Afternoon all
Seems a while since I've posted anything and with the hot weather and a busy period of work I've been struggling to motivate myself to get on with anything (as is usual for me during the summer months)
Anyway at the start of the weekend I decided to get stuck in to the pot of 'nearly dones' (This is a bit like a shelf of doom, but the figures in it are basically finished and ready to be based up)
This is another of Mike Blanks fabulous sculpts which is cast in resin and sold by Steve (SK Miniatures) 70 mm high it's basically a one piece figure with a piece of wire for the cane and a few of the sticky out bits cast separately . A few minor mould lines to sort out but nothing too serious so it's ready to paint fairly quickly unless you choose to break out the dremel and set to work undercutting the coat and waistcoat and adding a recess around the voluminous cuffs etc.
Although I thought I'd finished painting it I decided to push the contrasts more and deepen the shadows on the red coat and the white shirt and then of course I repainted the blue cuffs and retouched the face (Well its a good way to get used to swinging the brushes again!) The red incidentally uses the new Scale 75 tube colours which I really liked; they are very creamy, take a bit longer to dry and you don't need to shake the bloomin' pot till your arm aches (Just ordered some more to try out)
The cobblestones were carved into a piece of Foamex (a type plastic sheet used by sign makers) since I had a couple of pieces laying about and the base is one of Oakwood's finest.
C&C's welcome
Paul
ps - Spurs were missing in my kit, but a quick note to Steve and some more will be sent my way when they cast the next batch
pps - As is traditional with resin swords I managed to break the sword handle when adding the final touches to the figure
Seems a while since I've posted anything and with the hot weather and a busy period of work I've been struggling to motivate myself to get on with anything (as is usual for me during the summer months)
Anyway at the start of the weekend I decided to get stuck in to the pot of 'nearly dones' (This is a bit like a shelf of doom, but the figures in it are basically finished and ready to be based up)
This is another of Mike Blanks fabulous sculpts which is cast in resin and sold by Steve (SK Miniatures) 70 mm high it's basically a one piece figure with a piece of wire for the cane and a few of the sticky out bits cast separately . A few minor mould lines to sort out but nothing too serious so it's ready to paint fairly quickly unless you choose to break out the dremel and set to work undercutting the coat and waistcoat and adding a recess around the voluminous cuffs etc.
Although I thought I'd finished painting it I decided to push the contrasts more and deepen the shadows on the red coat and the white shirt and then of course I repainted the blue cuffs and retouched the face (Well its a good way to get used to swinging the brushes again!) The red incidentally uses the new Scale 75 tube colours which I really liked; they are very creamy, take a bit longer to dry and you don't need to shake the bloomin' pot till your arm aches
(Just ordered some more to try out)The cobblestones were carved into a piece of Foamex (a type plastic sheet used by sign makers) since I had a couple of pieces laying about and the base is one of Oakwood's finest.
C&C's welcome
Paul
ps - Spurs were missing in my kit, but a quick note to Steve and some more will be sent my way when they cast the next batch
pps - As is traditional with resin swords I managed to break the sword handle when adding the final touches to the figure
