Building your MARINES - CORRECTLY

[thundergod]

Cheers Stendec , love the headset ! One question , what do you connect the wire/cable to ? The thing the Marine figures lack is an obvious coms set-up . ( Not counting that in the helmet ).

 

[Stendec]

Like in the move, I just tucked it under the collar of the torso amror. So you'd just assume that some sort of comms system is built into the armor or carried in a pouch or whatever.

 

[Stendec]

Hey Thunder, after you asked about getting different boots for Hudson I'd taken these pics to better show how they look.



He doesnt look like he has pixie feet anymore lol and with the awesome work you've been doing on your figure I think you should definately get a pair. They seem to be sold out at monkeydepot now but Im sure they pop up on ebay now and again . seartch for ACE jungle boots.

 

[thundergod]

Yup , I checked out MonkeyDepot as soon as you posted about them and yup, they are sold out ! They do look spot on though , so thanks , I at least know what to look for now . I can't understand why H.T decided to cut corners with Hudson and Drake because it's glaringly obvious the boots are sub-standard compared to the earlier releases . ( Thanks for the comments , by the way !)
P.s, what are those hands you've got on your Hudson ?
P.p.s, just found them at BlackOps ( the Boots , that is !)

 

[Stendec]

The hands are from a DML Neo body which I just attached to the HT body. The wrists dont look too pretty but the sweat band and watch cover it up perfectly. Luckily the skin colour matched perfectly.

For the feet I actually hacked the molded boots to form the shape of a foot without ruining the ankle connector hole. Now the original boots slip into my newer boots . . . if you know what I mean lol Works a treat too because he stands perfectly well without the stand and I can still articulate the ankle joint. The DML body I bought was meant for Hudson but its just to skinny and limp for my liking, the stock HT body is much better.

Edit: P.p.s, just found them at BlackOps ( the Boots , that is !)

Nice one, they really are the mutts nuts when it comes to boots, laces and all

 

[PROWL]

I don't know if this has been touched on, but modifying your HT marines may actually diminish their value. For those of you that have no intention of ever re-selling your figures, knock yourselves out.

For those of you who may feel that they might sell these in the future, I would refrain from changing anything. I personally would not want to buy one that has been messed with, even if the intention was good.

This was just a thought that occurred to me. Feel free to disagree, but do not flame me. Thanks.

this is something that I have taken in to considertion myself, however, I see no reason why you cant make minor changes that do not require physical modification to the figuer.

Head swaps or changing out the knife can be reverse with little effort were as weathering and other painted on details are more or less permanant.

 

[thundergod]

Found that Greg Simcox holster and it's a piece of crap! Much worse than I remembered . Wor-Gar , if you're after a holster you could do much worse than OneSixthDepot .
https://onesixthdepot.com/cart/index.php?cPath=133_170

 

[JediMike71]

this is something that I have taken in to considertion myself, however, I see no reason why you cant make minor changes that do not require physical modification to the figuer.

Head swaps or changing out the knife can be reverse with little effort were as weathering and other painted on details are more or less permanant.

Hey, that's okay with me. I didn't work really hard on customizing them just so I can sell them. I am doing all of my custom work on them to make them the best that they can be. I have NO intention of reselling my marines or Ripley...ever! I am finally getting together the ultimate set of the U.S. Colonial Marines I've always wanted along with Ripley, and my custom Bishop and Newt. These will always be with me!

 

[Rob]

Hey Mike, did you ever finish customizing that Hudson into Hicks a few months back?

 

[JediMike71]

Yeah, he's coming along nicely. I got that great "Chronohead" Hudson head from Les Walker, and painted it. Now I have two heads for my Hudson. The one from Chris at EVA Models, and Les's head. I may end up using the original HT Hudson head for a custom Weirzbowski. I am also working on a custom Cpl. Deitrich (using a Dragon "Jennifer" for her). Here's some pictures of my WIP (work in progress) and Deitrich.

Here's a picture of Cpl. Deitrich in the movie...

...and here's a picture of my "WIP" Deitrich with Hicks' helmet on....

and some more shots of her...

I painted her boots black. This Dragon "Jennifer" had light brown colored boots since she's based on female soldiers serving in the Middle East right now.

I also toned down her lipstick. It was really red in person. I gave her a more natural look since I know Deitrich wore very little, if any make up at all in ALIENS.

I am using an extra set of Hudson's BDU for my custom Deitrich. I have also added some Super Sculpey now to the front of her hair to give it that more "butch" short military haircut. I'll post some pictures of her head soon after I paint the hair. I'll post some of my "Chronohead" Hudson soon too. I just gotta upload my pics of him to Photobucket so that I can post them here.

Oh by the way, Jedi Knight Rob...great signature picture! I'm looking forward to AVP2 aka Alien VS Predator Requiem too! I really hope it is a lot better than AVP was!

 

[Rob]

Nice! Has Angelina Jolie lips, but it looks pretty good! WAY better than anything I could cook up. Les does pretty damn good job, the way he painted the 'Chrono' Hudson and HT's 'Hudson'(Really Hicks) was excellent! I'm thinking when I get a Hicks and find a HTs 'Hudson' head, I'll probably send it to him.

Thanks. Yeah, I can't wait AVP:R too! Supposedly, Fangoria Magazine's Oct. 23 issue is going to have a big article along with some new pics of the movie. Sounds pretty sweet to me.

 

[JediMike71]

Thanks. Yeah, I tried toning down at least the lip color on that Dragon Jennifer figure for my custom Deitrich. I'll check out that new Fangoria magazine too! I used to look at them alot growing up the '80s. Cool magazine about horror movie makeup and special effects. I found out about it when I was collecting Starlog sci-fi magazine back then.

 

[ONEYE]

Deitrich was supposed to be named Butch.

 

[Stendec]

Butch? lol That would have been hilarious.

They should have called Wierzbowski or Crowe something like Private Redshirt

 

[JediMike71]

Yeah, really! Crowe and Weirzbowski didn't even have one line of dialogue between them in the movie. I saw on www.imdb.com, that the actor that played Crowe, Tip Tipping, was killed in a parachuting accident in 1993 while filming a reenactment for a BBC TV show. Here's the link:

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0864150/bio

He was also an ex British Royal Marine commando, and S.A.S. (Special Air Service) soldier with the British Army.

The other actor, Trevor Steedman, who played Pvt. Weirzbowski, is still alive and has been working alot doing stunt work in movies and TV shows to this day. It looks like ALIENS was one of, if not his only acting role. Here's his link on www.imdb.com.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0824365/

It woulda been cool to hear these two guys say at least one line! At least in Star Trek some of the "red shirt" guys get a few lines before they're killed off.

 

[Rogue Trooper]

Has anybody got any good images of Apone, im starting to assemble him but i cant really find any good shots of him so i can get him correct.

 

[Stendec]

To me it looks like Apone is the figure that requires the least amount of work to make screen accurate.

Get the Lonnie headsculpt, pop off the sardine key and padlock clasp off his armor and you're done.

 

[Rogue Trooper]

Got my first marine assembled, Apone, i think i got everything right from following the advice here.

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Im missing a extra ammo clip he's meant to have as only have one spare for hicks.
I think i noticed from watching the movie that he has some sort of cord across his chest and he has a pouch that hangs down on his right, below the one you can see between his arm. Also need to add a digital watch the same as Hicks.
Dont think he has any grenades aswell.

"On the ready line Marines"

 

[Reinhardt]

great pics!! he looks awesome!! i should have my Apone assembled soon as well... damn i love the marines.

 

[thundergod]

If I could just give you one piece of advice regarding Apone , it's to get Lonnie's headsculpt !