To hot to paint today, and I'm working on that tutorial you all asked for, so here is one of my few remaining backlog customs.
The second ODST I have made for the Outlander Battalion is also the 405th's Corpsman. Nicknamed "Doc" by his fellow soldiers, Private First Class James Hooke is a source of morale in the 405th, as he has never lost a patient to date. Armed with an unmodified shotgun from an old UNSC armory depot from the twenty fifth century that the 405th looted, PFC James "Doc" Hooke likes to fight on the front lines beside the men and women he looks after.
Doc was a fun custom to make, as have been all of my 405th figures, except the Elite (which is why I haven't finished him yet). I wanted to go with an inverted color scheme to the previous 405th ODST, so he has a beige coat and green armor. One of the first things I added to the figure after I painted the base coat was a red stripe on one of the coat flaps. I wanted to have a little extra red on the figure, and that was a decent way of doing it. Actually, it wasn't until the fine details portion of the paint job that I decided I wanted him to be a medic. I painted a tiny red cross on the left shoulder pad and a large white cross on the red stripe.
I try to put holsters and sheaths in slightly different places on each figure I make, and I decided that Doc was going to imitate Buck, so I put his knife vertically on his chest. Before you ask, no, the knife does not have a problem falling out. I pre-fit all of the holsters and sheaths to the accessories before I glue them to the figure, and the only two that have trouble with the parts falling out are on a Marine that I haven't painted yet and the Elite for reasons I will mention on the topics for those figures.
The parts I used for the kitbashed shotgun are as follows:
COD Scope: turned sideways and used as a flashlight
G2 UNSC SMG: Grip and part of barrel cut off.
COD Modern Single Piece Shotgun: Front half glued to SMG.
Original figure was my second Halo Heroes Dare with torso swapped for a male torso.
The second ODST I have made for the Outlander Battalion is also the 405th's Corpsman. Nicknamed "Doc" by his fellow soldiers, Private First Class James Hooke is a source of morale in the 405th, as he has never lost a patient to date. Armed with an unmodified shotgun from an old UNSC armory depot from the twenty fifth century that the 405th looted, PFC James "Doc" Hooke likes to fight on the front lines beside the men and women he looks after.
Doc was a fun custom to make, as have been all of my 405th figures, except the Elite (which is why I haven't finished him yet). I wanted to go with an inverted color scheme to the previous 405th ODST, so he has a beige coat and green armor. One of the first things I added to the figure after I painted the base coat was a red stripe on one of the coat flaps. I wanted to have a little extra red on the figure, and that was a decent way of doing it. Actually, it wasn't until the fine details portion of the paint job that I decided I wanted him to be a medic. I painted a tiny red cross on the left shoulder pad and a large white cross on the red stripe.
I try to put holsters and sheaths in slightly different places on each figure I make, and I decided that Doc was going to imitate Buck, so I put his knife vertically on his chest. Before you ask, no, the knife does not have a problem falling out. I pre-fit all of the holsters and sheaths to the accessories before I glue them to the figure, and the only two that have trouble with the parts falling out are on a Marine that I haven't painted yet and the Elite for reasons I will mention on the topics for those figures.
The parts I used for the kitbashed shotgun are as follows:
COD Scope: turned sideways and used as a flashlight
G2 UNSC SMG: Grip and part of barrel cut off.
COD Modern Single Piece Shotgun: Front half glued to SMG.
Original figure was my second Halo Heroes Dare with torso swapped for a male torso.