Mobilizing the troops - request for help

[pavaro]

I have a question for you advanced modelers. I have a form of a soldiers (the last image is not scaled and finished). What are the tips to make more troops that go great together? Further my models always something differ... And the size of the shoes, backpacks, hand, etc.
After long trials and tests. I have prepared a soldier equipment separately. Now, as far as equipment is correct. What about the figurines? I do not want to do figurines resembling clone attack ... I do not want every soldier was identical. But I also want to be a big difference between them. Complicated.
Can you help?








The last image is not scaled and finished.

[mahotsukai]

For uniformed soldiers the best thing to use to separate them is the head.
Give your 'poilu' facial hair of differing lengths and colours, change the face shape give one a bigger nose another bigger ears.

Another technique is to slightly stretch your original picture sideways to increase the weight of the soldier, stretch slightly upwards to get a 'beanpole', decrease the overall size to make a small soldier or increase to make a larger. 


These are conversions of Patrick Cruisau's work that I made a few years ago

I think that I took these ones too far though.


 

[mahotsukai]

Here I have taken the liberty of using your own soldier as examples.


Obviously with more different facial options you will get a good mixture of different soldiers.

[onemonk]

While in normal life sizes of people vary, for some illogical reason it looks out of place, and just wrong in miniature. Not saying this is wrong, just an observation from years in the hobby.

I have found that most people prefer that all the same figures be exactly the same height. As odd as this sounds, it really does make units look better and less mixed up.

In order to maintain the same size and proportions of the figures, you need to break up the designs into parts, legs, torso, arms and head. Then design variations of these at the same scale and proportion and your figures will look better as a unit.
JIM

[mahotsukai]

Is that not because, when it is usually done, it is with miniatures from different manufacturers (I'm talking 3D here). So that the whole miniature including weapons and equipment is off. Slight variations of the human figure with consistency of equipment would work. Give the above squad exactly the same rifle and they would be believable.

[pavaro]

Aug 17, 2013 2:10:04 GMT -9 mahotsukai said:

Here I have taken the liberty of using your own soldier as examples.


Obviously with more different facial options you will get a good mixture of different soldiers.

Wow I did not think so good can come out.
Well as how to make the character in different positions? For example, kneeling? I'm sorry that complicated. I would like to do something like that.

[pavaro]

Aug 17, 2013 1:01:57 GMT -9 mahotsukai said:

 

In these photographs, uniforms seem to be the same even though the silhouettes of soldiers others. About the effect I want.