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[Jim Barry]

The RAF goodbye couple is ready for print sales in 1/32. Yes!!! 

 

https://than.gs/m/1548168

 

 

 

[RCPlym]

20 hours ago, Jim Barry said:

The RAF goodbye couple is ready for print sales in 1/32. Yes!!! 

 

https://than.gs/m/1548168

 

 

 

 

Nicely done, but the woman's hairstyle you have modelled would have been uncommon in the UK in the 1940's.

Long hair would generally have been much shorter, or if long, styled to be shorter.

 

Edit: just saw the source photo and she is in uniform. Long hair ... Highly doubtful historically.

 

 

Edited May 12 by RCPlym

[Jim Barry]

I understand. I went for the effect of her being attractive to today's viewer.  I do hear you, she could have short realistic hair and be attractive. Maybe it's me! 

 

 

[RCPlym]

11 minutes ago, Jim Barry said:

I understand. I went for the effect of her being attractive to today's viewer.  I do hear you, she could have short realistic hair and be attractive. Maybe it's me! 

 

 

 

I just read your previous about the long hair. My bad for not reading fully before opening trap.

However, my critique still applies. Considering the historic accuracy most  of us plastic bashers strive for, I think you may have missed the ball with this one.

Go on... Give her a period hair do as an alternative figure set? 😜🤣🤣🤣🤣 

Edited May 12 by RCPlym

[quang]

I don’t know anything about military uniform but I doubt there were any woman in WWII Europe with Pantene wave hair. 🙃 

 

[Jim Barry]

Let me think....

 

I make custom figures.... ha ha 

 

 

 

 

 

[Jim Barry]

And just some business insight.. So far my sales are 99% custom. The things I post are more like ads. I'd like more off the shelf sales, but it's not happening...yet anyway. 

 

I do appreciate the feedback here and what people want....realism!  (i.e.   Jim..don't go Hollywood on us!  

 

 

 

[Jim Barry]

I'll get you Hasegawa's address here in sec. 

 

 

 

[mozart]

Typical WAAF hairstyles from the 1940s:

 

 

 

[Jim Barry]

Alt head. Thanks @mozart for the images. I gave her a little makeover but I would say this is the period correct version. 
 

 

 

Edited May 12 by Jim Barry

[mozart]

Much, much better Jim! Look at any of the stars in the Hollywood films of that era and you’ll see similar hairstyles, and even my mum who was around 20 years old in the mid-1940s:

 

 

 

[Jim Barry]

Shapeways via Thangs did a great job with my Rickenbacker and Bader figs. Here primed in 1/24  

 

 

 

 

[Jim Barry]

Interesting 

 

 

 

[RCPlym]

On 5/12/2026 at 3:06 PM, Jim Barry said:

Alt head. Thanks @mozart for the images. I gave her a little makeover but I would say this is the period correct version. 
 

 

 

 

Much, much better! 👍👍👍👍 

 

I'll have the file as soon as it is on Cults 👍 

 

Edited May 16 by RCPlym

[Jim Barry]

Alright. The  revised couple is out there now! Ended up with a mixed file of old and new. Oddly the skirt has some lines but  I did not want to mess with a successful design lest the software make a worse revision update. I saw some weird hands going in the process today. @RCPlym

 

https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/various/raf-ww2-couple-goodbye