1/6th Figures

[Nap]

Hi Guys ,

Whilst waiting to go to work in the early hours I found this website by Tony Barton ..devoted to 1/6th figures ....amazing stuff and well worth a look at ...

Makes the Action men I had when I was a lad look rather sorry for themselves !!!!

www.antheads.co.uk

Have a good look around ..well worth it

Nap

 

[Figurenfreund66]

Thank you Kevin

what a great website .

Hendryk

 

[megroot]

Thanks Kevin,
This is really interesting stuff.
Wonder how he do the texture on the clothing.

Marc

 

[Nap]

Hi Guys ,

Especially for "Valiant" here are a couple more Crimean figures :

Enjoy Steve

Nap

 

[Chris K]

Great Site for uniform reference and general inspiration

 

[redhorse]

Thanks for posting, very enjoyable site.

 

[Gellso]

Wonder how he do the texture on the clothing.

Marc

These are 1/6th figures which are dressed with actual material mate.
That's where the texture comes from.

The faces are painted great,
Nice webby.

 

[Tony Barton]

Thanks for the interest .
The techniques are mostly explained on the site , but I could summarise them by saying that wherever possible I make things from the original material, or a scale substitute. The only sculpting is of the head and hands , and items like badges and metal fittings before they are cast into pewter or brass.
Once the head is sculpted, they can be panited like a smaller figure, but given the size it's often worth using real hair as well :~

The uniforms are made from cotton or polysuede ,normally with working buttons.
The leather is goat or calfskin, and so on .Weapons are either ( for WW2) commercial plastic ones , or ( for pre-1900 ) resin castings of my own originals .
The bodies underneath are mostly from Dragon , but often heavily modified.
For WW2 , there is a lot of kit available commercially.

I've recently started making mounted figures :an ECW Dragoon:~

And now as I'm going steadily backwards in history , I have to make nearly everything myself.
My first Marlburian figure :~

 

[valiant]

Cheers Kev,
just trawling around PF and found my namecheck - thanks for the pics, have already started tentative work on the campaign dress bust, watch this space.......!
Steve

 

[Jeff]

Thanks for posting some more photos Tony. Really wonderful figures. I worked at 21st Century Toys and did a lot of 1/6 scale work. I always loved seeing people take the stuff we did and turn it in to figures like yours. Or static figures locked in to a pose with realistic ground work. We did try and make all of our masters as accurate as possible though sometimes what came back from China seemed to have no relation to what we had sent them. Production seemed to also loose something in translation as well. I hope you will post more of your work here.

All the best
Jeff