discussion Late 1940's French Street Scene 1/35. Scratch built buildings, MB figures and Tamiya car .

[Guest]

Evening, after a hot morning on my gardening job spent mainly watering (No hose pipe ban here thank goodness.) and doing paper work for the lady I came home and just sat for a couple of hours. Went in to the cave and started another round of figure painting.
Here are some photos of some work done over the last 3 of days.


Now waiting for the dark blue wash to dry , not shown on this photo.


Priest now has the band that hags down on his left side painted. , this was taken when fully painted black.
Shop front again sanded and repainted.

The floor behind the bar won't be seen , but this shot was taken through the then open back to show the beer tray.


Thanks for looking in.

John.

 

[Airborne01]

Hi Jim, there is indeed some work in the cleaning up, this afternoon I started to do another figure only to find in had a couple of mould lines, now considering I'd taken out the ones that were visible and done them, yet there are still more. To cap it all the head flew off :disappointed: I heard it land somewhere on the bench, but considering the state its in decided to leave it until tomorrow:smiling3:

Stay calm mate, don't lose your head in moments of stress :tongue-out2::flushed::tired: !
Steve

 

[tigersteve]

Great work !!

 

[minitnkr]

Love it.

 

[Neil Merryweather]

That's looking fantastic,John!

 

[scottie3158]

John,
The flowers look superb keep up the great work.

 

[Jim R]

Superb. Your figures get better and better.

 

[Mark1]

Très magnifique

 

[Mini Me]

Yow......is that Matron's twin sister?.......definitely a "low light" lovely :tongue-out2: Loving your building progress on this JR. I think I'm suffering from joiners envy.:thumb2:

 

[Guest]

Stay calm mate, don't lose your head in moments of stress :tongue-out2::flushed::tired: !
Steve

Steve calm I stayed, will begin the search this morning ! The means a tidy of the bench is required. Heavens knows what I will find :anguished:

Great work !!

Thanks Steve .

Love it.

Cheers Paul.

That's looking fantastic,John

Thanks Neil, think it's going in the right direction.

John,
The flowers look superb keep up the great work.

Cheers Paul .

The pavement is going to be quite crowded by the time everyone is on !

Superb. Your figures get better and better.

Thanks Jim, the photos are a bit " in your face " so show every brush mark. Need to take them further back and crop . Actually enjoy doing them now !

Très magnifique

Thanks Mark .

Yow......is that Matron's twin sister?.......definitely a "low light" lovely :tongue-out2: Loving your building progress on this JR. I think I'm suffering from joiners envy.:thumb2:

Now why did I think you would notice Madame Fifi !!!! yes a distant relative, runs the little " hotel " around the corner from the flower shop Rick .
Glad you like the joinery , thank you .

 

[JayCee]

Amazing work John. Will look superb.
John.

 

[boatman]

JOHN this is fantastic work love that bike was it a kit or did you scratch build it
wow what a dio :thumb2::thumb2::thumb2::thumb2::thumb2::thumb2:
chrisbmtb

 

[Guest]

Amazing work John. Will look superb.
John.

Thanks John .kind of you to say .

JOHN this is fantastic work love that bike was it a kit or did you scratch build it
wow what a dio :thumb2::thumb2::thumb2::thumb2::thumb2::thumb2:
chrisbmtb

Hi Chris , thank you, the bike was a kit.

 

[Guest]

Morning all, and afternoon or good evening to some.

Although very warm yesterday I decided to take a risk and spray the Citroen, quite impressed myself. Used the neo with the paint every thing in sight needle a .5 .


Didn't like the idea of masking both sides of the widows as the instructions said, so did the base and doors like this. After the gloss varnish I 'll attempt the fit them having cleaned out the groves.

Thanks for looking in .

 

[Guest]

After another hot day having watched too much tv, I ventured into the cave. Not bad with a slight breeze and now in the shade window wise.

Excuse the slight blur in the photos i thought they were better than they are.

Car now glossed in ak 3rd Gen , will it need another coat or what ? Don't want to spend hrs cutting it back , although the doors will need to be stripped as they are rubbish.





Now some of the figures, as I said not the sharpest photos sorry.



Bit of a clean up under the right eye and more paint to do on suit.



this one has just had a basic coat of paints.




Waist coat had been painted in light grey, but looks to much like a primmer so will find a darker grey.
The basket has has old wood as an undercoat, need to find nice basket colour.

Bit by bit, but with the variations in the clothes colours it takes time. More like 50 shades of brown !



Thanks for looking in, any hints on the gloss will be welcome.

 

[Mini Me]

Car looks good JR......too bad about the doors. The "folks" are coming along nicely and it should be a very interesting scene once it is completed. :thumb2:

 

[Guest]

Car looks good JR......too bad about the doors. The "folks" are coming along nicely and it should be a very interesting scene once it is completed. :thumb2:

Thanks buddy.

 

[scottie3158]

John, All the elements are coming together.

 

[Guest]

John, All the elements are coming together.

Cheers Paul, certainly taking time.

 

[Jim R]

Car looking good. Figures are really coming on well.