YetiSA
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Wow, thanks DR, that would be awesome. Will just need to make a plan to get some cash over to you.
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Wow, thanks DR, that would be awesome. Will just need to make a plan to get some cash over to you.
No worries. I'll source up first with the lads at Mitch's.
This turned up at the weekend and has been sat in Dettol for a couple of days.
She's cleaned up completely and that shows .........FPS! there's a lot of moulding threads from the casting still on the mini as well as a panel of 'flash' between the body and the arm which has never been removed.
Going to try to get a photo later.
Once she's cleaned up she should paint up OK.
Might see if I can do something with her for Euro.
Maybe today.
Picked up a Chest Cold at the weekend which hit me with a vengeance on Monday night.
First time ever affecting my asthma, plus my voice has dropped down to sounding like a Grizzly Bear.
Quick snapshots.
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This is the stripped "Pro-painted" item I bought off EBay.
Please note the flash between the arm and side, there's a tiny bit of paint left in the crevasses which currently have a bit of PVA dripped on them. If I've done that right peeling the PVA off should remove the paint as well.
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Fisherman's Guild Corsair.
I opted to make him a non-Caucasian skin tone, now some things that I found while building him;
the separate arm is a bugger to fit and even with packing green stuff I missed the fit so I ended up adding a ribbon round the arm. The Peg leg if you remove the slotta tab is slightly smaller than the other leg, so that was resculpted with Greenstuff to lengthen it.
This picture is not the finished state, the highlights have been taken up a few notches, but he and the rest of the Fisherman's guild are packed and ready to to Salute.
And Damn my phone takes big pictures.
View attachment 48178
This is the stripped "Pro-painted" item I bought off EBay.
Please note the flash between the arm and side, there's a tiny bit of paint left in the crevasses which currently have a bit of PVA dripped on them. If I've done that right peeling the PVA off should remove the paint as well.
View attachment 48179
Fisherman's Guild Corsair.
I opted to make him a non-Caucasian skin tone, now some things that I found while building him;
the separate arm is a bugger to fit and even with packing green stuff I missed the fit so I ended up adding a ribbon round the arm. The Peg leg if you remove the slotta tab is slightly smaller than the other leg, so that was resculpted with Greenstuff to lengthen it.
This picture is not the finished state, the highlights have been taken up a few notches, but he and the rest of the Fisherman's guild are packed and ready to to Salute.
And Damn my phone takes big pictures.
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I most certainly will.
YetiSa, yes "Shark" was a serious pain in the Situpon. The two handed harpoon wouldn't bloody align and stay straight.
I ended up pinning the top hand and filling the gap with green stuff attempting to making look like part of the lower hand's wrist wrap.
The only other issue is the "younger" girl with the ripped tights, her hand has a tiny attachment point, less than 1 mm wide. Greenstuff, superglue and my wife's broomstick are holding that in place.
As for painting well there are some figures that just paint themselves, Sakura, Cosair and the two girls are just a dream, working out at about 10 hours each figure. Shark I'd say approx 12 hours.
But the best figure has to be "Salt" the Otter.
Apart from the fact that Otters are one of my favourite animals this sculpt is just lovely.
OK the tail is a bugger if you've big fingers, but painting it up, took me less than an hour. And I was so surprised that to took so little time that I was looking all around it in case I'd missed anything.
I've a few other figures from Guild Ball ( Engineers and Morticians) which are as detailed so really looking forward to applying brush to them. I'd happily recommend these figures to anyone.
YetiSA
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Awesome, I'm glad you like them.
It's interesting, it sounds like (corsair aside) it's the skinnier minis that are causing more problems and the ones that I've painted have generally been chunkier.
Incidentally, that otter mini was one of the best selling in their range for a long time. It seems that he's just a popular little guy.
It's interesting, it sounds like (corsair aside) it's the skinnier minis that are causing more problems and the ones that I've painted have generally been chunkier.
Incidentally, that otter mini was one of the best selling in their range for a long time. It seems that he's just a popular little guy.
SkelettetS
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yey see you tomorrow :good: im feeling pretty healthy so no worries about swedish bugs this year lol
Sicks
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I know the butchers starter set is a paint, ox is OK because you only need to stick his axe to his leg (and there's a nice big indent for that) but brisket has one arm to attach which is pretty small but not too bad because her sleeves are quite thick and boiler is in 4 or 5 pieces, his arm was a pain to stick on they're lovely models though, they can just be a bit fiddly, I'm looking forward to the 54mm line they are working onAwesome, I'm glad you like them.
It's interesting, it sounds like (corsair aside) it's the skinnier minis that are causing more problems and the ones that I've painted have generally been chunkier.
Incidentally, that otter mini was one of the best selling in their range for a long time. It seems that he's just a popular little guy.
Can't wait to see what you've done with them DR
Thank Foxtrot I brought an emergency repair kit!
Packing material failure!
Packing material failure!
