Hi, here's my Young Miniatures Stormtrooper bust. I decided to make him a bit more menacing by adding a scratchbuilt gasmask. I also added some more grenades to his bags and made the later pattern endcaps for these since I intend to also give him a late pattern camouflage helmet. Other alterations include adding an iron cross second class ribbon and shortened NCO collar tabs. He's mounted on a genuine WW1 shrapnel shell fragment. This is my first attempt to post an image so hope it works. Cheeers John
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Here's a close up of the gasmask. I am making the correct chinstrap attachment and have still to add this. e bay is a great reference source on the stahlhelm, lots of pics there. The spider web lens protectors in the mask were assembled from photo etch bits I had lying around. John
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kiwi45
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Nice work John, love the additions you have done, look forward to seeing it completed. Les
FigureLover
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Very nice work and the additions to this already great kit. I like your detailssuch as the spider web lenses in the mask as well as using an authentic base from the time.
Ben
Ben
Ron Tamburrini
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This looks very interesting John, love the additions 
Michael Tse
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Look fwd to progress! This is gonna be so cool.
1969
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I like your take on this bust, adds a new dimension to it, will follow this one, looking forward to seeing the end result.
Steve
Steve
megroot
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Perfect, just perfect work.
Waiting for the finished bust.
Marc
Waiting for the finished bust.
Marc
Figurenfreund66
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Unbelievable, I'm thrilled.
best regards
Hendryk
best regards
Hendryk
bit of an update, I have painted the face. Since most of this will be hidden when I put the gasmask on I figured this would be a good time to try my first face in acrylics since I have always painted in oils to date. I'm surprised by how much the camera seems to wash out the colours, they are a bit darker in reality, but I was reasonably pleased with this for a first attempt. I can see that there is going to be a lot more scope to play around with various tones and washes than I would usually get with oils.
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megroot
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Excellent work.
The base is also great. Never thought about using the head of a grenade....I have a few laying around in my barn, that I found 30 years ago around Passendale.
Marc
The base is also great. Never thought about using the head of a grenade....I have a few laying around in my barn, that I found 30 years ago around Passendale.
Marc
Ulrich
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really nice idea with the shell fragment. I like it. The gas mask is great too. The figure, could depends on the photos, looks IMHO a little bit too colourful and clean. But perhaps you can manage it with the depth of focus with your camera. I have sometimes the same problems with my camera
Superb work.
Carl.
Carl.
Figurenfreund66
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excellent job, i like the details !
Cheers
Hendryk
Cheers
Hendryk
