Space Tommies kitbash
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About the Project
Warlord Games Mystery Box gave me 5 WWII British Infantry, but no weapons sprues. Luckily I had a bunch of extra sci fi weapons from the pair of Riverhorse Resistance (USA) sprues I got. So I decided to go space tommy and kitbash for the first time!
Related Company: Warlord Games
Related Genre: Science Fiction
This Project is Active
Support Squad Painted
All three men, including the medic, heavy weapons support, and extra rifleman.
One of my favourite so far, his jumpsuit is Jokero Orange. It was originally Mournhold Brown, but I thought the look came across as too WWII and not enough as Sci-Fi. I need to do some finishing details on the face, but it’s most certainly my weakest area so I’ve been leaving it for last.
The extra rifleman has a Wazdakka Red shirt and Royal Blue (Tamiya) jeans. I wanted to break up the jumpsuits I’ve done previously to add a more dynamic colour scheme. I originally wanted to do him with an alien skin colour, but realized I did not have any I enjoyed. So I went with bleached hair as a modern look. Unfortunately due to the size of the weapon sprue used, the gun is bent at a flexible angle. But I never let perfection get in the way of progress!
The AT/AA specialist, I used khaki (Tamiya) for the tube, and NATO green (Tamiya) for the shirt. A theme I’ve been enjoying has been the use of RAF Ocean Gray 2 (Tamiya) for all the armour pieces. But then again I love the colour as a whole and have used it in numerous other models (notably my French Courrier du bois and Milice Canadienne from Firelock Games).First Paint
Started off easy with a standard, non-kitbashed resistance miniature. Went with Ocean Gray 2 RAF (Tamiya) for the armour and NATO green (Tamiya) for the clothing, hair and boots are Mournfang Brown (Citadel), leather is Hull red (Tamiya), red bandana is Wadzakka red (Citadel), skin is a mixture of flat flesh and desert yellow (both Tamiya), and gun is a traditional gunmetal.
Mostly trying to get my painting scheme figured out for the squads. I like the armour colour, but I’ll likely switch the clothing colours. Give them a more adhoc look
Initial build
My builds, due to the odd number, consists of three squads. The first is the “support” squad, with an anti-material launcher and loader, and an unarmed medic. The second and third are generic infantry squads.
The most interesting parts of the build were fitting the arms onto the torsos that clearly weren’t designed for them. In the case of the British WWII models, I slivered down their torsos until the arms fit snug. However the most challenging was for one of the green resistance fighters (tall one with a helmet).
I ran out of appropriate weapons options for him due to the way the sprues are designed (3 ABC figures with 6 weapon choices, and 1 much slimmer D figure with 2 weapon choices) and the fact I used only ABC weapons for my Space Tommies. Thus I had to take a D weapon and cut off one of the arms in order to not make it too awkward on the torso itself.
This was my first kitbash and I’m feeling pretty happy with myself. I know if I had some green stuff the puddy would make a difference, but with my limited current modelling equipment I think it’s turned out well.
