Visisonor-induced visions

Thanks!

Diana wrote:with the Spartans in the background

Imperial Guardians
(this is the D head after all)

Visisonor wrote:Thanks!

Diana wrote:with the Spartans in the background

Imperial Guardians
(this is the D head after all)

Is what I meant. 

It's a really nice head. Almost regretting not getting it, but the other four I did get are perfect.

Great thread. I'm glad you provided the link to the backgrounds. I'm also happy to see someone else putting together figures from other lines.

I have a few of the 1/12 tbleague figures as well, but only one out.

I realized that for motorcycles some Transformers would work for this scale. I have a picture if you are interested.

Willmatron wrote:I realized that for motorcycles some Transformers would work for this scale. I have a picture if you are interested.

Sure, that sounds like a neat idea, I haven't thought of that.

I guess I can dedicate an out-of-order post to motorcycles. I've been eyeing Maisto for some time and upon seeing them in person this summer decided to grab one.
I think it works quite well for Mezco scale; better than some examples in 1:6 scale:


There is also Aoshima with great selection of bikes (some of which are model kits).
They work better for smaller end of 1:12 scale spectrum (did I mention that it is annoying to have pretty much two distinct subscales?)



And on a more general subject of transport for 1/12 scale figures, I've recently received this...

That is a collection of neat wheels.

cool vehicles!

What I like about the 1/12 figures is they scale to some of the other figures I've collected.



I have a second picture with newer clothes and interaction with other figures.

Synthetic humans unbox the new addition to the robot faction:


Transformation sequence:








Tada!


Robox figure by 1000Toys.

Nicely done. And nice addition to your gang. Was it a Christmas gift?

Ooh! Nice, how the color seems to match the synthetic green somewhat. "He" sure looks like "he" belongs.

New backdrop? How is it so purple in these shots? The purple is of course a wonderful contrast to the green, so good choice!

Thanks!

GubernatorFan wrote:Was it a Christmas gift?

If gifts from myself to myself count...

Diana wrote:New backdrop? How is it so purple in these shots?

Yes, it's Deluxe Headquarters, another diorama by Extreme Sets.

They totally count!

When I first envisioned Kate's room scene in my photo story, I saw it roughly like this:


So as I started working on the story, I ordered this Modern furniture pack by Extreme Sets, along with some other stuff (all of which was listed as in stock). But when time to post this scene came up, the order has not been shipped. So I had to improvise with 3D-printed chair and makeshift table. Perhaps it ended up even better.

Three months after it was placed, this order was actually shipped. Too late for intended purpose but at least I could do some alt takes (and holiday photo as well):

That's a nice room she's got

Convincing room dioramas are hard enough in sixth scale, but twelfth scale is very impressive. Well done.

Looks good.

@Ian, it’s actually infinitely easier to do rooms in 1/12th scale as that is the “standard” size for Dollhouse manufactures and furniture artisans. There are literally thousands of items you can get to make entire buildings in 1/12 scale. It actually pisses me off how hard it is to find this kind of stuff in 1/6 — which, interestingly enough was the original standard for dollhouses up until the late 1800s, when it was changed to 1/12 so that even “poor” people‘s children could have dollhouses.

Thanks!

Stryker, are you an immortal who has lived through several historical periods and picked Old West as the favorite? That's my head canon now.

Jokes aside, that's an interesting fact about dollhouses. I didn't know that.

It is true, technically, and I thought of it, but I'm not sure it translates in terms of realism as well as sixth scale does.

Wow, that looks cozy. And beautifully presented! Nice angles.

Just a random shot without any particular story or reason.
Ladies in white.


(Well, mostly in white. I gave up waiting on white ankle boots when I took this shot. They eventually arrived, 2.5 months after ordering, but by that time the ladies changed into other outfits)

They looks great!

I do love seeing these figures in basics that still show the beautiful craftsmanship of the bodies. ^^
I used my T03 for Tifa and I miss having that body at the ready for reference, even though I never actually pulled her out of the cupboard, as I haven't been drawing. I will today! (No humans though. ^^)

This photo also really shows the value of these different body types. Initially I didn't care much for the T03, but it really serves to create different characters. (Love my T04, too!)

Nice job, and effective way of disguising those joints.

M24
As is evident from the epigraph, the idea to equip the VeryCool Catch Me figure with a sniper rifle came to me early on, in part because I didn't like the compact version of HK-416 bundled with her, and partly because my mental image of assassin implies long range assassinations.
So I gave her a noname ~$10 M24 from ebay, which IIRC was sent to me by mistake (I've ordered some other 1/12 scale weapon but decided to keep it). Pretty good accessory actually, which carried on for some time even with her new look new look


However, the M24 presented a problem: its classic rifle grip makes it hard to achieve good aiming poses. Plus it tends to stretch out the gripping hand (even though I've replaced stock VeryCool hands with more flexible TBL ones, it could still be an issue). So I turned my gaze to rifles with pistol grips, and the easiest to find was

SVD

It came from the same seller, and can in fact be from the Platts GUN-2 kit (requires some assembly but not as much as Little Armory).


No problem at all with aiming poses. Could use some paint but SVD can be all black in real life. So it works great as a figure accessory, I don't even mind the lack of removable parts. The only problem: the rifle itself is technically not a sniper rifle despite its name but rather a designated marksman rifle. These tend to be semi-automatic and have shorter effective range, while I envisioned my character to be a highly specialized sniper.
So the "quest" has pretty much started at this point, but more like a background process. I thought of using some version of M24 from Little Armory: more detailed than the noname one but still with rifle grip. I've also learned of Little Armory's take on its successor, XM-2010, but it was expensive and I had other options so I kept looking. The next candidate was more easily available.

Accuracy International AWM

This is a true sniper rifle with manual bolt action and designated range of up to 1.5km (and documented cases of much longer distance hits). In 1/12 scale it is represented by Little Armory model kit with some movable parts, interchangeable bipods and magazines, overally good example of precision engineering associated with their products.



The problem? Its grip is too wide. Even though it's not classic rifle grip, it's still hard to fit the hand around that thumbhole stock.
By that time I've started to regret putting the pursuit of XM-2010 to backburner since it was sold out pretty much everywhere. The closest thing to fit my needs was a more recent release from Little Armory:

Mk 14 Enhanced Battle Rifle

TommyTec visited it twice, first with the base rifle in all black, then with Mod0 version with light-grey parts. The latter is still easy to find so I've got one.


All that I said about SVD applies here as well. In fact I've bought it out of desperation, just in case I'd need something like this later and to have another entry in my growing 1/12 arsenal. But by the time it arrived, I've already found what I was really looking for, but more on that after the interlude.

Fennec Shand's MK sniper rifle

This is an accessory of Black Series Fennec Shand figure. Since it's Star Wars, even blink-and-you-miss it details like this have appropriate names and descriptions in Wookiepedia.



I did not intend to use it permanently (Fennec needs her rifle after all). It is too sci-fi for Kate's setting. But it works scale-wise, and looks good.
Now, back to the winner

M2010 Enhanced Sniper Rifle

This is another modern true sniper rifle, but unlike AWM, it features a pistol grip. I've mentioned several times above that TommyTec made a model kit of it in Little Armory line. But it evaded me for probably a year.  I don't know why it was so hard to find - it's not that old, there are older model kits still available on the market. I've got it of a store in Malaysia (they are out of stock now too). After missing it out several times on ebay and trying to order it from another shop in Singapore where it was listed in stock but was in fact sold out.  



I could have posed the rifle better on the photo, but either way, it fits all my requirements. The quest is now complete.
But Little Armory line deserves more attention, I'll dedicate at least one more post to it later.

Very cool! the cloak is a nice addition.

Yes, the cloak gives her gravitas. Mk14 is my favorite.

My most recent obsession: Little Armory weapons. I've been buying these model kits for three years already. At some point I've got a rack, also from Little Armory, to store them (though there are other guns on that rack - Platz, bundled figure accessories etc):


"You think we have enough guns now?"
Spoiler: they've got more since then.

But now (more like in December) I've started painting them.

This adds some realism as they can look bland unpainted. But on the other hand, this is only noticeable on non-black plastic such as wooden parts of this AK-47:


Or white details of Mk-14 from the post above.


What I was trying to achieve here is actually weathered look, black parts remained untouched. Similarly with XM25 grenade launcher - if it was black, it would probably look like straight out of factory, but in desert color scheme it looked like a toy (whether I succeeded in making it more realistic is debatable, but at least I like this look better):


I've also started experimenting with kits cast entirely in black plastic after seeing what can be done with them in this blog https://kusakusa.wordpress.com/category/model-kits/little-armory/
The idea is to include subtle differences, shades of gray in addition to black. My only result so far is M4 SOPMOD:


And finally, another M4 kit that lends itself particularly well to black wash due to being in desert colors.

It also comes with many extra details left on the runners from older M4 kits, and accessories between different M4 kits are interchangeable so customization possibilities are virtually endless.


So do you think it's worth the effort of painting these tiny plastic weapons?
Either way I really dig this line. For 1/12 scale the details are exceptional. I don't know of anything similar for 1/6 scale (not that I looked...)

they certainly are well equipped!

The tiny guns look beautiful and believable.