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M3 Lee

Ended up with the tank pushed forward more than I really wanted but, it gives me room in the rear for dudes standing around gawking.
Colors are much better now they are dried, I need to work on the ground to make it look alive. Iron work I think is up next.
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The darker color heads are Hornet heads, the smaller are Alpine. The Hornet heads are way to big for these Apline bodies. Is this common or did I get a one off combination? These heads look like they could pass for 1:32
 
moon puppy said:
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The darker color heads are Hornet heads, the smaller are Alpine. The Hornet heads are way to big for these Apline bodies. Is this common or did I get a one off combination? These heads look like they could pass for 1:32
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The Hornet heads are probably officers, especially Lieutenants. :bigrin:

Ran some numbers, being a good engineering type, based on anthropometric data for an average human male head. To our southern neighbours fair warning, we are entering the metric zone.

In 1:35 scale, the distance from the chin to the depression were the nose and browline meet:
  • 1st percentile approx 3 mm
  • 50th percentile approx 3.5 mm
  • 99th percentile approx 4 mm
In 1:35 scale, the distance between the centre of the eyes:
  • 1st percentile approx 1.6 mm
  • 50th percentile 1.8 mm
  • 99th percentile 2 mm
Measuring a collection of heads I had at hand, Alpine, Mini Art, Tamiya and Ultracast all seem to be about the 50th percentile. The Hornet and Master Box heads seem to be closer to the 99th percentile. Doing some gizintas from your photo, the numbers came out pretty close to my measurements.

Cheers,
RichB
 
Man that's a shame. I really like the expression on that one guy's face. Mouth opened, eyes closed like, "yous guys figure it out".
 
I tried routing out the torso a bit to accept the larger neck. I do'nt think it's that bad.
Guess Hornet heads are meant for folks like @JamesOLeary who sculpt their own figures.
I really like the expression on this guy's face.
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Then there's this guy, he looks to be leaning against something but I'll try and angle his feet a bit and make him leaning over looking down into the creek bed.

Do the heads look too big for the bodies?
 
moon puppy said:
I tried routing out the torso a bit to accept the larger neck. I do'nt think it's that bad.
Guess Hornet heads are meant for folks like @JamesOLeary who sculpt their own figures.
I really like the expression on this guy's face.
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Then there's this guy, he looks to be leaning against something but I'll try and angle his feet a bit and make him leaning over looking down into the creek bed.

Do the heads look too big for the bodies?
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Yeah! He has that "Oh Sh!t!" look doesn't he.
 
Seen that photo many times Rich, the second photo is flipped for some reason, look at details on the lee and you'll see it.
Thanks for the advice guys, will press on!
 
moon puppy said:
I tried routing out the torso a bit to accept the larger neck. I do'nt think it's that bad.
Guess Hornet heads are meant for folks like @JamesOLeary who sculpt their own figures.
I really like the expression on this guy's face.
View attachment 176933

View attachment 176934
Then there's this guy, he looks to be leaning against something but I'll try and angle his feet a bit and make him leaning over looking down into the creek bed.

Do the heads look too big for the bodies?
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I think you can get away with it MP - they look OK to me.
 
moon puppy said:
I think I got the line up. Consulting with my modeling advisor @errains we figure if I'm going to use one Hornet head I need to use one on all the dudes.
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I have a bunch of Hornet heads and, through the years, the sizes changed bigger and smaller... Sometimes I think Roger Saunders, the sculptor, had a figure for which he was making the heads and, based on that, scaled them accordingly. For example, we had different heights and weights of figures from Tamiya, Dragon, Bronco, Italeri (why update those? 🤢🤮) and others.

Taesung Harmms, Alpine sculptor, rarely did a head set that wasn't based on a figure, or pair of figures, he personally sculpted. I can only recall of one. Asian heads which he sculpted for Joe Bakanovic's Tiger Models' lines. Anyone recall that? Yes, my son calls me a 'living encyclopedia of useless information' (aka trivia)
 
You might be wondering where's Bob been and why no updates.
Well all hell broke loose at work. I worked everyday since Jan 6, in that was a trip to Texas and one to Norcross GA, that was just a day trip. Most of the days working were clocking in 14-16 hour days. Why would I do that? Because some "user" can't be bothered with following basic internet security and they let a "threat actor" into our network and they wrecked us. We've been cleaning up the mess and got it contained but it's been painful. In the process I was granted more and more rights and roles to do more work in our environment, I kinda fear now that genie is out of the bottle I'll have more work daily to do.
We have the threat cleaned up for the most part, restoring servers or building new from backups. We did have a sound disaster recovery plan in place but still find WTF cases we just work though.
The big bosses, to their credit, mandated all teams take the weekend off since we have stability and things "look" normal now. So I'm going to get out and get some sunshine, fresh air and probably find some yard work to do.
Also during this time, I got hearing aids! Some of y'all know the struggle I've had for years not being able to hear, well frankly much of anything. It was kinda of a running joke but now I have aids that show me what I"ve been missing, it's really no joke.

So here's where I left off. I did get a black base on my dudes and trying a couple of techniques to get started.
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Mission models OD and tamiya khaki for the jackets. I'm not sure about the colors, didn't have time to do any research. just needed a little break a couple of days but those breaks didn't last long.

@AndyFettes you want to paint some figures with me?
 
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