Simple and Small

[scottie3158]

This is going to be a beauty.

 

[Andy the Sheep]

Joining the rabble to follow your progresses Richard... and I already feel for that poor sleeping GI!

 

[Tworrs]

Great start Wabble, following with interest.

 

[rtfoe]

Fantastic work richard , loving this one

This is going to be a beauty.

Joining the rabble to follow your progresses Richard... and I already feel for that poor sleeping GI!

Great start Wabble, following with interest.

Thanks Tony, Scottie, Andrea and Garry.
Yup, that GI is in for a full bombardment.

I've done a bit more to the base and fittings... assembled the lamp post. Sanded down all seams. I will create the glass with White Glue after it's painted. I thought of using clear acetate but WG seems a lot easier.

Got the packet of large ball pin heads and cut the pins shorter and stuck them onto the pillars ..

Textured the foam cobble stones and cut out parts of it to fit the manhole and drainage gratings...

I pressed the cobble stones along the edge of the pavement to create an indentation like a shallow drain leading to the grating. I notice this feature in the old villages of Cotswold videos. Painting this slightly damp and with moss and grime would be interesting. Putty will be used to fill gaps around these fittings.

Because this is such a small base I can pay a bit more attention to detailing.
That's all for now, thanks for looking in.

Cheers,
Wabble

 

[JayCee]

Richard, I guess the pigeons are edible, but I would never eat one. The damn things carry more diseases than rats !
John.

 

[rtfoe]

Richard, I guess the pigeons are edible, but I would never eat one. The damn things carry more diseases than rats !
John.

Hi John, so basically they're rats of the skies being city or urban birds just like rats. Recently the local population were alerted to not mingle amongst large flocks of pigeons due to them carrying diseases.

Cheers,
Wabble

 

[HAWKERHUNTER]

You have my attention Richard. Interesting subject looking great.

 

[rtfoe]

Nice to have you along Steve,

I've done a little bit more since...
I started collecting stuff together the fill up a belt made from foil...

The rest are tin rations from plastic rod, canteen and canteen mug sculpted from two canteen parts and an unfolded handle from foil.
Then I got the radio attached to the carrier and taped it down with Elastoplast that look like heavy canvas straps.

Sculpted bread from a German Teller mine, stuck a bayonet in, wrapped it in foil and made an opened can with rod.

Roughly piled the whole lot on the bench just to check on composition...



Basically some of the stuff haven't been assembled yet as you can see.
Now busy spraying the base colours on the pigeons...pictures later.

Cheers,
Wabble

 

[Neil Merryweather]

fantastic stuff there, Wabble, looks like you got your Mojo back!

 

[Jim R]

Those bits and pieces look superb.

 

[rtfoe]

fantastic stuff there, Wabble, looks like you got your Mojo back!

Thanks Neil, just hope it stays...it's been behaving like a Mexican jumping bean lately.

Cheers,
Wabble

 

[rtfoe]

Those bits and pieces look superb.

Thank you Jim, making these little bits has been satisfying.

Cheers,
Wabble