Sunday 16 March 2014

STUDIO PLASTICS NO.1

THE FIRST OF THE STUDIO PLASTICS SHUFFLE IN.

THE OBLIGATORY BACK SHOT.
The LEGEND that is Vampifan was kind enough to donate several sprues of Studio's to the cause of building my horde. These are the first of them. I hope you like them Bryan.

So the first two things that struck me about these figures was that they were quite short and they didn't have that many wounds. To remedy the first thing I based them on 25mm round plastic bases, tried to fill gap around the edge with filler which was mostly successful and then PVA and sand. For the second issue I drilled holes for bullet wounds and used a sharp craft knife to create others.

On a painting note I tried to keep the brown wash to just the clothing this time, to hopefully let the skin colours show a little better. Not sure what to think really, don't know if I like it or not. No, really don't like it.

Anyway on with the introductions, Left to Right: Starting off with casually dressed Afan who has a rather large exit wound, he has a head swap with a WGF male zombie. The next unlucky chap is Barri, who seems to have had a face peel. His skull needs more hilighting and his eye needs redoing, eyes seem to be my kryptonite. Cai is the zombie in the scrubs full of bullet holes. Who ever shot him didn't aim for the head, which is another swap for a WGF male zombie head. Finally bringing up the rear is a once smartly dressed office worker Dafydd.

Thanks to everyone who takes the time to look and comment.

Until next time take the DUDE'S advice and take it easy.


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8 comments:

  1. Vampifan16 March 2014 at 17:05

    Great work, Bob! Okay, so I am an unashamed and unrepentant gore hound, but I do like the bullet holes you have drilled in these guys, especially on Cai and Dafydd. It is simple but very effective. You've done a fine job on painting them.

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    1. Unknown16 March 2014 at 17:28

      Thanks Bryan.
      Glad you like them. Had to create oppurtunities for gore, not enough on these mini's IMO. I thought the bullet holes might be a little big, but they don't look so bad.

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  2. Mathyoo16 March 2014 at 17:45

    Nice work Bob. I really like the skin on the guy in scrubs - which reminds me, I could paint those as scrubs, what a great idea!

    Not sure drilling the holes is worth it, as you can always just splash paint everywhere, but then again, who doesn't like to drill some holes every now and then, right?

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    1. Unknown16 March 2014 at 18:15

      Thanks Mathyoo
      Glad you like them. The skin on the scrubs guy is GW Elf Flesh followed by a wash of GW Leviathan Purple. I thought drilling the bullet holes would be more fun, it was.

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  3. Zabadak16 March 2014 at 18:05

    I think they're all great aditions to the horde and you'vedone a great job on them, bullets holes and all !
    It's a pity that the studio plastics have so few body positions.

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    1. Unknown16 March 2014 at 18:23

      Thanks Joe.
      Glad you like them. It is a shame that they have so few body positions, but that's what converting is all about. Zombie sculpts are usually quite static so I don't have much of a problem with the body positions.

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  4. Zombie Ad17 March 2014 at 12:43

    Great work Bob, you're horde is really coming on now

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    1. Unknown17 March 2014 at 15:11

      Thanks Z Ad
      Glad you like them. I'll be a lot happier when they hit triple figures.

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