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The piece was primed and painting began The floor came first as I was not sure just how i was going to attach the heavy body to it and the wooden base. Floor first undercoated in acrylics then a coat of artist oils applied. Locator holes drilled for the table, Napoleons boots and coat...

I recently rescued a piece that had been sitting on my shelf of doom for quite a few years, and finished it up. threads that follow briefly document the adventure. The kit is a 90mm metal kit by Andrea of Spain, produced ,my guess in the 1990s. Beautifully sculpted, and based on a painting by...

Thanks John. Enjoy following the details of your work

What primer are you using? Looks like the old Irmie Risley primer. Great stuff for metal but impossible to find now days. Did you fabricate the harness that connects to carriage pinions. Harnessing my worst nightmare Keep your progress coming.

Love going through your build. Use of blue tac something I had not considered.....i will definitely try it out. keep the progress coming

Oh, this is a beauty. I assume it’s 1/32 scale? Good luck and keep us posted on progress

I just finished a little gem from Centurion Miniatures (France). It is a ronde bosse, which is a very high relief version of a flat. The undercut's are quite deep so when painting you really have to look at it from the sides,top and bottom so as not to miss anything. Example:, you can stick the...

Oh yes, especially the Phaeton. Fine work and with the harnesses in place. i get lazy by the time the last step...harness application.

Those are the pieces. One caution on the horses. There are actually 2 different sizes. Not much noticeable difference at first glance but when 4 of them get lined up or you gat a mix you can see it. I believe the smaller size was made for the multiple horse set ups. The boxes will tell the...

Yes the Phoenix mounted highway man would make a good companion piece. Unfortunately i do not have one in my gray army. I saw one at MFCA in May for about $100. I passed

Hi John. I would like to set up an email contact with you as a means of exchanging information. My email is. Whdamon@charter.net Hopefully you can send me yours. Thanks. Walt Damon

And finally the complete set up (less the horse and harness hookup). Ill need to build a village backdrop in one of my display cabinets , but this will do for now.

The rest of the cast: The village Giglio (Metal Models) The Maiden Aunt and her virgin niece (Phoenix) The town drunk who loves the ride ,and often falls off (Britians) the 2 town ****s who always wait to see who comes off the afternoon coach (Phoenix)

Horses and crew. a 4 horse set up using Phoenix horses from the Bygone Age series. frankly I will finish up the harness work with the horses at a later date (loosing interest) so for now just some staging for photos, although the horses have been built and painted. The crew is the driver and...

next detail paint and decals

now off to prime and the start of the paint process (after an unsuccessful fit up to see if a passenger could be installed)

next comes the carriage body

Construction stated with the under carriage. SUper glue was the adhesive. Any severe voids (few if any) were filled with magic sculpt. Fortunately the parts are a soft pewter and can easily be "bent" to fit as designed. there is quite a bit of molding flash and lines that needs to be...

What follows in the next few threads is my adventure in building the 51 year old 1/32nd scale pewter kit of the Royal Mail Coach by Phoenix Model Developments in their Bygone Age series. This is a complicated kit with many pieces. Good news is it has excellent and accurate directions, and...

Sedan chair assembled to include a Zulu spear tip from the spares box as a roof ornament , painted chair with gems added now ready to join up with the modified porters. The set now resides in a Napoleon in Egypt display wandering though the village chaos Plan is to display the set at the Long...