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Airfix 1/12 The Black Prince
Topic Started: Sep 10 2011, 08:31 AM (4,255 Views)
beany
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I dug this old fella out of the stash last year some time and he has been a slow but ongoing project. Here are some recent progress photos. The first one is a bit blurry I'm afraid but it's the only one I have with the box in it!

The box is quite an old one, but I don't know which year exactly - the lads over on ATF will probably be able to tell me. They come up on eBay occasionally but they're not cheap - I really hope Airfix still have the moulds for this one and consider a re-issue one day.

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I decided to have a go with Alclad II Chrome for the first time for some of the armour. Mike(ew) gave me some advice a couple of years ago at Farnborough to just mist it on, so I did. I under-coated with gloss black, but my initial results seem to show it goes better over Humbrol enamel gloss black than on Tamiya acrylic gloss black.

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Unfortunately, the other thing I discovered is that it comes off very easilly, especially if glue is involved. this lead to a re-application to his helmet (ooh err, missus) - here he is masked up and waiting (ready for a short back and sides from the look of it)

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I decided to tart up his lance a bit by adding a white swirl to it (I am pretty sure they didn't have white paint in the mid-thirteen hundreds but what the hey). It came out OK but then disaster struck and one of my speakers fell off the bookshelf above it...

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Fortunately it is a clean break so should glue together easily without being too obvious (just put it down to battle damage - it is a lance after all!).

The chain mail around his neck doesn't look right (currently Revell Aqua Gunmetal), so I will fire some Alclad Stainless Steel at that and see if it looks any better. Then it will be touching in more of the detail - buckles, straps etc. and then I'll be calling him finished.

As you will see I am clueless where it comes to faces, but there are several videos on Youtube for that sort of thing so I will be giving some of those a watch this weekend.

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Cheers
Al.


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Modeller
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when I saw the thread title I thought it was going to be a vintage motorcycle...

That is a cool build, plenty of detail.
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beany
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OK - I'm calling this old lad finished for now (although there is more touching up required), mostly because I'm working away from home this week and won't be able to spend any more time on him before Farnboro or Sutton Coldfield. Criticism willingly accepted - we only learn from our mistakes.

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You didn't see the Blue Tack - right?! :aah:

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Cheers
Al.
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Walrus
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Wot Blu Tac :shrug:

Am sure this was one of the 1/12 Historical figures I made and actually painted as a lad.
So a big nostalgia fest for me!

They would have possibly had lead white at that time but no elf and safety. Certainly used a gesso ground to prime wood panels prior to painting and gilding.

Looks good with some clean metal finishing :thumbsup:
Maybe a wash would help bring out some of the details.

I would paint the heraldic devices gold, then use a opaque foundation paint for the background to cover any metal. Then put a wash of the background colour around the relief to provide a guideline for painting in the background. Hope that makes sense.
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Samqpr
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For the chainmail I have used citadel, at least I think it's citadel. The are the warhammer paints. A base of black, covered then with chainmail (name of the paint) and finally washed with black gives, in my opinion, a good finish

Sam
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upnick
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Great to see a classic Kit treated to new technology paint techniques :thumbsup:
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Bomer
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:D nice job on the body and shield. :like:
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swordfish fairey
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Great to see one of these again, I made him years ago, certainly not up to this standard though.............Great work...............Smudge
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