Red Shadow recruit

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Got round to picking up some German soldiers from the Indiana Jones toys.
Then got set to taking them apart :)
A work in progress.............

One German soldier, nice chap :)
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Now issued his helmet

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Head comes off, won`t fit helmet, darn it!!
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Time to break out the cheap version of the Dremel, £25 odd from Argos, lots of tools.
Cone shape to make the hole and rounded tip to hollow out for the round plug.

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And hey presto!! One helmet that fits snug as a bug :)
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More to follow.................................
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Thanks Quickfire :) :)
Thought it would be nice to see from start to finish, took me a while to find how to
take the feckin legs off!!
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Painting now nearly done and waiting to dry

Legs......
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Shocked at losing most body parts, he threatens whats left of his life with a grenade

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Not long before he pulls himself together, boom boom!!
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This is gonna rock. maybe paint the neck red too?
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I did consider painting the neck, see how he looks with the flesh first and go from there.
I`ve left the option to swap the heads so he can have the off duty look too.
The original has a closed neck design, ruling out the white collars on this one , but I have 2 so there
could be two versions if this goes O.K.
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Wicked. I do like the severed torso impaled on bloody spikes effect.
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I knew these would work as great red shadow customs cant wait to see this done

too bad hasbro wont mass release them or at least the Collectors club!
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Tried him with the flesh neck and didn`t like it :(
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Back to Black as ACDC said :)

Something lurking in the shadows could only be the new guy standing on the freshly napalmed treeline

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Camera does make him out to be a little orange!!
Not the case really, just bad lighting on my part :(

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Re: Red Shadow recruit

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Andy, That's turned out superbly!

Great work fella!

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