Sniper Viginette

[Justin Wooding]

Hi chaps,

Sorry for the absence. It's a damn busy time of the year, and distractions are everywhere. I really don't like how fast this year gone by

Anyway, to try and keep the mojo (what little there is) i have been working a small viginette. Purely fun factor with next to no accuracy at all. I think this is more meant to be an experiment in vegetation than anything else. If i am successful, i hoping my figures will be nearly invisible, they are a sniper team after all.

Figures are 1/35 scale Blackbox. I chose these, because a) i wanted snipers, b) i liked the idea of try to paint a ghillie suit, c) they were on special from Luckymodel and lastly.....i don't have to paint faces

[Justin Wooding]

The major colouring of the figures is done. My next step is to gloss them and hit them with a wash, which i think will really make the ghillie suits detail pop, and then start accentuating and highlighting details. The ghillie suits are beautifully done and are the highlight of these figures!

I have made an extremely bad rendition of Woodland camoflauge on the uniforms , but i am happy for what my aim is for this little project I am placing this sniper team as being in Panama or Grenada.


THE SHOOTER. Went together easy, parts fit is superb. The only issue i saw was the gun barrel, which was poorly molded. I made a new one from stretched sprue and drilled the barrel.







THE SPOTTER. Again really nice and parts fitted absolutely perfect. Rifle is seperate and lays on the ground.








As a team.





Blackdog give two types of rifle, which is cool, and they are reasonably accurate. The shooter aims a Remington M40 bolt action and the spotter carries a magazine fed M21.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M21_Sniper_Weapon_System

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M40_rifle

[Justin Wooding]

Viginette base.

I made a pine wood base and stained it. The ground is plaster pre-coloured with raw umber acrylic paint. Dead trees are from the backyard...twigs for me, tree trunks in 1/35 scale I am adding ground litter from Forest in a Pot and have quite a few jungle type plants to add.

[Justin Wooding]

And here is a couple of photos from earlier on when i was trial fitting the figures to the base...






Aside from me choosing this as an easy and fun project, i have been inspired by a few diorama making and figure painting books that i have purchased of late.

BUT, my biggest inspiration has been from watching Ygnve make some really fascinating little viginettes and story lines over the years. It's about time i started having a go at some myself.

Thanks Ygnve

[Philipp Gross]

Beautiful work there Woody! Really tempted to try something similar one day...

Philipp

[Shaun Symonds]

Hi Woody
Neat little scene your creating there.

Shaun

[Yngve Sjodin]

Wahey,Very nice Looking forward to see it completed,have fun! and Im very happy you found inspiration in my stuff

[Vincent Power]

Hey Woody, good to see you back mate and what a nice subject to return with. Great subject and that base is very impressive.
I like what you are doing with it.

Cheers,
Vincent

[Justin Wooding]

Thanks chaps!

[Steve Hutchinson]

Hi Woody

Always good to catch up, stranger

Life is a ***** when it comes to hobby time!

Nice work though, quick thinking to avoid heads, but it will catch up with you, eventually

I am coming close to the end of a 2 year quest with heads, and hope to share in 2017, what little I have learned

With summer coming, I guess there will be plenty to do outside?

Or will it be too hot?

Great work so far, look forward to seeing the forest in a pot land on the base

Regards

Steve H