Hummers to Humvees - part 5

 Hello,

this is probably going to be the most interesting post of the project, except for finished models. I've been working on the gunners!

I've used studio miniatures zeds as a basis, as I've figured they're of the right size, plus very nicely proportioned. I've sculpted rough vests on them. I'm not exactly happy with the size, but they're good for what they're mean for.

 Below you can see which torsos I've used. One is the bare chested one and the other one was some kind of t-shirt or something. I've used arms under each of them (on the photo, only one pair of arms is off the sprue).

 Here are the gun mounts. So, what we got is hatches glued on and mounts damaged as I've glued and then un-glued (and later glued again) the gunners on and off for some reason. The short Z wire bits are meant for mounting the guns. As they're oversized, they had to be placed further out a bit to make them work.

 Gunners in position below, one has his arms glued in place (without hands, I've added those later). You can see I've sculpted helmets, too. This was supposed to be a base for better helmets, but I think I'll just add the camo straps and that'll be it. Our new helmets make you look like a penny bun (which we call "Geordie", btw :D), so you can see I didn't really hit the correct shape. But I think the general shape is fine and it isn't worth potentially ruining the gunners just because of the helmets.

 Here is another shot. Left gunner is in a firing position and because I didn't do any dry fitting, right gunner appears to be talking to someone inside the humvee. I'm quite happy with that, so they're not both the same.

 Here they are with guns dry fitted. I will only glue guns after gunners are painted. The problem is, I can't finish hands of the firing gunner (he is missing fingers) until I glue the gun on. They are very front heavy and "chatting" gunner can't stand without support yet. As you can see, he is holding the gun by cocking lever. This is probably not done IRL, but I couldn't make him hold the firing grips without too much work, so I've decided thats fine. I've also tried positioning gun in a way that he'd be holding the body of the gun itself, but this would point gun too high. That would look kinda realistic, as he would be pointing the gun in the sky - to avoid any accidents. But, as this is a gaming model, anything pointing too high is probably not the best idea.

 Two very bad close ups on the gunners. I had more, but every other photo was worse than those.

And last one on the humvee, to see how it will look like when its done. I'm really happy with it. Humvee was sprayed few days back, but it still tacky on the door area (you can see it attracted dust somehow :/ ). I am not sure if it is tacky because of the paint, but given only miliputted area is tacky now, I think the problem is that miliput hasn't dried enough and I had done 3 layers of it. I will give it another 24 hours and I hope I can put it back together and start painting them by then.

Well, that's it for now,
thanks for looking!

Mathyoo