Zouave 1870, part II
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Jason W.
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Jason W.
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Jason W.
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Thanks John! The brass pin will help hold up the knapsack later on.
What I did was take a half-cured, square piece of putty, placed it over this peg, I then manipulated the piece of putty to the contour of his back (the surface was brushed w/ talcum powder). Baked it for 20 minutes, snapped off the piece (knapsack) and thats it. This will ensure a tight fit later on.
Jason W.
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Uruk-Hai
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The Zouave is coming along nice there.
One question though, the haversack, is that made of Duro with just a small portion blue in the mix? And if so, how does that affecting the drying?
One question though, the haversack, is that made of Duro with just a small portion blue in the mix? And if so, how does that affecting the drying?
garyjd
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Jason, Very nice, he gonna br neat. I meant to ask, how do you do shoes? It looks like you do the basic shape and then carve or scrible the soles in.~Gary
johnbrewer
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Jason i just love the folds on those pants. Are you working from a painting for this one?.
Jason W.
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Thanks! Actually it's combination of Magic Sculp and Duro. I don't like wasting too much putty and I had some Duro left.
Jason W.
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John- it will stand alone
Pete-I'm using Magic Sculp and some Duro. My fault, I usually describe what I'm using. My apologies
Gary-I'm still experimenting with the shoes. When I decided to sculpt my own, I sculpted the whole thing in one go. But that took waaaay too long (1 hour) for one shoe
Now I sculpt the basic shape,let cure, then carve and scribe the rest. Less time than pushing putty. The down side is it leaves little room for error, and I hate applying putty to such a small area to an already cured section if I do make a mistake.John B.-I've seen this pose before in a painting, but I'll be darned if I can find it now, I just knew it would look cool in miniature. But I have lots of zouave reference...also I have correctly constructed zouave uniform (5th New York) from my reenacting days.
Johan
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Wow! ... well what can I say that I haven't said before?
Reminds me of the poste mil Turco, but I guess you're going to do him in the red baggy pants, are you going to paint on the sky blue piping or sculpt it on?
Great work,
Johan
... well what can I say that I haven't said before?Reminds me of the poste mil Turco, but I guess you're going to do him in the red baggy pants, are you going to paint on the sky blue piping or sculpt it on?
Great work,
Johan
Jason W.
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Thanks Johan!
I will paint him as a zoauve from the 3rd Regiment at Froeschwiller. I may paint his trousers white (summer issue) with no trim.
All trim on his jacket will be painted on. It would be too tedious to sculpt on trim for this small of scale.
JCOX
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Very well done Jason. Love seeing your work!
-jim cox
-jim cox
jitch0t
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can`t wait to see it finished and painted
gordy
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Excellent work
