If you started one in the last campaign, didn’t finish (I don’t like the picture I see in the mirror) and want use that one in this campaign that is ok otherwise I think new projects only (convince me otherwise) for this campaign. That does not mean you have to use that figure, just the option is available.
So, I fixed it now, but when you edit an event, all the folks who had said they are going get dropped and have to reclick to show up clearly. I’m sorry about that!
Now on the thread about detecting a recast, here is one of my free figures from ebay. I have 3 figs from Alpine that I’m confident are genuine. This one was the best cast of the group with 0 cleanup (other than where I glued the right forearm on):
Awhile back I purchased these Italeri sturmtruppen figs and put them together. I figure, as long as you’re doing a little of wss camo, why not do a lot?
They went together pretty well once I realized the instructions had no connection to reality and I was just trying to assemble figures that looked like the guys on the box art. The figs are on the one hand nice, nicely sculpted let me say, but that pose on the left is … reminds me of that weird art pose in the movie Airplane! if anyone remembers. And they are BIG. Much bigger than these Alpine figs and than some Dragon figs. So maybe these started life in a different scale?
I’ll use them as paint mules for that cool WSS camo.
Now, does the MP40 ever get used entirely without a stock? I have the separate resin stock that goes with this fig. Extremely delicate - can’t really imagine it surviving the painting process…
Over on the sci fi site we were reminiscing about old Dungeons and Dragons type figures we have hidden in the closet… I shared some that I had, including a set I had started to repaint:
More on my figures that came as part of an auction for a tank. It turns out I received 11 figures. 2 of them are guys on the back of a panther firing the AA MG at some overhead plane and I’m not sure I will make use of them. 2 of them are Alpine 12ss hitlerjugend, one with interesting camo coveralls, but they are fairly badly cast and after starting to clean them up I just decide to put them back in their bags. Here are the rest:
the one of the left was one I had purchased and started on before - see thread above. The two really with their heads down in the middle are Rado miniatures. The one on the right is an evolution miniature SS officer. All of these had virtually no cleanup, but there were a few issues.
These are the two Rado figures. The one guy is supposed to be holding his helmet. I couldn’t make that work but I’m thinking it’s my inability rather than any fault of the figure. The foldable MP40 butt was pretty mangled. I’ve ordered some Eduard MP40s and hope to use one from them.
Two more Alpine figures on the left and the Evolution officer on the right. The leftmost alpine figure had a badly warped rifle which I need to fix. And his left had was miscast so I’ll have to create some curled up fingers for him. The one on the right had a warped shovel handle which I’ll fix at the same time as the rifle (I hope).
The Evolution officer is way cool! You can’t see it, but he’s pulled a magazine out of its pouch and that’s in his left hand. I can’t quite figure out what is up with the MP40. The end of the barrel was cast separately, is tiny, and is bent. It’s so small it’s not fixable. Not sure whether to try to fabricate one or glue on a plastic one or a resin one, raided from somewhere else.
I built one and just started building another and that kept going until I was done. It’s quite an unexpected haul really.