Verlinden Viking

[santi fernandez]

Nice job...It is a pleasure to see the advances.
Santi.

 

[arj]

The wood is looking excellent.

Cheers,
Andrew

 

[balder]

Some progress on painting the longship. I still have to do all the nails/rivets.

 

[balder]

I also started on the Viking figure.

 

[balder]

I was showing my project at my hobby club’s painting get together last weekend and one of my friends said it would look even better if I tried to add some more figures like in the Angus McBride painting. I have decided to give it a try.

I am using a 120 mm mannequin from Lost Battalion and the head is from Reedees Miniatures. I am going to add a third figure but I haven’t started on him yet.
Any comments or suggestions are appreciated.
Bye for now,Gerald

 

[balder]

More progress on my Viking.

I’m pretty pleased with how this is progressing. More to come.
-Gerald

 

[Oda]

Outstanding work!Just when I thought it couldn't get better....

Oda.

 

[TERRYSOMME1916]

No stopping you, building sections of longboats now sculpting, you really are taking the hobby head on and its looking good.
TERRY

 

[Nap]

That boat is incredible work to say the least

With the figures .....WOW!!....great suggestion to look closely with the McBride picture

Following

Nap

 

[balder]

Thanks for the comments, guys.
I’m definitely taking inspiration from the painting but the boat section isn’t big enough to fit that many figures. I’m going to get the 3 I have planned in place then I’ll see if I have room for more.
-Gerald

 

[MCPWilk]

Very impressive build so far.

Mike

 

[MattMcK.]

Outstanding! What are you using as armatures for the pieces you are sculpting?

 

[custer760]

Excellent work all around on this project....Bravo
Regards
Pete

 

[balder]

Outstanding! What are you using as armatures for the pieces you are sculpting?

I am using 120 mm mannequins from The Lost Battalion. The proportions are pretty good on them but the hands and the heads aren’t great. I chop off the fingers and resculpt them. The head in this case is from Reedees.
-Gerald

 

[al51williams]

I sculpted this figure 20+ years ago for Verlinden. Really good to see it in such a great setting.
I had terrible problems with the chain mail. I use Milliput and it kept going off before I had finished. So I swapped to the modelling putty you have to bake in the oven. I was horrified to see that after some hours of hard work , as it was baking loads of air bubbles under the material were swelling up. Fortunately after it cooled down they all disappeared.

Alex Williams

 

[TERRYSOMME1916]

Alex, the Viking was a fantastic release and I am happy to say that I completed the figure way back then and still have it in my cabinet, it really is great to see Gerald building an excellent scene around the Verlinden figure and I am sure that you get a kick out of seeing it on the modelers work bench after all these years.
There seems to be a wee surge in the amount of people seeking and building Verlinden kits, long may it continue.
TERRY

 

[MattMcK.]

I am using 120 mm mannequins from The Lost Battalion. The proportions are pretty good on them but the hands and the heads aren’t great. I chop off the fingers and resculpt them. The head in this case is from Reedees.
-Gerald

Thanks for the info! Gotta try 'em!

 

[Henk]

Fantastic work on the boat and the sculpting. Looking forward to more progress and the third figure.

 

[Richie]

Hi Gerald,
Great setting for the figures watching this one. Posted this sometime back in the uniform section might be right up your street for this project.
cheers
Richie
http://www.hurstwic.org/history/articles/manufacturing/text/arms.htm#sword

 

[balder]

Richie, that is a great website. Thanks.
-Gerald