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Author Topic: Captain Blood's ECW resurrection. P.43. Cuirassiers ride!  (Read 68332 times)

Offline Malamute

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Re: Captain Blood's ECW resurrection... P.19 Boscastle's Whitecoats
« Reply #300 on: July 21, 2020, 09:53:22 PM »
Jam first 😁

So wrong😁

Nice work on the latest batch. :)
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Re: Captain Blood's ECW resurrection... P.19 Boscastle's Whitecoats
« Reply #301 on: July 21, 2020, 10:48:35 PM »
Thanks fellows :)

I am impressed at how many head swaps you do.  Care to share your method?

Honestly it's pretty easy. Using a sharp heavy blade, like a Stanley knife, cut carefully all around the neck, trying to inflict as little damage as possible on the casting. You don't need to chomp right through, which risks disfiguring either the head or the body - just slowly and carefully cut deeply enough to let you gradually wiggle the head off. You may even need to use a pair of pliers, but if you do, make sure to pad the head with a thick wrap of tissue.
Once you have a few separate heads and bodies, you can swap 'em round.
Using a very fine drill bit in a Dremel or pin-vice, drill a couple of mm up into the head (holding it VERY carefully, again in a wad of tissue) and also drill a few mm down the neck into the body. Then cut a short length of about 5mm or 6mm of steel spear / piano wire and superglue it into the neck hole in the body, leaving a couple of mm poking up.
Pop a dab of superglue onto the top of that pin, and then sit the new head firmly down onto it.
My top tip for what it's worth, as for plastic figure builds, is to avoid placing the head looking straight ahead. Poses invariably look more interesting / natural if the head is turned or tilted to one side.
Use a small amount of Green Stuff to make good any join that doesn't look too neat. (Easily done for this period as you can conceal a great deal with long hair and / or a big floppy collar! Minimal sculpting skills required :))
Hope that's helpful.

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Re: Captain Blood's ECW resurrection... P.19 Boscastle's Whitecoats
« Reply #302 on: July 22, 2020, 05:55:34 AM »
Once again, inspiring work Richard. I'm currently lobbying the Greenwich meantime society to increase the hours in a day to 36, just to scrape into my lead pile. It's all your fault 😂😂😂😂😂😂
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Re: Captain Blood's ECW resurrection... P.19 Boscastle's Whitecoats
« Reply #303 on: July 22, 2020, 07:20:43 PM »
Amazing paint jobs...

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Re: Captain Blood's ECW resurrection... P.19 Boscastle's Whitecoats
« Reply #304 on: July 22, 2020, 08:12:59 PM »
I'd just like to add onto what Richard has said re: using a Dremel.

If you use one to drill holes for heads to pop into then buy a pair of Kevlar gloves just in case. They can be expensive but after severing the end of my thumb one time I see them as a very sound investment now!

As a gory aside, the cut was so bad that they had to to cauterize the end of my thumb with a chemical burn. I think it was Silver Nitrate that they applied and whether it was the chemical burn itself or the application of said chemical to the nerve endings at the tip of my thumb- it was the highest degree of pain I have ever felt in my life!  :'(
« Last Edit: July 23, 2020, 06:50:56 AM by Atheling »

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Re: Captain Blood's ECW resurrection... P.19 Boscastle's Whitecoats
« Reply #305 on: July 22, 2020, 08:39:24 PM »
Another tip for drilling small awkward shaped objects is 'hold' it in blutack. A big blob of blutack can also stick it to a cutting mat (you're still going to have to push down on the blutack wrapped package though). The blutack stops everything moving around, provides a buffer between sharp object and flesh. Simple, cheap solution.

 I do 15mm headswaps, if I'm doing a lot, just holding onto angular metal figures is hard on the fingers, wrapping in blutack takes away all the pain.
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Re: Captain Blood's ECW resurrection... P.19 Boscastle's Whitecoats
« Reply #306 on: July 22, 2020, 09:54:44 PM »
That’s a great tip, thanks Radar  :)
And I’ll be avoiding the silver nitrate  :o ;)

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Re: Captain Blood's ECW resurrection... P.19 Boscastle's Whitecoats
« Reply #307 on: July 25, 2020, 09:34:21 AM »
Thanks fellows :)

Honestly it's pretty easy. ...Hope that's helpful.

Yes it is: Thanks Captain!
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Well, here's a treat. (For you - but especially for me :D)

I've just received three units painted for me by the very brilliant Shaun Watson, AKA Redzed.

Here's the first unit I've based up and added a handmade flag to: Quarton's Greencoat Pike.

Having indiscriminately hoovered up around 100+ assorted additional Bicorne / Renegade ECW figures off eBay over the past few months, I knew I'd run out of steam and enthusiasm way before I managed to paint them all. So I asked Shaun if he'd take some on for me. Luckily he did, because I love his painting.
As I'm sure you'll have seen from his work shown here and elsewhere over many years, Shaun is a true artist with a bold, high contrast style. His faces are absolutely legendary - every one is like a miniature old master you might glimpse in the National Portrait Gallery. His technique with wet blending and his skill with colours are incredible. So I'm happy as Larry to add some more Redzed art to my ECW collection :)

So, to recap: Figures awesomely painted by Redzed. Basing and flag by yours truly :)















The faces... 8)



He's a clever bugger :)

Next up, my first yellow coat unit almost complete and coming soon.
By which time I may have also based up the other two new units by Redzed to show you.

Offline DintheDin

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Amazing paintjob and the sculpts are outstanding, too!!!
Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates. – Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi

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Cheat! Cheat! Cheat!

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They look great  8)
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Wonderful  :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*

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Cracking job :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*

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I wish redzed would move to Canada... :'(

Offline Ray Rivers

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The armies are massing. Looks like there is going to be a war!

One day you are going to put all these amazing minis on a table and fight it out. Can't wait for the photos!

 

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