Malayan Emergency 1/35 scale.

[rtfoe]

Rough monkey heads done yesterday along with adding body to the armatures...

Once I've sculpted enough I'll try to cast them to make more. Would be nice to have a troop of them in the trees.

Cheers,
Richard

[Jim R]

Hi Richard
Those monkey heads are excellent. They should be straightforward to cast and it's worth doing for any future monkey needs.
Jim

[Mini Me]

Richard, those are some top notch "primates!! Make sure you have plenty of bananas on hand to keep them out of mischief! :smiling: :thumb2: Rick H.

[Tim Marlow]

Looking good Richard. Love the monkey heads especially. Truck sits well, but looks a little clean and bright…..

[rtfoe]

Thanks Jim, Rick and Tim,

Hi Richard
Those monkey heads are excellent. They should be straightforward to cast and it's worth doing for any future monkey needs.
Jim

They weren't that difficult to sculpt having near human like features...just scaled a lot down to size but casting takes a lot of time off the sculpt process if I want dozens of these.

Richard, those are some top notch "primates!! Make sure you have plenty of bananas on hand to keep them out of mischief! :smiling: :thumb2: Rick H.

Cleaned out the grocers of their stock...replenishing tomorrow. Good thing we have variety here as these guys are fussy. :tears-of-joy:

Looking good Richard. Love the monkey heads especially. Truck sits well, but looks a little clean and bright…..

I'll need to alter some of their expressions with some showing teeth. Truck still needs more painting and attention. The blue is something I need to tackle and it is a bit tricky to weather as these trucks were only recently acquired and repainted blue so the itch to over weather has to be curtailed to a certain extent. Perhaps rain streaks and caked damp dust in the corners plus the muddy tyres might do the trick.

This dio sure has lots more to do and I have to compartmentalise each section to detail or I'll go wonky. Sooner or later these sections will overcome the water effects which I thought was going to be the more difficult process. I already don't like the straight road and might just curve it after the bridge.

Cheers,
Richard

[adt70hk]

That's outstanding work Richard.

[scottie3158]

Richard that's a cracking bit of sculpting

[rtfoe]

That's outstanding work Richard.

Richard that's a cracking bit of sculpting

Thanks Fellas, quite enjoyed making monkey faces. :smiling2:

Cheers,
Richard

[rtfoe]

Am now working on the armatures and coating them with two part putty. The sitting one is utilising the latest wire armature and can easily be posed. The other two armatures arms still twist when I carve so it's quite irritating.


Cheers,
Richard

[rtfoe]

Very hard to concentrate while munching on desserts just bought from the nearby stalls that have opened for breaking of fasting during Ramadhan. I can see why we have a high rate of obesity and diabetics in this country.

Cheers,
Richard

[minitnkr]

Same w/Easter candy here.

[rtfoe]

Last night I made more armatures with the later design and came up with 3 more poses...one sitting and pointing frantically at the policemen another walking on all fours and the last outstretched jumping from vine to vine...

I made further 3 more armatures for more poses now just waiting for the putty to cure.

Cheers,
Richard

[JR]

When you mentioned that the wires still turn when your doing the sculpt why not solder where the twist is or is that a stupid question Richard ?

[Jim R]

Hi Richard
They are looking good. Even at this very basic stage you have got the monkey poses just right.
Jim

[Mini Me]

You're right there Jim.....no monkeying around here! :tongue-out3: :tongue-out: :tongue-out2: