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Showjmper; Airfix 1/12
Topic Started: Apr 23 2013, 05:41 PM (763 Views)
ratch
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Made a start on this yesterday.
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Short shot heel.
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A familiar face.
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Laying turf.
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Lots of gap-filling with Squadron White Putty and/or Vallejo Plastic Putty.
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Making sure the holes are lined up.
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Lots of warpage so clamps required on everything.
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Base coat (pre-shading) down.
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Then I find something missing.
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The bag was sealed, its not a small piece and I can't find it on or under my bench.

So drastic action required
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plastic card roughly hewn to bridge the gap.

Smothered with Squadron White and sculpted with dental tools.
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a bit of sanding required.

A rough mock-up, the fence is painted with Tamiya gloss green.
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Done a bit more today, started off with Andrea flesh tones,
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I put a small dob of each colour on a pallet and took a dip in this and that and dry brushed over the dark base colour.
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You'll see I paint the whites of their eyes in this scale, and her lips are still in the darkest flesh tone.

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Her pupils, eyelashes and eyebrows were painted in with GamesWorkshop black ink. I wouldn't normally go for straight black - I like to tone it down with brown - but it seems to work here.

In this picture you might see a hairline seam down the horse's leg (with luck).
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To lose this I put a drop of Vallejo Plastic Putty on it and smear along with my finger.
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and that's before sanding.

Tamiya tape on the jump poles.
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Capillary action meant the red leeched under (in certain places) and the white had to be re-touched.

The horse was sanded down with a file, coarse, medium and fine sandpaper and a nail buffer along all the seams before painting.
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I then used a big brush to apply Revell Aqua 361 84 Matt Leather Brown as a sort of primer or base coat.
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an 'armless impression of the final composition.
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Concentrating on the horse at the moment with various dry brushings of tans, browns, leathers and blacks
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Almost done...
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and with reins :P
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That's definitely one of those kits I wouldn't mind betting that we've all seen for sale, but hardly ever seen one built up!
Nice one Ratch, :like:
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Thanks, more pictures in the gallery ;)
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