The last of the Mohicans (54 mm.)

[Suber]

My first time in this period!
It's just a little vignette of 'The Last of the Mohicans' movie. Having not found anything in this scale, I finally opted for Andrea Miniatures' 'The Volunteer'



It fits my intentions, it's running, has a tomahawk... Close enough. Let's work on it!





The mini is superb, but there is a problem with that: it's absolutely Mel Gibson in The Patriot, you can totally recognize his face. Wide face, big nose... Great. Daniel Day-Lewis' face is longer, thinner and with very distinctive hairlines, cheeks and chin. I'm just a poor amateur, I did what I could





After some additional work this was what I got:



Not perfect, but enough for my skills. To the brushes then!





Finally, some more work on a proper base. The model included two trees without leaves. All I got was some flock (but in autumn colours, just yellow and red ). After dying absurd amounts of flock the final result was this:







Well, a little bit challenging for me, but I want to believe it's been worth it.

You can find a few more mumblings and pics in my blog:

http://oldschoolworkshop.blogspot.com.es/2013/10/the-last-of-mohicans.html

[OSHIROmodels]

Very nice rendition 

cheers

James

[white knight]

The conversion is great, I think you did well on changing the look of the figure.

[Bugsda]

Excellent! 

[Mason]

Superb!
 

Not to mention brave...

[Suber]

Thanks a lot!
I might have lost some sanity points on the road, but I stll think it was worth of