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Modeller Build Logs
Encounter in Arnhem |
| By Andrew Herbert | | Started: | Aug 7, 2003 | | Updated: | Nov 5, 2003 |
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About 18 months ago I got the pieces together for a little dio/vignette, and I've started work on them again. The scene will portray a German dispatch rider checking his map (from the recent Tamiya Motorcycle Orderly set) about to meet up with several British Paras who could really use the map (combining a DML para from their four figure set with the pair in Warriors set 35371). They will be posed on the Verlinden street corner resin base, which includes some rubble, a dead German soldier, cobblestone street corner and other odds and sods.
The base was assembled before we moved from Texas, and I assembled most of the motorcycle kit. The fit of the resin wall pieces was a little dicey, but I used putty and wood filler to smooth things out. The base should be a lot of fun to paint.
The Warriors figures are in nice, but exagerrated poses, and the very heavy resin plugs were a pain to remove. The weapons (a rifle and Bren gun with hands molded in place) broke in half. Nothing too serious, but adding to the assembly process! |
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| Chapter 6: The biker | Sep 3, 2003 |
| Here is the biker's head. The face was undercoated in acrylic 'peach flesh' color from Apple Barrel. I used a mix of Titanium White, Burnt Sienna and Burnt Umber (oils) for the flesh color. The eyes were done with a dot of dark blue oil. All the highlights were done with a whitened flesh mix, and shadowed with a flesh mix heavy on the umber and sienna. The colors are slightly less harsh in real life. And remember, this is a 1/35 scale head, about the size of a pea. The photo is a big time zoom! |
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