101st Airborne / 82nd Airborne Resin patch

Post by **fly1ngdutchm4n** » Thu Mar 27, 2014 7:59 pm

Didn't know where to put this patch for it's no model or figure.
But I bought this from Reality in scale, and I thought to show you guys the painting progress on this one.

It's a full resin patch of a screaming eagle, witch I think it's a nice thing to have in the display cabinet, or to add at a 101st airborne diorama.

After a wash with dishwasher soap, I primed it flat black with the airbrush.
the detail came out instantly.

Painted the piece of uniform where the patch is on.
Just base colours, no washes or dry-brushing just yet.

Did a first run on the beak and tongue. These are painted with Valejo game colour.
More layers are needed for the black is shining trough.
Painted the first letter too, but I stopped here for my eyes were getting tired...

More will be seen next update

Post by **DC87** » Thu Mar 27, 2014 8:24 pm

Nice, now that is something different - fiddly brush work.

Looks great so far Frans.

Post by **fly1ngdutchm4n** » Thu Mar 27, 2014 8:28 pm

DC87 wrote:Nice, now that is something different - fiddly brush work.

Looks great so far Frans.

Thank you Dan

I was thinking of airbrushing this one, but a brush gives more realism to the fabric.
And I thought it was nice to have

Post by **chief5437** » Thu Mar 27, 2014 11:10 pm

Never seen one of these, cool thing to have. You've made a great start Frans.

Post by **Switcher** » Thu Mar 27, 2014 11:16 pm

Combat uniform patches are dull, e.g that bright yellow is not part of the colours scheme. To date you have done a great job on building up the layers. Please slow down. If you want to portrait the uniform badge, by all means. But the texture of this badge is for combat, not uniforms, (uniform = felt), and hence a totally different colour palette. Let me see what I can come up with

Post by **Switcher** » Thu Mar 27, 2014 11:25 pm

Combat Uniform

Dress Uniform

Post by **fly1ngdutchm4n** » Fri Mar 28, 2014 6:07 am

chief5437 wrote:Never seen one of these, cool thing to have. You've made a great start Frans.

Thanks Chief!
There's a 82nd Airborne All America patch , Iron Cross and A T-34 plaque on it's way too

Post by **fly1ngdutchm4n** » Fri Mar 28, 2014 6:16 am

Switcher wrote:Combat uniform patches are dull, e.g that bright yellow is not part of the colours scheme. To date you have done a great job on building up the layers. Please slow down. If you want to portrait the uniform badge, by all means. But the texture of this badge is for combat, not uniforms, (uniform = felt), and hence a totally different colour palette. Let me see what I can come up with

Thanks for that info mate, appreciate it!

Guess I'm painting the dress version then eh? Wasn't sure about the "background" for this, or uniform if you like.
So i'm changing the colour into dress uniform green with I think they were olive drab

I have a 82nd Airborne All America patch on it's way too, and I was thinking yesterday that it would be weird to go in combat with the red and blue colours. So I'm guessing that would be also only worn on dress uniforms and that the patches in combat would be dull.

However, I cam across this pic from World War II veteran James Sapp that is holding a jump jacket, and the All American patch on that jacket is in colour. So I'm a bit confused now...

Thanks again for the info buddy

Post by **Switcher** » Fri Mar 28, 2014 1:05 pm

fly1ngdutchm4n wrote:
Switcher wrote:Combat uniform patches are dull, e.g that bright yellow is not part of the colours scheme. To date you have done a great job on building up the layers. Please slow down. If you want to portrait the uniform badge, by all means. But the texture of this badge is for combat, not uniforms, (uniform = felt), and hence a totally different colour palette. Let me see what I can come up with
Thanks for that info mate, appreciate it!
Guess I'm painting the dress version then eh? Wasn't sure about the "background" for this, or uniform if you like.
So i'm changing the colour into dress uniform green with I think they were olive drab

I have a 82nd Airborne All America patch on it's way too, and I was thinking yesterday that it would be weird to go in combat with the red and blue colours. So I'm guessing that would be also only worn on dress uniforms and that the patches in combat would be dull.

However, I cam across this pic from World War II veteran James Sapp that is holding a jump jacket, and the All American patch on that jacket is in colour. So I'm a bit confused now...

Thanks again for the info buddy

All is well good buddy. We have come a long way wrt camouflage.

Yes the 82nd airborne did have colourful badges in WWII. That being said, without being a rivet counter your badge (101 airborne) is made of cloth which can be clearly seen with your photos. I provided the photos of both the cloth version (combat) and the felt version (dress uniform). What you choose to do with it is entirely up to you. Having followed your inspirational work and knowing your attention to detail, I thought I would point a few things out that perhaps you were unaware of, nothing more nothing less

Keep up the good work

Post by **fly1ngdutchm4n** » Fri Mar 28, 2014 5:07 pm

Switcher wrote:
fly1ngdutchm4n wrote:
Switcher wrote: All is well good buddy. We have come a long way wrt camouflage.

Yes the 82nd airborne did have colourful badges in WWII. That being said, without being a rivet counter your badge (101 airborne) is made of cloth which can be clearly seen with your photos. I provided the photos of both the cloth version (combat) and the felt version (dress uniform). What you choose to do with it is entirely up to you. Having followed your inspirational work and knowing your attention to detail, I thought I would point a few things out that perhaps you were unaware of, nothing more nothing less Keep up the good work

Thanks mate!

I appreciate it that you clarify this to me for I had no idea that there was a difference between the patches.

I'm painting this patch as it is, except I'm going to chance the kaki color for olive drab.
I want to pain another patch ones, and that one will recieve the corect dull colours

Thanks again mate!

Post by **Paul** » Fri Mar 28, 2014 8:20 pm

fly1ngdutchm4n wrote:

Thanks mate!
I appreciate it that you clarify this to me for I had no idea that there was a difference between the patches.
I'm painting this patch as it is, except I'm going to chance the kaki color for olive drab.
I want to pain another patch ones, and that one will recieve the corect dull colours
Thanks again mate!

Its your model Frans, build it how you want mate, don't worry what others think, besides it looks much more interesting with the yellow

Post by **Switcher** » Fri Mar 28, 2014 8:34 pm

Paul wrote:
fly1ngdutchm4n wrote:

Thanks mate!
I appreciate it that you clarify this to me for I had no idea that there was a difference between the patches.
I'm painting this patch as it is, except I'm going to chance the kaki color for olive drab.
I want to pain another patch ones, and that one will recieve the corect dull colours
Thanks again mate!
Its your model Frans, build it how you want mate, don't worry what others think, besides it looks much more interesting with the yellow

So much for trying to help someone out

Post by **Paul** » Fri Mar 28, 2014 8:51 pm

Switcher wrote:
Paul wrote:
fly1ngdutchm4n wrote:

Thanks mate!
I appreciate it that you clarify this to me for I had no idea that there was a difference between the patches.
I'm painting this patch as it is, except I'm going to chance the kaki color for olive drab.
I want to pain another patch ones, and that one will recieve the corect dull colours
Thanks again mate!
Its your model Frans, build it how you want mate, don't worry what others think, besides it looks much more interesting with the yellow
So much for trying to help someone out

My opinion, don't be offended by it

Post by **fly1ngdutchm4n** » Fri Mar 28, 2014 9:27 pm

Paul wrote:Its your model Frans, build it how you want mate, don't worry what others think, besides it looks much more interesting with the yellow

Yup, that was what I was planning Paul

But I'm always open for others modellers opinion's.
You just can't learn enough from each other .

Post by **Paul** » Fri Mar 28, 2014 9:29 pm

fly1ngdutchm4n wrote:
Paul wrote:Its your model Frans, build it how you want mate, don't worry what others think, besides it looks much more interesting with the yellow
Yup, that was what I was planning Paul
But I'm always open for others modellers opinion's.
You just can't learn enough from each other .

Yeah mate

Just remember opinions are like arseholes, everyones got one lol

Post by **fly1ngdutchm4n** » Fri Mar 28, 2014 9:33 pm

Switcher wrote: So much for trying to help someone out

I'm glad and thankful you wanted to help me out mate

I really appreciate it

Paul wrote:Yeah mate Just remember opinions are like arseholes, everyones got one lol

True....

Post by **ForbesHutton** » Fri Mar 28, 2014 10:12 pm

Paul wrote:
fly1ngdutchm4n wrote:
Paul wrote:Its your model Frans, build it how you want mate, don't worry what others think, besides it looks much more interesting with the yellow
Yup, that was what I was planning Paul
But I'm always open for others modellers opinion's.
You just can't learn enough from each other .

Yeah mate Just remember opinions are like arseholes, everyones got one lol

LIES!!

I have just one arhole (if I don't count neighbors, co-workers, bosses, the cat, 2 friends and the majority of the family), where as I'm known to have up to a hundred opinions in a single day.

Post by **UKscalemodeller** » Sat Mar 29, 2014 8:25 am

ForbesHutton wrote:
LIES!!

I have just one arhole (if I don't count neighbors, co-workers, bosses, the cat, 2 friends and the majority of the family), where as I'm known to have up to a hundred opinions in a single day.

sometimes even conflicting ones? Lol

P.S excellent work going on here.

Post by **fly1ngdutchm4n** » Sat Mar 29, 2014 7:38 pm

UKscalemodeller wrote:
ForbesHutton wrote:
LIES!!

I have just one arhole (if I don't count neighbors, co-workers, bosses, the cat, 2 friends and the majority of the family), where as I'm known to have up to a hundred opinions in a single day.
sometimes even conflicting ones? Lol

P.S excellent work going on here.

lol. one has a bigger arhole than the other

Thanks mate!

Post by **fly1ngdutchm4n** » Sat Mar 29, 2014 7:56 pm

Hi guys!
Some more progress done tonight, and even finished this awesome patch!
I did changed the khaki colour for olive drab, so the patch would stand out more.
painting the yellow was hard to do for the black kept coming trough the yellow.
However, that was a plus for I didn't need to add a dark wash.
The white needed 3 layers too.

The edges of the patch was the only thing that I gave a light drybrush with grey. To give the patch a small worn look.
Here's the end result of 2 evenings painting.

Now this patch is finished, But I'm not closing this thread just yet...
I did ordered a 82nd Airborne patch, and a Iron cross and T-34 tank plaque too.
So when I'm painting those, I will post them in this tread too.

Thanks for looking guys!

Post by **chief5437** » Sat Mar 29, 2014 8:15 pm

Great result Frans, looks very realistic. Good job dude!

Post by **Paul** » Sat Mar 29, 2014 8:18 pm

Awesome Fran's, glad you chose the more colourful version.

Post by **fly1ngdutchm4n** » Sat Mar 29, 2014 9:35 pm

chief5437 wrote:Great result Frans, looks very realistic. Good job dude!
Paul wrote:Awesome Fran's, glad you chose the more colourful version.

Thanks guys!
Glad you like it.

This resin patch is awesome, loved painting it.
Happy with the result!

Post by **schweinhund227** » Sun Mar 30, 2014 2:45 am

Interesting subject! Nice painting skills!

https://www.youtube.com/user/bnealuk · Post by **T3hGuppy** » Sun Mar 30, 2014 10:40 am

Really like this dude.

Would look great as a base for a large figure or bust.

Post by **fly1ngdutchm4n** » Sun Mar 30, 2014 10:59 am

T3hGuppy wrote:Really like this dude.

Would look great as a base for a large figure or bust.
schweinhund227 wrote:Interesting subject! Nice painting skills!

Thanks guys!

More to come

Hopefully

Post by **fly1ngdutchm4n** » Sun Aug 10, 2014 4:05 pm

Hello guys! As promised, I would post a photo of the 82nd Airborne shoulder patch also in this tread when finished, So here it is.
This resin patch is also painted in the same way as the 101st. Therefore I post only the end result.
I hope it is as realistic looking as the 101st!

And together:

I also got a Russian tank batch to paint, but that on is on hold for now.

Thanks for tuning in guys!

Post by **FishBowlMan** » Mon Aug 11, 2014 1:39 am

They're stunning, Frans. Are you sure you haven't just posted pictures of real patches?

Post by **MikeyKb** » Mon Aug 11, 2014 3:12 am

These look amazing! Did you use an airbrush for the entire thing, or just the base?

Post by **mannloon** » Mon Aug 11, 2014 5:11 am

Just to chime in here, as a 101st fanboy. The verison you're doing is perfect for WWII or Vietnam. I don't what anyone else is talking bout. I have these embroidered patches from both wars in my collection. They look exactly like what you are doing. In WWII they wore the same patches on both uniforms. I have my grandfathers uniforms to prove it.

https://www.youtube.com/user/ThudWeasel · Post by **HistoryRider** » Mon Aug 11, 2014 5:26 am

AWESOME!! Great Job!!! They look like the real deal to me!!!

Are there any 18th Airborne patches?

Post by **fly1ngdutchm4n** » Mon Aug 11, 2014 5:51 am

FishBowlMan wrote:They're stunning, Frans. Are you sure you haven't just posted pictures of real patches?

Haha! Thanks mate. No, they are resin all right..

MikeyKb wrote:These look amazing! Did you use an airbrush for the entire thing, or just the base?

Thank you Mikey, I used the airbrush for priming and the uniform colour. The patch itself is hand painted. I think painting patches with a brush gives it more realism. The brush strokes gives more effect to the fabric.

mannloon wrote:Just to chime in here, as a 101st fanboy. The verison you're doing is perfect for WWII or Vietnam. I don't what anyone else is talking bout. I have these embroidered patches from both wars in my collection. They look exactly like what you are doing. In WWII they wore the same patches on both uniforms. I have my grandfathers uniforms to prove it.

Thank you!

I like the coloured version much more like they would wore in ww2. I'm glad you said the look exactly like the real ones. It's tough to get the colours spot on for the 82nd patch

Cheers mate

HistoryRider wrote:AWESOME!! Great Job!!! They look like the real deal to me!!! Are there any 18th Airborne patches?

Thank you! And no.... I haven't found any 18th Airborne patches. Or any other divisions...

I wish they would have, these things are fun to paint and looks awesome in my wall cabinet.

Post by **MarkVerploeg** » Mon Aug 11, 2014 10:39 am

They look very nice
Where do you find these patches
I never seen them even on modelshows

Post by **fly1ngdutchm4n** » Mon Aug 11, 2014 11:41 am

MarkVerploeg wrote:They look very nice
Where do you find these patches
I never seen them even on modelshows

Thanks Mark.
I found these on reality in Scale. They are Dutch.
It's a website with a lot of resin products.
Don't now if they still got them. I'm trying to find more devisions but no succes so far.
These two patches i painted are competing at SMC 2014 in the flat figure class.

Post by **UKguyInUSA** » Tue Aug 12, 2014 10:09 pm

They look awesome...real....just like my Father-In-Laws original patches from his WWII Uniform!

Cheers

Post by **fly1ngdutchm4n** » Tue Aug 12, 2014 10:19 pm

UKguyInUSA wrote:They look awesome...real....just like my Father-In-Laws original patches from his WWII Uniform!

Cheers

Thanks mate!
And those real ones are cool!
Im saving that pic for future reference if you don't mind

Post by **UKguyInUSA** » Tue Aug 12, 2014 10:34 pm

I don't mind mate. I'm putting together a presentation in commemoration of my Father-In-Law who was active in WWII with the 101st Airborne Paratrooper "E" company 2/327th GIR....lots of goodies that will be included from WWII. This will be my final entry into the D-Day GB and will include a C-47 Skytrain that dropped him into Normandy and a 101st Airborne Paratrooper figurine- 120mm high from Verlinden.

Cheers

https://www.youtube.com/user/ThudWeasel · Post by **HistoryRider** » Tue Aug 12, 2014 11:09 pm

UKguyInUSA wrote:I don't mind mate. I'm putting together a presentation in commemoration of my Father-In-Law who was active in WWII with the 101st Airborne Paratrooper "E" company 2/327th GIR....lots of goodies that will be included from WWII. This will be my final entry into the D-Day GB and will include a C-47 Skytrain that dropped him into Normandy and a 101st Airborne Paratrooper figurine- 120mm high from Verlinden.

Cheers

Hey Martin! I can't wait to dig into the history of his unit!!!!

-Nolan

Post by **UKguyInUSA** » Tue Aug 12, 2014 11:19 pm

HistoryRider wrote:
UKguyInUSA wrote:I don't mind mate. I'm putting together a presentation in commemoration of my Father-In-Law who was active in WWII with the 101st Airborne Paratrooper "E" company 2/327th GIR....lots of goodies that will be included from WWII. This will be my final entry into the D-Day GB and will include a C-47 Skytrain that dropped him into Normandy and a 101st Airborne Paratrooper figurine- 120mm high from Verlinden.

Cheers
Hey Martin! I can't wait to dig into the history of his unit!!!!

-Nolan

I did a little looking around on the internet, looks like he was involved in Operation Market Garden, from what I discovered.

Let me know what you find, mate

Cheers!

Post by **MikeyKb** » Wed Aug 13, 2014 1:32 am

UKguyInUSA wrote:I don't mind mate. I'm putting together a presentation in commemoration of my Father-In-Law who was active in WWII with the 101st Airborne Paratrooper "E" company 2/327th GIR....lots of goodies that will be included from WWII. This will be my final entry into the D-Day GB and will include a C-47 Skytrain that dropped him into Normandy and a 101st Airborne Paratrooper figurine- 120mm high from Verlinden.

Cheers

'E' company, as in 'Easy Company' - like in Band of Brothers?

sorry if it's an ignorant question

Post by **UKguyInUSA** » Wed Aug 13, 2014 1:55 am

MikeyKb wrote:
UKguyInUSA wrote:I don't mind mate. I'm putting together a presentation in commemoration of my Father-In-Law who was active in WWII with the 101st Airborne Paratrooper "E" company 2/327th GIR....lots of goodies that will be included from WWII. This will be my final entry into the D-Day GB and will include a C-47 Skytrain that dropped him into Normandy and a 101st Airborne Paratrooper figurine- 120mm high from Verlinden.

Cheers
'E' company, as in 'Easy Company' - like in Band of Brothers?

sorry if it's an ignorant question

That's a question I'm yet to find an answer to myself. I just got his badge and documents in my possession on Sunday, so, some digging around to see if this was the "E" company that was known as "E"-Easy Company. But, that said...Easy Company in the Band of Brothers were 101st Airborne like my Father-In-Law.

Cheers