Verlinden 200mm Lavr Kornilov Bust

[Guest]

Scottie - Cheers

Pete - The box art is by Francois Verlinden himself. His stuff looks much better in close-up. He used to put gloss varnish on the eyes, which tended to make them catch the light unnaturally. Glad you like my efforts so far.

Jim - Thanks also.

[Guest]

Looking for uniform reference I found these:



Kornilov Shock Regiment. The shoulder boards are going to be a challenge to paint.

[stillp]

As for having a doctor in the house, she may be a psychiatrist, but I will admit that she does have some first-aid skills.

My son-in-law is a consultant plastic surgeon, and has exactly zero first-aid skills! Apparently they're not taught first-aid, that's someone else's job.
Pete

[SteveH]

Morning Peter

Excellent bounce back from the flu.

Your facial work is always superb, the texture and eyes are a signature.

Wounds and flu, you have been in the wars!

Its a cold start up here, 4 C and a bright red sun rise.

Have a good day with the paints

Regards

Steve H

[Guest]

Hi Steve

Still got 'flu I'm afraid, but at least painting helps take my mind off it.

This is what he now looks like:



I started with the shoulder boards today and they were a bit of a nightmare - white piping on a half black /half red background with silver stars and ciphers. Decided to crack on and do the medals, leaving just the tunic and shoulder patch to do.

[Guest]

Hi Peter I don't how you do it and with flu ! speechless, hope you start to feel better soon. Just one small piont which hardy shows you my have missed a small part of his tunic on the left hand side.

I'll get my coat.
Pete.

[Steven000]

Looks very good Peter :thumb2:

[JR]

Interesting Peter, certainly looks the part.
Sorry to read of the attempted self mutilation, this is no way to get out of doing excise.

[Guest]

Pete - Aha, well spotted! One more day should finish it.

Steven - Thank you.

John - The plaster on my thumb is useful for wiping my brushes on at least.

[Steve Jones]

Top man for working through your illness. I hope it is a tonic and a cure for you

[Guest]

I'm a brave soldier Steve.

Hopefully get this finished today, though have to wait about for a Freeview engineer. They re-configured the Dover transmitter and we lost all BBC programmes - methinks new aerial, dammit!

[Jim R]

Hi Peter
Medal side looks great.
As for flu! Us blokes suffer in silence, just pure bravery really, we carry on regardless. The womenfolk simply don't appreciate how heroic we are when we are cut down in our prime with "The Flu" :tongue-out3:
Jim

[colin m]

Splendid work Peter. When you say it took a while to get going again after a bit of a break from painting, do you have an old figure to practice on ? I only ask as, in my line of modelling, I use an old Airfix Spitfire to get going again.

[Guest]

Jim - Thanks. The advantage of my wife also being ill is that at least she believes me when I say I'm dying.

Colin - Good idea. I was about to start a 1/16 figure, but felt that I needed this larger scale to help get into it again.

Nearly done - just waiting for the varnish to dry....

[Guest]

Here you go: