Neil Merryweather
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love it!
A nice touch of Verlinden on a Peter Day style of finish. Very neatly done. I haven't seen this kind of finish for years which got me deviating to armour. Your dry brushing also reminds me of Tony Greenland's style...I wonder whats happened to him. These were the guys before Jiminez, Rinaldi and Stutchinkas set a new trend of finishing. I still like the old method and dable and mix with the latest.Andrew - Many thanks.
Jim - Thanks also.
Ian - Welcome aboard.
I think I'm going to call the tank done (my wife has already asked why I'm still working on the same thing):
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A couple of finishing touches to the tank itself - aerial laid in it's trough etc - then on to some stowage. The little that I had in the spares box was augmented with plastic sheet and carboard, and a few other things were made from the contents of 'that' kitchen drawer.
Next, the figures, which I'm a lot more comfortable with.
Peter, have you tried Brodi heads? They're smaller than Hornet and I have both just in case I run into the same problem as you have with off scaled figures.Steve - Glad you like it. I will need luck with the figures.
Paul - Nothing works with the muffler cover , not even blowing on it (assuming we're talking about the same thing!).
Lee - Thank you. Stowage always adds that bit of extra interest.
Neil - Cheers my man.
I've prepared the first three figures, which are now the Protze crew:
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I abandoned the kit heads and ordered a Hornet set, only to find that they were slightly too big. I think the first two figures look OK, but I may not use the one with the coffee pot, which is a poorer sculpt anyway. These figures needed a lot of cleaning up, and for that reason I'm not 100% sure they'll work out. We'll see how it goes....
Interestingly, if I Google his name, I get almost nothing but hits for his books — well, that and a Facebook page that’s apparently (I didn’t check, for reason of it being Facebook) listing people named Tony Greenland so you can find the one you’re after. I had kind of expected some hits for pages about him rather than his works as well.Tony Greenland's style...I wonder whats happened to him.
I was looking more for some page that shows/talks about what he’s up to nowadays, which also doesn’t seem to come up easily with that search termJakko - 'Tony Greenland Modeller' produces a few pics.
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