During today's session, I put the finishing touches on Gary Cooper. For the base I put down some glue and then dusted it with Chinchilla Dust. This is stuff you can buy at a good pet store. Evidently Chinchillas don't use water so they take dust baths. This dust is incredible fine, and works well in many scales. I bought the 3lb jug, and it'll last more than a lifetime.
When it's all dry I painted it with V's Dark Sand. To give a highlight I added a little Ivory to the Sand color. Then I thought it needed a little something, and made a few bullet holes with a drill bit. Filled in the divot with Vs Orange Brown, but that didn't stand out enough, so I added some black pastels to the holes. Don't know if that would ever happen, but... what the heck.
From there I made the wooden frame for the movie poster looked bleached out and again added more glue and dust to make it look like sand blew onto the bottom of the frame. Then looking at the poster it seemed too new, so I mist coated it with matte clear coat to protect the ink, and then aged it with Citadel's Sepia. From there I added a few dust streaks with a pastel that matched the Dark Sand.
I glued the poster to the frame, the frame to the wall and I was done.
Thanks for looking.
All finished with this little mini. It was highly detailed kit and really challenged my steady hands - even with my magnifiers.
I added some static grass to the base and then mounted it on a resin (?) plinth from Green Stuff World. Thanks for looking.
With me concentrating on the Nocturna, and Sasquatch, Gary got ignored for a little bit. But here's an update. Gary's done, and now on to the base... Check back for the finale.
When I restarted, of course I had to start up a few kits to keep my time occupied. Another kit was Troy McDevitt's Sasquatch. It is a two piece, 1:4 scale bust (the figure, the base) in white resin. There was only the faintest of seam lines seen across the top of the head, and only one little bubble. Clean up took minutes and then it was a coat of gray primer.
Vs tan primer was the basis for the skin tone on his face. From there I used Vs Black brown, and then 2 successive highlights of lighter brown. Around the face I gave give more high lights of a darkened tan primer, then gave him some mature dignity ;) with some Ivory hairs. That was a little too light and Citadel's Agrax Earthshade darkened it just enough. The face was highlighted with Vs Beige Red and a little added Ivory for the 2nd highlight.
The base was also primed gray. From there I added more Agrax to brown the tree just a little and tie it to Sasquatch. The vines were done in Red Leather, and the foliage was plain ol' green. I then added some Vs Light Slime to weather up the tree and a little more tan on one of the dead limbs to tie it to the bust.
Going back with another tie in, his eyes were also painted green. With that the bust got a matte coat and the base got a satin one. and I was done. Thanks for looking.
Edits as I found the info I was looking for.
I didn't really know what to call this one. I've had it soo long that I don't remember what the title is nor where it came from.
Looking thru some of the fine models at Putty and Paint, I found info for this model that I was looking for. She is Nocturna, from appropriately Nocturna Models. But it is a stunning model with excellent detail. Sadly, she's currently OOP.
I also don't remember how many parts it came in This resin model came in two parts - the figure/base and the top of the cross. Here's the model all primed up.
Here I'm starting to work on some base coating.
After numerous highlights in the skin, dress and hair. I'm just about done with this one. I bought a few plinths from GreenStuff World, so she'll be glue on to this simple one next session. I also used the smallest grass tufts I had to fill in the ground a bit.
Thanks for looking.
Well, it took a while but I finally got back to my work space and was able to put paint on a model.
But first I had the job of cleaning up my mess. Being on the lazy side when I needed to put something up in the studio, rather than walking all the way up, I would leave it on the stairs. Little by little the stairs got pretty crowded with model kits, books and other "junk." So first course of action since I'm still using a cane was to get the stairs cleared.
Getting that done, I got to the desk and the last figure I was working on was the Cary Cooper Beau Geste bust. I tried doing a quick to search who did it (again I never wrote it down). Once I find out, I'll edit this post. edit: the kit was produced by Norbert Ossner and sculpted by Alejandro Lopez Ramirez
The kit is in 3 resin pieces - the bust, base, and frame for the movie poster. The movie poster printout is also added.
Following the movie poster printout and this colorized photo, I added the base colors:
Base colors, as usual are subject to change - I see now that the coat is too light. Anyway, I'm glad to be back at the desk. Check back for the next installment, and thanks for looking.
