View Full Version : Help with figures for 1/18 scale Flying Sub


Carson Dyle
12-27-2007, 05:42 PM
Please forgive me for cluttering the Military forum with a Sci-Fi question, but I'm in the process of scratch-building an interior for my 1/18 Flying Sub, and the fabrication of the pilot and copilot have me stumped (what can I say; sculpting figures is not my forte).

Given the somewhat generic military flight-jacket-&-khakis look favored by Admiral Nelson and Co. it occurred to me I might be able to kit-bash commercially available figures similar to those pictured in this reference shot...

http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa304/CarsonDyle/FSfigref.png

If any of you military modelers has any suggestions as to where I might find a suitable 1/18 scale match for the above figures I'd be grateful if you'd point me in the right direction.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Oh, here are a few test-fit/ work-in-progress shots of the exterior...

http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa304/CarsonDyle/detail5.jpg

http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa304/CarsonDyle/detail4.jpg

http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa304/CarsonDyle/Picture1-3.jpg

http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa304/CarsonDyle/detail3.jpg

miniature sun
12-27-2007, 07:23 PM
That's a great looking model...as for figures I think the closest military scale is 1/16th or 120mm which I don't think would be out of place in a 1/18th vehicle. Dragon, Verlinden,Tamiya and several others produce figures in this scale although they invariably tend to be standing rather than sitting.
I think Tamiya did some seated figures for their Kubelwagen.

John P
12-28-2007, 10:47 AM
Well, you could always buy a couple of the 21st Century Toys 1/18 WWII fighters and scarf their pilots. It would be spending an awful lot just to get the figures, though.

John P
12-28-2007, 10:52 AM
1/18 planes:
http://www.badcataviation.com/1scai21ceblb.html

They also have 1/18 action figures you could modify:
http://www.badcataviation.com/1scmiacfi.html

Carson Dyle
12-28-2007, 02:21 PM
Thanks for the tips, gents.

With a little work I just might be able to Frankenstein a few of those CT figs together to arrive at a reasonable facsimile of Nelson and Crane....