54mm Charge of the Scots Greys

[papa 695]

Great work Neil

[Guest]

Neil,
Really enjoying this build and watching the conversions come to life.
Mike.

[Neil Merryweather]

Great work Neil

thanks Ian

[Neil Merryweather]

thank you Mike,that's good to know :thumb2:

[rtfoe]

Hi Neil, building up poses with armatures is much less back breaking and minute adjustments are much easier if you're comfortable with sculpting the vacant areas after it. Always seems simpler using existing parts but after the surgery it's much harder to manipulate the poses. To get a pose I wanted for my paratrooper lying in the back of a jeep I had to resort to using two left legs. :tears-of-joy:

Pose looks great.

Cheers,
Richard

[scottie3158]

Neil, Watching closely. I'm full of admiration for people like yourself who can achieve the poses they want with figures. It's not an area I have had success with.

[Neil Merryweather]

To get a pose I wanted for my paratrooper lying in the back of a jeep I had to resort to using two left legs. :tears-of-joy:
Cheers,
Richard

come on Richard let's see it- you KNOW you want to

[Neil Merryweather]

Neil, Watching closely. I'm full of admiration for people like yourself who can achieve the poses they want with figures. It's not an area I have had success with.

Thanks Scottie,
as we have said before - each of us has his strengths-this just happens to be mine. Personally , I am in admiration of your micro detailing.
That's what makes this forum great

[Ian M]

His arms are a bit thin, LOL
On a more serious note....
Great alterations to the mounted rider. Now we can really get a sense of what is what and what is where.... You know what I mean.

[Steve Jones]

This is a wonderful build blog Neil. Great attention to detail. It's gonna be an awesome figure once done. Great stuff

[SimonT]

Hi Neil - just been having a catch up as have got behind with this one.

Great stuff so far - brings back memories of the old articles we used to get in MM

I was going to suggest cutting out the center section of the rolled coat but you beat me to it further down the page :thumb2::smiling3:

[rtfoe]

come on Richard let's see it- you KNOW you want to

Hi Neil, you've done a good job on the pose and it's taking shape just like the reference picture. I'm a lazy guy at heart and will avoid the armature sculpting although I have done some like for these guys arms...



Found the picture with the two not left but right legs...HERE
It's the sixth picture...

Cheers,
Richard

[Neil Merryweather]

wow that's fantastic! Full of life and incidents, just like Shep Paine says!
and not so shabby with the sculpting either.
you know it's like any skill- the more you do it the better you get- you should do more.

[Neil Merryweather]

This is a wonderful build blog Neil. Great attention to detail. It's gonna be an awesome figure once done. Great stuff

Cheers Steve

[Neil Merryweather]

Hi Neil - just been having a catch up as have got behind with this one.

Great stuff so far - brings back memories of the old articles we used to get in MM

I was going to suggest cutting out the center section of the rolled coat but you beat me to it further down the page :thumb2::smiling3:

welcome back, Simon! thanks.
I know what you mean- I learned a lot from those articles - especially by the amazingly talented Bill Horan