Odds and ends

[Jason W.]

Originally posted by garyjd@Jan 2 2005, 07:52 AM
... along with an Austrian Lorenz rifle.

Jason

 

[fsdesimone]

Man, I'm so impressed with the way you guys make weapons. It looks like it has the potential for serious frustration - pieces snapping off all over and such. Maybe I'm just very heavy-handed though... I'm always breaking pieces off my figures accidentally!

 

[garyjd]

Jason, I know it's about time I got my butt to work on this.

Francesca, There are those moments believe me. Maybe one day I'll post a COMPLETE sbs with everyhing good and bad that happens when building weapons and equipment.~Gary

 

[fsdesimone]

Originally posted by garyjd@Jan 2 2005, 07:01 PM
Francesca, There are those moments believe me. Maybe one day I'll post a COMPLETE sbs with everyhing good and bad that happens when building weapons and equipment.~Gary

I mean the other day I took out that Fisherman bust I'd completed a while ago (but still haven't painted) to look at and I knocked him over and broke his hat. I break things even when I'm not working on them!

 

[garyjd]

Here is where the Austrian "Lorenz" musket is at in it's construction.


After the superglue dries the excess plastic is trimmed away and the stock will now be "blocked in".

 

[garyjd]

Here is the stock being worked into the final shape.

 

[garyjd]

Here is where the M1854 Austrian Lorenz rifled musket is in it's construction. Sorry for the terrible picture.

 

[garyjd]

This picture shows the trademark "cheek piece" the rifle had.

 

[garyjd]

Fast forward to the latest "odds and ends". I'm building 2 Hardee hats (1858 Dress hat) that will be used for another product line. The head is not mind just one I'm using for scale. the other hat will have the one side pinned up.~Gary

 

[garyjd]

Another view of the hat. The adornments will be added after completion of the second "hat blank".

 

[garyjd]

Last one.

 

[garyjd]

Here's the second hat with the left side of the brim pinned up. Now I'll go in an add the ornamentations to both.

Sorry, the pics are a bit crappy.

 

[garyjd]

Here'a the hat blu tac'd onto a metal head. The head could have been ground down a bit more, but it should work.

 

[megroot]

Gary,

At the end the sbs on sculpting is amazing. I enjoyed it very much. Now that is coming to an end i wonder how i must sculpt hands.
I know you said that it comes when the time is there, but untill now i've
didn't seen it.
So please do the SBS on handsculpting...........

Marc

 

[garyjd]

Originally posted by megroot@Mar 17 2006, 12:31 PM
Gary,

At the end the sbs on sculpting is amazing. I enjoyed it very much. Now that is coming to an end i wonder how i must sculpt hands.
I know you said that it comes when the time is there, but untill now i've
didn't seen it.
So please do the SBS on handsculpting...........

Marc

Marc, The sbs is far from complete. I had/have an update for the sbs figure, but unfortunately I'm unable to post images to Pf. I always make sure my pictures fall within the required size, and if not I use the Pf image crucher. I've done both of these things and still cannot post images. I sent an E-mail to Guy, so I'll hopefully hear something today. Hang in there.~Gary

 

[megroot]

Thanks Gary,

So there is more to come. Great. Loving it.

Marc

 

[MikkoH]

Very inspiring Gary! Thanks for sharing. I really liked that swedish musket. To what fig it came?

Cheers Mikko

 

[garyjd]

Originally posted by MikkoH@Mar 18 2006, 05:41 AM
I really liked that swedish musket. To what fig it came?

Cheers Mikko

Mikko, thank you. The Swedish musket is actually a conversion of a 120mm "Brown Bess" I built a few years back. In addition to the musket a scratchbuilt head and tricorn hat were also made as a favor for someone, and were to be used on a scratchbuilt figure. The project has never been completed to the best of my knowledge.~Gary

 

[Dan Morton]

Gary - This SBS is a tremendous wealth of info and technique for me! This is exactly the kind of stuff I need! All the "odds and ends" are beautifully and skillfully done!

All the best,
Dan

 

[garyjd]

Dan, Thanks. I'll be adding more to the "odds and ends" thread, but I'll probably do a part 2 so it's closer to the top of my Vbench stuff. When you start to get a build up of threads things get a little lost in shuffle. The Iron Brigade hats (M1858 Dress Hat "Hardee") was not much of an sbs, just thought I'd show a little side job I'm doing.~Gary