Amazing & Painless - FINISHED! 22.12.13

[Whiskyrat]

Fantastic.

Looking forward to seeing it all come together.

[FunkyBrush]

This is a great idea, Benbow. A great idea which I'm already considering to steal

[Admiral Benbow]

Wonderful build and it will be even better with that sign!
I have three sheets of unused print-your-own-decals for ink jet. No need for those myself as don't have an inkjet printer. Will happily send them to you in case you have use for them? Of course your project would need to stall a bit for waiting those to arrive.

That's a great offer, pocoloco, but I had already ordered some decal-sheet. But thanks anyway!

This is a great idea, Benbow. A great idea which I'm already considering to steal

Feel free to do! Perhaps let's see what you have created when it's done?
 

[Turbo-Ben]

Have you seen what Frank Becker wrote on his blog? http://tabletopdeutschland.wordpress.com/2013/01/16/transfer-medium-statt-decals/

Maybe this could also work for your wagon?

[Turbo-Ben]

Come on Admiral, its a week since Tactica, we want to see something!

[Admiral Benbow]

Come on Admiral, its a week since Tactica, we want to see something!

Hey, real life cracks me up, too much work to do. Will be back on this for sure ...

[Legionnaire]

Very nice scratchbuild indeed!

[Bullethead]

Simply amazing work, I can't wait to see it finished! C'mon, please?

I too use textured styrene for wood.  I first got started because scratch building crates was faster and cheaper than ordering resin ones for too much $ and waiting for them to be shipped.  Also, you can make your own any size you want or need.  I've been playing with some buildings but haven't perfected the process yet.

Still at it though.

Awesome work!

[Admiral Benbow]

Simply amazing work, I can't wait to see it finished! C'mon, please?

Yes, I'm pretty sure it will be finished eventually, I just can't say when. It's A level time at my school, and I have a real bunch of multi-paged tests laying around here to be revised. AND - I allowed myself to participate in the LPL, so my painting time is already used up.

[Elk101]

This is very impressive and highly inspiring too. I think I need some better blades as my plasticard cuts are never as accurate as I'd like. I always end up having to put too much force on the cut and mess up the line.

[Admiral Benbow]

This is very impressive and highly inspiring too. I think I need some better blades as my plasticard cuts are never as accurate as I'd like. I always end up having to put too much force on the cut and mess up the line.

Well, the trick is to NOT cut through the plasticard! You only need to scribe along your ruler one or two times, then just snap the plastic apart. And don't use a knife or scalpel for cutting but a plasticard scriber from Tamiya for example. This will avoid any burrs along the edges.

[Elk101]

A plasticard scriber eh? I'll have to look that up. Thanks.

[Admiral Benbow]

The Old West Painting Posse gave me enough stimulus to finish this project. The details of the wagon were added and I sculpted Dr. Schultz himself over the Minden miniatures body, replacing the head with a suitable one from Copplestone's Old West range (Foundry). The tooth is from a small monkey skull (I once met a taxidermist who gave me a bunch of skulls in exchange for a painted miniature ...  ) and was mounted over a small spring.

After painting and weathering the wagon I painted on a protective coat of matt varnish, using Soluble Matt Varnish by Daler-Rowney. 24 hours later the exciting part of the project started, trying to copy the sign onto the wagon with VBS Transfer Medium. Working very carefully and waiting another 24 hours I was able to remove the paper completely and found a perfectly transfered sign on my wagon! Another layer of varnish enhanced the black letters even more. Very nice product!













 

[Prof.Witchheimer]

I'm in awe, Michael, bravo, you did it again!

[Svennn]

Lovely, just lovely.