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They look great in the gloss as well. Fine job. I copied the photos for my image collection, if you don't mind

I actually use Super Glue to assemble. Some pining with weak joint parts, but mostly just the glue. I have in some cases used magic sculpt as a filler if a joint is open enough to form a gap due to misalignment. I realize some risk, especially over time but so far so good. I also have the...

#2- Hansom Cab --Phoenix Model Developments, ByGone Age series A photo left off initial post with the directions to show the Hansom was an extensive kit to assemble And now a return to the focus on the figures. Head swaps for the pony walker and the resting in a lawn chair fellow. In...

I got the bug about a year ago to hunt down and construct some of the 1/32nd scale, metal, Phoenix By Gone age carriages produced about 45 years ago. This came about after poking around in my Gray army I discovered a number of Phoenix figures from the same time period that needed to come out of...

Well, welcome to the 70's club (I am a few ahead of you) and a happy birthday to boot. I really have to respond to your reference to Raffles in Singapore. Had a few drinks at the bar on business trips to Penang. Always enjoyed my time in Singapore, and Raffles was the treat. Walt Damon

With the flat now painted, I needed to come up with a distinct backdrop to mount him on. At an Artist Preservation Group show in Gettysburg a while back was an auction piece of a Civil War Zouave painted directly on a wooden artist palette, and the concept never left the recesses of my wee...

for the acrylic undercoat I might use Vallejo #303 Yellowish Rust. Couple light coats to darken the white primer. Then maybe a Flat Brown #70984 for shadows ( be careful here not to over do as its a LIGHT skin color you eventually want. For highlights a medium or dark flesh. Then its...

Continuing with the theme of painting flats and mounting to a visual backdrop In this case it is a larger flat in resin vs metal. My guess about 1/10th scale. It is of a Woodland Indian (Shawnee?) In the following photos you can track from the primer coat , through the acrylic undercoat...

after trial fitting and touchup of the canvas I moved on to the Flat. First time through using an acrylic undercoat i laid down an approximation of the colors I wanted. White horse had a few shades applied to determine exactly what white and where to include the legs with the black or Paynes...

Captain Tdubel im afraid my days of building a project of this magnitude are well behind me. I appreciate you asking but respectfully I decline stay safe Walt Damon

Next couple entries in this thread will be a progression of photos of a "Flat" mounted on a canvas board I painted as a background The 2 dimensional flat is a two sided Mounted Napoleon. It is about 75mm (1/24th?) in scale. Normally I see flats painted and displayed from the front. I wanted...

To finish up this thread. The last step was to find a unique plaque to put on the vignette, so off to the spares box. I came up with a large out of scale cannon that I applied Photo etch lettering and attached to the base. a couple of finished project photos, Knox from behind overlooking the...

Very impressive! I just spent the last hour going back through your step by step and enjoyed every moment. Fine work on what I consider a very challenging subject WHD

Thanks John i only have some single figures in the queue at the moment, besides some of the Phoenix carriages, i do however have documented a series of flat figures mounted on canvas backgrounds I painted if there is any interest. keep those brushes moving and photos coming WHD

Once the figures and gun sled were finished, the plan was to build the scene around them. I wanted to replicate a moment in time as the Noble Gun Train passed through my hometown in the winter of 1775-1776. I chose the sled trudging up Butler Hill, the highest point in Wilbraham the train...

Continuing on with the Knox Gun Sled Vignette. Next a blurb on more of the history, but in the context of the celebration 44 years ago during the Bi-Centennial of my hometown, Wilbraham MA. The Knox Noble Train passed through Wilbraham on its way to Boston. The vignette depicts its climb...

To answer Brads question, Yes, the figure of Knox is a conversion of the Phoenix Regency Officer (Naval Officer I believe) What made me pick this figure was his portly stature as you can see in the following two photos The conversion required the placement of Magic Sculpt to fatten and form a...

I recently had the opportunity to obtain from a serious collectors gray army one of the Series 77 Heavy Prussian Cavalry from the early 70's. Below is a quick photographic documentation of the cleaning, repairing, priming and painting of this excellent artifact . As a side note, it is...

After the sled was in place, next step was to find a suitable set of 1/32nd scale oxen to pull the damm thing. Best I could find were two metal oxen produced by Andrea of Spain. Originally in a kit to pull a 16th (?) century heavy field piece, but also available at the time as single items...

Plan here is to document the process of building a vignette I made for the 2005 World Figure Expo in Boston, MA. The vignette is of General Knox and one of the 38 gun sleds in his Noble Train of artillery en route from Ticonderoga to Boston in 1776. The scale is 1/32nd and is made up of...