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Hi All, I was at this event yesterday where local modellers bring anything to show and share with others. It was organised by a local model shop. There was a strong scifi fantasy output and I took only some photos to share with all. The white spy figure is 3D printed and the producer was...

My friend gave me this beautiful kit. Its a resin cast from Sockel and bases, a small German based figure company. The figure is sculpted by Alan Ball and the horse by Sergey Zlobov, two well known figure modellers. I plan to build it out of the box.

Several years back,, I noticed that an old Andrea casting and thought that it would be suitable for a fig of Claudius. The Andrea head is quite small, early 1/35 size and with sculpted ears, would prob look like a young sickly boy. Been reading up on Claudius and he appeared to be somewhat...

I am trying to think of what to do with this rather nicely sculpted bare breasted fantasy figure but I dont like the pose. So I'll convert it to a Mycenean woman with bodice and flounced skirts. This way, I can preserve the best bits of this figure while giving it some historical context.

Found this interesting uniform. This was the Bourbon Dynasty 1789-1798 under Frederic III before the Napoleonic wars, FIII was King of Naples and King of Sicily. This line regiment was one of two under the 5th Illyrian Brigade. The tunic has an unusual pattern of front lacing worn over a...

Hi All I really enjoyed this tv series and was disappointed that they cancelled season 3. Series 2 features a hilarious turn when King Sancho was promised a beautiful bride with mother of pearl skin. She turned out to be a harridan!

Was looking at doing this fat duke. I noticed that one of the commercial heads resembled him in the Morier paintings. He was grossly overweight and was wearing a cuirass. So I selected an Airfix cuirass. Notice how small the Historex cuirass is for comparison.

I couldnt find the thread where I had buried this piece. Got it from Spain for about 10 Euros for my shelf. However, Ive been looking at it and wondering how static the pose was. This is absolutely uninspired sculpting I hate to say. So Ive decided to at least change one of the horse legs. Here...

WIP on this fig. I added the coattails and the back buttons. Coattails were some spares and shortened. There were no turnbacks on the coattails. I also added some putty to the brow and resculpted part of the hair. Im taking my time to sculpt carefully to improve the work.

Found an unmade kit. Thinking of making another piper.

Just taken out these spares and there are three war bonnets. I had bought these to try and model the great chiefs. So lets see how that goes.

Doubtless, many overseas visitors to Singapore will want to visit this museum as it represents the Fall of Singapore. It was originally set up more than 2 decades ago and then the exhibits got moved elsewhere and then relocated back to Fort Canning. I visited this museum recently and took some...

Imagine a collection without the Sun King. Of course, I needed a fig based on the famous Hyacinthe Rigaud painting. Andrea Miniatures had produced an excellent metal kit of him but it was very expensive. In a moment of weakness, I opted for a cheap pirated copy at that time. Upon assembly, the...

Hi all I saw some pics of this museum posted on the below forum. Bet y all will like it too. Rgds Victor https://www.planetfigure.com/threads/view-from-a-museum-with-robert-blokker.700155/#post-1463965

There is a regular monthly minicon gathering for the modellers in one of the local shops. Today, the theme was maritime. A small selection of surprisingly detailed models and I took some pix to share with all. Japanese warship based on a 1942 map of Bougainville, Papua 1/700 LCM DDAY 1/35...

Hi All, Came across this old and forgotten piece. An early failed conversion of a Heller camel into a bactrian camel with a drummer and two naqareh drums. I think the rider is perched too high and we'll see what happens.

Saw this oldie. It’s not memorable.

What's this?? You may well ask. I had a lot of pickelhaube and peak caps leftover from past projects (contemptibles, gravelotte) and still more pkts of Scalelink. So I selected these heads to start yet another forlorn project.

Well, I'm inviting hate mail from Napoleonophiles. hahaha. I am doing extended spring cleaning and really turning out the gray collection and pests as well. Came across this olde base which I had made for my Napoleon Sacre but it was too ambitious then. I thought that maybe if I recrafted the...

I realised that I have a lot of horse parts and rejects. And then there were these leftover pith helmeted heads from Omdurman. So I decided to start another project with these. Crazy right? So here's the start already. Hi John, this one is right up your alley.. hahaha. Rgds Victor