1/35 Special Forces figure with Minigun

[NARSES2]

adding a little bit of water can slow the drying time. I use my brush cleaning water, which has a small amount of dish detergent in it, as I find that stops the Tamiya paint tendency to separate when using water as a thinning agent.

Ah. I'm not a great fan of Tamiya paints but that's a useful tip. Thank you kindly sir 

[Ramba]

Back on track with the minigunner figure. I got the Live Resin 7.62mm sized flexible ammo feed chute. Also got the figure primed and waiting for it to dry to start the camo.

Flexible ammo feed chute and how I hope it will look once painted and attached.



Minigunner figure primed.

[NARSES2]

Ammo feed is well impressive 

[Ramba]

Ammo feed is well impressive 

Yeah it's pretty cool. The LR one is pretty small, the photo I showed is tightly cropped in so you see a good amount of detail. If you were holding it even a foot away from you, not much will be seen.

[Ramba]

How are you going to power the mini gun?

SHHHHHHH! It is powered by magic fairy dust hahahaha! I know it needs a battery pack but none supplied with the figure. It is what if so not going to worry too much about it. Besides the backpack full of 5,000 rounds and the battery, I am sure all that would be pretty heavy to carry around. These images from Predator and Terminator show them with the minigun and ammo backpack but no battery. So mine is just like Hollywood, fictional and artistic license. I suppose you could also say the battery is condensed to fit in the ammo backpack so it would have less ammo.

[Old Wombat]

There's the pack/pocket on the back of the ammo can, you could use that for a battery pack & run the wiring out along the ammo feed. Let's face it, you wouldn't need power for very long.

[Captain Canada]

Very cool. And for sure, lithium ion batteries are tiny now, and the wiring would be hidden in the straps. 

[Ramba]

I haven't gotten much done lately. About all I did was switch around the heads/helmets. I used the heads with the skeleton masks molded on. They look more sci fi so will more than likely go with these heads for now.

Here is the one with the minigun.




This one has the Mk.48 Mod 0. It has the same ammo backpack as the one with the minigun.



Group photo.

[Ramba]

I got a 1/35 resin diorama base but it is pretty small and can only fit one or two figures. Here it is and I posed a Live Resin figure on it for size comparison.



I also got these two 1/35 desert palm trees hand made by a seller in Thailand. Terrific details on them. I am not affiliated with the seller, I am just a satisfied customer. They come packaged in a plastic bag with the palm fronds pointing up. No instructions on how to bend the fronds but it is basically common sense hahahaha!




The taller of the two is roughly 200mm or 8 inches tall from the package but once the fronds are bent to shape it is roughly 7 to 7.5 inches tall depending on how much you bend the fronds to shape. The height is not counting the insertion peg on the bottom of the trunk.


Here are the fronds bent to shape.



Last photo shows the diorama base with one of the palm trees and a figure.

[AS.12]

How are you going to power the mini gun?

The Soviet GShG-7.62 four-barreled rotary was self-powered by gas pressure

Go forth and whiff a Minigun accordingly!

Anyway isn't Minigun a silly name?  It *was* mini in comparison with the M61 but that has been lost in the sands of time.

[NARSES2]

Those palm trees are excellent

[zenrat]

...isn't Minigun a silly name?  It *was* mini in comparison with the M61 but that has been lost in the sands of time.

I think I had always assumed it was ironically named.

[NARSES2]

Anyway isn't Minigun a silly name?  It *was* mini in comparison with the M61 but that has been lost in the sands of time.

Showing my age a bit, I'd always assumed that was the reason it was so named at the time, but never saw any "official" confirmation.

[Old Wombat]

From Wikipedia:

Minigun: 1960s-Vietnam

In the 1960s, the United States Armed Forces began exploring modern variants of the electric-powered, rotating barrel Gatling-style weapons for use in the Vietnam War. American forces in the Vietnam War, which used helicopters as one of the primary means of transporting soldiers and equipment through the dense jungle, found that the thin-skinned helicopters were very vulnerable to small arms fire and rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) attacks when they slowed down to land. Although helicopters had mounted single-barrel machine guns, using them to repel attackers hidden in the dense jungle foliage often led to overheated barrels or cartridge jams.^[8][9]

In order to develop a more reliable weapon with a higher rate of fire, General Electric designers scaled down the rotary-barrel 20 mm M61 Vulcan cannon for 7.62?51mm NATO ammunition. The resulting weapon, designated M134 and known popularly as the Minigun, could fire up to 6,000 rounds per minute without overheating. The gun has a variable (i.e. selectable) rate of fire, specified to fire at rates of up to 6,000 rpm with most applications set at rates between 3.000-4,000 rounds per minute.

Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minigun

[Ramba]

I haven't worked on the figures in a while. I did do a couple diorama bases though.

The base colors were hand painted with Vallejo Model Color acrylics. I then gave it a clear coat to protect the paint then gave it a wash of dark dirt. After the wash dried I gave it a dusting of MiG sand pigments.