Showing posts with label figures. Show all posts
Showing posts with label figures. Show all posts
Thursday, July 30, 2026

Painting Binface

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  This blog firmly supports Count Binface in the upcoming Clacton by-election. It is time for an elected representative with sensible polic...
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Monday, March 23, 2026

Little Brian

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  I have a fun way to remember my Dad. A miniature caricature of him has been commissioned from Rob Bennet . I ordered four, one for Mum, si...
Wednesday, March 04, 2026

Making G scale spectacles

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  OK. I think I have a solution to making glasses for G and 16mm scale figures. What you see is a first test, but it shows enough progress f...
Tuesday, March 03, 2026

My Dad was not Batman!

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  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 f...
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Thursday, June 19, 2025

Painting the driver

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  Sometimes, several of these posts are generated in a single modelling session. But not this one.  Painting the driver took place over a se...
Monday, July 08, 2024

Loco driver

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    My loco needs a driver, and digging through my stash of large scale bits, I found this Model Earth Design "Shorter Staff" fig...
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Friday, December 22, 2023

A selection of Santas

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  While we all know there is only one Santa, I seem to be amassing a collection of them! The latest, at the front, comes from Motley Miniatu...
Tuesday, September 05, 2023

Painting the "dude"

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  The Bond Bug driver figure is a pretty good model. Not everyone agrees, and alternatives have popped up on eBay, along with new wheels tha...
Tuesday, April 18, 2023

Find me a driver

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  Th tram needs a driver, and the only unpainted figure I had was too tall. As, it seems, and I, in miniature form.  Digging through my coll...
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Friday, February 24, 2023

Slate miner

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According to the card beside this in a book/antique shop I visited recently, this is "Quarryman with tipping truck - very accurate (use...
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Wednesday, November 23, 2022

Painted head part 2

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There's not a huge amount of detail in this cheapo head, I supposed you don't really need much when it will be viewed from several h...
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Tuesday, November 22, 2022

Painted head part 1

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While buying some wood from SLEC at the larger scale aircraft show , I spotted they also sold pilot heads for aircraft. I've looked at ...
Tuesday, September 06, 2022

Mini Phil Painting Guide

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  Jacket - 118 dry bushed with 93 Jeans - 144 dry brushed with a 144/147 mix Hair - 67 dry brushed with 64 Skin - 61 dry brushed with Precis...
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Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Figure fitting

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Like all the Groudle Glen locomotives, Polar Bear isn't very big. The cab is definitely compact and bijou. Fitting a model driver in ...
Friday, February 02, 2018

Mr Starboard

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Since this is an IP Engineering kit, I thought I ought to use one of their figures . Obviously, Mr Starboard is perfect since he'...
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Saturday, October 07, 2017

Making plans for XTC

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XTC – THIS IS POP  A brand-new 70-minute film on one of Britain’s best-loved and most influential bands of modern times, XTC. Emerging ...
Thursday, August 31, 2017

Oh the huminiatures!

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The railbus needs a driver - well models hurtling around the track without anyone on board look weird to me - but I never seemed to be near...
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Tuesday, February 21, 2017

Soldering people

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  File this one under "Things most people probably do but it's only just occurred to me." Needing to both assemble an...
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Thursday, February 09, 2017

Painted people

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Due to a tight deadline, the 7mm scale gangers were painted around a trip to the pub. Before I went, the skin received a coat of Lifecol...
Tuesday, February 07, 2017

O gauge metal men

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I need a couple of 7mm scale figures for a diorama, so while at Stafford I spent a long while at the Ivertrain stand searching through the ...
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