Community Build Project #3 - Figure

Where are the final pictures?

I wonder if....(I have to go check on something)

it can be un-stickyied, Dave... It's over now.

Are there any updates for this project or shall I "un-sticky" it and let it retire?

Not really, after all day of users and computer problems, complaints about the internet. People complainting about no jobs. I really need to get away from it. I also suffer from a problem i can not sleep but just about six hours a night. So i go to bed around 1 a.m., so from 7 p.m. till 1 a.m. i am busy. usually have 3-4 differnet projects going at one time. I am working on two 1/350 Guided Missle destroyers, 1 1/350 Tamiya USS Flectcher, and 1 1/700 Skywave Sumner class WWII destoryer. Paint alittle, build alittle, paint alittle build alittle.

I think we can call 1stsgt here the SAW of figure modelling.

Hope to see you post pics of those figures.

Keep 'em comin'.

Wow! That's some serious progress. You better go buy some more kits so you've got a few in the queue !! :)

Murray

Just finished last month:
(1) 1/35 Delta Force in Somila
(1) Modern Rangers
(1) 82nd Airborne (Gulf War)
(1) 101st Airborne (Gulf War)
(1) U.S. Sniper Team
(1) LRRP Vietnam (Made out to be Mercenaries)
How can i do this I HATE TV, Wife Loves TV

Hey, seeing as he's (the surfer) not doing anything but sitting on his but all day, maybe you can get him to do some work on the Ferrari while you're at work?

I think I can let the Ferrari go, but I'm gonna hold you to the surfer. I'm dying to see that one finished...

Murray

QUOTE: Originally posted by Murray Kish Hey, where's the silver surfer!!

He's still surfing around the 'Realm of unfinished projects'.

I thought I wasn't getting anything done while I was on leave but now that I'm back to work again I don't have time for anything. It'll be here eventually.......I promise.

Ray

dj, thanks for the nice words on my figures. I did have some tough time on camo because the figures are from Dragon and the paint codes are from Gunze (I think). What we usually have around here are Tamiya paints so I had a hard time matching the colors with what the guide shows. Well, luckily I was able to mix my own colors closest to those recommended. All the figures are hand-painted.

Hey, where's the silver surfer!!

Murray

Wolfp.

I like it. Wish I would have been able to do more work on my Gundam dude. It will definitely get done. I might have to resurrect this thread from the archives to post the finished pics...

Murray

I am very proud of that one and the way it turned out, its one of those times where you goof around using a different technique and it just comes out right. I used layering and all told I want to say there are 7 shades ranging from a burnt umber to an almost white (I have an annoying habit of not writing down notes while doing this, so I am not sure if I could reproduce the mixing proprtions again if I wanted to). Another habit I have gotten away from is using white to lighten colors, I may use it in the final highlight but nowhere else, the deep base color was just continually mixed with yellow in less proportion as the color got lighter. Since I started using the color wheel I have noticed my figures look a whole lot better.

Dwight and Wolfp, your figures looks really neat! Those camouflaged uniforms look real complicated, Dwight. And that Chaplain thingy is superb. How did you do the 'bone' colour, Wolfp?

Well.

Better late than never I suppose. The first is a WH40K dreadnought that I had laying around forever, next is a terminator chaplain, the third set is my next project, my first larger scale figure attempted...wish me luck. The back banner on the dread was done in colored pencil, learned a valuable trick from my daughter, apparently clear flat will cause pencil to smudge (thus the smudges) but hairspray seals colored pencil perfeclty. The back banner for the chaplain is still a project in the works, I am attempting a large scale drawing then reducing through photo shop. I'll let you know how it turns out. Res is a little screwy, still trying to figure out whether its the camera or the dummy behind the camera (more than likely the later). Enjoy

http://rongeorge.com/modules/Gallery/scifi/P8010007
http://rongeorge.com/modules/Gallery/scifi/P8010008
http://rongeorge.com/modules/Gallery/scifi/P8010010
http://rongeorge.com/modules/Gallery/scifi/P8010011

http://rongeorge.com/modules/Gallery/figures/P8010005
http://rongeorge.com/modules/Gallery/figures/P8010004

http://rongeorge.com/modules/Gallery/figures/P8010001
http://rongeorge.com/modules/Gallery/figures/P8010002

Just finished this three days ago. These are German Paratroopers hitching a ride on a King Tiger (probably in the Ardennes).

German Paratroopers: Dragon
Tank Crew: Tamiya & Academy
Tank: Tamiya King Tiger

Sorry for the low resolution of the picture. My digital camera is 5 years old. I am still saving for a new one.

The link didn't work for me either

sorry

Sorry Dwight, couldn't get the link to work...

Murray

Just finished these figures the other night. Intended for my King Tiger. Sorry for the low resolution pics. My digital camera is 5 years old. Still saving for a new one.

http://www.geocities.com/ddta_ala/TigerII-6.jpg

Just finished these:

http://www.geocities.com/ddta_ala/TigerII-6.jpg

Dwight Ta-ala

sweet, i'll give it ago...i'll keep it simple tho...

i have one already in mind, its the Australian version of the Perry Class Missile Frigate ... might change tho due to availability

Anyone who wants to join is welcome. It's not about how 'good' the end result is (you're the only important judge of your own work anyways). It's more about creating a common focus and sharing the thoughts and ideas that go along with the building process.
Enjoy !!
Murray

There's no minimum experience required, ILuv3ggs. That's the idea of this project, getting better through doing things you've never done before. Armour has not been done yet, no. Maybe project #5..?

Do you have to be good to enter...?

i was thinking about joining in on the ship building contest...never built one before tho

btw, those figures are awsome, specially the Archer

keep em comming

btw, has an armour subject been done yet?

Mike, I agree with you on all points. I'm a bit guilty of not showing up my work in progress. I did get a new digital camera but actually find little time at home to do stuff like adding pics onto Ron's site and such... I've yet to meet the deadline too, but that's not what's important here. Trying out new things is what's CBP is all about. I haven't built a ship in a long time (5 years I think), and I'm quite ready to try something a bit more complicated with them, in particular etched details. I have a number of sailing ships I'd like to build one of those days, but that will be for later I think. I also have a Roman galley but I lack info to start it.

I could go for that (Project #4 being a ship) Its as good a project as any. September 1 is a good start time too.

Maybe I'll be able to hit the deadlline on this one. (lol)

Thanks for the comments guys.

This whole idea if a CBP is fantastic. It gives a realistic deadline and is a wonderful opportunity for builders to expand their repetoire of techniques. Kudos to you guys who are the drive behind this. By doing models in different disciplines it allows us to learn new techniques and improve our abilities in the disciplines we would prefer. Different types of kits make you concentrate on different aspects of modlebuilding. i.e. If you build a car, you have to pay much more attention to the finish than you would say a tank. Not that its harder or easier but that its different. Thus expanding knowledge and technical ability. Exposing the builder to a different type of assembly, technique and way we look at our subjects and an appreciation for what others are doing. The deadline provides a drive or impetus to keep going and seek solutions to quandries and problems that would otherwise slow down the building process. Normally if I reach an obstacle, I take my time and look for the answer passively, but with this deadline it provides a gaol that makes you get up and do the research or problem solve. LEading to the advantages of research, or the learning of experimentation. Necessity does act as the mother of invention.

Personaly, I would like to see not only more partcipation, but a better response in the form of either in progress photos or completed project photos. This goes hand in hand not only with inspiration but also with the learning process. Besides, I'd like to see these other projects. I'm pretty darn curious as to what others are working on and the techniques and results they're producing. Its fun and sort of the idea behind all this, is it not?

Eventually I'd like to see one of these CBP's be a all the same kit. Just to see what others are doing and they're interpretation of a project. Sure it may be boring for some, but there is an individual "fingerprint" on each kit, in the build, detailing or the finish.

Thanks

Mike

Hey guys,

Just checking back in after being away for awhile. Nice work (for those that finished). Have a great summer!!

Murray

Hey dj. Well, we'll have to see what everyone else thinks but I would be up for another one in Sept. Hopefully I'll be done the Silver Surfer by then.

A ship sounds fine to me. That's something else that I've never built before. I've actually been eyeing that personal watercraft model that Monogram just came out with. Would that fit into the 'ship' category? Anyways, we've got lots of time yet. We'll just let the stragglers finish up first and then see if we can regroup.

Ray

Mike, it's simply superb. Have had to stop working on my BatGirl for the moment, 'cause I'm just too busy with other non-modeling related stuff... I long to complete it, though.
Thinking about the future, would we want to start project #4 in September? And if so, what about a ship?