Hi everybody,
A long time ago I used to be posting figures on this site all the time. Then I stopped. My eyes were getting worse (old age) and I put away my figure painting and replaced the hobby with drawing. I found this a little easier on the eyes and a helluva lot easier to store my work.
Then a couple of months ago I came across one of my old figures lying in a box up in the attic. I remember buying this figure as it was, and remains, the most expensive figure I have ever bought. It was Andrea's 90mm King Ramses II on his chariot. I don't remember the actual year I bought it but it must have been around 2001 when the kit came out. Since that time I must have painted this model at least 10 times, as I have never been fully happy with it. It didn't help that Andrea's own version of this kit looked flawless and I could never recreate the level of detail that this model needs. Over the years it has been set on a plain plinth, then a desert scene complete with Egyptian wall, then it was a centaur (what was I thinking?) and so on. Over the years some of the more fragile pieces to the kit have been damaged and lost, such as the headpieces that fit into the horses heads for the feather plumes, and the straps, arrows, reins and spear.
After finding this piece in the attic it spurred me on to try at least once more before the old mince pies are too bad to attempt it, so with courage and fortitude I once again stripped the model down to its basic parts. Anyone who has made this model in the past will tell you it is not the easiest kit to make and it doesn't improve with experience either. But I persevered and below is the result of about six weeks work. I decided to mount the piece on a plain plinth again and made corner pieces similar to the original snakes that it came with. I had the snakes but the round coiled pieces that the base sits on were long gone so I utilised some round plastic pieces that had come out of garden chairs to replace them. The arrows were spare pieces from a 90mm viking that I have and the spear was once a crochet needle that I borrowed (stole) from my long suffering wife's knitting basket. The spear point again came from the Viking figure and the hanging straps on the horses is lead sheet.
I found several excellent versions of this same model on the internet and I was much inspired by them and have tried to replicate some of the details seen in these superb models. In my opinion my version doesn't come close to theirs but I do the best I can. Here it is.
All in all I have had a lot of fun in (again) painting this figure and if nothing else it has certainly given me excellent value for money over the years. As for my other hobby of drawing below is a recent rendition of the same subject as above; Yul Brynner as Ramses II.
Hope you all like what I have done.
All the best, Jazz
A long time ago I used to be posting figures on this site all the time. Then I stopped. My eyes were getting worse (old age) and I put away my figure painting and replaced the hobby with drawing. I found this a little easier on the eyes and a helluva lot easier to store my work.
Then a couple of months ago I came across one of my old figures lying in a box up in the attic. I remember buying this figure as it was, and remains, the most expensive figure I have ever bought. It was Andrea's 90mm King Ramses II on his chariot. I don't remember the actual year I bought it but it must have been around 2001 when the kit came out. Since that time I must have painted this model at least 10 times, as I have never been fully happy with it. It didn't help that Andrea's own version of this kit looked flawless and I could never recreate the level of detail that this model needs. Over the years it has been set on a plain plinth, then a desert scene complete with Egyptian wall, then it was a centaur (what was I thinking?) and so on. Over the years some of the more fragile pieces to the kit have been damaged and lost, such as the headpieces that fit into the horses heads for the feather plumes, and the straps, arrows, reins and spear.
After finding this piece in the attic it spurred me on to try at least once more before the old mince pies are too bad to attempt it, so with courage and fortitude I once again stripped the model down to its basic parts. Anyone who has made this model in the past will tell you it is not the easiest kit to make and it doesn't improve with experience either. But I persevered and below is the result of about six weeks work. I decided to mount the piece on a plain plinth again and made corner pieces similar to the original snakes that it came with. I had the snakes but the round coiled pieces that the base sits on were long gone so I utilised some round plastic pieces that had come out of garden chairs to replace them. The arrows were spare pieces from a 90mm viking that I have and the spear was once a crochet needle that I borrowed (stole) from my long suffering wife's knitting basket. The spear point again came from the Viking figure and the hanging straps on the horses is lead sheet.
I found several excellent versions of this same model on the internet and I was much inspired by them and have tried to replicate some of the details seen in these superb models. In my opinion my version doesn't come close to theirs but I do the best I can. Here it is.
All in all I have had a lot of fun in (again) painting this figure and if nothing else it has certainly given me excellent value for money over the years. As for my other hobby of drawing below is a recent rendition of the same subject as above; Yul Brynner as Ramses II.
Hope you all like what I have done.
All the best, Jazz
