Verlinden 120MM Union Zouave

[Guest]

Morning Steve, from a wet and stormy Garden of England.

This should get finished today. The accessories are fairly simple, except for the water bottle straps. which need careful aligning. I'm going to use a pre-used base, to save a bit of effort.

The next victim is a new Life Miniatures 1/16 figure, which is on order, and which I'm pretty excited about.

Have a good day in the home office.

Peter.

[Jim R]

Hi Peter
He looks excellent. The braiding on the jacket is beautifully done and really adds to the look.
Jim

[Guest]

Many thanks Jim.

He's done:



All the fiddly stuff today, which always takes longer than I think it will. Things weren't helped by the fact that I knocked him over at one point and lost the bayonet to the carpet monster - fortunately I had a spare. The base is an old Verlinden one with grass tufts added. Once fixed in place I dusted him up slightly with pastels

[Tim Marlow]

Nice job on this one Peter. Really sharp finish.

[Neil Merryweather]

A very suave Zouave!

[SteveH]

A very suave Zouave!

Nice one

Morning Peter

Lovely finish, to a very colorful figures, they always look good even for a 3rd one.

Looks like Storm Alex is going to give us all a good dousing or the next few days!

I have a virtual training day today, that should be fun!

Enjoy the next victim

Regards

Steve H

[Guest]

Lovely finish Peter :smiling3:.

[JayCee]

Superb painting once again Peter. Very very nicely done.
John.

[adt70hk]

Absolutely nothing wrong with that at all Peter.

ATB

Andrew

[Guest]

Tim - Thank you.

Neil - Thanks also funny man.

Steve - Storm Alex is raging away outside, but hopefully we'll get some respite here in the South East over the weekend. I hope so, as we're off to visit my granddaughter in Lewes tomorrow. As I'm going to be away for a couple of days, I may not start anything new, but we'll see how bored I get. Virtual training should be fun - not!

Ralph - Cheers.

John - Thank you. Glad you like him.

Andrew - I do need to touch up a couple of rough points which I noticed last night, but I'm quite pleased with how he turned out.

[Steve Jones]

Well this is your third paint job on this figure. How do you feel the other attempts compare to this one?. I was taken by the vividness of the red. Is it just the photo or did you try something different?. Another great masterpiece to add to the collection. Do you still have the others to put in a trio picture???

[Guest]

Hi Steve - I used a deeper red, carmine, as a base, which I think helped enrich the upper layers of dark red. The first version on this figure is long gone, and the one before this is in the loft. I think this is the best, though I still think I could do much better.

[Steve Brodie]

Running out of adjectives to describe how wonderful your figures are, have you ever thought of selling some of your older pieces (on ebay), you could make a bit of extra cash to fund future purchases ?.

[JR]

Peter. It's all been said. :thumb2::thumb2::thumb2::thumb2::thumb2:

[Jim R]

Hi Peter
Quite simply b****y brilliant.
Jim