Figured some of the older members on this forum might like to see this...
Possibly one of the rarest figure kits ever produced, made by Stuart Evans of Sevans Models back in the eighties. Sevans produced a number of kits primarily of Dr Who and Captain Scarlet subjects which were amazing kits for their time, being true multi media efforts generally made of vinyl or vacform plastic with photo etch and white metal accessories.
The Colonel White figure was never commercially released and supposedly only 90 were ever made and distributed to close friends and associates in plain boxes with no artwork. I picked this one up off Ebay several years ago in a very sorry state after someone had obviously had at it with some thick Humbrol enamels.
I finally got around to stripping it and was frankly blown away by the detail of the head sculpting once I got rid of the crusted on paint. I did make some adjustments to the kit; turned some acrylic rod for the shoulder epaulettes to be more in scale; printed the spectrum logos for the sleeves up as decals; used fine black leather produced for detailing large scale car models for the gunbelt and holster: added belt loops out of lead sheet and replaced the zipper pull rings with fine wire.
Figure was painted entirely in acrylics using a combination of airbrush and brush. The figure is about 1/6th scale which I reckon is roughly half the size of the original puppets used in the show. Painting the head and eyes was quite a challenge as you are trying to replicate the look of what is, after all, a puppet replica of a real person. I read somewhere they used reduced photographs of real human eyes in the original puppet's eyeballs.
Finally mounted him on a custom "Spectrum" base using a Tamiya Clear Acrylic base with a logo which I pulled off the internet, resized, printed and glued onto the bottom.
I still have the other figures in this line; Scarlet, Black, Blue and Green but these are all unstarted kits so should be easier builds.
Possibly one of the rarest figure kits ever produced, made by Stuart Evans of Sevans Models back in the eighties. Sevans produced a number of kits primarily of Dr Who and Captain Scarlet subjects which were amazing kits for their time, being true multi media efforts generally made of vinyl or vacform plastic with photo etch and white metal accessories.
The Colonel White figure was never commercially released and supposedly only 90 were ever made and distributed to close friends and associates in plain boxes with no artwork. I picked this one up off Ebay several years ago in a very sorry state after someone had obviously had at it with some thick Humbrol enamels.
I finally got around to stripping it and was frankly blown away by the detail of the head sculpting once I got rid of the crusted on paint. I did make some adjustments to the kit; turned some acrylic rod for the shoulder epaulettes to be more in scale; printed the spectrum logos for the sleeves up as decals; used fine black leather produced for detailing large scale car models for the gunbelt and holster: added belt loops out of lead sheet and replaced the zipper pull rings with fine wire.
Figure was painted entirely in acrylics using a combination of airbrush and brush. The figure is about 1/6th scale which I reckon is roughly half the size of the original puppets used in the show. Painting the head and eyes was quite a challenge as you are trying to replicate the look of what is, after all, a puppet replica of a real person. I read somewhere they used reduced photographs of real human eyes in the original puppet's eyeballs.
Finally mounted him on a custom "Spectrum" base using a Tamiya Clear Acrylic base with a logo which I pulled off the internet, resized, printed and glued onto the bottom.
I still have the other figures in this line; Scarlet, Black, Blue and Green but these are all unstarted kits so should be easier builds.
