Lancaster-Crew finished

[Kaireckstadt]

In addition to the other accessories I already presented to you I today want to show you my Lancaster-Crew for my Dambuster-diorama. Took 6 weeks to assemble and paint all the figures. 
I meanwhile corrected the belt buckle color to silver (see last photo) .

[Bomber_County]

Stunning, wish I had the patience and skill to do figures do make diorama............

[Kaireckstadt]

  On 2/7/2021 at 7:52 PM, Bomber_County said:

Stunning, wish I had the patience and skill to do figures do make diorama............

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Thank you. Much appreciated!

Maybe you should give it a try? 

[FME erk]

Kai

First thing  . .  . Bloody marvellous 

I too have this set and will probably be the last thing that gets painted. Patience's is indeed the requirement to get these young fellas looking the part.

The two pigeon boxes are Yellow as clearly seen in the authentic shot with the airmen carrying two under his arms . . . 

I am hoping to take them from their base and peg them into drilled holes in the base board 

Great job and perfect for the diorama 

Ian

[DocRob]

Wow, great result with the subtle figure painting. The figures with their individual poses looking great, enhanced by your fine brushwork.

Cheers Rob

[Kaireckstadt]

  On 2/8/2021 at 11:57 AM, FME erk said:

Kai

First thing  . .  . Bloody marvellous 

I too have this set and will probably be the last thing that gets painted. Patience's is indeed the requirement to get these young fellas looking the part.

The two pigeon boxes are Yellow as clearly seen in the authentic shot with the airmen carrying two under his arms . . . 

I am hoping to take them from their base and peg them into drilled holes in the base board 

Great job and perfect for the diorama 

Ian

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Thanks for your feedback, Ian. 

I was a little bit disappointed of the figures because some rework (blowholes) had to be done and the casting quality was not that good taking into account the high price (e.g. compared to Ultracast-Figures). 
Since there is no instruction sheet included and the bags and parachutes came in one plastic-bag it wasn’t easy to find out which bag belongs to which figure. Also some heads were reversed in the bags for the figures. So it took some time to align everything.             The photo on the box is only partly helpful. You also have to add all handles from sheet or tape and adapt them. And the caps have to be reworked to fit to the hands carrying them.  Finally no painting instructions are included. 
I had to search for color-photos in the net (which I enclosed here). 

Thank you also for the advice with the color of the pigeon-boxes. I will change this to yellow.

If you need any assistance regarding the allocation of the parts to each figure feel free to ask me.

Cheers 
Kai

[Kaireckstadt]

  On 2/8/2021 at 1:33 PM, DocRob said:

Wow, great result with the subtle figure painting. The figures with their individual poses looking great, enhanced by your fine brushwork.

Cheers Rob

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Thank you Rob! The poses the sculpturer chose are really nice. 

After these 10 I will make a pause from assembling and painting figures. I need some aircraft-parts in my hands now...

[FME erk]

Out of interest, are the ground crew figures from the German tank crew sets ?

I have a couple of them already, seen repairing my damaged Lancaster,  as there are VERY few RAF ground bods

Ian

[Kaireckstadt]

  On 2/8/2021 at 6:11 PM, FME erk said:

Out of interest, are the ground crew figures from the German tank crew sets ?

I have a couple of them already, seen repairing my damaged Lancaster,  as there are VERY few RAF ground bods

Ian

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I bought a set from ICM which offers RAF Ground Personnel I 1/32 scale. 
The pilot and flight-engineer of my  Lanc are also from an ICM Set in 1/32. These figures are die-cast and of superb quality! 

I‘ve enclosed 2 photos of the box arts.

Kai

[FME erk]

I also have the aircrew figure set, I must have over looked the British Ground personal, I will order some in pretty soon  . . .

Thanks for the heads up Kai 

Ian

[harv]

Fantastic work !.....harv 

[GazzaS]

Great figures, KStadt!

[Spitfire]

Absolutely fantastic, wish I had the patience and skill to paint figures that well but I haven't.

Cheers

Dennis

[Kaireckstadt]

  On 2/9/2021 at 10:13 AM, Spitfire said:

Absolutely fantastic, wish I had the patience and skill to paint figures that well but I haven't.

Cheers

Dennis

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Thanks for your kind feedback, Dennis! Much appreciated!

[Old Dog]

Very nicely done They don't appear to be a very happy lot but I guess before a mission like that they wouldn't be.

[Kaireckstadt]

  On 2/9/2021 at 2:38 PM, Old Dog said:

Very nicely done They don't appear to be a very happy lot but I guess before a mission like that they wouldn't be.

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Thanks for your feedback!

I also realized this when painting the figures. 

You‘re right, they all don‘t look very happy. Maybe the sculpturer had the same thought that you had too.

I think I would’ve looked the same way if I had to leave for such a suicide-mission as the Dambuster-Mission. 

 

[Buckeye82]

Amazing work there!  Wish I had a fraction of your skill to make a figure look presentable.

Mike

 

[Kaireckstadt]

  On 2/11/2021 at 12:42 PM, Buckeye82 said:

Amazing work there!  Wish I had a fraction of your skill to make a figure look presentable.

Mike

 

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Thank you for the nice compliment!