Figures and dioramas in progress
Don’t ask me where the title came from – “Rascasse” (as in the famous Monaco corner) combined with the term “Corner-boys” has a wonderful ring to it – anyway maybe it’s because I just like the term – Love it! #rascassecornerboys Continue reading “Rascasse corner-boys!”
In order to rebuild his arms I had to lay in some foundation Sylmasta onto which I can render the finer detail in Miliput (or I might even try some of that new Magic Sculpt I picked up in Telford?). Continue reading “McQueens surgery going well!”
……..except temptation” – a famous quote by Oscar Wilde! Yes these figures arrived in the post on Friday morning from Model Factory Hiro and although I promised myself that I wouldn’t touch them until my current 43rd scale batch is complete, I just couldn’t resist opening the packets over the week-end. Continue reading ““I can resist everything……………………!”
It’s a while since I watched LeMans (the movie) but as part of some research I was doing lately I came across this wonderful digitized still photo from the movie showing Steve McQueen (the lead actor) giving the “two fingered” salute to one of his opponents. Continue reading “McQueens two fingered Le Mans salute?”
Some of the figures I have on the bench at the moment are hopefully going to finish up as the characters in the collage above, so I’m using the photos as a reference for painting up their suits & logos etc,  Pironi and Villeneuve are both in there as I’m planning a small vignette from their big bust-up at Imola in ’82. On that occasion Villeneuve would have been wearing his distinctive white suit with Pironi wearing red. Continue reading “Driver figures in progress at the moment”
My earlier post about a Senna figure vignette entitled “Getting ready to be famous” refers. As the piece is now on Ebay featuring a revised helmet and gloves combination I’m posting pictures here of how that revision to the helmet and gloves was carried out. Continue reading “Ayrton Senna -“Getting ready to be famous” – (part 2)”
All primed now and ready for base coating – the brass rod in the foreground is the flag pole for the waving guy in the background – (a sixties track official) – next time I’ll have base coats on them … Continue reading Primed and ready to go – more workbench progress.
I’m concentrating on 43rd scale at the moment to try and make some inroads on my vast supply of unstarted figures – about 200 at last count plus another 30 in various stages of being modified. Added to this lot are another crop of larger figures totalling 70 or 80 in a variety of scales ie, 1/20 & 1/18 and 1/12. Continue reading “Workbench update”
I just started blocking in the main colours on this 1/20 figure from GF-models. I don’t have any decals to suit, but my intention is to paint him up as Lewis Hamilton so I’m going to hand-paint the logos – we shall see and as they say: “all will be revealed! Continue reading “Lewis Hamilton 1/20 scale driver figure – WIP”
Just putting the finishing touches to this one – a Denizen casting once again – I’ve perched him a’top an F1 timepiece to give it scale – he’s wearing his “S” t-shirt – must put the nacional logo on his hat! Continue reading “Ayrton Senna 1:43 denizen figure (WIP)”
