Mitches Flying Aces Busts

[Steve Jones]

Nice to see you back on the busts Peter and three for the price of one blog. You do spoil us. Good luck my friend

[Guest]

Bob - A great thing to have.

Steve - Thought it was about time I did some 200mm work.

Johnny's head:



Oh this was hard! As usual with Pavol Ovecka's faces, the eyes were extremely narrow and hard to get at, and surrounded by a forest of wrinkles which took ages to unravel. I nearly gave up several times, but got somewhere in the end. I'll no doubt fiddle with it a bit more.

[Guest]

The next stage:



Loads and loads of tiny detail to pick out on the clothing and Mae West. I will need to go over it all and make refinements when the rest is done.

[Jim R]

Hi Peter
Quality work as always. That is quite a bargain price - always a nice feeling when you do get a bargain :tongue-out3:
Jim

[Guest]

Hi Jim

Though I get the impression that Mitches cast to order, it looks like they're running down the V Bust range, which is a shame.

[SteveH]

Morning Peter

Nice start, the head looks just right and nice muted colour range on the "Mae West" too.

Awful weather here, the tail end of Dorian, but much better than the Bahamas!

Approaching 60 is a series of health checks, so it seems, had a lung check which was A1.

So looking forward to the bowel cancer check!

Pension check too, which is OK, so 60 will be retirement.

Hope your tummy bug has cleared up?

Have a good day with the RAF blue

Regards

Steve H

[Guest]

Morning Steve

Those health checks sound scary, but sounds like you're passing with flying colours. My own body is busy letting me down at the moment, but at least the stomach is better thanks. The remnants of Dorian have also arrived here too, so the dog probably won't get a walk today.

Should get Johnny finished today. Really enjoying working at this scale as it suits my eyes - great to be able to really get at the detail.

[Steve Jones]

WOW! Wonderful work on the life jacket. On its way to being a PDiddy special

[Tim Marlow]

Agreed Steve, the Mae West looks fantastic....

[scottie3158]

Peter,
I have to agree with the others the Mae West is sublime.

[Guest]

Thank you chaps.

I always remember the furore I caused with one of my early builds on another site, where I had apparently painted a Luftwaffe life-vest too yellow. The uniform police were not happy and gave me hell about it. Since then, I've approached life vests with trepidation, though Vallejo Buff highlighted with Light Yellow seems to be acceptable.

[Guest]

Heeeeeeere's Johnny:

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I started with the uniform today: Vallejo Luftwaffe Uniform mixed with Black, German Grey and Off White. Then it was on to finishing the Mae West - a lot more fiddly detail to put in, then further shading and highlighting.

Probably Pappy next......

[Andy Belsey]

Beautiful Peter!
Andy

[Guest]

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Pete.

[Guest]

Andy - Many thanks.

Jean-Luc - What can I say to praise from the future? Cheers Pete.