1/12 Airfix Imperial Guard Grenadier

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I'm still spinning from looking at the braid. The backpack is a work of art.

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“Well”, I thought, “you’ve done faces and hands at 1-72 scale, so what’s so scary about a little eagle on a 2mm disc?”

So I broke out the Duro and had a go.
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The bigger one is 2mm diameter, the smaller one is 1.5mm.

They are supposed to look like this
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They’ll do.

Next thing is to mould them. I will try a press mould from Milliput for starters, and see how I get on.

While I had the Duro out I attacked some of the other insignia


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And I had another go at the Sabre Briquet hilt, which I wasn’t happy with first time around.

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Whilst the Duro was out I also finally started work on the 'Flying Scotsman's' kilt, so there will be an update there shortly.
Thanks for looking
Neil
 

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Fantastic detailing....lifting the bar ever higher...
 
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Such skilful work Neal. He's really looking very good indeed.
 

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Very nice Duro work Neal.Its great stuff for detail work,Great for badges et al.Carry on Carruthers.
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I made two moulds from Milliput, each with about 12 impressions. I coated the pattern with WD40 as a release agent ,rather than Vaseline as I didn’t want to obscure the detail.
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I left it 24 hours to be sure of a cure and then, with more WD40, I pressed in a couple of blobs of Duro.
The first attempt distorted the impressions because I removed it immediately, so I just left it to cure overnight as well.
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I sliced the buttons off with a new scalpel blade and tried them on the model
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I wasn’t happy that they were not all perfectly round with a crisp edge, so I added styrene discs first and then glued the buttons to them.

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They don’t bear microscopic inspection but the texture will look better than the blobs of the original when they are painted.
That’s it for now, I think it’s probably cross-belts and epaulettes next- and I’m still sweating over those bloody Raquettes!

thanks for looking.

Neil
 

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Amazing work neil , your knowledge of stuff like this is incredible . And as for making buttons from scratch , youre a madman ! Brilliant work , cheers tony
 

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I've had a little bit of real life distraction lately, but I have paid Jacques some attention over the last few days.
He got some eyes, some hair and ears for his earrings
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I finished the texturing of the bearskin and made the crown grenade.
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I still need to re-sculpt the detail on the front plate, which is very poor
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I’m still having the Heebie Jeebies about the Raquettes :flushed: :tongue-out3:
Thanks for looking

Neil
 
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