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1/10th 3 SBS 'Fanning Head' Falkland islands, circa 1982

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Totally agree Richard. Companies like yours keep people like me interested in painting Busts, with items some of the "Big boys won't cover for whatever reason.
 
liking the look of this one,Steve,should be a nice paint,
also very intresting reading along the way,:smiling:
 
Arrived just in time. A great bust for you to have a crack at and a wonderful photo for the research too boot. Good luck
 
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Quick update; so got all the bits out together and blue tacked the ammo pouches, side-arm holder, canteen, compass pouch and escape pack to the torso, to get an idea of where things will go;

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Then added the arms and the weapon in place to see how that all sat together - and it all looks good.

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All the pieces were then 'pinned' with cutup paper clips, so that when i put everything together, i should be able to match the pinned items to holes i will drill into the torso. Hopefully this way will also give me a bit of 'playing time' when i add the hands to the arms and fix in the M16. Well thats the theory anyway.

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Everything has now been primed, so onto the face next week. The pouches and backpack, will be sprayed and using methods very similar to painting tanks will follow the black and white method.
 

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Having found the following image, quite a lot of images about the SBS on the Falklands, good for my research. I enquired on a closed Facebook group about the camouflage on the hand grip of the M16, general consensus being that it was coloured tape/ black duct tape, though scrim, bits of cut up sandbags/ old uniforms were also used. The 'pouch' under the rifle been a Field dressing. I will add suitable sized painted tape to my M16, along with the field dressing, and also adding camouflage paint to his face;

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Dont know about anyone else, but found this heat in the uk to hot to paint in. Maybe because when i get home from being in a glass building on the 10th floor facing the sun for 8hrs without any air con i am totally whacked and dozing off by 8pm, plus been continually warm (shorts even in the winter). Anyhow the paints have arrived for the DPM. Hopefully it will snow soon and i can get back to painting.

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'All fingers and Thumbs'
By the time i had finished painting the gate and fence panel (real world) and had my evening meal it was getting a bit late to start fully fleshing out his face, but not to waste, what i thought would be a few minutes :smiling2:, i started on his fingers - a good hour later we got here;

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Will need to dirty up his nails a bit, to clean at the mo. Left a few black straggles on his fingers on purpose :thinking: to emphasis the nature of the material :tears-of-joy:, which will need a flat black coat adding, then highlights.
 

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