Call of Duty Ghillie suit sniper ***finished***

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Call of Duty Ghillie suit sniper ***finished***

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I’m looking at a unusual subject, whilst rummaging in my local Works shop I found a MEGA BLOKS set from Call of Duty that has a great little sniper figure that I think with a bit of cutting a filling has the potential to be a good figure, the base is standard Lego type blocks but even they can be cut and filled to produce a proper base.

I think I might need a trip down to the builder suppliers to pick up a large tub of filler.

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We wanted out of the box, and this certainly is it ;-) This being an unusual medium, to say the least, we will of course be expecting all the details of the physical and chemical characteristics of the material :-D

I don't know Megabloks, so I have no idea of the scale of the figure. How big is this guy?
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He is about 55mm high so probably 1/32 scale

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splash wrote:He is about 55mm high so probably 1/32 scale
Yup, that's spot on for 1/32. He does look like he needs work though..
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Surely that's the quickest GB finish ever!
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:ha: :ha: :ha: :ha:
iggie wrote:Surely that's the quickest GB finish ever!
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He needs his hair done too!! :ha: :lol:
Hoping to return to modelling sometime this year!! :lol:
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Definitely a bad hair day :ha: :ha: :ha:
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OK this is what it looks like as an OOB build I’m now going to see haw the plastic reacts to different types of glue. If the plastic behaves then I can start work on the figure.

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Good news the plastic responds well to normal plastic cement, so I have removed the Lego type lumps from the top of the bricks and given them a coat of home made plastic filler.

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This is quite an interesting project.
The hands and gun look weirdly out of scale to me. Though, I almost feel like I should keep my mouth shut and let an outstanding modeller do his thing. At this point, I,m not sure how far your going to go.
It's a great idea, and certainly a project to follow.
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59North wrote:This is quite an interesting project.
The hands and gun look weirdly out of scale to me. Though, I almost feel like I should keep my mouth shut and let an outstanding modeller do his thing. At this point, I,m not sure how far your going to go.
It's a great idea, and certainly a project to follow.
It’s more of an experiment and something to practice on rather than a serious project.

To cover the Lego type base I’m using cheap car filler as it sets quick, I’m also trying the filler on a mould I have made for some Churchill 1/76 tracks.

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Loving this project; it's like reverse engineering!
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A coat of grey primer and some earth paint has improved the base.

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A coat of primer shows not bad detail for a toy.

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