Marlene Dietrich part 2

 Back at the hobby desk, and despite not getting as far as I wanted I did make some progress. I finished the painting on the film cans and attached it to a fairly wide Warhammer round base. I feel it has a little more stability that way. Marlene's body is just sitting there, for now, to see how it looks. 

I took another look at the face, and added another layer with some pale flesh. I also did my black eye base, and started her hair. Just holding the head and hat together to see how it looks.  I should finish it up the next session. Check back and thanks for looking. 

 

Marlene Dietrich

 At the time, with November right around the corner, it was time to tackle my Pledge Project for 2021. The pledge is a group build my local IPMS club (BPMS) runs that in Feb. you pick a model that you want to do, and promise by the November meeting it will be finished. The short answer is that if you get it done, you've at least built one model. But it also gets you extra tickets in our end of the year raffle. Now because of Covid, we haven't gotten together since Mar. of' '20, but thru ZOOM, the meetings (and pledges) continued. 

My choice this year was the 1/4 - 1/5 scale Marlene Dietrich bust. From the Hollywood Legends series, it comes in 5 parts of tan resin and three 3D printed parts (her hand, cigarette, and lapel rose). 

The edges of some of the parts did need a little help. The white is Tamiya putty.

Everything got a coat of primer and then the paining started. Simple red was the base coat for the rose (it will get a highlight), and Vallejo Steel for the film canisters and reel. With out looking at the illustration of the box, I thought the film on the reel would be a brownish color, so I painted it up with Vallejo's Smoke.

 I thought for a second about doing her up in B&W. But quickly thought again, even tho her shirt, tie, and vest were all white, and the jacket was black. The whites were actually 2 different colors. The vest and tie are V's White, and the shirt is Ivory. The jacket is V's German Gray,with Gloss Black lapels. The shadowing on the sleeves were V's Gray Black. Again a little but noticeable difference. The top hat will be the same colors.

The image has her with a fair skin tone. So I used V's Basic Skin Tone this time for the base coat of the face and hands, Then I did some shadowing with V's Rose Red. I highlight will follow - then her hair has to be done. I'm still thinking of colors for that. 

But that will be next time. Check back and thanks for looking.

Dwayne the Rock Finale.

 Been a few weeks but I'm back with The rock all finished. I readdressed his shirt color and finished any little bits that I felt undone. Added some paint to the rock base and that's about it. I'm not really happy with the eyes - I think they're too big - and may take another stab at it. Thanks for looking.

JPG Galaxy Quest Shuttle

 Just saw Galaxy Quest again on one of the myriad of channel, and thought I have to build a GQ model. GQ is a very funny movie lampooning or honoring Star Trek.  JPG.s model is 1:72 scale and comes in 16 well casted white resin parts. I haven't put the decals on the craft yet, but they look well printed. 

 You see in the image it's sitting on a weird arrangement of foam. At the same time I started building the Shuttle, I was asked by my local IPMS club to do a little slide show on build a diorama or vignette using foam as the base. We'll see more of that.  The scene where they retrieve a beryllium sphere, was filmed entirely in Goblin State Park, UT.  One blogger happened to be at the park when the shuttle was delivered by helicopter.

Never realized the char in the film!

 Running out of time for the demo, I looked up a bunch of images for Goblin Valley and took to some foam with my cheap-o hot wire cutter.

Not being able to locate the figures I was going to use (downside of a huge stash), the direction of the ship in the vignette will change. 

The ship is together. The only problem I had was the rear landing gear has an angle to them. The instructions don't tell how the angle goes, so installing the supplied legs was a *Nope*. Thankfully I had some rod the same size and set them in place. 

 

That's where we'll leave it for today. Check back, and thanks for looking.

FF6 The Rock part 3

 I haven't given the Rock much attention, but I sat down and fixed his gun, added paint to the belt, gave him eyes and a 5 o'clock shadow where his goatee is/was. And I finally attached his arms. They looked very close until I actually super glued them on and that's when I saw the spaces. Out came the Aves, and got rid of the gaps. 

 Almost done... Thanks for looking.  

 

 

Italeri Autoblinda AB41 Finale

 These past sessions I've been working on the base, making it look like it's in a Mediterranean climate. The Groundwork is foam, sitting on a wood base, and then wrapped with sheet balsa. The wall is foam, and the palm tree is one of those 10 packs from eBay. Thanks for looking. 

 I ordered figures to go with the scene, but as of yet they are a no show. I'll add to this post if and when they get added to the scene.  Thanks for looking.

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