Community Build Project #3 - Figure

Wow, Mike. That is incredible!! I can see that I've got a lot to learn yet. It's a good thing my Silver Surfer is all one color. Yep, I'm still working (?) on him. I've got a little more sanding to do and then one last coat of primer (hopefully) and then a coat of paint followed by the polishing powder and he's done.

Ray

Hey guys, heres the finished fig that I would have entered.
http://www.finescale.com/fsm/community/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=5223

Mike

Yes they are original sculpts done for a model railroad manufacturer. They are sculpted in 1/16 scale and then panagraphed down to 1/48 (O scale).

Those are really cool. Did you sculpt those from scratch?

Ray

I know it's past July 1st but here are the latest "railroad " figures I worked on last month. They are titled "Subway riders"
http://rongeorge.com/modules/Gallery/figures/P7050019

Me too.....
Unfortunately I had a little set back and lost some time on the figure. I will not be meeting the July 1 deadline. It's so close to finishing too. Ah well, maybe next one. I'll post the pics anyway in the figure section when he's complete.

Sorry to have missed this one.

Mike

Hey guys.

I am sorry to say that I'm gonna be a no-show for this CBP. All intentions were good, but life has taken a turn and I've just had zero time to spend on my favorite hobby. I'll still get it finished, but unfortunately it's going to be way late.

I'm moving to a new house in a few days and all of my modelling stuff is now packed away. I have no idea how long it will be before I'll be able to set it up again, so I'll have to live vicariously through you guys for a while!!

Murray

Well, I'm still plugging away at the Silver Surfer. The puttying, sanding, smoothing, etc. is taking a lot longer than I had imagined. It's starting to come together but there is still a fair amount of work to do. I put a second coat of primer on last night and found some more seams, dips, etc that need some extra putty so that's my afternoon filled up. I did do a bit of experimenting with the polishing powder and man, that stuff is amazing. As long as I can get the body smoothed out nice, it will look awesome! I tried it over a black basecoat and am going to do another test over a white basecoat to see what a difference it makes. I did take some in-progress pictures with my regular camera so once I get those developed I'll see if I can get them posted.

Ray

Here is renarts new gallery!

http://rongeorge.com/albums/renartsprojects/

I renamed it to better describe it, :)

Here is the image he posted above, but is now blank.

Thanks guys. I'm kind of anxious on this one, cause after it, there is a 120mm Mounted Red Lancer waiting. The cool thing was my wife pushed me into getting that one. I just have to paint it to look like her horse......

As I hit the next milestone I post more.

Mike

Excellent job, Mike.

Ray

That looks real good, Renarts. For a moment, I thought it was a picture of a real person! It looks very realistic!

Heres my progress report:
More pics in the figure catagory http://www.finescale.com/fsm/community/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=4002

But a teaser here.

Mike

Here's an update on my Silver Surfer.

The seams around the joints were terrible so I had a lot of filling to do. I started puttying a couple of days ago and did some sanding yesterday. It's working out quite well actually. I finished puttying all the joints tonight and will try and get them sanded down tomorrow. After that it will be ready to paint. Murray has generously offered to drop off some SNJ Polishing Powder for me to try (Thanks Murray). It will be somewhat of an experiment because I have never tried that stuff before. I have read some really good things about it though so hopefully I can muddle my way through it. I haven't decided yet if I am going to finish the surfboard the same way or do something a little different to create some contrast. I have been looking at some of that color-changing paint (I forget what brand at the moment) called "Ice". It is basically a black undertone with different colored metallic specks in it. It looks pretty cool and I think would go along pretty well with the subject. That is still up in the air though. It's really hard to find reference pictures of him (go figure).

Anyway, I am still plugging away and am actually further ahead that I was with the last CBP so that is a very positive sign.
I have already taken some in progress pictures (with a regular camera) and so I will try and get them scanned somewhere and post them as well as some finished pics when I'm done.
3 weeks and counting. No pressure!!

Ray

Update. First coat of (white) primer revealed a few places where the sanding/trimming had not been 100% smooth. Re-worked those areas (the primer somehow made it easier to work that weird softish plastic. Second coat of primer, black, this time, has just been put on. Looks good. She is quite gorgeous, the Babe..! Can't wait to give it a shiny look. I left the head primd in white as this will be easier to cover with flesh tones and light browns fo the hair.

So how did everyone do? Just thought I would ask.

I've already started building for the diaroama. I have built a 88mm anti-aircraft gun (Sd.kfz.7/2 flack 37). I just bought a 8ton Semi track (sd.kfz.7). Going to start building that when I get my pe part. Oh I have also built some barricades. I'm just trying to find either some barded wire or razor wire.

I have a long way to go before I finsih the diorama, but hey at least I started....Lol

Adws, good job, they look quite neat. Now what you need is to put them on a small diorama, put them in context. They'll look even better!

Got mine started. Fig is cleaned up and I painted the face (oils)and sallet. Some assembly work has been completed and the initial base colors for the gambeson, hauberk, livery coat and cuisses are done (acrylics). The accessories (buckler, miseriecord and arrows) are blocked in. Started some work on the display base.

Mike

hey guys wait for meee!!!!!!!!
I´m still looking for a figure to buy!!!!
Then i´ll join you!
keep up the good work
Lito

Well I didn't do anything special. The only thing that I did was painted everything before I started putting together. Before I even remove it from the thing that all the pieces come on. I know once I remore the pieces I have to do a little bit of painting,. I have found for me that works best for me. Easier to paint liitle items still attach, than trying to hold them with my fingers or anything else.

Everything is also hand painted. I didn't use my airbush. I think for my next figures I will try to use my airbush.

Well, here is my first update. I've got my Silver Surfer put together. Now I have to start the puttying and filing/sanding. The gaps between the joints are terrible, some as big as 1/16" or more. I'm going to pick up some Milliputt and try my hand at that. That will probably take me a few days at least and then it will be time to paint. I'm going to have to try and find a digital camera so that I can post some pics.

Ray

Excellent work, adws. How about a little run-down on the techniques, etc. that you used?

Ray

Ok at least those links worked. Finally. There are 5 pics of the firgures I'm doing. I'm not finished yet. I still have to do some touchups to it. But that is it.

Ok lets try this now.

http://rongeorge.com/modules/Gallery/figures/Gunners1

http://rongeorge.com/modules/Gallery/figures/Gunners2

http://rongeorge.com/modules/Gallery/figures/Gunners3

http://rongeorge.com/modules/Gallery/figures/Gunners4

http://rongeorge.com/modules/Gallery/figures/Gunners5

Yes it does make sence, and that is what I did. I don't know why I can't see them.

hmmmm

You might want to try answering through the 'Reply to Topic' button (at the bottom of the last post, towards the right), rather than through the 'Quick Reply' field (that I'm using now). The 'Reply to topic' features the buttons that give you the tags to insert an image or a link direct into your message (just type or paste the URL address between the two tags (such as

If that makes sense!

Hope this works now

Ok let me try this. If this works then I will post a few more.

http://www.geocities.com/jgfullingim/Gunners1.jpg

Adws, check this out:

http://www.finescale.com/fsm/community/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=30

Domi