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New source for a 1/18 Tuskegee Airmen

Posted: Fri May 27, 2016 5:38 pm
by Razor17019
I happen to luck out and become the proud owner of two Tuskegee P-51s.
Of course, both of these planes did not come with the official Tuskegee Airmen to pilot them. So, I had to make them.
I tried different African-American heads from several different lines and they were okay.
I happen to find a couple new 1/18 Elite Force modern figures at my local 5 below store.
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So, I soaked the figure in boiling water to loosen him up and POP! The head came off really well. Instead of the same old peg at the bottom of the neck, this one had a short, round disk. I carefully cut it off and tried it into a body of a P-51 pilot and this is what I got:
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I like the expression on his face and I found an officer's hat that completed the look.

Anyone else experiment with these new figures for a project?
Razor

Re: New source for a 1/18 Tuskegee Airmen

Posted: Fri May 27, 2016 6:48 pm
by Axis Nightmare
Great job Mark! :D

Re: New source for a 1/18 Tuskegee Airmen

Posted: Fri May 27, 2016 7:30 pm
by normandy
Nice job Razor!! Thats a great head sculpt, with a great expression......He looks like an officer.

Re: New source for a 1/18 Tuskegee Airmen

Posted: Sat May 28, 2016 9:38 am
by supersonicfifi
just to know : did you swap heads with both figures ? so what the marine is looking now ?

Re: New source for a 1/18 Tuskegee Airmen

Posted: Sat May 28, 2016 1:44 pm
by Razor17019
supersonicfifi wrote:just to know : did you swap heads with both figures ? so what the marine is looking now ?
No, did not put another head on the marine body.
Razor

Re: New source for a 1/18 Tuskegee Airmen

Posted: Sun May 29, 2016 10:20 pm
by tmanthegreat
Great work! I was thinking of doing something similar at one time using an older BBI African American soldier figure or the head from the 21c Vietnam figure. Although borrowing a trick from Coreyeagle48, I simply repainted the face of a 21c P-38/P-47 pilot figure brown and it came out pretty decent :wink: