Wee Friends 120mm Glider Pilot, Arnhem

[Deleted member 6559]

Allen - Jest away. It made me laugh.

 

[outrunner]

You never cease to amaze me Peter with both the quality and the speed at which you turn out fantastic figures, keep it up.

Andy.

 

[JR]

It's in those eyes, great work.
I've bought Joe some dog biscuits, just to be on the safe side.

 

[Deleted member 6559]

Andy - What else am I going to do with my sad life?

John - The eyes, the eyes! Joe is now your friend for life.

 

[Steve Jones]

Well it's been a struggle to get this far. Well worth the hard effort as the face is outstanding

 

[Deleted member 6559]

Hi Steve. The clean up work seems to have done the trick, so painting should be OK. Trying to negotiate bench time with my daughter and granddaughter - my wife's at work today so we're a carer down.

 

[SteveH]

Morning Peter

Look like you have a really good head start with your replacement head!

He really does have a vicious sneer too!

Looks like a denison day today or when you have negotiated some bench time.

Seems to have got quite warm with the tail end of the Iberian Storm Barbara too!

Have a good day with the paints

Regards

Steve H

 

[Deleted member 6559]

Hi Steve. Yeah - he ain't bovvered is he?

I managed to negotiate some bench time, so here's the Denison:



The basic colours for the camo pattern were Vallejo Russian Uniform, Saddle Brown and Deep Green, all darkened and lightened with Camo Black Brown and Off White.

 

[adt70hk]

Peter

That's coming along nicely despite the casting issues you had at the start!

ATB

Andrew

 

[Lee Drennen]

Peter. The coat looks really nice I like that camo. The rest of him looks nice as well.

 

[Neil Merryweather]

ooh you don't hang about, do you?
lovely stuff!

 

[Deleted member 6559]

Andrew, Lee and Neil. Thanks for looking in and taking the time to comment. Much appreciated.

 

[Richard48]

Smock looks spot on Pierre.Will look a corker when hes all finished.
Rich.

 

[SteveH]

Morning Peter

Lovely work on the smock Peter

I have noted the colour combo too, as I have quite a few 1/35 paras in the retirement stash.

Looks like your negotiating skills are well honed, hopefully another good session today?

The weather is still awful and so grey too!

Have a good day

Regards

Steve H

 

[Deleted member 6559]

Richard - Cheers matey.

Steve - Thanks re the smock. Should be able to get the trousers at least done today - daughter being very reasonable about bench time (they want help with their first mortgage). Bright start here - lets hope it lasts.

 

[adt70hk]

Richard - Cheers matey.

Steve - Thanks re the smock. Should be able to get the trousers at least done today - daughter being very reasonable about bench time (they want help with their first mortgage). Bright start here - lets hope it lasts.

The good old Bank of Mum and Dad. Fortunately the things we get for are fairly modest.....

 

[Deleted member 6559]

Andrew - We have to sign up for a joint mortgage, otherwise they can't get one. Fortunately we won't be contributing financially (as yet!). We've just paid ours off and we we're just beginning to enjoy a bit of financial lee-way as well.

 

[adt70hk]

Understand! We've still got 10ish years left on ours.

I work for the finance arm of a premium car manufacturer and joint applications for the same reasons are not uncommon. Needless to say I hope everything goes smoothly with the house purchase.

 

[Deleted member 6559]

The legs:



The base is an old Verlinden one from the spares box. Just the hands and rifle to do now.

The FeR 1/16 bust has arrived in the meantime, and as it happens it's too small anyway:



I might paint it as an appendix to this thread.

 

[adt70hk]

Another great effort Peter. Well done Indeed!