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  1. PaulinKendal

    75mm Aradia Miniatures, The Green Knight

    Oh, I think the horse has more than a little 'My Little Pony' vibe to it, Tim. But I'll accept seahorse, too. It's certainly fantastical.
  2. PaulinKendal

    75mm Aradia Miniatures, The Green Knight

    Here's the base under construction. The two sides of the horsie and its head are glued up and a first fill underway. The base is a block of hardwood with several pieces of Scots Pine bark glued one on top of another on top of that. The bark is quite brittle and flakes easily, so I've used...
  3. PaulinKendal

    Latest Acquisitions (2024)

    Oil paints, synthetic brushes for dedicated use with same, low odour thinners, and some CA gel for assembling resin miniatures. The blame for the oils I lay squarely at @Steve Ski 's door! :smiling5:
  4. PaulinKendal

    What do YOU apply filler with,??

    Use my finger, mainly, especially for initial application. I also use other tools already mentioned above, especially those dentists tools and cocktail sticks, of course - where would we be without them? But I also use silicone rubber shaping 'brushes', like these: which are great for applying...
  5. PaulinKendal

    75mm Aradia Miniatures, The Green Knight

    Looking at that stock image, it's clear they've not used the base as supplied, which is pretty minimal: I've been thinking I need to drill and pin the horse to the base for durability, but there's not much material to work with. That picture makes me think I should construct a bespoke base, so...
  6. PaulinKendal

    75mm Aradia Miniatures, The Green Knight

    I've no idea, Jim! I'll put him together first. I much prefer painting the completed figure, rather than painting sub-assemblies, so I'll leave off the halberd and paint that separately, but everything else will go together from the off, despite it being a complex figure with lots of nooks and...
  7. PaulinKendal

    75mm Aradia Miniatures, The Green Knight

    This is next on the bench. I'm hoping to increase the amount of work I do in oils on this figure. I'm waiting for some gel CA to arrive before putting this together. But I have done a bit of preparatory work tidying up, and especially altering the halberd. The haft is supplied as two resin...
  8. PaulinKendal

    70-75mm Roy Hunt Miniatures, Action at Dennewitz

    I have not a clue, Tim! No research, no expert knowledge at all I'm afraid. The sculptor, Roy Hunt, said he was "Capt. Egloff, I think". P.S. I've just done a bit of research! He was in the 1st Life Hussars, Prussian Army.
  9. PaulinKendal

    70-75mm Roy Hunt Miniatures, Action at Dennewitz

    This is odd. One picture is all that's necessary to show you the completed bas relief image. I'm reasonably pleased with it. Certainly enjoyed the process, and it has increased my confidence in trying more complex freehand designs in future. And I'd certainly give flat figures another go -...
  10. PaulinKendal

    70-75mm Roy Hunt Miniatures, Action at Dennewitz

    Getting there. I had a proper go with quite thick oil washes on this, after a gloss varnish. I'm increasingly thinking I must try using oils more extensively... Col. Clouet needs his face painting, obviously.
  11. PaulinKendal

    70-75mm Roy Hunt Miniatures, Action at Dennewitz

    I'm really happy with how this is progressing. Currently working on faces and frogging. Yes, they're a mess. Much work to be done.
  12. PaulinKendal

    Latest Acquisitions (2024)

    Just arrived from El Greco Miniatures. These are by RN Estudio, 3D printed by El Greco, with a layer height of 30 microns. They look nice and smooth to me, but priming will show up stepping, if there's any evident enough to need remediation. And this, also from El Greco: This is probably the...
  13. PaulinKendal

    Painting 12mm (1/144, N scale) figures

    You're both very kind. Chewing gum on stilts - love it! The more I paint figures, the more apparent it becomes that careful selection of the raw materials is absolutely vital. I wouldn't dream of using some scrubby old brush that couldn't form a point to save its life, nor use blobby...
  14. PaulinKendal

    Painting 12mm (1/144, N scale) figures

    I just painted four of these little blighters - that was more than enough! The clean-up was a nightmare - so much flash - and they're so blobby and indistinct. But well worth doing, if only to ensure I now hold @Tim Marlow 's work in even greater esteem!
  15. PaulinKendal

    70-75mm Roy Hunt Miniatures, Action at Dennewitz

    Both horses now with some colour. Still lots of smoothing and detailing required.
  16. PaulinKendal

    70-75mm Roy Hunt Miniatures, Action at Dennewitz

    I've started pushing paint around, just to get a feel of how this works - so this is VERY rough! Because everything is super low profile, the harness is fiendishly difficult to get sharp edges on. Black on white means I need to paint the tiny upstanding edges of the straps black, without...
  17. PaulinKendal

    70-75mm Roy Hunt Miniatures, Action at Dennewitz

    As a working platform I've mounted it on a piece of stiff 2mm card, using tiny blobs of Tacky Wax. Hopefully this'll hold it in place while I'm painting, but release once I'm done and need to fix it permanently to a suitable mount.
  18. PaulinKendal

    70-75mm Roy Hunt Miniatures, Action at Dennewitz

    So the clean-up proved surprisingly straightforward. The thin, brittle resin snapped out very obliging, so long as I just nibbled away at it with a fine bladed scalpel. Unfortunately, Colonel Clouet lost his head: I guess a could use CA or epoxy to mend it. CA won't be very strong, epoxy...
  19. PaulinKendal

    70-75mm Roy Hunt Miniatures, Action at Dennewitz

    A close-up of the accompanying artwork.
  20. PaulinKendal

    70-75mm Roy Hunt Miniatures, Action at Dennewitz

    Here's something different - bas relief figures. Not done anything like this before, so it could be tricky, we shall see. According to El Greco Miniatures, this is what Roy Hunt said about this: "It's taken from a painting that depicted a moment where Capt Egloff (I think) captures Colonel...

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