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tiny, wee folks (~1/1200)
This post answers Pablo's question but may (or may not) be of general interest. Hence the separate thread:
This is how I make people in 1/1200 scale. In that scale it's actually very simple (not necessarily easy) because all your eye needs to see is a very vaguely human-shaped shape, and the rest is done by your brain. I.e., my figures are simple, flat polygons (s. attached file leute.pdf). You need a sharp blade, good light, good vision, and a bit of organisation. Then it's not too hard to do: - First cut the concave corners along the indicated lines, - then the convex ones, - do one horizontal cut at head height, - and remove all excess material between the figures. At that size colouring the edges is absolutely clueless, just paint the whole figures as desired! - Then separate the figures with one final, horizontal cut at ground level. - DO. NOT. SNEEZE !!!! Here, I used them as some marines boarding an s&p Sea Knight on my PR USS Independence.
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Brilliant! Thank you.
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Good Grief Guys!
It obviously works! OK, someone here will no doubt add detail; cartridge belt, weapons? Bob |
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Brilliant, indeed! Many thanks for this tutorial and a set of the tiny crew members.
Don |
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Thanks a lot!
I am going to enlarge them 3 times and try in 1/400. Extraordinary! |
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Crickey. How about that!
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Wonderful!
Don't sneeze! "Stay calm and wear the mask"! ;-)
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Hello michi ,
To put it in the words of my grandson (11), the old man is in a good mood, grandpa, he's better than you and ask what he interjects. Please excuse me, but youthful language. I almost despaired with my hubi and it still makes men. So great, I take my hat off to you and fall on my knees. |
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These are very convincing when painted and put into a diorama!
Vaguely related fact: the crowds in the podracing scenes in The Phantom Menace were Q-tips painted and placed in plaster models of the stadium. This was a film ignorantly criticised for overuse of CGI when most of the sets were old-school models...
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Thank you all very much for your kind words!
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"On second thoughts, let's not go there, 'tis a silly place!" You can tell your grandson that those figures are nothing, Andreas. Just a few straight cuts. No folding, no glueing. In fact, not half as impressive as his grandpa's helicopter!
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