Thank you, BB and Fred
CrewThe Esci kit includes an awful tank commander figure with a head like a potato. Still I am going to use this figure. And I found a second figure to accompany him. This figure comes from the Airfix USAAF personell set and, quite disturbing, I think it depicts a woman.
No clearly proportioned breasts, but long hair, a bit of hips and a slender figure.
Good start for a German tank crew: a potato and a girl!
This it not IS, but a peaceful hobby called modelling. I cut off the heads of both figures and replaced them with heads from the Airfix RAF personell set, as these are wearing similar sidecaps as German tankers.
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4497/37738494682_fb89e8d68a_b.jpgThis is a pic of a Ferdinand crew in Russia, 1943. In total the crew counts 6: commander, gunner, driver, radioman and two loaders. There are five on the pic. I think number six is the photographer. You can see an interesting mixture of combat and working dress, and side caps and field caps (with visor). This variety of clothing makes life easy for a modeller.
And then I added a third figure: Airfix Luftwaffe personell. Also to be converted to a Panzermann.
The three guys converted and primed. The commander got a new and much better head, on which I made headphones. The loader in the middle got a side cap from green stuff on his hair. His wrench was replaced by an 88mm grenade from the kit. The girl on the right got a sexe change. She got a male head, and her machinegun was also changed for a grenade.
Painted.
Oh, another one. (I suffer from developing ideas) This is originally a stretcher bearer from an Italeri Ju52. But instead of a stretcher he is carrying two jerrycans. I also changed the position of his head.
All four figures painted, washed, drybrushed and varnished.
On with some stuff....