It’s not been all World War One for me the last couple of days – we’ve stopped off at Waterloo for a while as well.
Jock needed work on his hands, so the Duro love was spread around a bit.
I’ve always admired Bill Horan’s technique of chopping off the fingers and re-sculpting them properly gripping the rifle, but I’ve never tried it for myself, mostly because I didn’t like Duro. So as I’m a bit more comfortable with it now I thought I would give it a go, and I’m very pleased with the result.
I will probably do it always from now on.
I also separated the hand and opened up the sleeve with the Dremel, and then inserted a nice long copper wire into the wrist to keep the hand and musket separate for painting. I’ve already knocked the bayonet off once, and that was being careful!
I was uneasy about the delicate wire pin attaching the right hand to the Grey’s stirrup, so I Dremelled out the right sleeve and inserted a fatter and longer wire into the right wrist.
The wrist had to be built up a bit.
A less lazy man might re-do the whole hand with Duro, having established it as a successful technique….
Actually, it was scary enough holding the finished Scots Grey and just doing the tiny amount of work that I did- I think I would just give up if I broke something.
And there’s that spot of brown paint on the horse’s leg, mustn’t forget that.
So this is sort of how it looks
I don’t think there’s any more excuses for avoiding the wet stuff……
But I’m going to do a practice run on the tartan first.
Many thanks for following
Cheers
Neil