An act of Piracy with Airfix London Icons soldiers set
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Re: An act of Piracy with Airfix London Icons soldiers set
Ahoy matey, that be grand headway ye're making. A welcome sight it be, the sails of a fellow traveller into the uncharted waters of figure conversion.
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Re: An act of Piracy with Airfix London Icons soldiers set
The parrot. Is it a Norwegian Blue?
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Super modelling
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I see the parrot there appears to be.....resting
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This is looking amazing. Nice work Chris.
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VickersVandal wrote:I see the parrot there appears to be.....resting
He's resting after a long squawk.
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Re: An act of Piracy with Airfix London Icons soldiers set
This is a great bit of figure conversion, Chris.
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Re: An act of Piracy with Airfix London Icons soldiers set
Thanks everyone for your support and following my cobblings and antics with this. Please keep up the humour and especially the parrot jokes and quips. It helps make it all worthwhile.
This is now where we stand .... quite a long way to go, nothing of the coat or hat is as yet fixed and glued, it is all just cut parts with a tad of tape to help hold it together, so I can see how it fares.
I have learnt one thing: this really does bring home to me how good Purplethisle is at this figure stuff, especially when he makes it all seem so effortless.
This is now where we stand .... quite a long way to go, nothing of the coat or hat is as yet fixed and glued, it is all just cut parts with a tad of tape to help hold it together, so I can see how it fares.
I have learnt one thing: this really does bring home to me how good Purplethisle is at this figure stuff, especially when he makes it all seem so effortless.
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Re: An act of Piracy with Airfix London Icons soldiers set
Don't you mean 'this is where we lean!!' . And as for PT he makes deals with the modelling devil!!chrism wrote:Thanks everyone for your support and following my cobblings and antics with this. Please keep up the humour and especially the parrot jokes and quips. It helps make it all worthwhile.
This is now where we stand .... quite a long way to go, nothing of the coat or hat is as yet fixed and glued, it is all just cut parts with a tad of tape to help hold it together, so I can see how it fares.
I have learnt one thing: this really does bring home to me how good Purplethisle is at this figure stuff, especially when he makes it all seem so effortless.
Hoping to return to modelling sometime this year!!
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- Purplethistle
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Ahoy Matey, ye just be gettin' yer sea leg(s) with Long John. I'll wager ye'll be thinkin' what ye can convert the leftover bits to afore ye finish this one.
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This one is coming along at hopping pace.
Really top cut'n'shunt work.
Really top cut'n'shunt work.
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Here's a tip if you find that the parrot has any gaps, don't use Squadron putty,
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Your best bet is Pollyfilla
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Your best bet is Pollyfilla
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Re: An act of Piracy with Airfix London Icons soldiers set
Ooh! ooh! just had an idea about what you could make with the leftover parts! .......and if you have another parrot!.....John Cleese and the ex parrot!
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It's not ex it's just resting.Purplethistle wrote:Ooh! ooh! just had an idea about what you could make with the leftover parts! .......and if you have another parrot!.....John Cleese and the ex parrot!
Hoping to return to modelling sometime this year!!
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Purplethistle wrote:Ahoy Matey, ye just be gettin' yer sea leg(s) with Long John. I'll wager ye'll be thinkin' what ye can convert the leftover bits to afore ye finish this one.
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Compared to what you achieve, PT with going for "real" subjects, at least this one being fictional gives me a large comfort blanket which I definitely as a learner do need.
As for the leftover bits ... it is funny and worryingly true ... over dinner on Sunday I invited the assembled family who had watched me from a distance all afternoon making the coat... to now come up with ideas for what I could concoct from the selection of leftover original kit parts before them ...
And .. as for using ones imagination... in the eyes of my family, it already has been suggested that I am creating a one-legged town crier!
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