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AK Interactive 1/35 Hunting and Fishing

Started by frank2056, July 16, 2024, 11:53:19 AM

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frank2056

July 16, 2024, 11:53:19 AM
I got this kit about a month ago and just finished it. The long, boring build thread is over at BTS. I want to try new techniques for painting faces; it's probably the hardest process for me, second only to (successfully) making paper models.



The figures are well detailed for injection molding; as far as I can tell, by comparing various kits, is that ICM did the sculpting/molding for AK Interactive.

I started with the "Hipster with a shotgun" - I used a scalpel to deepen the beard and knit cap. He went from this:



to this:





Next was "Bubba", the hunter drinking a liquid meal:





Next was the woman. The kit comes with tiny three part soda cans. I couldn't fit the can in her hand, so i used a Miniart beer bottle, which fit nicely:



There's some dust and the always present cat hair in these pictures...

I added "hair" to her forehead, made from a paper shop towel slightly shredded and glued in place.





The last figure was the fisherman. I broke the fishing rod several times trying to bend it. I ended up saving the reel end and replacing the rest with thin styrene rod and fine nylon rigging thread.
Here he is on the back of a boat, reeling in an old boot (from a Tamiya figure):



I promptly dropped him and broke the fishing rod, again. Here he is reeling in nothing:

 

These four figures took just over a month to finish. It's nice to have civilian figures, though.


Rick Lowe

#1
July 16, 2024, 10:40:15 PM
Cool figures, and nice painting.  :thumbsup:

Wardukw

#2
July 16, 2024, 10:58:01 PM
Very nice Frank mate ..figure painting is  not easy and dude your rockin these  ;D
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Old Wombat

#3
July 17, 2024, 01:47:49 AM
A brass antenna might work as an option to styrene for the fishing rod.

By the way, excellent work on all the figures, Frank! :thumbsup:  :thumbsup:  :thumbsup:  :thumbsup:
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buzzbomb

#4
July 17, 2024, 01:54:38 AM
Frank really like how these have come out.

The finish on the denim shorts is great on the young lady

zenrat

#5
July 17, 2024, 03:38:32 AM
 :thumbsup:
Fred

- Can't be bothered to do the proper research and get it right.

Another ill conceived, lazily thought out, crudely executed and badly painted piece of half arsed what-if modelling muppetry from zenrat industries.

zenrat industries:  We're everywhere...for your convenience..

NARSES2

#6
July 17, 2024, 05:27:34 AM
They've really come out well and I love the fisherman figure reeling in the boot  ;D
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Rheged

#7
July 17, 2024, 07:58:15 AM
When the quality of workmanship is such that the denizens of Chateau Rheged are trying to work out from the detail on the bottle  what brand of ale  the young lady is drinking; that's work of the highest order!!
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Are losing theirs and blaming it on you....."
It  means that you read  the instruction sheet

Captain Canada

#9
July 17, 2024, 08:58:33 AM
Nice work ! Those figures are making me thirsty tho.
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frank2056

#10
July 17, 2024, 09:21:31 AM
Quote from: buzzbomb on July 17, 2024, 01:54:38 AMFrank really like how these have come out.

The finish on the denim shorts is great on the young lady

Thanks. It was mostly mindless dry brushing with a lighter shade of the base color.
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