Briggsy
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Cheers W, I was hoping to finish the build today, won't get the chance now till the end of the week.
Hips a bugger but life goes on, hopefully get it sorted this year.
Cheers Simon
Completed Tirailleur Senegalese
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Cheers W, I was hoping to finish the build today, won't get the chance now till the end of the week.
Hips a bugger but life goes on, hopefully get it sorted this year.
Cheers Simon
Briggsy
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D'Ho!
theBaron
A Fixture
Nice progress, Simon!
I missed it-what did you use for his harness? It looks like it might be some strips of foil as well as some bits of putty. It looks good!
Prost!
Brad
I missed it-what did you use for his harness? It looks like it might be some strips of foil as well as some bits of putty. It looks good!
Prost!
Brad
Briggsy
PlanetFigure Supporter
Hi Brad, thanks for that, the shoulder straps are made from the foil off a wine bottle, not the old lead base stuff but what you get from bottle with the new plastic corks. To be honest I prefer this stuff to the older stuff, it's less malleable but keeps it's shape better. One under arm strap.is putty though it needed adjusting while doing the arm and since I had the putty handy that what I used.
Not far from ready to paint now.
Cheers Simon
marco55
Well-Known Member
Really good to see Senegalese as you don't see them often also German askaris and Belgian Force Publique would be nice.Shame this won't be commercial.
Mark
Mark
Briggsy
PlanetFigure Supporter
Cheers Mark, chuffed that you think it's worthy of being commercial. Unfortunately there is far too much that is already commercial in the build, so sorry to disappoint. The German Askaris and Belgian Force Publique are in my sights to do at some stage as indeed are Italian Colonial Troops and I'd love to do some South American pieces from the same period. There is just so much that I want to do and that's before returning to he British and Indian Army where this journey began, and again that all depends on the muses not leading me down an altogether different path.
Cheers Simon
theBaron
A Fixture
Thanks, Simon! I use the new wine foil sometimes; I have friends who drink a lot of it, and when I see 'em, they usually have a bagful for me. But I also have a stash of lead foil I got from my dentist-the foil packets used to package the old X-ray blanks. I told him I used lead foil on my models, and he asked if I wanted a bucketful. He couldn't throw them out, and it was too small an amount to pay an environmental disposal service to get rid of it.
I've also found a new source-tomato paste tubes. You guys have 'em over in Europe, but we only started getting tomato paste in tubes over here. It used to come in small cans. It is old-school tin foil, rigid enough to hold it's shape, and to be a bit of work to cut. But definitely worth eating more spaghetti and buying more tomato paste, to salvage the tubes.
Prost!
Brad
Briggsy
PlanetFigure Supporter
The tomato paste tubes are great, I used then when doing dioramas. There is a tool for squeezing out the last paint from oil paint tubes, works a bit like an old fashioned mangle, put a flattened sheet of tomato paste tube through it and you get corrugated iron sheet. I would picture an example but I got rid of all.but one of my dioramas a year or two ago. It's amazing what odds and sods can be used without buying expensive after market products.
Cheers Simon
Briggsy
PlanetFigure Supporter
Rocco, Malc, cheers gents not much to do now before I am ready to paint.
Took a night off to take my mind off the hip last night so went to Wembley Arena to watch Uriah Heep, Saxon and Judas Priest. Damn good night, mind you it took it's toll I'm absolutely in bits at the mo.
Cheers Simon
Took a night off to take my mind off the hip last night so went to Wembley Arena to watch Uriah Heep, Saxon and Judas Priest. Damn good night, mind you it took it's toll I'm absolutely in bits at the mo.
Cheers Simon
theBaron
A Fixture
Uriah Heep!
Every time I hear a commercial for the eldercare facilities around here, I hear a song parody in my head:
"This is a thing I've never known before
It's called seeeeeenior living
This is a place I've never been before
It's called seeeeeenior living"
But that's as far as I've gotten with it.
Prost!
Brad
Every time I hear a commercial for the eldercare facilities around here, I hear a song parody in my head:
"This is a thing I've never known before
It's called seeeeeenior living
This is a place I've never been before
It's called seeeeeenior living"
But that's as far as I've gotten with it.
Prost!
Brad
MarquisMini
A Fixture
Briggsy
PlanetFigure Supporter
Yeah like that and appropriate, Bernie Shaws comment that between the three bands they have 150 years of British rock makes you appreciate how good they've been to last so long.
Cheers Simon
Briggsy
PlanetFigure Supporter
It will take time to get to the replacement phase of treatment then I can recover. In the mean time it's just another thing to laugh about, like everything in life, it will pass so no real issue I guess.
Cheers Simon
Briggsy
PlanetFigure Supporter
Been a while since I had an update worth posting, I've finished the build, a check around showed I hadn't put the webbing attachment down his back to his belt. I added the cuff detail with some 0.3 solder wire I have just bought, didn't know it existed before.
He has a coat of cellulose grey primer on, once dry I shall have a look for any jarring faults before getting the brushes to work.
Cheers Simon
He has a coat of cellulose grey primer on, once dry I shall have a look for any jarring faults before getting the brushes to work.
Cheers Simon
Merryweather
A Fixture
Ooh that's good, Simon. One of your best!
MarquisMini
A Fixture
He looks perfect and ready for your mastery at brush strokes.
Briggsy
PlanetFigure Supporter
Many thanks, I think I feel better working in a slightly larger scale than 1/35th.
Cheers Simon
Briggsy
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