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    90mm Skinner's Horse Captain

    I have finished the braid and everything above the waist, except for the pugaree. I think I’ve got the shade of gold braid too yellow-in fact in some pictures it looks almost silver- but I’m living with it. It would have meant a mix which I couldn't be sure of replicating at each session (in...
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    90mm Skinner's Horse Captain

    I’ve been beavering away with this guy in between all the household jobs that keep getting thrown at me, as well as helping my eldest daughter with a ‘Life Laundry’- clearing her lock-up of stuff she’s stored but hasn’t thought about for four years. So, first the yellow. It took four coats to...
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    Neil's 1-35 Liberty Ship Diorama

    Sorry things have been a bit quiet here, but I've not been idle. here are the first two of the second six So, on with the next two cheers Neil
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    Latest Acquisitions (2025)

    I don't normally post images of my latest purchases , mostly because I'm trying to use up my stash so I don't buy very much. If you've read my latest post on the DH88 Comet, you will understand. As I do mostly 1-32 scale figures this should last me a decade!
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    90mm Skinner's Horse Captain

    I’ve now painted the turban, and I'm feeling a bit better about our boy’s prospects now. I’ve wimped out a bit on the embroidery, compared to the real thing, but who’s to know....;):rolleyes:? But the red cone thing went better than I expected, given that the ‘sculptor’ had not provided any...
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    Neil's Battle of Britain Pilots- BoB GB

    This is going to be my contribution to the BoB GB. ...at least something inspired by this (clearly posed ) picture. I’ve been a BoB nut since seeing the film in 1969 aged 12 (I suspect I am not alone on this forum in that regard...), and this is another long mulled-over idea that this GB has...
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    90mm Skinner's Horse Captain

    Well I've finally got some paint on him. I now know what a joy it is to paint a well-sculpted face, and OMG, what a crap job the ‘sculptor’ did of this one! My apologies to anyone who ever tried to paint him. Unfortunately my abilities are no better in the painting department, and my patience...
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    90mm Skinner's Horse Captain

    Now that I’ve got the paints out for the D-Day GIs , I'm also going to break out of my comfort zone, both in scale and material. This is my first ever 90mm figure,and not just for painting. This is a white metal casting of the first master figure I ever made for the late Michael Hearn of...
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    Neil's 1-35 Liberty Ship Diorama

    Thanks everyone. I am relieved to say they look ok with the primer on
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    Neil's 1-35 Liberty Ship Diorama

    I’ve finished the next four GIs, so all six are now ready for priming - and painting, YAY! GIs 3&4, the .30cal team, both have 3D printed packboards which I originally created for the Iwo Jima project-(oops, remember that?) and they have their packs strapped on top of the gun and ammo...
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    Peek 'a Boo!........A 1/72 Lancaster Bomber

    That's pretty special Ron. Great job. Here's an inspiration for you..... full size centurion (or chieftain, I can never remember which is which) at Bovington
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    Neil's 1-35 Liberty Ship Diorama

    I’m afraid it’s been a couple of months since my last ‘confession’, due to domestic responsibilities followed by a nice little private commission. I wasn’t intending to have a break from this but SWMBO decided I needed one - or more to the point, she wanted stuff done. And after a couple of...
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    Review Favorite Old Builds

    Love that, Paul, the engineers worked equally hard. I've just seen a FAMO in the flesh in a Museum in Normandy- my god it's a BEAST! My son and my grandson- he's 6'8" !! (my son is his uncle, not his dad, who is almost as tall,-but not quite) I can recommend the Overlord Museum- probably...
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    Neil's 1-35 Liberty Ship Diorama

    Just a quickie from me. I’ve assembled the second batch of six GIs- I calculate that I need at least 18 guys along the covered bit before I can nail it down and carry on with the next stage of the ship. Much as I hated them I decided to use up the remaining Italeri torsos, and also the Italeri...
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    Neil's 1-35 Liberty Ship Diorama

    Well that WAS fun! I was planning to leave the accessories off until I was ready to place all the figures, but I just can’t wait that long!There are going to be so many on this deck and I wanted to see how they worked together. So I have placed most of the details, some of them with PVA, so I...
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    Model figures - British Troops at rest - where to find?

    theyre not exactly relaxed poses but they don't have kit or webbing so they are easily adaptable
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    Neil's 1-35 Liberty Ship Diorama

    As always ,thanks very much everyone. I’ve been putting it off but I had to start eventually- the weathering. I had planned to leave it until everything was together but I realised that was utter folly . There’s so much stuff on top of stuff that I need to do the ‘background’ parts before they...
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    Neil's 1-35 Liberty Ship Diorama

    Note also the use of inflated life preservers on the heavy kit- I'm going to try for that as well....
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    Neil's 1-35 Liberty Ship Diorama

    As ever, thanks everyone for the continued interest. Well who would have thought it? They’re painted and I quite enjoyed the experience! But not at first... As discussed I batch-painted them, and I found it immensely tedious, especially by the time I got to number six every time. I didn’t take...
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