Who dares or oh my god!

[Paul]

jus`t tthought it would be fun for people to post photos of past ´attempts´ of models, that didn´t meet up to wishes or were complete failures, here´s one of mine, 33 years old, can´t even remember what regiments they are supposed to represent, note the wonderfull use of gloss paint, ahh, happy days

[ModernKiwi]

In my past I did many that turned out like that (or much worse), but they've all since had an appointment with a plastic bag full of oven cleaner.

[je_touche]

Maybe the painting style is not up to nowaday's standards but I still see some very nice and creative conversions, all from the old Airfix Waterloo sets. I always think maybe today's immense output of figure sets for all tastes and purposes is destroying much of our creative potential.

I especially like the Nassau standard bearer: British hussars head, British infantry body, and flag (and right arm?) from a French infantry standard bearer. Properly painted this would still make a very nice figure imho.

[Peter]

Completely right Je_touche. And the figures on the left we can recognize as Bavarian troups, made of French infantry and artillery with heads of British artillery!
Friend Paul, you've started young with conversions

Greetings Peter

[luchs]

this is one of my first try to paint plastic soldier..
i was ten years old..

Shot with DSC-W55 at 2009-05-09


Shot with DSC-W55 at 2009-05-09
esci nato soldier box.

[Paul]

Great, someone else brave enough to post something, the gloss paint!!!! Better than my attempts a around the same age

[Peter]

Nice work luchs,.... for a ten years old boy

By the way I didn't paint them at that age, I only played with them

Greetings Peter

[Martin]

Hi,
Me too.
First I played with them (Airfix ones, what else was there..)
Later came the trying to paint phase.
No figures survived, alas nothing to show from that time.

[je_touche]

I painted my first plastic soldiers at age eleven or so, using Airfix paints (good riddance...) and a TOOTHPICK... (no pics available, sorry). I did not prime them. Since Airfix Waterloo figs came in a light yellow plastic I thought that was fair enough to represent skin colour...

Then I used clear gloss water soluble varnish to make the colour more durable because after all I wanted to play with the figs. I was extremely annoyed that the colour kept coming off the figs... Thinking about it that was the main reason why I gave up dealing with plastic figs for a very long time. I was not pleased with the lack of historical accuracy either (yes, that was indeed important for me when I was 13 ).

[Maurice]

Sadly, I have none of my old stuff anymore, got rid of it years ago, when it was not a hobby. Think I threw them away, very sad thing to do, if i think about it now...

But my painting style was pretty much the same as above, just fill everything in with a basic color and finished.

[Adam]

also when we had this thread first time around- my examples!
http://www.bennosfigures.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=85

[Paul]

I´d have been proud of those way back then

[Paul]

More old stuff



The bod second from the left was supposed to be reaching for a new mag (even though he´s still got on in the mp) and the 3rd from the left has a pin for a panzerfaust. I loved those forage caps in those days

[Peter]

Nice work Paul

Greetings Peter

[Paul]

Thanks peter
Wish someone had said that 30+ years ago. all i got at the time was my mother telling me to clear them away and getting wacked for paint splatts on the kitchen table, Gloss Humbrolpaint !!!!

[ModernKiwi]

I found these from 2003 when I first started painting in my computer archives. Glossy enamel, yum yum.

[Paul]

Wooahh! just a sec, where are my sun glasses? that´s better. That´s a liberal use of gloss Why have the bods in the first photo got names?

[ModernKiwi]

They're named because I painted them to use in a Role Playing Game I was running.

Note the use of the "sexy" cardboard bases...

[Paul]

self made chariot from way back, redundant now hat broughtout their chariots.
The bod riding on the back got a fill in role as superman

[luchs]

self made chariot from way back, redundant now hat broughtout their chariots.
The bod riding on the back got a fill in role as superman

the problem now is only finding a phone cab..