1/35 from HD Models.
I picked this up at World Model Expo in July last year.
You have to add a few details yourself, but a great figure. That paints up looking like a Ron Volstad illustration!
Some of this was a pain and stressful (two attempts to make and attach the coiled lead from handset to radio ) and some bits I really enjoyed as they bought the figure to life!
I needed to add a few details:
Uzi strap
Radio handset coil
Antenna
Chinstrap holding handset
Rope holding radio on packboard
Vertical stripe on helmet
Wow, absolutely amazing work. The camo uniform is particularly well done, the lizard pattern is super hard to recreate realistically… Beautiful figure altogether.
Thanks!
This is my second lizard pattern I’ve painted. I did a French 1 REP para in Algiers a while back. Did a darker base on this version. I do have some amazing references for it though. A photo of several jackets showing variations in colour was very useful (to stop me worrying too much!!!) and some great drawings showing the layers of camo separated!
It’s a great figure, of a subject ignored a bit I think - but I guess it’s a very figure centric conflict In Jerusalem itself.
The colour for the camo? The base I’ll have to double check…but anything from an apple green to a sand colour is valid. The stripes are Ak Gen3 red brown plus black and Vallejo Reflective Green plus black.
Beautiful work there Rob- the way you have him painted he does indeed look like a Ron Volstad piece! The way you have the radio handset hooked on round his face is a really neat touch.
Yeah I have some of those references too and they’re very helpful . I did an old Verlinden foreign legion bust in that camo and it came ok. I have an AC Models French Foreign Legion para bust I’d like to do as well. You do have a lot of variation in the base color as well as the other colors. Again beautiful job Rob.
Thanks Peter.
Very pleased with how the antenna turned out. I didn’t want to go down the stretched sprue route and learnt the PRC25 Ariel came in 3 foot lengths. So used some brass wire (about 2 inches scale length for 2 x 3 foot lengths) and dipped one end in Mr Surfacer, let it dry, redipped until I could put it in a pinvice and sand it to shape for the thicker part joining the radio…then obviously some careful painting
