My Dad was not Batman!

 

While painting the 4mm scale Dad figure for the VER car, I thought I might as well do the 7mm version I have at the same time. 

It looks fine, but without glasses, his face looked a bit empty. Hoping to cure this, I loaded the finest tip in my Bob Moore lining pen with paint, and set about drawing on the specs. 

Trying to draw straight lines proved more than tricky, and to be honest, the results were rubbish. It looks more like a mask than glasses! Even refining things with the finest brush to hand didn't help. Truth is, the frames of his glasses are very thin in real life, and would be narrower than a hair in model form.  

So, the glasses were washed off, and I've decided to live with the slightly empty face. If you look at real people from a distance, you don't really notice anyway. 

However, on the G and 16mm scale figures, I can't escape the problem. So, out with some fine wire. 

This is 0.45mm brass wire on the G scale figure. It would be 10mm thick in real life in this scale. 

Now, the results aren't horrible, but they are a long way from acceptable. I tried thinner wires, but 0.33 nickel silver just broke, and I can't find the brass. Some beading wire sort of worked, but it was very difficult to form. 

This might work for the glasses on characture Little Phil, but it's not right here. However, after a bit of thinking, I might have a solution. Stay tuned...