Adding nightmares to the Japanese, I present the perfect engine of war: a Marine and his rifle. Scoped Springfield '03 rifles, to be precise. Very precise, actually. In Flames of War Pacific, a Marine rifle company can have up to three snipers. So here they are.
Sniper 2 (on the right) is based for a volcanic island beach landing, like Iwo Jima.
That's real volcanic rock (from my garden) on that.
Closeup of Sniper 1, partially hidden in a clump of bamboo.
You can't see in these pictures, but I used a mold from Happy Seppuku to impress fern leaves into the putty on the base of Sniper 1. They are the brighter green bits on the base. It looks pretty nice, but I might go back and hit it with a drop of ink to darken it and add extra depth to the base and highlight.
Sniper 3 is standing for his shot, rising out of the bamboo and grass like an avenging god of war...
Or something like that. I'd shoot from prone, myself.
The 'bamboo' is just some plastic rod cut and painted with darker green rings to hint at segments. It looks okay and it's dead easy.
4 comments:
Nice work J :)
For the fern leaves, maybe just a dark green wash rather than a full repaint?
Tamsin: That's kind of what I was thinking. To be honest, they look darker in real life than in the photo.
Very nice basing - the bamboos are really effective.
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