Mitches Flying Aces Busts

[Guest]

Cheers Richard.

The sculpts are slightly dodgy, which dents my enthusiasm for the finished things (as does my paint work) but at least I finished them as a set.

[Steve Jones]

You have done a great job of getting so much colour shade onto his black leather jacket. Outstanding work. We have been privileged to see three great works of art all at once. However for your own sanity it probably would be better to do a bust in between figures. Thanks for sharing

[JR]

"The leather was fairly easy to do - just dry-brushing German grey, then basalt grey over black, then picking out the detail "
Yeah right !
Easy to do or not Peter it's off the scale in my book, that leather is outstanding.
:flushed::flushed:

[SteveH]

Morning Peter

Great finish and quite a trio.

I can see the sense in splitting up a future project to save burning out.

Are there many more trio opportunities out there?

I have seen quite a few Young's 2nds that could make up groups, and they would be super projects.

I have even got some in my stash, but its going to be awhile before I am confident enough to start them!

What's next on your bench?

Back to re do some of your 1:16 figures?

Looks like another clear and bright day ahead

Have fun with the paints

Regards

Steve H

[Guest]

Steve - Glad you like them. I didn't realise how tired I was getting as I went along. Definitely one thing at a time in future.

John - Well, dry-brushing is a a pretty simple process, though I suppose that even that does take a bit of practice - sorry if I sounded flippant (arrogant!).

Steve - There are more Mitches trios, and as you say, it would probably be possible to make some up with Life Miniatures or Young's busts (though costly, and I'm broke). As I've found with this project though, the risk is that some of the series will inevitably be better than the others, with the result that the less successful ones will bring down the overall effect. Here, I'm quite pleased with Johnny, OKish about Joe, but hate Adolf. Johnny is going into the cabinet and the other two straight into storage.

I had a major cabinet culling session last night, stripping down for useful parts first then binning the rest. I kept a couple of the better resin figures for re-painting, but it was quality control time and I felt it was pointless keeping stuff that made me wince every time I looked at it. A scary but therapeutic process.

Next a 1/16 figure....

[Andy Belsey]

Three cheers from me! Wonderful group of figures.
(But the talk of culling your cabinet made me wince!)
Andy

[JR]

Three cheers from me! Wonderful group of figures.
(But the talk of culling your cabinet made me wince!)
Andy

Your not alone there Andy.

[Guest]

Worry not Andy and John. A cabinet cull is very therapeutic, and anyway, you can always fill it up again. I've just spent an enjoyable afternoon working on a few of the niggles and mistakes dogging some of the remainers.

[Andy Belsey]

Worry not Andy and John. A cabinet cull is very therapeutic, and anyway, you can always fill it up again. I've just spent an enjoyable afternoon working on a few of the niggles and mistakes dogging some of the remainers.

Bloomin' Brexit creeps in everywhere - we can't escape it!!!!

[Guest]

Certain words enter the subconscious at times of stress........

[Guest]

Fantastic painting on all 3 Peter :smiling3:.

[Guest]

Thank you Ralph. Great to have you back.

[Guest]

Thank you Ralph. Great to have you back.

I have a lot more go in me now.

[Peter Gillson]

Nice painting peter, althought i do agree the sculpting of Adolf looks a bit odd.

Peter

[Guest]

Ralph - :thumb2:.

Peter - Thanks. I only have Johnny Johnson on display - the other two have gone into 'storage'.