Saturday 14 November 2020

28mm Pacific WW2 - part 3

Pacific 28mm - Part 3

I spotted a bargain on e bay...£8 for a bunch of spare US Infantry parts (heads, arms etc.). for our Pacific game we plan to have US Marines wading into shore.

So here is how the project went...

I first took some green stuff and moulded it into a half upper body then added some arms and weapons then a head, then added packs etc. I then undercoated it, painted it, dipped it with a wash, dry brushed to highlight and finished the faces and packs using a nice thin insane detail brush from Games Workshop.

And here's the finished look 

28mm Pacific

                      

The e- bay bargain buy of bits...

The bases are clear to allow them to blend into the mat or board. 
US 28mm Pacific

You can get a good few "half guys" using this principle and its cheap. 

We also use casualty markers on the beach when playing - to trace our efforts during the game. I therefore also made up some water casualty markers. 
28mm pacific

The extra arms, heads etc.  fit the purpose.
28mm WW2 Pacific


You can smooth out the green stuff before it gets hard. But just make sure the arms sit at the right height and blend to the body. If your good with green stuff you can try adding back packs, bed rolls etc.

I now have around 60 new troop markers. 

                             28mm pacific


Next I tried out some water shell splashes. So I drilled some bases to take cocktails sticks added some white grab glue and pulled it out to add movement. They turned out ok. So I then thought I'll add some green stuff half guys. This is the result.
 

28mm pacific


So  we now have bout 60 markers/waders and 30 causalities. 
28mm pacific

 So we also recently bought a few editions of Wargames Illustrated for the free spue frame for our Pacific game I will post some pics APAP. The extra spues are to be used for hand to hand fighting vignettes and medical corpsmen.

Pacific wargame
The hand to hand stuff...


Pacific wargame


28mm Pacific wargame
Whaalop !!

Pacific wargame

Pacific wargame 28mm
Some old school Sword against machete (and bayonet!)..