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joegrafton
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Posted: Monday, April 22, 2013 - 03:12 AM UTC
More figures...









Hope you like them.

Joe.

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Posted: Monday, April 22, 2013 - 03:26 AM UTC
Hi Joe, very nice indeed had to do a double take at first.
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Posted: Monday, April 22, 2013 - 04:44 AM UTC
Outstanding, first pic looks as if it came right out of Life magazine. Very realistic. Al
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Posted: Monday, April 22, 2013 - 04:50 AM UTC
Great work, Joe! The first two photos do look like they are out of a magazine. May I trouble you as to who produced these figures?
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Posted: Monday, April 22, 2013 - 05:39 AM UTC
hi there!
These figures are amazing!
I had to look at the first pictures two o three times before I realized they were scale figures!
Astonishing paint job!

Thanks for sharing!

Pablo
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Posted: Monday, April 22, 2013 - 06:01 AM UTC
Very well done. Just a tiny nit (or maybe question?) Is the Marlboro pack in the helmet band the right size? It looks larger by porportion than a real pack in my real helmet.
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Posted: Monday, April 22, 2013 - 06:02 AM UTC
Nice work!











~ Jeff
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Posted: Monday, April 22, 2013 - 07:02 AM UTC


I FELL OUT OF MY CHAIR----OUCH !!!!


NICE WORK !!

CHEERS; MIKE.
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Posted: Monday, April 22, 2013 - 07:37 AM UTC
That's some really decent work!
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Posted: Monday, April 22, 2013 - 08:39 AM UTC
Damn fine work, Joe!!
The 1st shot definately requires a double-take!
Excellent stuff! Who makes the figures or are they some of your many conversions?

All the best,
Rod
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Posted: Monday, April 22, 2013 - 09:24 AM UTC
Wow! Thought it was the 6:00 News from 1968.........
Great work!
Cheers!
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Posted: Monday, April 22, 2013 - 09:45 AM UTC
Sooooo real looking! Fantastic Sir.....
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Posted: Monday, April 22, 2013 - 12:46 PM UTC
Wow! Great Figures with great Photography skills and equipment, Joe! I think a bit photo shop will definitely make it even better.


Justin
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Posted: Monday, April 22, 2013 - 12:53 PM UTC
Excellent work! Both the figures and the photography. Have to do a double take to see they are not photos of real people.
joegrafton
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Posted: Monday, April 22, 2013 - 06:23 PM UTC
Thankyou all for your kind messages.
It took a while to get the right shot. It is photographed on a small Sony pocket camera which is all I have.
I photographed them using the backdrop of a hill you can see from my garden. The trees up there are in fact spruce trees! Something not really found in Vietnam! And if you look closely to the right of some of the figures you will see a white 'smudge'. Well, that is snow!!!

The figures are all from the 1/35th Bravo 6 Vietnam war range.
The guy with the Marlboro pack is B6-35004 US Infantry machine gunner. The black guy with the '60.
The other one with the Luckies is B6-35002 US Infantry Private (1). The Charlie Sheen guy.
I used products from the following 1/35th lines for all conversions:

Hornet Heads
TANK helmets & weapons
Plus Model rifle slings
Mec Models helmet grafitti
Real Models cigarette packs
Arms Corps Models M-18 smoke grenade decals
Vallejo Model Colour acrylics
A whole load of time, "F" words & looong nights!

Joe.
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Posted: Monday, April 22, 2013 - 09:48 PM UTC
You've done a great job on your figures Joe! Really like how they turned out.

Cheers,
/E
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Posted: Monday, April 22, 2013 - 10:11 PM UTC
Its amazing you managed to get those shots from a pocket camera- you have mad camera skills as well as some mad modelling and painting skills Joe! I don't think you could have picked a better backdrop for these figures- it really brings out the fine little details like the color on the cigarette packets on the helmet bands or the stencilling on the smoke grenades. Absouletely brilliant stuff- thanks for sharing!
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Posted: Monday, April 22, 2013 - 10:12 PM UTC
SWEET STUFF JOE !!!!!
joegrafton
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Posted: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 - 02:45 AM UTC
Here they are from behind:









Yeah, I know the Ace of Spades is too big, so try to look past that.

The M-16 magazine in the guys helmet band was taken from the Plus Model US weapons set.

Again, hope you like them.

Joe.
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Posted: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 - 05:39 AM UTC

Quoted Text

Thankyou all for your kind messages.
It took a while to get the right shot. It is photographed on a small Sony pocket camera which is all I have.
I photographed them using the backdrop of a hill you can see from my garden. The trees up there are in fact spruce trees! Something not really found in Vietnam! And if you look closely to the right of some of the figures you will see a white 'smudge'. Well, that is snow!!!

The figures are all from the 1/35th Bravo 6 Vietnam war range.
The guy with the Marlboro pack is B6-35004 US Infantry machine gunner. The black guy with the '60.
The other one with the Luckies is B6-35002 US Infantry Private (1). The Charlie Sheen guy.
I used products from the following 1/35th lines for all conversions:

Hornet Heads
TANK helmets & weapons
Plus Model rifle slings
Mec Models helmet grafitti
Real Models cigarette packs
Arms Corps Models M-18 smoke grenade decals
Vallejo Model Colour acrylics
A whole load of time, "F" words & looong nights!

Joe.



that image gives me chills! I liked the way you added a slight bit of mud on their pants legs. Looks like they just slide out the left side of a slick, and are looking around to see where everybody else is.

Guys, remember that on a CA in the bush everybody carried M60 belts except for the radio guy. Almost everybody carried somekind of a fixed blade knife (not a bayonet). Plus plenty of water to get them thru the next couple days. A normal load out for these guys would have been 21 mags and at least two belts. But if they went in heavy each guy would be loaded with as much stuff as he could carry (three belts, four bandoliers of mags [28], and at least three grenades a man.) No place for fat boys to say the least. My load was the 60 with three belts and an extra barrel and glove. Plus a 45 and often an M16 tied down on my back with a single bandolier of mags if we went in heavy. Sometimes we went in heavy, and other times we went in light. Just depended on the intell (usually wrong anyway). I've gone in heavy, and left with two belts between all six of us!
gary
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Posted: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 - 07:11 AM UTC
It's just a small contribution we've made to this wonderfull figures but we're proud that an excellent builder like you Joe uses our product(s). Thank you a lot for your interest and the outstanding way you use them. This is how Mark envisioned it. Donja Meuleman.
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Posted: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 - 11:55 AM UTC
your guys are almost to real,i thought I was back in cautery.
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Posted: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 - 12:18 PM UTC
Damn I wish I could paint figures like yours.
Really looks like a combat photographer took the shots.
Amazing work.

Tom
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Posted: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 - 12:45 PM UTC
Excellent work and photos! Thank you for sharing
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Posted: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 - 10:20 PM UTC
Joe, welldone! You made a great job indeed.Initially I even did n`t recognize BRAVO-6 figures. Especially I like your way of photo, it gives effect of real presence! Will you make more figures for this dio?
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