A second review in as many posts!
Born in the early 70's, child of the 80's I love films from that era. My faves were the ones set in dystopian futures such as Blade Runner and Brazil. part of my Xmas/birthday swag was a pair of miniatures bought by my daughter (my awesome nerd in training!) she got me these little beauts from Studio Miniatures from their survivors range.....
The first is the one they call Hawk, who is most definitely NOT Snake Plissken - the special forces soldier played by Kurt Russel in the 1981 classic cult film "Escape from New York"
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| call me Snake! |
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| no wait, don't call me Snake... |
I painted him up similarly to the way the have on the website (although not as well!) although I'm pleased with the way he's come out in the main, the urban camo trousers are not as I would have hoped and are a little disappointing. That said, it's neat and tidy and presentable so I've not repainted them. He was painted in mainly GW paints, black and grey with highlights of both. I've painted his hair with Vallejo yellow and washed in Agrax Earthshade for a dirty blonde look. The machine gun that looked very futuristic in 1981 is a matte black finish as it is in the film (most of my firearm paint colours are chain mail dark metallics).
The second is listed as Mel, definitely, definitely NOT "Mad" Max Rockatansky - the MFP's top pursuit man. This model is NOT from the second film in the Mad Max saga, again from 1981 "Mad Max, the Road Warrior" which is one of my favourite films of all time and starred Mel Gibson in the lead role. Incidentally the Ford Falcon used by the police and the V8 interceptor version was designed in part by my uncle (fun fact!)
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| the ultimate apocalypse survivor! |
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| quite an intense stare! |
Mel was fairly simple to paint up, although I normally tend to over highlight black, this actually turned out OK and I was fairly happy with it overall. Just recently I've added eyes to my survivors, not something I'm in the habit of doing, but for some reason have decided to do to these figures and Violet before them.
Hope you like them.
I love these models and you've done a good job on them. Congratulations!
ReplyDeleteTwo excellent iconic figures. They are well worth having.
ReplyDeleteGuys I wish I could take better photos to do them justice, but the iPad is not up to scratch! I love the films and the minis.
ReplyDeleteTwo of my favourite films and cracking miniatures to boot - well done Sir.
ReplyDeleteMine too :) thanks matey!
DeleteExcellent job dude on them both. Mad Max The Road Warrior is my absolute favourite movie. I love these Post Apoc style movies and EFNY is another class movie with an awesome look and style to it.
ReplyDeleteHave you seen Hasslfree Cobra?
The 80's had some cracking films! Dude how did I miss him? Another great one is HF's Foster - jack burton played by Kurt Russell in Big Trouble in Little China, brilliant :)
ReplyDeletePlissken? I heard he was dead.
ReplyDeleteGreat job on both minis.
Nice :) I heard they were going to remake.....tsk tsk tsk.....
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