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Cool!

A bit more progress. Looks splotchy in the pic but not at all in normal life. Any tips on any areas I should fix? Looks like I missed something under the mustache.

Hey BULL, I took your advice! https://www.planetfigure.com/threads/sas-lrrp-it-is.197798/#post-1025886

Came home from work and started slopping some paint around. I know a lot of you guys can do a face in one sitting, but I'm not that guy. ;)

Thanks, John. Those two had poses which reminded me of old Tamiya figures, especially the crouching guy reloading his Carbine, but done to a far, far, far higher level.

I remember going to a local hobby shop with a friend back in the day, and looking at a Monogram piece Shep had on display there. As an aside, I didn't know it at the time, but Shep actually lived about 10 minutes away. Anyway, we were talking to the shop owner about it and he said, "You should...

Here's the Diorama tip sheet explaining the figure conversions.

Exactly! These 1/35th figures, (below), were from a kit released in the 1950's. They were not multi-pose, they were single piece injected plastic figures. By cutting them apart and swapping arms, torsos and legs, Shep showed us how to "convert" . Even repositioning the hands for more realistic...

Shep's version:

Sounds like a valiant effort! In the '70's they had an aerosol deodorant which dried to a white powder. I thought, what an excellent way to give my Monogram Sturmgeschutz a white wash snow camouflage - and easy too! It required about a half a can and actually came out fairly decently, but it...

John Rosengrant's for inspiration!

A little tweaking before the putty dries.

After admiring BULL's Desert Rat figure, he stated that many of us have this figure in the bottom drawer and we should try our own interpretation of it. Well that got me motivated! https://www.planetfigure.com/threads/desert-rat.79908/page-2#post-1025860 Found him! He had generously...

While we're here, I've always been curious about these two. Are they scratch or converted from commercially available figures?

Dear Lord! This thread rocks!

When I was about 11, I was at a department store with my parents and saw this. It was the two small color photos below, on the side of the Monogram M-48 box which blew me away. The tank looked dirty! How was that done? There was an M-60 machine gun team with painted on helmet covers. The tank...

Ghurka or LRRP SAS? Hmmm. I'll see what my head situation is like tonight.

I have a headless one somewhere. Maybe I'll re-head and resurrect him!

I think virtually all of his stuff, is currently coveted by collectors. He even made sure his Historex spare parts found a good home.

As a kid, I can still remember how blown away I was by Shep's diorama inserts in those Monogram kits, originally released in the 1950's. Later as an adult, it was an honor to meet him and get to know him a bit. These Tamiya figures were leading edge stuff when released in the early 1970's and...