Legionnaire du 2e BEP Indochina 1:35

[Robert Jan de Wit]

Hello all,

This one is completed. A French legionnaire during Indochina war.
It is a conversion of an 1:35 Jaguar resin figure with a Hornet head, additional equipment and some scratchbuilding.
All is painted with AKgen3 acrylics. The groundwork is done with MS, some roots, static grass and leaves and painted with acrylics and some washes. The base 3x3 cm.
Thanks for watching.

regards,
Robert Jan

 

[MoboSchreuder]

Excellent work

Mobo

 

[Dr Bison]

I love it, RJ! Not only are your conversions always top notch, but this time you also depicted one of my preferred topics - French paras in the Indochina War. So thanks for taking us through your SBS and for showing your final result.

one small thing though: I think the antenna of the handie-talkie transceiver is a bit too long here, as it was just over 1 m long in the original.

Karl

 

[Robert Jan de Wit]

I love it, RJ! Not only are your conversions always top notch, but this time you also depicted one of my preferred topics - French paras in the Indochina War. So thanks for taking us through your SBS and for showing your final result.

one small thing though: I think the antenna of the handie-talkie transceiver is a bit too long here, as it was just over 1 m long in the original.

Karl

Thanks Karl!
You are right, I totally miscalculated the 40 inch to centimeters and then to 35 scale. I will correct it.
I will respond to your pm later.

greets,
RJ

 

[marco14]

very very beautiful done Robert

 

[Ferris]

Very nice work. Liking this piece a lot. Nice work on the camouflage especially.

Adrian

 

[MalcC]

Nicely done.

Malc

 

[Warren SMITH]

Excellent work...

 

[Nap]

Hi Robert

Another well worked conversion and presented Figure , like the camo painting on him especially

Good use of the hornet heads




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Thanks for sharing

Look forward to seeing more

Happy benchtime

Nap

 

[Robert Jan de Wit]

Thank you all for the nice replies and likes.
I am pretty happy with this figure for my Indochina collection.
And very happy with my new acrylics paints.

Have a nice weekend everyone.
greets,
RJ

 

[NigelR]

I missed this was the completed version of your WIP I had commented on. This turned out really well and I love the groundwork. Excellent work, especially in such a small scale.

How do you find the AK 3rd gen acrylics compared to the 2nd gen?

 

[KenBoyle]

Great work on the conversion, painting and groundwork RJ. A beautiful piece.

Cheers,
Ken

 

[Robert Jan de Wit]

Thanks Nigel and Ken

I missed this was the completed version of your WIP I had commented on. This turned out really well and I love the groundwork. Excellent work, especially in such a small scale.

How do you find the AK 3rd gen acrylics compared to the 2nd gen?

I don’t know.. I never used acrylics for 15 years after some projects I did with Vallejo. But I could not get along with them so I got back on my Humbrols. By the start of this year I decided to give acrylics another try for various reasons and decided to buy the AKgen3 acrylics, also because they have those great uniform sets. I like them very much much. They are easy to work with with all kind of techniques and for nice weathering effects. And it works way faster than humbrols!

greets,
RJ

 

[Blind Pew]

Super stuff again, Robert. You've told a story with one figure. Really well done.

 

[Gruntdoc]

Excellent!

 

[NigelR]

I don’t know..

Guess I will just have to buy some and see how they go..... Your results look good.

 

[1969]

Excellent looking figure and great subject.
Steve