Andy's Modelmaking Misadventures

[Punkawallah]

‘Light the blue touch paper, and retire to a safe distance’?

 

[Andy in Germany]

I think I overdid the weathering on this...

Still, it was a good learning process, and the Zeppelin crew have a moderately appropriate model to stand on while they wait for me to get my act together and build at least a small Zeppelin for them to fly.

In the meantime, it's finished, only slight wonky, and I can clear the model making desk for the new year...

 

[Andy in Germany]

‘Light the blue touch paper, and retire to a safe distance’?

I'm not sure how you'd define a 'safe distance' on Ascension...

 

[Reynard]

I'm not sure how you'd define a 'safe distance' on Ascension...

Thirty miles out to sea, perhaps?

 

[Marchrider]

I think I overdid the weathering on this...

I think you have made a lovely job of the weathering -

 

[Andy in Germany]

Being a nerd again...

With the Airship Docking tower complete, I'm adding more Zeppelin crewmen, and a couple of other characters which will be completed a bit more slowly...

 

[Andy in Germany]

Got hooked on the two rearmost characters:

"Sir" Charles Vane: Dry brushing will be toned down in the next step...

And Dr. Solomon McKinley.

 

[Punkawallah]

Very nice! Bane has the look of Peter Cushing about him?

 

[Time Waster]

Are these plastic figures? I used to do the warhammer lead figures as a kid. Those are now plastic almost airfix style kits which IMHO lose something. I did hear those into the hobby call them plastic crack now due to the way it becomes an addiction.

It is interesting the layering up of paint needed to make something look aged or battered like in the warhammer figures I used to do. Usually a base layer of black into the chainmail before a light cover of the surface with a silver/ metallic cover. Of course primer and undercoat. I used a white paint (cheap) then a black mostly and then the surface coat IIRC. Long time ago but despite no artistic ability I somehow made those figures look good.

 

[presta]

View: https://x.com/bagshaw2112/status/1877379716132241442

 

[Andy in Germany]

Finished the doctor.

Image about 2x actual size.

 

[Gwylan]

All truly amazing.

Where's the bicycle?

 

[Punkawallah]

All truly amazing.

Where's the bicycle?

S’a folder, innit?

 

[Andy in Germany]

Are these plastic figures? I used to do the warhammer lead figures as a kid. Those are now plastic almost airfix style kits which IMHO lose something. I did hear those into the hobby call them plastic crack now due to the way it becomes an addiction.

It is interesting the layering up of paint needed to make something look aged or battered like in the warhammer figures I used to do. Usually a base layer of black into the chainmail before a light cover of the surface with a silver/ metallic cover. Of course primer and undercoat. I used a white paint (cheap) then a black mostly and then the surface coat IIRC. Long time ago but despite no artistic ability I somehow made those figures look good.

Those two are, although all the others I've painted thus far were metal.

And yes, they can get addictive.

 

[Andy in Germany]

All truly amazing.

Where's the bicycle?

I have a model of my touring bike here:

I'm hoping to make models of most of my bikes on the railway.

S’a folder, innit?

That's the exception: I may say the Brompton is folded in a locomotive cab...