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Thanks Lou and Bob. Yeah, I'm doing busts, and Roger is painting figures with legs. It's a world turned upside down.

Thanks Joe, and Bosko (?). :)

I like the cap badge/ lapel pin idea. SCAHMS used to use a medal with ribbon award, but it was given up as too laborious to assemble.

Thanks everyone! Gary; I apprecaite the praise for the ears, they're tough to get right! I've only recently been happy with how mine turn out. Next on the bench is a 75mm trooper from the Guards Camel Regiment-Gordon Relief Expedition (no camel though). Next bust will be an officer of the same...

The thing to remember about enamels, is not to try to blend the highlights into the shadows to get your midtones, like some do with oils, but instead lay on many layers of progressively lighter (or darker) shades, blending only the edges with a moist brush. I like turpentine as a thinner. It...

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This is my latest scratch build. He's a German Pilot in the Turkish service, WWI. The head and torso were done in sculpy, then cast in resin, and the uniform, hat (kalpack), and hand were made with Magic Sculp. Various details were done in Knead-a-tite putty and sheet styrene. It's painted in...

I echo the comments of the others here, and say: paint to please yourself first. If you look at your own work with a critical eye, you will never be entirely pleased, and will continue to grow as a modeler. Paint as much detail as you are able to, with the goal of creating a figure that's...

When I want to sand a very small area, I cut a small peice of sanding film, clamp one corner in cross-action tweezers, and roll it into a slender cone shape around the tips of the tweezer, then remove the tweezer and clamp it back on, so that the tweezer holds the loose end, keeping the cone...

Although I never thought about it before I got into miniature figures, I find the idea of portraying relatives fascinating. I have a great-great-grandfather and his brother who fought with Ohio regiments in the Civil War. I know what units they were in, but don't have any photos. I've thought...

If the part has a pin in it for attaching to the figure, I put it in a pin vise. It makes a comfortable handle, and you can put the vise into a can or a coffee cup until the part dries. If the part is too small to pin, I will hold it with cross-action tweezers, then touch up the place where the...

Practice and experimentation worked well for me; the digi-cam doesn't behave the way my film camera did. The great part is, obviously, that the results are instantaneous and the learning process pretty rapid. a couple general things to start with: they don't require as much light as film, and...

It's encouraging to know that there are folks in the world that get enjoyment from creativity for it's own sake, especially on days when I feel that I'm simply another rat in the maze. If I can't do something creative for a living (I wait for things to break; I fix them, then wait for someting...

I wish I would have grabed Cameo's 90mm British Colonial series when I had the chance; Naval Brigade Seaman, 21st Lancer Trumpeter, and Camel Regiment trooper. Some of Cameo's 54mm personalities were very nice too, especially Von Richtofen and Rommel.

Michael Howard's classic history of the Franco-Prussian War is comprehensive and very readable. It's been available long enough that you're likely to find it in the public library, and the paperback version is still in print.

I haven't see the article, but painting in small, fine wrinkles is effective in 54mm. Paint a thin sliver of highlight, then a thin sliver of shadow above that. stagger the pattern of fine wrinkles like a checkerboard, behind the knee, for example, or any place the fabric is repetedly...

I too enjoyed this documentary when it was broadcast, but I thought some people might get their dander up when Holmes refered to the patriots as "terrorists". Another weapons faux pas I remember is the use of bolt action rifles in "Waterloo", but then, the extras were members of the Soviet...

I use Word97 for nameplates too, but the only way I can figure to mirror the letters is to use Word Art, and "flip horizontal" on the Drawing toolbar. Hope that helps. Randy