 deadhead  | 16 Jun 2015 7:41 a.m. PST |
My lead mountain includes some great vehicles from Westfalia. This is a dead simple one, but, for all its simplicity, I love it. It is their ammunition wagon and limber. I do have a 9pdr of theirs' to substitute as a tow. The drivers are Perry, in the controversial later train style jacket (but they were what I had in stock so………). As yet unfinished, is the foot officer doing a Rod Steiger and resting his telescope on what will be a trumpeter of the train (in the foot artillery style coat).
I know……but why could they not have a trumpeter? Even worse. Note the grey horse for a British trumpeter…….we all have off days.
The whole thing was an excuse to try for a wheatfield. The two guns I did a couple of years ago, but it then dawned on me this is June, not harvest time. Too yellow. For the vehicle the wheat is greener. Apples on the trees though??????
More pictures here, but you get the idea; imageshack.com/a/yDW4/1 |
| jeffreyw3 | 16 Jun 2015 8:34 a.m. PST |
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| PhattRhatt | 16 Jun 2015 8:54 a.m. PST |
Very nice work! On your basing, where did you get the grass from? |
| deadhead | 16 Jun 2015 9:11 a.m. PST |
Thanks for the responses. The grass came from a big heavy paint brush for infants……….from the Early Learning Centre. (My sons are now 20 years old, so quite old brushes!)
Any dense brush with pale sand coloured bristles. Dirt cheap and coloured with dilute Vallejo green, soaked overnight. Cut off as tufts and progressively work your way back along the base, overlapping the earlier tuft. Then comes the clever bit. Take individual fibres dip tip in white glue, then in Woodland Scenics' "Fine Turf Yellow Grass" (a fine scatter grass). Knock off excess, leave overnight to dry and add to the base. A bit overscale but seems to work OK. A few dozen and you do not notice that the flattened stuff never did produce a head! |
| wrgmr1 | 16 Jun 2015 9:31 a.m. PST |
Lovely work! Your Grey horse is superb, I wish I could paint like that. |
| GiloUK | 16 Jun 2015 9:52 a.m. PST |
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| Markconz | 16 Jun 2015 1:03 p.m. PST |
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| stoneman1810 | 16 Jun 2015 7:06 p.m. PST |
Really, really nice! Love your work – thanks for posting! |
| ferg981 | 17 Jun 2015 11:18 a.m. PST |
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| KaweWeissiZadeh | 18 Jun 2015 1:29 p.m. PST |
Sweet. I'd like to repost das ja? |
| Marc the plastics fan | 19 Jun 2015 12:00 p.m. PST |
Yep, very nice posing, paintwork and basing. Lovely to see |
| deadhead | 26 Jun 2015 9:51 a.m. PST |
Just back home from a week in Barcelona (marvellous place to visit…I had no idea!) so apologies not to respond earlier Again, thanks for the very encouraging responses. Kawe, of course feel free to use any of the pictures from the album. I actually did not think they would be of much interest, but am very flattered! |
| deadhead | 26 Jun 2015 12:02 p.m. PST |
maybe this one? Please use whatever you want, highly flattered frankly
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| deadhead | 27 Jun 2015 9:08 a.m. PST |
also e mailed to you as this message is not rising back up the rankings and likely lost! Ah…third time lucky…..back on top again, as the actress said to the Bishop |
| deadhead | 28 Jun 2015 9:17 a.m. PST |
wrgmr1 I meant to reply earlier, so this is not just trying to push a dead posting back to the top! If you want to see how to paint a grey horse by a real expert (and I do think I am getting better than I was but…….) See the trumpeter here……..see the legs, the neck and the face…the horse is good too! TMP link |
gets started with Flintloque.
