August Strong Peipp (1 Viewer)

[blaster]

Hi All,

I have this figure lying around for some time now and am trying to finish it. As I am painting the face, I notice that the right side of it is slightly deformed. Obvious if you see it from the chin looking upwards. So I have decided to resculpt half the face with putty.

 

[blaster]

repainting the face now. In the previous photos, note also that I have rebuilt the legs and added calves.

 

[blaster]

I looked around on the web and came across the painting on which this piece was obvious based. It shows that the facial resemblance of the piece is not great and hence, I will be redoing this figure again.

 

[blaster]

I think that the Peipp figure has great details but the anatomy is not perfect. Since I was redoing the face, I might as well redo other problematic areas.
I also noted that the upper arms were too long and the sword hilt was not in line with the blade scabbard. Hence I sliced off the face, removed the hat and snipped off the arms and, removed the hilt for now. The right arm was bent upwards and the left arm was drilled and reattached. Putty was added to resculpt these areas. The face has been partly resculpted.

 

[blaster]

More work on the body. The face was resculpted.

 

[blaster]

For reasons I do not comprehend, that last pic had a face looking like Christopher Plummer.
I resculpted again, and this is the final result.

 

[blaster]

I continued to paint the figure.

 

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Completed a lot of the detailed painting.

 

[blaster]

I finished painting this piece. picked out the details and changed the colour of the coat to carmine.

 

[Ivanhoe]

I finished painting this piece. picked out the details and changed the colour of the coat to carmine.

Very well done !

A lot of detail to be found upon examination.

Thank you.

 

[Obee]

Victor,

this is a great job you have done on this figure. I've been following his progress over the past months, and it's great to see the figure evolve.

Well done,
John

 

[blaster]

Hello John and Matt,

Thanks for your nice comments. This piece had been gathering mould on the shelf for a few years before this latest surge of activity. I was surprised at how smoothly everything went after I got the actual reference picture. I noticed also that my growing confidence in sculpting and also in acknowledging mistakes help me to move the project onwards.

I am starting to move on all these long overdue projects and holdovers as I want to start on even more projects.

Rgds Victor

 

[blaster]

Better final pics. I used dullcote varnish.

 

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I repainted the eyes.