WIP Critique 3 Para, Falklands 1982 - Maurice Corry 120mm

[Johan]

... Guess who has just cleaned up, sub-assembled and undercoated a beautiful Maurice Corry figure ...

Figure sub-assemblies as follows : feet + legs + torso + left arm and hand / right arm and SLR + barrel and bayonet + night sight + home-made sling / 5 separate pouches / head. All undercoated in Tamiya grey primer.

... now, do you guys prefer the head with helmet - which is the original head in the kit - or the head with beret (pirated that one form a M Corry WWII para) ?

And what are the base colours for the DPM camo windproof smock and trousers you would advise me ? I was thinking of Vallejo Green Ochre 914, flat brown 984, and 950 black, but I hesitate about the green - Vallejo russian green 924 seems to much olive, I think the green was more an apple green, what vallejo colour would you suggest ?

Thanks for looking,

cheers

Johan

 

[billyturnip]

My preference is with the helmet Johan.

Roger.

 

[MarquisMini]

I think the beret is great too , but definitively the helmet add few hours of extra paint work

 

[Ferris]

Nice figure Johan.
I vote for the helmet. He is dressed for action and the helmet reinforces this. Well, in my view at least...

Cheers,
Adrian

 

[Pops]

I think berets were ordered 'on' only after word that the white flag had gone up over Stanley...
On the DPM front you do have a wee bit of leeway. My DPMs faded over the years with wear and washing so there can always be slight variations in tone...

 

[dinovision79]

I forgot how nice this figure is! It looks better with the helmet.

I think there have been few threads about DPM, have a look.

http://www.planetfigure.com/threads/stormtroopers-120mm-brit-para-officer-arnhem.35329/page-2
http://www.planetfigure.com/threads/1-16-ww2-british-sas-commando-camo-help.48077/#post-482306
http://www.planetfigure.com/threads...e-nw-europe-1944-version-2.49496/#post-495687

 

[Helm]

If he wears the beret he needs to get a bloody haircut!

Steve

 

[Johan]

OK guys, the helmet it will be.

@Steve : and I was even thinking of adding those weird sideburns that were "so typically eighties"

... just wondering now if I will also add a moustache to the head with helmet ...

 

[Helm]

The 80's sideburns weren't that big a deal as I recalll but Mexican bandit 'tashes were very popular

Steve

 

[Johan]

The 80's sideburns weren't that big a deal as I recalll but Mexican bandit 'tashes were very popular

Steve

OK, Steve, I'll try to see if my skills with Milliput allow for a Mexican bandit moustache.


... oh by the way, something I observed about Tamiya grey primer : it sprays a lot better when the weather is warm and dry ?!? ... dead matte finish with a bit of a "tooth" that is excellent to take a coat of Vallejo colour ... Can it be that primers in a spray can are influenced by air humidity ?

 

[Helm]

All paints are affected by the air quality to a degree that is why you never spray say a car if there is damp in the air

 

[jimmyoc]

Hi, if the bayonets fixed, definitely helmet, great figure, but I'm biased

 

[tonydawe]

Yes, I agree with jimmyoc. bayonet on, helmet on. The only time you'd have your bayonet fixed is in combat, in which case you'd be wearing your tin lid.