Ken & Ericka Osen/H&A Studio
Command Sergeant Major
- Joined
- Jun 22, 2005
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Hello All,
Sometime before the Chicago OTSN show I was looking at some of the W. Britain ACW figures I had sculpted. I love to set up figures and take pictures but I don't like seeing the same figure duplicated too often with Matte finished figures.
The thought occurred to me that if I took a group of different figures, I could cut off their heads and swap them to get different looks. Of course like almost every idea I have, once I start it seems to have a domino effect.
I took about twenty Confederates and put them under the saw. Heads rolled along with a few arms too. The parts were then swapped around, holes were drilled, pins were put in and everything glued into position. The new areas had to be re contoured in some cases, and the same epoxy putty I use to create the master sculpts was used to repair areas.
In addition to these changes, some figures had the trousers modified. Figures with cuffed pants or trousers gathered into socks were resculpted to have full length trousers.
Then the real fun came. I repainted the damaged areas, highlighted faces and in most cases changed the colors of jackets and trousers. I also repainted many of the bed rolls and added some details that rarely show up in production figures.
Here are some of the end results... with several of them headed out to Mike Estell's growing ACW collection.
Here is a charging Reb that has a new head with added beard and some new paint.
Here is a figure that sports a new head. I have repainted the jacket, trousers, blanket roll and added corporal stripes. Note the embroidered US marking on the blanket and the Company designation on the canteen.
Sometime before the Chicago OTSN show I was looking at some of the W. Britain ACW figures I had sculpted. I love to set up figures and take pictures but I don't like seeing the same figure duplicated too often with Matte finished figures.
The thought occurred to me that if I took a group of different figures, I could cut off their heads and swap them to get different looks. Of course like almost every idea I have, once I start it seems to have a domino effect.
I took about twenty Confederates and put them under the saw. Heads rolled along with a few arms too. The parts were then swapped around, holes were drilled, pins were put in and everything glued into position. The new areas had to be re contoured in some cases, and the same epoxy putty I use to create the master sculpts was used to repair areas.
In addition to these changes, some figures had the trousers modified. Figures with cuffed pants or trousers gathered into socks were resculpted to have full length trousers.
Then the real fun came. I repainted the damaged areas, highlighted faces and in most cases changed the colors of jackets and trousers. I also repainted many of the bed rolls and added some details that rarely show up in production figures.
Here are some of the end results... with several of them headed out to Mike Estell's growing ACW collection.
Here is a charging Reb that has a new head with added beard and some new paint.
Here is a figure that sports a new head. I have repainted the jacket, trousers, blanket roll and added corporal stripes. Note the embroidered US marking on the blanket and the Company designation on the canteen.
