Neil's 1/32 WWI Nurse

[Neil Merryweather]

Well Fanny (see what I did there ?)has been primed and part assembled.



'A simple task', you may think, but who managed to break off the carefully moulded pencil and had to replace it with a piece of wire....?


One Job- ONE JOB!

 

[The Smythe Meister]

One Job- ONE JOB!

HA yeah,"one job" indeed.....
.... But superbly rescued there Neil

 

[Neil Merryweather]

OOps sorry , I didn't put up the 'Sprue Shot'


and here's the box art..

cheers
N

 

[scottie3158]

Count me in mate I will follow along and learn a few things.

 

[Neil Merryweather]

welcome aboard Paul!

 

[Jim R]

Looking forward to this and like Scottie I'm sure I'll learn a thing or two. The box art is quite stunning to my eyes.

 

[JR]

The first thing is she related to Matron Neil ?
I shall follow closely , will there be any surgery ?

 

[Tim Marlow]

Looking forward to this. Cast looks very clean. A subtle element to the sculpt I seem to remember is that she is perceptibly shorter than male figures from the same range.

Box art is by Mike Butler isn’t it? I seem to remember Andy Belsey doing a dio backdrop for it…..

 

[PaulinKendal]

Nice sculpt, but lots of 'white' to paint - good luck with that!

 

[Steve Brodie]

Gotta love TW figures, superb. Chair pulled up.

 

[Neil Merryweather]

Looking forward to this and like Scottie I'm sure I'll learn a thing or two. The box art is quite stunning to my eyes.

False modesty aside, Jim, I don't know what you're going to learn from me on this. My painting process is always a 'fingers crossed' affair, unless it's some history you're expecting .
I have to agree about the box art though- it's rather a high bar for me

 

[Neil Merryweather]

The first thing is she related to Matron Neil ?
I shall follow closely , will there be any surgery ?

No surgery John, just a simple out of the box painting project. I feel I owe it to myself after the last couple of epics!
I do have diorama plans for her though.....

 

[JayCee]

I will follow along too. Always liked a Painted Lady.
John.

 

[boatman]

Count me in as well Neil
CHRISB

 

[Neil Merryweather]

Looking forward to this. Cast looks very clean. A subtle element to the sculpt I seem to remember is that she is perceptibly shorter than male figures from the same range.

Box art is by Mike Butler isn’t it? I seem to remember Andy Belsey doing a dio backdrop for it…..

It's a very clean cast, took me all of five minutes to clean up (AND break the pencil...)
I believe she IS shorter than the men in the range, I'll take a pic later as a comparison.
As for the box art, you're quite right it's by Mike the Kiwi Butler, so don't expect ANYTHING like that standard from ham-fisted me! I'll be like Tony Hancock in that old film (The Artist?) lol.
Andy Belsey did a superb tent model for her back in the day when Military Modelling was an actual magazine RIP .

 

[Geoffers]

Nice save with the pencil Neil

I’ll be following along too

Geoff.

 

[Tim Marlow]

False modesty aside, Jim, I don't know what you're going to learn from me on this. My painting process is always a 'fingers crossed' affair, unless it's some history you're expecting .
I have to agree about the box art though- it's rather a high bar for me

Isn’t everyones?

 

[Neil Merryweather]

I believe she IS shorter than the men in the range, I'll take a pic later as a comparison.

Considerably shorter!
She is 54mm he is 63mm
that would make her 1.728 meters (5'7 3/4"), and him a massive 2.016meters (6'71/4")
So possibly not strictly1-32 scale, then....

 

[Tim Marlow]

Good grief…..don’t remember the figure I compared her with being that much taller…..she is pretty much spot on though….

 

[Neil Merryweather]

Good grief…..don’t remember the figure I compared her with being that much taller…..she is pretty much spot on though….

she's actually quite tall for a girl of the time. My Grandson (16) is 6'7" and I'm 5'8" so it's not inconceivable at all.
When he hugs me I feel like a hobbit hugging Gandalf ! (he's not allowed to do it in public now)