I've opened this one up, and made a start. Upon first look and dry-fit, it looks sweet. Minimal clean up, with jus' a little putty work at a few selected joins, after assembly.
Paul,
This is a great figure to paint. It was my first figure where i was satisfied with the painting. Could't sold it, never did it.
I'm sure this one is not ending in the trash.
Have fun with it, and show the WIP and end result.
The cloak fits very well, but needed a tiny amount of work to make it sit tight on the shoulders. Nothin' a dremel cannot take care of. It will still need a small amount of liquid putty, to make it look like it 'grew' there, so to speak.
Its a bummer, 'cos I need a new batch of the stuff, and i'm waitin' for them to get some in.
Mr. Dissolved Putty is so far much better than Milliput for fillin' gaps, jus' brush paint it on and then sand. It sands back so easily too, with a dampened piece of sandpaper. I'd only use Milliput for big gaps, but you can use the dissolved putty on a gap of about 1mm. You can create stud details with it, and if you remember I created those cord links on my Hoplites shield, jus' by brushpaintin' the stuff.
I needed to get the base attached to this figure, 'cos the spear and shield hand work off of it. It all mates up perfectly. After puttyin' the wrist on his shield hand, its gonna' be awkward sandin' it, though.
Gonna' have to get me some sandin' sticks, methinks!
This is one of those 'sweet' modellin' moments!
I had some 3.2mm styrene tubin' lurkin' around my bench, so I dug it out and decided on creatin' a bronze brace for this figure. The inside diameter was too small to begin with so I reamed it out with a round file, it took about half an hour, but was well worth it.
I now do not need to worry about puttyin' the wrist, the brace will cover the join totally and will constitute a far better bond when attached. This now frees up those hindered areas for paintin', that would have been difficult to reach if the shield was in place. The hand and shield can now be painted as a seperate piece, and assembled after.
The brace still needs a bit of cleanin' up, and some stud details applied with liquid putty.
I've got the tunic painted in. I used Vallejo Violet Red, shaded with Dioxazine Purple mixed w/ lamp Black. For the highlights I used Dioxazine Purple mixed w/ Cadmium dark Red and Naples Yellow Hue.
I like paintin' fur, and couldn't wait to get this painted in. I guess this is a precursor to the sporran used by the scots.
I used Vallejo German Camo' Black Brown for the base, then Red Leather, Ochre Brown and Iraqi Sand mixed to gether respectively for the highlights. The final highlight was Iraqi Sand used straight from the bottle.