Divine Wind - Pegaso 1/9th Kamikaze Bust

[Steve Brodie]

Calling the leather done, after subtle highlights added ;

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[Guest]

Looking good Steve :thumb2:
ev

[Steve Brodie]

Big update (work from last Thursday thru Saturday);

Calling the head done, if I don’t stop I will end up cocking something up by overdoing it. Whilst researching the googles, found a few photos of a set of genuine WWII Japanese googles, with yellow tinted lenses, so to add a splash of colour tinted mine to;

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Body has been base coated with my air brush, with highlights and shadows also airbrushed, will refine these blends after I have added the white flag patches on his arm and base airbrushed his life jacket;

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Couldnt wait, so removed him from his painting pole and placed him on the body;

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[Richard48]

Hi Steve.
Kamikhazi guys coming along very nicely.Particularly the helmet with goggles and the writing and sun symbol.Keep going there.
Richard

[Steve Jones]

Steve

Terrific work on the bust. Looks like you are having a lot of fun. Its really coming along well

Steve

[Steve Brodie]

On the home straight now, just need to give the whole bust a coat of flat varnish, add the scarf and back of bandanna, along with earphones/ cables and add to a base (which is under construction :smiling2: )

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Just spotted that black bit of paint, thats going to have to go :-)

[Guest]

Nice paintwork Steve!

[Guest]

Very nice work Steve. He's coming together beautifully.

[Guest]

Great work, love it

Mark

[Steve Brodie]

thanks for all the kind comments

[Guest]

VERY NICE I like the way you did your goggles
Rick.

[Steve Brodie]

As it was a nice evening in Shropshire I decided to sit outside and continue with the bust, And very pleasant it was to. While the scarf, bandanna and head were fixing themselves to the body;

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I started on the headphones and cable, at first the paint just wasn't sticking, I had washed the resin and dried it with a hairdryer, after a few coats it all seemed good, so i weathered the ear-cups and the cable, time to add to the figure and complete the bust. Disaster, as i was trying to work out how the heck i was going to get the cable to reach his right ear, the paint started coming off and to make things worse, it was marking the scarf and jacket, managed to touch up those bits.


Then it hit (like a train) who hadn't primed the headphones - numpty !!, so they will be stripped tomorrow (of to the 'flicks' tonight)dried and primed ready to be re-coated. Mind still cant work out how the headphones for each ear and the connector are going to fit !!, maybe i fixed his head at the wrong angle, maybe i can heat the resin and bend it a bit better, if not, dunno - maybe cut the right cable and hide under the scarf, or stretch the resin (is that even possible).

Onward and upwards.

[Jim R]

Hi Steve
Looks stunning to me.
Jim

[Richard48]

Nice one Steve.
Really great paintjob you have achieved.
Good work.
Richard

[Steve Brodie]

Hi Steve
Looks stunning to me.
Jim

Nice one Steve.
Really great paintjob you have achieved.
Good work.
Richard

Many thanks guys :flushed: