Simple and Small

[scottie3158]

This is going to be a beauty.

 

[Andy the Sheep]

Joining the rabble to follow your progresses Richard... and I already feel for that poor sleeping GI!

 

[Tworrs]

Great start Wabble, following with interest.

 

[rtfoe]

Fantastic work richard , loving this one

This is going to be a beauty.

Joining the rabble to follow your progresses Richard... and I already feel for that poor sleeping GI!

Great start Wabble, following with interest.

Thanks Tony, Scottie, Andrea and Garry.
Yup, that GI is in for a full bombardment.

I've done a bit more to the base and fittings... assembled the lamp post. Sanded down all seams. I will create the glass with White Glue after it's painted. I thought of using clear acetate but WG seems a lot easier.

Got the packet of large ball pin heads and cut the pins shorter and stuck them onto the pillars ..

Textured the foam cobble stones and cut out parts of it to fit the manhole and drainage gratings...

I pressed the cobble stones along the edge of the pavement to create an indentation like a shallow drain leading to the grating. I notice this feature in the old villages of Cotswold videos. Painting this slightly damp and with moss and grime would be interesting. Putty will be used to fill gaps around these fittings.

Because this is such a small base I can pay a bit more attention to detailing.
That's all for now, thanks for looking in.

Cheers,
Wabble

 

[JayCee]

Richard, I guess the pigeons are edible, but I would never eat one. The damn things carry more diseases than rats !
John.

 

[rtfoe]

Richard, I guess the pigeons are edible, but I would never eat one. The damn things carry more diseases than rats !
John.

Hi John, so basically they're rats of the skies being city or urban birds just like rats. Recently the local population were alerted to not mingle amongst large flocks of pigeons due to them carrying diseases.

Cheers,
Wabble

 

[HAWKERHUNTER]

You have my attention Richard. Interesting subject looking great.

 

[rtfoe]

Nice to have you along Steve,

I've done a little bit more since...
I started collecting stuff together the fill up a belt made from foil...

The rest are tin rations from plastic rod, canteen and canteen mug sculpted from two canteen parts and an unfolded handle from foil.
Then I got the radio attached to the carrier and taped it down with Elastoplast that look like heavy canvas straps.

Sculpted bread from a German Teller mine, stuck a bayonet in, wrapped it in foil and made an opened can with rod.

Roughly piled the whole lot on the bench just to check on composition...



Basically some of the stuff haven't been assembled yet as you can see.
Now busy spraying the base colours on the pigeons...pictures later.

Cheers,
Wabble

 

[Neil Merryweather]

fantastic stuff there, Wabble, looks like you got your Mojo back!

 

[Jim R]

Those bits and pieces look superb.

 

[rtfoe]

fantastic stuff there, Wabble, looks like you got your Mojo back!

Thanks Neil, just hope it stays...it's been behaving like a Mexican jumping bean lately.

Cheers,
Wabble

 

[rtfoe]

Those bits and pieces look superb.

Thank you Jim, making these little bits has been satisfying.

Cheers,
Wabble

 

[rtfoe]

Made more progress, base painted the pigeons and cleaned up his Grand rifle but here is a picture of the canteen canvas cover that I just drilled and sculpted with a motor tool...

I'm seriously thinking of replacing the entrenching tool with a MiniArt one which is better detailed.
Following is a composition test again...you can't have too many of it.

Then I spent more time on the base sculpture slowly adding detail nicks and dents to the foam.

Will remove some blocks from the street later but it's near done. Will coat it with acrylic house paint and then prime with black post shading.
I hope to start painting soon.

Cheers,
Wabble

 

[JR]

Wabble, good to see you .
Loving the idea, and as usual great modelling.
My ex son in law worked for a pest control company he called them flying rats, full of disease.

 

[Airborne01]

Developing nicely Richard!
Steve

 

[Tim Marlow]

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My ex son in law worked for a pest control company he called them flying rats, full of disease.

We seem to say that about any species that successfully adapts to live in the sprawling urban environment we creat John. Rock Doves, Foxes, Rats, Seagulls, all get labelled like this. On the other hand we try to “protect” the “pretty“ species under threat from our encroachment. Weird aren’t we. Personally I work on the premise that rock doves don’t hurt me so I don’t hurt them. Just remember that if we didn’t have developed health care and sanitation we would also be “riddled with disease”. I suppose that if rock doves, foxes, gulls etc collected their droppings together and dumped them in a river we’d say they were civilised

 

[Jim R]

Totally agree Tim. The only real pests are those that WE have introduced. Feral cats decimate ground nesting birds, signal crayfish kill our native crayfish, cane toads have no predators in areas where they have been introduced. When I lived on the Outer Hebrides I was involved with a group trapping mink which were damaging native wildlife. After many years the mink have been virtually eliminated and the decline in the populations of certain birds has been halted.
Sorry Richard to highjack your thread. As always your modelling skills and attention to detail show clearly in this. It may be small but no less full of interest.

 

[Scratchbuilder]

Wabble, you amaze us, sitting here taking it all in.
Wibble.

 

[Scratchbuilder]

Wabble, good to see you .
Loving the idea, and as usual great modelling.
My ex son in law worked for a pest control company he called them flying rats, full of disease.

Wobble
Was the company full of disease, or the ex son in law....
Baffled Wibble from Luton.
PS. Good to see you back.

 

[Miko]

Brilliant! that's really clever

Miko (a bit in awe)