Hi, here's my Young Miniatures Stormtrooper bust. I decided to make him a bit more menacing by adding a scratchbuilt gasmask. I also added some more grenades to his bags and made the later pattern endcaps for these since I intend to also give him a late pattern camouflage helmet. Other alterations include adding an iron cross second class ribbon and shortened NCO collar tabs. He's mounted on a genuine WW1 shrapnel shell fragment. This is my first attempt to post an image so hope it works. Cheeers John

Here's a close up of the gasmask. I am making the correct chinstrap attachment and have still to add this. e bay is a great reference source on the stahlhelm, lots of pics there. The spider web lens protectors in the mask were assembled from photo etch bits I had lying around. John

Nice work John, love the additions you have done, look forward to seeing it completed. Les

Very nice work and the additions to this already great kit. I like your detailssuch as the spider web lenses in the mask as well as using an authentic base from the time.
Ben

This looks very interesting John, love the additions

Look fwd to progress! This is gonna be so cool.

I like your take on this bust, adds a new dimension to it, will follow this one, looking forward to seeing the end result.

Steve

I like!
Max

Perfect, just perfect work.
Waiting for the finished bust.

Marc

I really like it!

Unbelievable, I'm thrilled.


best regards

Hendryk

bit of an update, I have painted the face. Since most of this will be hidden when I put the gasmask on I figured this would be a good time to try my first face in acrylics since I have always painted in oils to date. I'm surprised by how much the camera seems to wash out the colours, they are a bit darker in reality, but I was reasonably pleased with this for a first attempt. I can see that there is going to be a lot more scope to play around with various tones and washes than I would usually get with oils.

Finally!! OK, here are some rough shots of the finished bust. I will try and take some better pics soon.

Excellent work.
The base is also great. Never thought about using the head of a grenade....I have a few laying around in my barn, that I found 30 years ago around Passendale.

Marc

really nice idea with the shell fragment. I like it. The gas mask is great too. The figure, could depends on the photos, looks IMHO a little bit too colourful and clean. But perhaps you can manage it with the depth of focus with your camera. I have sometimes the same problems with my camera

i like this and the base is a great touch mate

Steve

Very nice and great base.

excellent job, i like the details !

Cheers

Hendryk