Completed Whale and calf

[Ferris]

Hi all,

Needing a break from my Pompeii model I picked up two 1:87 scale 3D-printed whale models from MiniNature with the goal to do a relatively quick build.
The plan is to pose the two, observed by a diver, in a solid block of epoxy resin.

Here are some in progress shots of the models. Slowly they are coming alive!

Cheers,
Adrian

 

[MalcC]

Looks great already.

Malc

 

[Landrotten Highlander]

Very nice work. I seem to remember seeing something similar a long time ago...
having said that, yesterday sometimes seems a long time ago too....

 

[marco14]

that is very lovely to see,I love to see animals in miniature and this is going to be wonderful when it's done,
keep it up your good work gonna follow

Mario

 

[Viking Bob]

Totally different from figures and will be nice to see when finished. Looking good.

 

[Briggsy]

Oh now that's going to be nice and it couldn't be much more different from Pompeii, will watch with great interest.

Cheers Simon

 

[NigelR]

Great idea, really looking forward to seeing how you do this. Very nice start!

 

[ErGide72]

Looks great and a good idea, showing them in the way you are planning! Looking forward to this one!!

Cheers
Erik

 

[Nap]

Hi Adrian

A wonderful choice of subject , very much not Roman !

Already the painting is looking good , you using Acrylics ?

Do like the underside artwork ....

Will the resin affect how they look ?

What's the size of these in the scale ?

Look forward to seeing more on the amazing whales and the diver

Have fun at the bench

Nap

If I may add these fabulous pictures

 

[húsar14]

Impressive!

 

[MoboSchreuder]

Fantastic

Mobo

 

[Warren SMITH]

Amazing work..

 

[Ferris]

Very nice work. I seem to remember seeing something similar a long time ago...
having said that, yesterday sometimes seems a long time ago too....

Thanks for commenting.

Perhaps you remember this one?:

I did that one a while ago. MiniNature as well, but smaller.

Cheers
Adrian

 

[Ferris]

Hi Adrian

A wonderful choice of subject , very much not Roman !

Already the painting is looking good , you using Acrylics ?

Do like the underside artwork ....

Will the resin affect how they look ?

What's the size of these in the scale ?

Look forward to seeing more on the amazing whales and the diver

Have fun at the bench

Nap

If I may add these fabulous pictures

Thanks for those pics Nap. Good references.

Size...the smaller one is about 10cm, the bigger one roughly double that.

Paint is acrylics.
The underside is shaded in blue (AK Dark Prussian Blue + various amounts of white & touch of turqoise) because any light coming from below has a blue tinge. The highlights are more white/greyish.
I’m not sure yet how the resin tinting will affect everything. It’ll be tricky to get the right amount of tinting. It is easy to go to far and make everything too dark. I’ll also have to up the contrast a bit on the whales perhaps, because the tint will tone things down.

The scale is 1:87, not 1:100. That allowed me to use an HO scale model railway figure.

Thanks for commenting!

Cheers
Adrian

 

[Landrotten Highlander]

Thanks for commenting.

Perhaps you remember this one?:
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I did that one a while ago. MiniNature as well, but smaller.

Cheers
Adrian

That's the bugger, thanks a lot (now I know my memory is not playing tricks on me)

 

[Oda]

Beautiful,impressive and expressive.Absolutely love it.

Oda.

 

[Steve Ski]

Awesome, Adrian, a nice change of pace. Excellent!

 

[Ferris]

Thank you all for your positive replies! Very encouraging.

To add a sense of scale I’ll add a diver figure. It’s a modified HO scale railway figure. I’ll still add goggles and snorkel, but you get the idea.

 

[Ferris]

And the resin pouring has begun!
Base was painted dark blue. Before pouring the bulk of the resin that’ll contain the models, I’ll do three thin layers with decreasing level of blueish tinting to suggest a gradient to deep water. Hope this’ll work...

The blueish block was the result of pouring experiments in search of the right colour and degree of transparancy.

Am painting the figure today, so hope to be able to post an update soon.

Cheers
Adrian

 

[Briggsy]

Great idea for the swimmer to give scale and good luck, fingers crossed for the pouring, it's going to look pretty awesome.

Cheers Simon