Verlinden 200mm British Trench Raider Bust

[Richard48]

Morning Peter

Reasonable progress under the circumstances with the lighting and the family arriving too.

Looks like another grim and gloomy day today, so not much painting, but plenty of family time, which is a nice for you all.

Richard, the opiate fog is receding, and if I ever tried a bell, whistle and stick system with Anna, I would be beaten to death with the stick and have both the bell and whistle inserted into the closest orifice for good measure.

Hope you're feeling better today Richard?

Enjoy the day with paint and/or family

Regards

Steve H

Hi Steve.Better today thank you.I went too long without fuel in the tank.A sandwich and 2 sweets sorted me out after 30 mins.Hope the knee is going great for you.Take it easy fella.
Rich.

[Guest]

Jim - The house was wrecked within 10 minutes.

Richard - :thumb2:


Binned - overweathered it.

[Guest]

Before it hit the bin:

[JR]

Peter , go and take it out of the bin please. Quite honestly you are being to hard on your self, (as usual ) it was looking really good.
Reconsider, you can't work with distractions as sweet as she is.

[Steve Jones]

:anguished::worried::disappointed:

Will you keep it for a strip back project further down the line Peter?

[Guest]

Too much wrong with it chaps.

I spent hours on the weathering, which kinda worked, but found that as a consequence the facial tones looked too harsh. The main reason I added the weathering was that the lower half of the torso looked too plain, but also because, if I hadn't, then there would probably been an outcry (First World War - must be dirty).

The other point is that it is a rotten sculpt. Not only is the face too cartoonish, but the upper right arm is as long as a gorilla's.

I'd run out of mojo with this one and couldn't face stripping it down and starting again. As usual in these cases I took a saw to it to put it completely out of commission and beyond temptation.

[JR]

A shame, Peter, but agree with the balance thing with the mud on the lower half.
Move on then , any choices yet ?

[Guest]

Yep, Sean Bean:

[Neil Merryweather]

I don't often agree with your binning decisions, Peter, but I am with you on this one,:thumb2:-although not because of the painting.....
I think the sculpt looks like something out of a Hieronymus Bosch painting.
I'm sure you'll nail Sean

[Guest]

Fair enough Neil. Putting the helmet on clinched it - entirely the wrong shape as well.