1/16 Russian soldier in chem clothing modded for tank crewman
10-25-2017, 07:58 AM
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1/16 Russian soldier in chem clothing modded for tank crewman
I happened to see this when looking for tank parts on ali express and I thought it might make a passable tank crewman for HL T-90 and other modern Russian AFV's. There is a dearth in modern Russian tank crewman in 1/16 and the only other one I have seen, I got from Forge Bear. I tried painting the face on that but wasn't really happy with the result. On this figure all you have to do is paint the gas mask white, or black. All the images I found were all either one or the other. The black masks had silver around the eye holes otherwise seemed the same. The filter element on all of them, was light green.
The original figure looks like this once you glue and paint it
It is called "1/16 scale unpainted Russian soldier in biochemical clothing" and it cost about $15
Which I modded to fit the T-90 turret into "Handless Ivan"
It comes with the arms, legs and hands separate from the body, they have to be glued on. But I found i couldn't glue on the hands or else it would not fit in the turret opening of my HL T90. I cut his torso with a hacksaw right below the belt line and glued on velcro piece, and of course the mating velcro in the turret hatch hole floor. If you leave the hands off he will fit in either of the two holes with the hatch up. If you want to add the hands, (like I probably should have) I'm not sure how you would do it, but I think you'd have to mod the arms as well, probably at the shoulder to make the arms splay out more sideways.
All the images of Russian/Soviet era chem war suits I found were almost all just light green. Not Russian armor green but almost a lime green. The color he is in the picture is really a little bit too dark to look completely authentic, but close enough. I highlighted the creases with R.A.G. in Testors acrylic. Then sprayed matte clear over all.
The original figure looks like this once you glue and paint it
It is called "1/16 scale unpainted Russian soldier in biochemical clothing" and it cost about $15
Which I modded to fit the T-90 turret into "Handless Ivan"
It comes with the arms, legs and hands separate from the body, they have to be glued on. But I found i couldn't glue on the hands or else it would not fit in the turret opening of my HL T90. I cut his torso with a hacksaw right below the belt line and glued on velcro piece, and of course the mating velcro in the turret hatch hole floor. If you leave the hands off he will fit in either of the two holes with the hatch up. If you want to add the hands, (like I probably should have) I'm not sure how you would do it, but I think you'd have to mod the arms as well, probably at the shoulder to make the arms splay out more sideways.
All the images of Russian/Soviet era chem war suits I found were almost all just light green. Not Russian armor green but almost a lime green. The color he is in the picture is really a little bit too dark to look completely authentic, but close enough. I highlighted the creases with R.A.G. in Testors acrylic. Then sprayed matte clear over all.
Last edited by Marc780; 10-25-2017 at 08:38 AM.
10-25-2017, 10:07 AM
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Looks great.
10-25-2017, 10:31 AM
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I luv it! Chemical warfare scenario!
Now we just need some white foggy mist rolling past the tank.
Now we just need some white foggy mist rolling past the tank.
