Wotan's sculpt Thomas Cochrane bust 1/6

[Guest]

Wonderful skill.

[Peter Gillson]

Loverly likeness.

[Tim Marlow]

Cracking work.

[Jim R]

Hi John
Wonderful work. Already looking the part.
Jim

[wotan]

Gentlemen you are all too kind. There is still lots of room for this to go pear shaped.

I built his telescope. A little different to the engraving but I think the artist was a little fanciful with his gently flaring telescope tube. I built mine more like the regular slide in ones. I also got half his jacket on. I am now working on how to make some navy buttons. I couldn't manage to keep his left arm detachable so it got glued in.



John

[SimonT]

As expected, looking brilliant John

[scottie3158]

John,
You make this art look so easy. Looking great.

[wotan]

Thanks Paul and to everyone. and by the way it is easy or I wouldn't do it. I bet most of you could give it a crack if you chose to.

Lots of details moving along, as well as 18 holes of golf this morning. It's a tough life but someone has to do it.

Imrovised the lace on his jacket. I also realised that his jacket should button left over right. The artist has reversed it in making his engraving. So I switched it around for my build. The buttons needed to have little anchor symbols on them, I found a way to approximate them by using a mould to press form green stuff. Not perfect but good enough. Next his epaulettes were a bit of a challenge. They also have the anchor and a crown on them which I have fudged but I hope they will look OK when painted. I think I'm getting close to gluing his left arm on since keeping it separate is getting difficult.



John

[Guest]

Wonderful work.

[papa 695]

Just caught up on this John, and I’m gladI did. It always amazes me how much skill you sculptors have building from scratch. Great work so far, I’m watching from now on.

[Jim R]

Hi John
Looking great but I would expect nothing less.
Jim

[rtfoe]

Hi John, if I had half your skill...sigh. :tired:

Cheers,
Richard

[wotan]

Thanks Jim

Richard. Chacun son metier as we say in French. There's no way I could reach your standard with aircraft.

Started to work on his arms and gave him a coat of Tamiya primer since the different media colours was making the result hard to see.



John

[wotan]

OK I hope I never have to sculpt any coat lace ever again. I managed to get through it and I think the sculpt is finished. I had a last minute panic when I found that his left arm was too long. However a quick operation with flensing knife and saw removed about 8 mm and saved the day. here he is on his working base for the moment. The final base will be ready soon.



Now a final inspection and on to paint.

John

[Guest]

Wow!