King & Country
1st Lieutenant
- Joined
- May 23, 2005
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Hi Guys,
One of the many pleasures I get from being involved in this great hobby of ours is seeing a ‘Two Dimensional’ drawing or sketch being transformed into a ‘Three Dimensional’ figurine.
Now although I may come up with the original idea for the figure two other highly skilled artists and craftsmen are closely involved in the process... the ‘figure sculptor’ and the ‘master painter’. Allow me to digress for a moment...
In a few days time I will be celebrating my birthday and on that particular day I will wake up (I hope) and suddenly find myself 73 years old!!!
That’s impossible I will think because I don’t feel that old and I’m still working at full tilt and love coming into the studio six days a week come rain or shine.
Working with and designing hundreds of figures every year isn’t really REAL WORK... it’s too much fun to be that.
Especially when you see two cute little figures like the two I am showing you today.
All figures demand care, attention and detail but some, for whatever reason, you recognize as being that little bit better and ‘special’.
Well, these two little ‘Senoritas’ are a case in point... ‘Rosa’ and ‘Isabella’ seemed to work well at the ‘sketch-stage’... But after they were sculpted and master-painted they really came alive in miniature.
So, here are just two of the many, many great reasons I still love working and helping to make 1:30 scale, all-metal, hand-painted miniature figures and all kinds of other fun stuff.
Adios Amigos and... Happy Collecting!
Andy
One of the many pleasures I get from being involved in this great hobby of ours is seeing a ‘Two Dimensional’ drawing or sketch being transformed into a ‘Three Dimensional’ figurine.
Now although I may come up with the original idea for the figure two other highly skilled artists and craftsmen are closely involved in the process... the ‘figure sculptor’ and the ‘master painter’. Allow me to digress for a moment...
In a few days time I will be celebrating my birthday and on that particular day I will wake up (I hope) and suddenly find myself 73 years old!!!
That’s impossible I will think because I don’t feel that old and I’m still working at full tilt and love coming into the studio six days a week come rain or shine.
Working with and designing hundreds of figures every year isn’t really REAL WORK... it’s too much fun to be that.
Especially when you see two cute little figures like the two I am showing you today.
All figures demand care, attention and detail but some, for whatever reason, you recognize as being that little bit better and ‘special’.
Well, these two little ‘Senoritas’ are a case in point... ‘Rosa’ and ‘Isabella’ seemed to work well at the ‘sketch-stage’... But after they were sculpted and master-painted they really came alive in miniature.
So, here are just two of the many, many great reasons I still love working and helping to make 1:30 scale, all-metal, hand-painted miniature figures and all kinds of other fun stuff.
Adios Amigos and... Happy Collecting!
Andy
