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More ptg done. Awaiting the oils to dry out before I do further touchups for the first lot. Will redo the dowager's face. Hope you can see the phoenix motifs emerging.... Starting on the nobleman. Notice the placement of the dragon motifs and the main colour blocks for a typical dragon robe.

Painted a base colour for the sleeve.

Hi Louis, Steve John, Thx. Cost me a Historex arm and leg…hahaha. The electrician left all the original wiring in place and just extended the wiring from the original halogen bulbs to the front of the cabinet. Rgds Victor

Hi Louis and Steve, Thx. Still a lot of work ahead. Here are 4 figs almost sculpted. 1 Nobleman- I reworked most of the robe and added belt accessories. 2 Two servants - simpler headdress and clothing. Short surcoats worn over a robe or pleated skirt. 3 Consort - hybrid semi-formal...

With the new lights installed, I came across this piece and decided to work on it. The right sleeve appears too long so I resculpted it

I finally changed all the lighting in my display cabinets, substituting in T5 LED lights for the previous halogen bulbs. Much Brighter now and with potential cost savings as well. Makes me want to redo the displays again.

Hi Steve, Thx. I was busy painting up the figs to get them ready for a short meeting over the weekend. Not completed but the main elements of each piece have been modelled and painted. As I have various books just on the Qing Dynasty and costumes, I'm painting a specific costume for each...

Hi Steve, thanks for yr kind comments. I want to do a very colourful display of their costumes so I decided to do a scene of the retinue surrounding the Dowager. Most of her time was spent in the Summer Palace where I visited. Really desolate lives for them if you tk about it. Anyway thx for...

Hi John, Im going for the full technicolour look...hahaha. Here's the basic underpainting in acrylics to identify a specific costume for each fig. I drilled two metal pins for each fig and secure them to a platform for easy painting.

I was lucky to acquire some of these skills. Learning from hundreds of failed figures helped. Remember these pieces were finally developed from expt armatures made many years ago (see the beginning of this thread). So basically, I suffered. hahaha. Here's the penultimate sculpts undercoated...

Added a surcoat for the Official. Sculpted a different summer hat for a prince. Added flowers for the two handmaidens. Adding other hair ornaments to the other women.

As this is a reconstructed scene, I have to imagine a retinue court attendants surrounding the domineering Dowager. To make it interesting, I try to give each figure a unique personality and dress, creating as much variety and colour as is possible. I shortened one official, will be making him...

Fresh from my foray to Beijing, I saw the Forbidden City, Summer Palace, Temple of Heaven and of course the Great Wall. Really tiring. Everything here is done on an epic scale. That means a lot of walking and climbing. Also got some ideas and inspirations on how to create this scene. Here are...

Hi Louis, Im back in the trench. WIP on some mid ground figs. Downsizing some 1/35 figs here.

Hi Steve, Thx. Epics take time...hahaha. Here's the backwalls with pillars added and sprayed white. That's it for this round. Im off to Beijing for a week. Rgds Victor

Hi John, I hope so. Got a lot more figures to add to reinforce the visual perspective. I put the scene into the box and took a couple of pix. Rgds Victor

tinier airfix conversions with HK plastic knockoffs. These were glued into the bkgd.

Really really nice pieces! Rgds Victor

Excellent work on this! Rgds Victor

Cannon fodder. I’m not fussy…. Hahahhaha