28mm Pacific WW2 - part 3 (of 6)

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 

                      

The e- bay bargain buy of bits...

The bases are clear to allow them to blend into the mat or board. 

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. 

The extra arms, heads etc.  fit the purpose.

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. 

                             

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.

 

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

 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.

The hand to hand stuff...

Whaalop !!

Some old school Sword against machete (and bayonet!)..