iggie's French Figures ***finished***

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:oops: Apologies!......I'll just go away and teach my Granny to suck eggs now. :-D
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Purplethistle wrote::oops: Apologies!......I'll just go away and teach my Granny to suck eggs now. :-D
Don't you dare! :-D

My fault; winging it as I am, I should still have posted my intentions (which are pretty much the same as I'd do for an airy-plane :grin: ) to remove doubt and allow for corrective advice!
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iggie wrote:
chrism wrote:Hercules and Samson are galloping along nicely
Were they the horses in Steptoe? :grin:
They were indeed. Infact both horses appeared at different times.

In the episode "A death in the Family" Hercules died and was replaced with a horse that was pregnant, and it and its baby went through a string of names, Delilia and Samson, or Samson was the name given to the baby
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As others have remarked earlier (I effectively lost most of the weekend, so I'm a bit behind..), the cart looks great. The figures also look good, but I hope you'll take it as constructive criticism when I say the girl has very bright hair, and looks a bit bug-eyed. If you feel up to it, you could still fix this by bringing the eyelids in a bit more, until all the white above and below the irises is covered. A bit like this: http://uamf.org.uk/viewtopic.php?f=378&t=16314&start=25;
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Eye lashes will help too ;-)
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Thanks guys :)

I did a little work on the girl's eyes and may still re-paint her hair to tone it down a bit. I am NOT doing eyelashes :ha:
This is where we are as of last night

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Well done, Iggie. That looks amazing!
Reminds me of the old days ride to school.
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iggie wrote:I did a little work on the girl's eyes and may still re-paint her hair to tone it down a bit. I am NOT doing eyelashes :ha:
This is where we are as of last night
The extra bit of work made all the difference. The old man's glare from under that hat is scary :shock:
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Cheers chaps!
The build and painting are pretty much done. I need to build a bar now and then glue everything into place.

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Looking really nice. :grin:
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Cheers Mark :grin:

After a lot of swearing and very little patience, I managed to get the horses rigged (or whatever one does with the nasty things) and the whole lot glued down to a suitable base. It was like knitting fog :shock:
Next up is to add some scenic stuff to make the base look a bit better

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This is very impressive.
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You're a natural with dios Iggie, I don't know why you don't do more?
I can't help chuckling at the farmers resemblance to Victor from Still Game, though. I keep expecting a typically pithy Victor comment like, "Liberation is it? it took you's long enough!"

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The wagon look excellent :razz:
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Purplethistle wrote:You're a natural with dios Iggie, I don't know why you don't do more?
I can't help chuckling at the farmers resemblance to Victor from Still Game, though. I keep expecting a typically pithy Victor comment like, "Liberation is it? it took you's long enough!"

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Although I have no idea what 'still game' is, I can see the resemblance!
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