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Old 11-07-2005 | 04:55 AM
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Default RE: SR Eindecker

The only thing comparible (and in some regards better) are the full-figure Elite Forces "dolls." I used (in somewhat modified form) the Luftwaffe pilot in my 1/6 scale EIII. This size would work just as well in a 1/5 scale model. To use the whole doll would be too heavy though so I only used the head, gloved hands, and boots and replace the body with a wire and cotton doll frame from the crafts store. I also put the receiver battery in the pilots chest and ran the wires out his sleeve. I read of one guy here on RCU ("Luke" aka "dionesiosbacchus") who disassembled the doll and vacuformed each piece then reassembled the vacuformed parts into an extremely lightweight full-figure (not in the Jane Russell sense ) pilot.

The Aces of Iron pilots do indeed have far more molded-in details than another other available pilot bust. But they are distinctly cartoonish in nature -- not silly cartoonish but not intended to be particularly realistic. In some sense they are "sport scale" human beings.

Actually, I'm thinking of buying one for one of my current projects and having my 19 year old daughter paint it for me.
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