Finnish Trapper - Oikeus the Righteous [Galapagos Miniatures]

[Canterbury Coxswain]

Well, just finished [excuse the pun!] two of my passions this week. Last night with the Canterbury Choral Society and the Meridian Sinfonia in Canterbury Cathedral we sang the Monteverdi Vespers [1610 edition] to close the Canterbury Festival. Some 90+ of us in the choir and I was some 20 feet in the air on the staging and eight rows up!! With 900+ audience....just wonderful.
However, on Friday I completed my Galapagos Miniatures 1/9th resin bust of Oikeus the Righteous. I just liked the small areas of detail on this, meaning that when I had the time I coud just complete 'little or large' areas. I was attracted by the leather again! This is my fifth figure to complete and I will get the build of this and the other three onto the vBench, as and when I get the time! I have yet to decide whether to use a brass 6mm threaded 'upriser' to the stand and figure's base or stay with the one that came with the kit.
I did not want a 'mythical' figure, so I cut off the axe blade from the underneath of the 'blunderbus' type firearm and proceeded.................this is the result. Now to decide which next of my 30+ 'greyarmy' in the workshop.
Kim [Canterbury Coxswain]

 

[sd0324]

Well done! Great detail painting and back story. Thanks for showing us.


Steve

 

[Canterbury Coxswain]

Many thanks Steve.
I think the superb figure and details, included by the sculptor, were such a bonus to help me in the painting and the enjoyment it created for me.
Kim

 

[MoboSchreuder]

Beautiful work

Mobo

 

[Nap]

Hi Kim

Congratulations on the performance, must have been incredible both for the choir and audience

Great to see you posting and a piece with a lot going on , nice work on the leather and the bear

As you said a great sculpt

Personally I think a brass rod would set the piece off

Thanks for sharing

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Looking forward to seeing more

Have fun @ the bench

Nap

 

[Briggsy]

Always impressed by people who can sing, it used to be said that my father and I could sing in tune to Les Dawson playing the piano!

Great bust, full of really nice detail, really like how you have done bear skin.

Cheers Simon

 

[clubcat]

He has come out exceeding well Kim. All the differing textures are challenging and beautifully rendered. Congratulations
Melanie

 

[Canterbury Coxswain]

Many thanks, each, for the comments given here.
Bob - Having just looked at your superb Corporal of 4th US Infantry I am much encouraged by your comment for me here. I will post a reply to it later, but the youthful skin, highlights and shadows, along with the cloth stiple have taught me a few things to try, as well as the detail on the 'back sack' and rifle detail highlights [I'm not good at weaponary recognition].
Nap - Tomorrow night straight into preparing for our Christmas Concert in December and the Stabat Mater [Dvorak] for March, both in the Cathedral.....no rest for the 'wicked'.
Like you I think I will stick with my old and trusted presentation and turn a 6mm brass rod and tap/cut the necessary threads onto it and into the base of the bust...thanks. The leather is my own technique, which started with the Teutonic Knight [on the vBench] and then on my 2nd bust the Roman Aquilifer with his hooded cloak [a build yet to appear, hopefully soon]. But, the polar bear fur skin was a reminder from Melanie, when we met and had a long [and very useful for me] chat at the Gravesham MS Show a few weeks back.......'it's translucent, so will pick up the colours from around it'. Thanks Melanie...words of wisdom that helped greatly to get it this far. So Nap, thanks again.
Simon [Briggsy] - I always have a little chuckle when I read your quips, but I bet you are really a 2nd bass [lowest of the low] like me!! As I have said above, it was Melanie that put me on the right track for the bear's fur painting. I too was pleased with the outcome, seeing as it's just my 5th bust figure. It will be at our Faversham MMG meeting this Saturday, I'll see what gets said there too.
Melanie - Coming from you those comments mean a lot...thanks. See, I did listen to what you said. By the way, I hope that Group4 did not charge you too much to take all your wonderful Gold, Silver, Bronze medals and 'Best in Show' Trophy, from the Gravesham Show, back home for you!! I can still see the look on your face when your name was called for the 'BiS' - it surely was!
Well, better get some household chores done now, to earn some 'brownie points' that will allow me back into the workshop on Wednesday!

 

[Steve Ski]

Great work, Kim.

 

[Canterbury Coxswain]

Many thanks Steve, as I said above, I really enjoyed painting this bust figure and that, ultimately, is what it's all about in these strange and weird days we seem to be living through. Going to the Faversham MMG and the various Shows, plus having been introduced to this 'platform' by Melanie, allows for 'likeminds' to share and encourage others with their various models. Long may it continue.
Kim

 

[Scotty]

I saw this in the early stages at the Faversham show, he turned out great! Well done.
Scotty.

 

[MalcC]

Great work Kim, I've been following your progress with interest at the Faversham MMG.
I'm really impressed with the finished result and I look forward to seeing him in the flesh on Saturday.

Malc

 

[BRAN]

I really like your work on this magnificent bust that I wanted to make a few months ago and that I never bought. Very beautiful version, bravo!!

 

[Canterbury Coxswain]

Well, I'm truly humbled by your comments, folks. Just completing these resin busts at this scale [only five, so far. and no excuse for attempting the detail!] has been enjoyable and mentally 'stabilising' through a few years of medical operations, with more to come.
Scotty - I think I can remember you coming across to Andrew and my table in the corner of the venue. So pleased you can now see the finished article...and like it. Thanks.
Malcolm - you were my first 'mentor' when I first joined FMMG some few years back. You have always passed on your tips and techniques and been encouraging in your comments and I have found this most helpful in my approach to each figure. I will have the figure with me on Saturday [D.V.] so await your 'close inspection'. Thanks for your continuing help, it's why modellers like Nigel and myself keep coming!
Bran - being newish to this side of modelling [I am known for semi-scratch building 1/12th radio controlled RNLI model lifeboats ] and am only just getting used to this website [and all it holds] and the models of those folk that post here! I have just looked up your 'Danny Trejo' bust! Wow!! That is just wonderful, I shall look up more tonight...........but I will learn from you and attempt to emulate your techniques for the facial highlighting of skin and the 'individual hair strands'......out of this world. So, thanks for your comments, they mean a lot. Do get this figure, I would love to see your approach to the same figure and learn from a 'master'.
So must finish, but thanks again to all. Now for some Dvorak's - Stabat Mater and sight reading rehearsal ['note-bashing'] before tonight's rehearsal.
Regards to each,
Kim

 

[phil_h]

Lovely work on a great bust. Lots of nice attention paid to all the little details.
-Phil

 

[arj]

Very nice work on all the textures and detailing.

Cheers,
Andrew

 

[Canterbury Coxswain]

Phil and Andrew many thanks for your attentive comments. I really enjoyed the work on the detail in so many areas [and I still have to learn how to do this even better with tried and trusted techniques, from Planeteers like yourselves], but to see that other modellers have seen that and appreciated it makes it even better for me....and shows that I am moving in the right direction.
Thanks for your encouragement.
Kim

 

[Canterbury Coxswain]

Nap - This is for you. The figure was finished, but not completed. This afternoon I found time to go into the workshop, cut a piece of 6mm brass rod, then on my small lathe cut a 6mm thread each end, then tap a 6mm thread into the resin base of the bust and then into the wooden base......and it all worked first time! Having put it together, a few photos to show the difference now I have put aside the resin base that came with the kit. Now it is completed! Thanks.
Kim

 

[Nap]

Hi Kim

That’s a very neat and professionally turned brass support , and it looks really good in place , and of course very secure

Appreciate your time

Nap

 

[MalcC]

Saw this in the flesh Saturday, the photos don't do it justice.
Very nice work, looking forward to seeing your next project.

Malc