Suggested figure posings (for Jon Tuffley)

<I've posted this to the list to see if anyone else has any new ideas or likes
these>

Jon:

I've seen many figure poses over the last few years (having bought NSL, PAU,
Gurkha, OUDF, FSE, NAC, Dutch, NI, ESU and other forces). Some are great, some
look like they are trying hard to stretch in ways normal humans never could.
Action poses tend to be either really solid looking, or really silly looking.

One pose I have never seen, standing, prone, or kneeling, which would make for
a good action pose:

Figure (if standing or kneeling) with rifle held in one hand by the pistol
grip, barrell near vertical. Other hand with a magazine in it (no
mag in the rifle). This represents mag-changing
- either throwing out the old mag or about to
insert a new one. If the figure was prone, the rifle would probably be laid
sideways on the ground.

In a similar vein, you might have the same pose but instead of having a mag in
the off hand, you might have him fishing into a mag pouch.

This would give you (if you used some of your
existing rifle-in-air poses) a number of new
combat poses for a number of current ranges with only minimal resculpt. And it
would add a realistic combat activity not often represented.

Also, some poses with a figure throwing a hand grenade (yes, there are grenade
launchers, but the hand grenade will still have uses indoors and when
attacking over obstacles or into depressed locations or if you want to bounce
your attack into a tough spot) would be nice.

Just a thought since you've admitted to being in a Scultping Mindset. If I've
gotta have you sculpting instead of working on FMAS, DS3 or
BDS, then I want you sculpting ground-pounder
stuff!:)

> <I've posted this to the list to see if anyone

St^3 Jon pointed out:
> Ta for the ideas, Tom, though I don't sculpt the figures myself - we

So I CAN have my 15mm Islamic Feds next month! Great!

Remember that we need kneeling and prone poses.

> St^3 Jon pointed out:

Ah, but using freelancers means we have to pay them..... of course, if you
placed a nice big order from our July summer sale, then we'd have more money
to pay them to sculpt figures..... <GRIN!!>

> At 4:17 PM -0400 7/7/01, Thomas Barclay wrote:

I like the mag changing idea. A prone Saw Gunner would be nice too.
I've already modified a GMS/P figure to be prone along with a prone
sniper figure. (ghillie suit added too!) I really must get some photo's done
as I know folks want to see things. There's a few NAC Coast Guard Vessels that
folks will want to see as well.

Another few figures that would be nice are:

A Medic figure

For NAC alternate headdress in the form of Balmorals (highlanders!!! I'll be
scratch building the piper myself...)

A demolitions guy planting a charge or a mine. (sappers still exist in SG
right?)

Some vehicle crewman with smaller weapons like pistols and PDW's and less
armour plating things. The L7A3 is pretty compact but the current trend in
Combat vehicle crewman is to give them Personal
Defense Weapons with some sort of hybrid sized cartridge. A SG-ish
mean would be something like the L7 sans the grenade launcher component. Also
Combat vehicle crewman are staying with lighter kevlar armour over the chest
area and dispensing with other components for reasons due to comfort and
mobility in that tight confined space. They still have CVC helmets and stuff.
Perhaps a different helmet with some sleeker bits to it and a breast plate
only as far as armour goes?

Hang on Whats that about Summer Sale?

> >St^3 Jon pointed out: