discussion Verlinden 120mm Union Zouave

[Tim Marlow]

Huddy Leadbetter eh.....Nirvana cover one of his on “Live Unplugged”..... and my uncle used to sing “Goodnight Irene” when he was drunk LOL....

 

[Tim Marlow]

PS, Zouave is looking fine as well.....

 

[Guest]

Lovely painting Peter :smiling3:.

 

[Guest]

Thanks Ralph. These Verlinden figures suit me down to the ground.

 

[Guest]

Okey dokey:



Just the hands, musket and base to do to finish it off. The musket strap took some bending over the kettle and I ended up having to glue it under a bit of tension, but hopefully the glue will hold. The base is just as it came.

 

[Guest]

Looking super.

 

[Guest]

Glad you like him Ralph. Thanks for looking in as always.

 

[monica]

such lovely work,Peter,love the colors,
job so very well done,:thumb2:

 

[Steve Jones]

Stunning work as always Peter. Nice to see the big pictures

 

[Guest]

Monica - Thank you.

Steve - Thanks also. I thought 'What the hell?'' with the bigger pictures this time.

 

[Steven000]

Great work Peter, nice paintwork!
Steven

 

[SteveH]

Morning Peter

Lovely work and another masterpiece well delivered.

The reds are really good, and no pink in the highlights, how do you do that?

Happy Easter too, and a sugar free egg?

a BOILED EGG!! LOL

sorry!

Its going to be another sunny, bright and hot day.

As Anna will be off to church I might get to fire up the air brush?

Cleaned windows, changed taps, watered the garden & prepared enough food for an army, yesterday.

Enjoy the day and family.

Time to start the next ACW, perhaps?

Regards

Steve H

 

[Guest]

Steven - Many thanks.

Steve - I greet you on yet another egg-free Easter Sunday morning, To be fair, my wife did buy me some sugar-free sweeties once, but lets just say that they had a rather 'interesting' affect on my stomach. Glad to hear that you've got the odd jobs out of the way and that hopefully you can spend some time at the bench - sounds like you deserve it after that. Baby and Mum back to Lewes today - I'm personally exhausted but have loved every minute.

Re: the reds. It's a question of choosing the lightest colour as your highlight, in this case Scarlet, then working back down the range into the shadows - Scarlet, Flat Red, Dark Red, Black Red the Black Brown.

I think I will start the other ACW today...

 

[Jim R]

Hi Peter
Beautifully done as always, Love the jacket,
Jim

 

[Neil Merryweather]

Re: the reds. It's a question of choosing the lightest colour as your highlight, in this case Scarlet, then working back down the range into the shadows - Scarlet, Flat Red, Dark Red, Black Red the Black Brown

Thanks for sharing the recipe, Peter. It clearly works! Another piece of awesomeness!
I have my horde visiting today so limited bench time expected. That said, the eldest grandson might be in the mood to work on hi s 1-48 Lynx helicopter, so you never know!
Cheers
Neil

 

[Guest]

Steven - Many thanks.

Steve - I greet you on yet another egg-free Easter Sunday morning, To be fair, my wife did buy me some sugar-free sweeties once, but lets just say that they had a rather 'interesting' affect on my stomach. Glad to hear that you've got the odd jobs out of the way and that hopefully you can spend some time at the bench - sounds like you deserve it after that. Baby and Mum back to Lewes today - I'm personally exhausted but have loved every minute.

Re: the reds. It's a question of choosing the lightest colour as your highlight, in this case Scarlet, then working back down the range into the shadows - Scarlet, Flat Red, Dark Red, Black Red the Black Brown.

I think I will start the other ACW today...

Hi Peter.
A story of a diabetic.
My mum was a diabetic and she was always buying lots of sweets and when I say lots that is an understatement.She wouldn't just buy one mars bar at a time she would buy a whole box and this was also with starbar, whispa, flake,marathon,kitkat etc.
Also she would go to thorntons and buy the biggest box of continental chocolates usually two or three at a time and whilst there she would buy the toffee not in ounces but at least a pound in weight.
What you have to think about now is that she was doing this three or four times a week with every sweet imaginable.The amount of sweets that she had pretty much filled a bedroom in the house.
Her whole reasoning for this is that she couldn't get sweets in the war(WW2).
I used to take sweets from the house and give them away to total strangers and at halloween to the kids.
And yes this is a true story.

 

[Guest]

Jim - Thank You.

Neil - Glad you like him. Have a great day with the family and hopefully you will get to do a bit of modelling with your grandson. I had my granddaughter looking on from her high-chair while I built this.

Ralph - Wow, it must have affected your mum's health. That's an incredible story. I had the smallest bite of someone's egg this morning and I'm already feeling dizzy, with a headache coming on. Darn my sweet tooth!