Rackham AT-43..a WIP

Looks good on my screen .

Yeah, this looks really good! Are you planning on doing a unit of these or is this a one-off?

mmm... very nice Smooth and welldetailed!

Cheers folks.......right now he's a pure experiment to see whats possible (and I've seen virtually no repaints of this stuff at all, just one or two).

rather than do a squad I'd probably try different colour combinations......and the more time I spend on this one, the more annoying I find his pose! Some of the future figures have more character to them.....

Any plan on doing a night operations variant? A black uniform and armor with green glass night-vision goggles would be cool IMHO.

Now that's an idea.......I'd seen a version like that on a photo from a show, and it looked real good

I'm assembling this one now, and will post some new pics soon.

I have a test figure for a new range coming my way very soon, so that will take priority (and i'm excited about it!!!) Never done a real commercial piece before........

New range? That sounds interesting (wink, wink... )!

Ritual wrote:

(wink, wink... )!

Yeah! Wink, wink, ... !!!

nudge nudge.........well you guys know I dabble in Historicals........and there's a new range being touted around right now........you can work it out

Hum ... the only thing I'm aware of is Andrea, but they're going for fantasy, so I'm a bit lost here .

Aren't eastern front studios going to realease a historical line? hmm...

I know Tom Meier is doing a line of WWII minis or something like that... Is that it?

and the prize goes to.....Anders!

It's just one of the early castings as a trial piece initially and see how they like it. They're 36mm and nicely proportioned, which I like. Gathering together my references now.....

Congrats Rob! I'm sure we'll be seeing interesting pieces from you soon .

Cheers

Right, back on subject. The head was painted seperately up to a point, then attached to the mostly painted torso. Then I carried on painting details such as the goggles etc.......



since taking the pics I've since given the armour the faintest wash/filter of Dark Angels green, abd commenced with the chipping and battle scarring.

nearly there!

I love the white markings! What's the one on the back of the helmet?

green stuff wrote:

I love the white markings! What's the one on the back of the helmet?

that's based on the markings the US put on their helmets during WW2, if I remember correctly, a vertical white bar was for NCOs and a horizontal one was for commisioned officers (although I might have that the wrong way round!). They were commonly known as "aiming stakes" for obvious reasons.....

NCO? Non commanding officer???

green stuff wrote:

NCO? Non commanding officer???

NCO = Non-Commissioned Officer - sargeants and corporals etc
CO = Commissioned Officer

Here an NCO helmet of the Rangers


and an officers:

Thanks Rob . Gives them a nice "field" touch!

This is looking great, so far, Rob. I too really like the markings...

yup great work so far! Maybe the skin colour is a bit too close to the skin colour? But the goggles set the face apart anyways so it's not a big problem.

There is a bit of a similarity in tones with the face; i'll try to add more life to the face!

Here's a new montage (the other was supposed to be 300 px wide, not 200px. Hopefully this will come out as I hope:



Very nearly there........

really nice work on this one, the armor looks great. I just still am not that fond of the sculpt, but that's ok!

It looks great. But yeah more visible now that the face needs some more tones