of the new M113 commander to stick out and rest on the gun in the commander cuppola and removed the arms of the 32x ME-262 pilot, made them narrower, and then reglued them so the pilot could sit higher in the cockpit and not be shoved down by the canopy tab.

Nice pictures!

Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2005 4:37 pm
by 29thLetsGoJoe
I like you photos, they have a realistic feel. They remind me of the pictures in Military Modeler magazine, I used to subscribe to.