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Trying something a little different, I've had these for at least a year and were one of the main reason I wanted to start having a go at figure painting using decent brushes and acrylic paint to try and do them justice, but I've had so much fun with all the cool 3D print stuff thats available these have kept getting pushed further and further to the back of the list!

They are the smallest thing I've done so far, the legion scale seems to be a little weird and hard to nail down from hunting about, but apparently its around 32mm.

 

There are two in the box, one is running with a guy shooting his blaster, and the other is stood still with the rider looking around with blaster drawn.

 

Started by getting them off the sprue (man haven't had to cut sprue in a while! Nice to be back to it!) and then there was just a little seam line clean up mostly on the tauntauns underbelly and arms.

 

53775152779_2890fd1e24_c.jpgIMG_20240602_162540664 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

I got the legs and arms on the tauntauns, but left off the top half of the heads and the rolled blankets for ease of painting. With the riders I got the arms on the shooting guy as he's fairly wide open with his pose so no problem for paint, but the other guy holds his blaster across his chest so I left off that arm and both their heads.

 

53775251850_346f9fee6d_c.jpgIMG_20240602_164009889 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

Once parts breakdown was sorted I snipped some bits of paper clip then using my pin vice and super glue got them attached to some corks so I can hold them easily while painting.

 

53775032153_d8b337ca26_c.jpgIMG_20240602_173629511 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

Then I gave them all a blast of chaos black primer, and used some white lacquer paint through the air brush to bring out the detail and give a slight zenithal start point.

 

53774833076_69eee0b6da_c.jpgIMG_20240606_200337245 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

53775032168_801b25fe4c_c.jpgIMG_20240606_201820755 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

Thats as far as I've got so far, next up I'll get the brushes out and make a start on the fur, I've got another 3D print coming up at some point that involves a large wolf, so one of these is going to have an arctic wolf fur colouring as practice (so a dark ochre for shadow moving through pale yellow to a pure white highlight in only small areas the most in the light)

 

Thanks for looking, more soon :)

 

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It's certainly challenging on such a small scale.
Especially everything with fur and furs, which I don't enjoy painting at all.
I'll be following this closely!

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Cheers Hopsing! Yeah I haven't had much experience painting fur but I've found it's easier to deal with if it's been sculpted well, its better to deal with physical locks of it rather than just a fur texture, I'll just keep my fingers crossed and throw myself at it! 

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Cheers guys!

 

Found some time to paint over the weekend so I managed to get more done.

 

Started on the heads first, got the guy with the goggles on face done first. I did this in the same way I do skin on larger figures, bugmans glow base then cadian flesh for the mid tone and kislev flesh for the highlight with 50/50 mixes in between to smooth colour transitions.

 

53780081568_c5d65ee04e_c.jpgIMG_20240608_160432239 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

And the flesh aound the eyes of the second guy were done, then I blobbed on some off white and irisis with the tip of the brush, and blocked it in with more of the flshtone to block it in and neaten it up.

 

53780081583_d5548be067_c.jpgIMG_20240608_160452675 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

53779867296_bac483725f_c.jpgIMG_20240608_160836128 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

53778938697_33fff3dd46_c.jpgIMG_20240608_161149338 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

I found this all quite fiddly and really had to concnetrate so I missed a few steps here as I was really concentrating and forgot to take pics!

 

So for this guy I'm aiming for something similar to the standard hoth rebel unifrom, so used a mix of beige and cream for the material of the hat and his face covering

 

53779867006_0b0c8b37fe_c.jpgIMG_20240608_164006474 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

I then painted the strap around goggles and his communicator headset grey and highlighted it and gave the goggles a white basecoat.

 

53780287920_7e9eb343d1_c.jpgIMG_20240608_164927208 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

I then painted the goggles themselves, I base coated it with dark sea blue and wet blened some moot green into the top half and when it dried I added a pure moot green highlight

 

53780287535_84d74dd1a4_c.jpgIMG_20240608_170058465 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

So that head is done, so I'm sticking with this guy and movng on to his tauntaun. I Think I might go for a different non standard uniform for the other guy so I'll think about that while I do this.

I want this tauntaun to have white fur look, so I started by giving him a basecoat of steel legion drab and then added highlights by gradually adding bone white to the drab to get lighter mixes, I did also add a touch of balor brown to give a slight yellow hue

 

53780287700_e4ca3f10ff_c.jpgIMG_20240609_155159026 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

53780080383_dfd9151b4d_c.jpgIMG_20240609_155801107 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

53780188309_b78c895532_c.jpgIMG_20240609_160205391 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

53778937517_4a7964c0e4_c.jpgIMG_20240609_160211414 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

53780079963_a4d7594769_c.jpgIMG_20240609_160756663 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

I then moved on to the final white highlight

 

53778937087_cb7e689da5_c.jpgIMG_20240609_161910631 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

53780079918_de61ab53cf_c.jpgIMG_20240609_161926343 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

53779865626_22371e729c_c.jpgIMG_20240609_161956990 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

I then got the head sorted, gave the eyes an off white blob and then touched in a mournfang brown iris, the face and horns are bone white, with a little whte then mixed in for highlights. The face was the same except with a touch of pink mixed in.

 

53778936697_6aa3b1ed96_c.jpgIMG_20240609_164130444 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

53780079448_99de92aa89_c.jpgIMG_20240609_164142111 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

I gave the tongue a base coat of mephiston red and then mixed in some white to give it a pink highlight

 

53780187089_0dc44f878b_c.jpgIMG_20240609_164155227 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

I want to get the head in place so I got the leather bits around the head painted too

 

53779865126_5ab6860ca8_c.jpgIMG_20240609_165833287 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

53778936377_dacfaa6d05_c.jpgIMG_20240609_170633716 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

53780186529_69a16e5fe2_c.jpgIMG_20240609_170647685 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

Finding it a bit tricky to get decent pics done at this size, so I took a couple of shots by the window to try to give a better impression of the colours.

 

53778936042_80405e3eba_c.jpgIMG_20240609_171316198 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

53779864656_7d6129d793_c.jpgIMG_20240609_170750260 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

Next up, I'll get the rest of the leather bits basecoated with rhinox hide.

 

Thanks for looking, more soon :)

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Time for another little update

 

Painted a bit more last night, started by sorting his face around his eyes a little, I'd painted some of the fleshy bits of his face with white mistakenly thinking there was fur there.

I still had some of that colour on my pallet so I brushed it on and I'm much happier with how it looks.

 

53783943148_b94807ab69_c.jpgIMG_20240610_200006105 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

Than I spent the rest of my time with the leather saddle and straps. For this I started with a base of rhinox hide, then use a 50/50 mix of that with doombull brown and then highlight with pure doombull brown and then just in some small areas for a very bright highlight I mix in a bit of trollslayer orange and use that.

 

53783943128_d9e1efb318_c.jpgIMG_20240610_200026578 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

53784151490_e74e40e43e_c.jpgIMG_20240610_200433628 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

53784051959_578b2c5610_c.jpgIMG_20240610_201105299 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

53783725076_4478ceb42f_c.jpgIMG_20240610_201122639 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

Then for all the little stud and buckle details, and the clasps on the bags I gave it a dark grey base, then a light grey on the light side before giving a small white highlight to look like metal.

 

53783943008_72279ee838_c.jpgIMG_20240610_201818216 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

53784051884_45996ac662_c.jpgIMG_20240610_201835566 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

53784151375_b0bbde1d8a_c.jpgIMG_20240610_202011296 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

53784051869_6efee51025_c.jpgIMG_20240610_202020726 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

So thats the tauntaun pretty much sorted, so next I'll get the riders body sorted.

 

Thanks for looking, more soon :)

 

 

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The leather harness is a great result, nicely painted, the tauntaun is also convincing, is there a winter base to go with it?

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I'm sure you're making up some of the paint names. But I love the sound of Trollslayer Orange!

But what you're doing with these imaginary paints is looking really great. Very impressive.

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15 hours ago, Hopsing said:

The leather harness is a great result, nicely painted, the tauntaun is also convincing, is there a winter base to go with it?

 

Cheers Hopsing! The base they both come with is pretty poor, they're for gaming so just a plain circle, which is red for some reason. 

So I'm going to put them on one snowy base that I'll make myself. 

 

13 hours ago, Pete in Lincs said:

I'm sure you're making up some of the paint names. But I love the sound of Trollslayer Orange!

But what you're doing with these imaginary paints is looking really great. Very impressive.

 

Thanks Pete! :lol:Yeah I think whatever mushrooms they forage for before going to the paint room are not what they think they are! 

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Had another couple of paint sessions, moved on to the body so started by base coating the different bits. Going for a cream/beige similar to the movie for this one, so for the beige I started by giving it a coat of steel legion drab mixed with some deathclaw brown, and the cream is bone white with just a touch of deathclaw brown.

 

53788470716_f3a97c0c49_c.jpgIMG_20240611_201628304 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

53788886315_663943a974_c.jpgIMG_20240611_202801367 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

Then from there I just started making lighter mixes of the two to build up the highlights on the upper facing parts, and I painted the straps on his boots also.

 

53788782884_de85103309_c.jpgIMG_20240611_204228581 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

53787528992_87f44fd81c_c.jpgIMG_20240611_222754316 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

The gloves are quite a light grey, so I started with celestra grey and then just made a lighter mix to highlight, I also did go back and make a slightly darker mix for the underside too

 

53788782869_57f0a3498c_c.jpgIMG_20240611_222803929 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

Then I got his blaster arm sorted, for the blaster that was just black with some mid grey and then smaller near white highlights, I also painted a red dot on the sight.

This is also the arm that has the insignia on it, I did check out images of what it looks like, but I didn't stress myself trying to get it 100% accurate, just wanted to make so its recognisable for what it is.

 

53788886220_928c8558c9_c.jpgIMG_20240612_200238227 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

53788683903_e2960bf69e_c.jpgIMG_20240612_200223708 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

For his belt I went with deathclaw brown, didn't want to do the same rhinox hide leather look to break it up from all the leather of the saddle. And I also painted the metal detail on his chest, again with black and highlights of mid grey and white, not sure if they are ammo or insignia but looked up a reference and got them sorted.

 

53788782664_0d5bc78a2b_c.jpgIMG_20240612_201959418 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

53787528827_28d6ba780f_c.jpgIMG_20240612_201949788 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

53788782569_8ea5ca7bef_c.jpgIMG_20240612_202010933 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

Couldn't resist getting his head glued on

 

53788469946_b3b348f8b0_c.jpgIMG_20240612_203315692 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

53788782249_c768f6ff9f_c.jpgIMG_20240612_203329886 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

I then got his blanket/tent or whatever they are painted, went with green for the top one (because that snow is going to thaw at some point right??) for no other reason than to add a different colour as a contrast to the rest, for the smaller one I went in with doombull brown as a start point, again just to make it different to the rhinox hide leather I did for the saddle and will also do for the straps on this.

 

53787528147_d5ced45fcf_c.jpgIMG_20240612_203420546 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

53790642165_d58de3ebd9_c.jpgIMG_20240613_195347354 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

That was then glued in place along with his blaster arm.

 

53790533714_7868be5c19_c.jpgIMG_20240613_195957798 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

And so thats one of the riders done!

 

53790533729_630869874b_c.jpgIMG_20240613_200025324 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

Next I'll switch back to the other guy, I think for him I'll do a han solo style navy blue upper body, with sleeves matching so it looks like one complete jacket.

 

Thanks for looking, more soon :)

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On 12/06/2024 at 09:58, Hunter Rose said:

So I'm going to put them on one snowy base that I'll make myself. 

I don't find snow surfaces easy, so I'm all the more excited to see what you make of them
When I've tried, it's always just looked like slush.

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The last time I did some proper snow and ice effects was quite along time ago, I did a little one for my Frost Goblin but I did a big snowy diorama with some Ma.K model kits about a decade ago. 

 

I'm not planning anything too crazy for these guys, I'll be using a piece of foam board so I can carve a rocky edge which I'll cover in my snow mix

 

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Coming along nicely - I'll be following the snow basing with interest, I've a couple to do on my 'down the line' projects. 😎👍

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Got time to do some more on this over the weekend, started by base coating the other tauntaun.

 

This one is going to be a blue grey building up to small pure white highlighted areas, so for the base coat colour I started with vallejo dark sea blue with just a bit of black to make sure its not too green and give more of a grey tone (dark sea blue is a great colour but its actually a very dark greeny blue) and I also gave the flesh/horn/claw parts a base coat of steel legion drab.

 

53799452533_657352dcb9_c.jpgIMG_20240616_145857833 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

53799221351_002ca9748b_c.jpgIMG_20240616_145904742 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

From there I mixed in more white (and touches of the dark sea blue to keep the slight blue tone to it all) to that mix to get my lighter tones that I used on the upward facing areas, building up to a final small white highlight.

I cover up less and less areas with these steps (4 in total) so I'm getting a kind of fountain step effect that helps with colour transition. Also for this one as he has thick hair I'm trying to keep my brush strokes on the lighter side so I'm leaving some of the deeper recesses in the fur so the shadow colour shows through.

It starts off quite subtle and was a bit of a swine to photograph to be honest!

 

53799642795_79467215a3_c.jpgIMG_20240616_150536089 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

53799452068_233e902aff_c.jpgIMG_20240616_151027532 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

53798278832_aef78ee154_c.jpgIMG_20240616_151037699 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

53799451758_4b00a8515a_c.jpgIMG_20240616_151430050 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

53799642360_a58e3b41b1_c.jpgIMG_20240616_151823816 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

53798278352_0b4995d184_c.jpgIMG_20240616_151832682 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

53798278237_cac4d093e3_c.jpgIMG_20240616_152430080 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

53799642045_d4f96416bd_c.jpgIMG_20240616_152441847 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

From there I switched back to the claw and face bits, so I went in with the steel legion drab with some bone white mixed in for the first step in establishing my light areas, then before going further I did the eyes. For these I used bone white and then did the iris/pupil with a dot of rhinox hide, I then neatened it up by going back in with some steel legion drab.

 

53799220426_aa103e474e_c.jpgIMG_20240616_152940811 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

53799641630_d22a4d7a32_c.jpgIMG_20240616_153239540 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

53799538619_367eefe6ca_c.jpgIMG_20240616_153413203 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

53798277777_a519d0c3a6_c.jpgIMG_20240616_153517640 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

Then I began the highlighting process on the head and other flseh/claw bits by adding more and more bone white to the steel legion drab working towards bone white and then a touch of white in the mix for the final small highlights.

 

53799640930_556a8d3750_c.jpgIMG_20240616_153841370 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

53799640100_26509649f1_c.jpgIMG_20240616_154653381 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

53799640855_986644b355_c.jpgIMG_20240616_154154704 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

53799537709_b7cc22b2fc_c.jpgIMG_20240616_154641497 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

53799640100_26509649f1_c.jpg

 

Like i said its a bit tricky to show up in the photos, here are some better ones to show the fur colour

 

53799537094_b54d2f46ab_c.jpgIMG_20240616_155029635 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

53799537179_3b7e25a94d_c.jpgIMG_20240616_155022502 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

53799218551_8c3e9f99da_c.jpgIMG_20240616_155402331 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

I was very happy with that, to the point where it also made me rethink the first tauntaun a bit. I think I lost my midtone with the colour mixing, so I went back in with a colour between the dark and light to add my midtone back and then I strengthened the highlights on the fur but also on the rider too.

 

53799449403_4383fea395_c.jpgIMG_20240617_141422145 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

53799536739_6efc5d7342_c.jpgIMG_20240617_142825950 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

53799218061_ef76368f22_c.jpgIMG_20240617_142842299 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

I'm much happier with that, I think I was concentrating on colour so much I lost sight of the light values. Only other thing I did was to get his head sorted too, for this one I'm going with dark blue and grey, did his goggles in the same way as the first guy.

 

53799448688_429e733d81_c.jpgIMG_20240617_150255305~2 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

53799638995_869da85eed_c.jpgIMG_20240617_150317066~2 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

So next up I'll get the leather on the tauntaun sorted.

 

Thanks for looking, more soon :)

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Very nice progress, you have succeeded in reworking the highlights, this can also be compared well if you look at the pictures on flickr in better quality.

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Just a quick update, I've got the leather all done. Just did this in the same way I did the other one, I start with rhinox hide as a base, then cover most of that except the dark shadows with a 50/50 mix of rhinox hide and doombull brown, then pure doombull brown as the first highlight then I add trollslayer orange for a bright highlight and then more tollslayer orange and a touch of whitefor the final bright highlight in only a few small areas that are the most light catching.

All of this is working gradually in smaller and smaller areas to still show some of the previous steps for smooth colour transitions.

 

53801647893_9aa92b804b_c.jpgIMG_20240618_203627535 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

53801837065_79174e336a_c.jpgIMG_20240618_203641913 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

53800471617_fec2507f17_c.jpgIMG_20240618_203648013 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

53801735264_6ed71136ac_c.jpgIMG_20240618_203700980 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

I'm thinking for this one for a bit of difference Im going to leave off the camp rolls from the back, I also really like how the back of the saddle came out and dont want to cover it up! :lol:

 

So next up I'm on to the body of the rider.

 

Thanks for looking, more soon :)

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Time for another update, finally found time to get pics uploaded and sorted!

 

Got the rider of the second tauntaun base coated with some night lords blue and then I used castellan blue in the mix to build the highlights. Want him to be blue and gray, so the trousers were done in a dark grey building up to light grey with the same inside his hood.

 

53812507005_f4b85ea438_c.jpgIMG_20240619_220821815 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

53811140932_75695fc622_c.jpgIMG_20240620_200147465 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

Then just like the last one I did the clips and buckles with a black basecoat, grey midtone and then a small white highlight to give a metal effect, then I glued the head of the tauntaun in place.

Oh and I forgot to mention I also did his blaster exactly the same as lastime, and for his boots I went for grey with light grey strapping

 

53812403184_4a8c9d7f14_c.jpgIMG_20240620_201134437 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

53812506920_58cd8602fa_c.jpgIMG_20240620_201548585 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

53812070241_b7f36b3877_c.jpgIMG_20240620_201559159 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

53811140827_ce744dbf13_c.jpgIMG_20240620_201608697 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

Then with that, I got the riders head glued in place and juts tweaked a few of the uppermost highlights to make them a little brighter on the tops of his gloves, upper torso and hat, and then I got the little arm badge sorted too.

 

53811140827_ce744dbf13_c.jpgIMG_20240620_201608697 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

53812402979_6a91fd12e5_c.jpgIMG_20240623_195911726 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

53812311223_19d278074e_c.jpgIMG_20240623_195920495 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

I then moved to the base for both of them, I want a snow base that has a rocky edge, so I started by cutting some insulation foam to get a two layered base, I then used a stanley knife to make horizontal cuts all around with just a few diagonal ones. Then using a stiff nylon brush I roughed it all up to remove bits from where its been cut.

 

53812311353_8c64c2afcb_c.jpgIMG_20240621_173018112 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

53811140777_dfd8600ddd_c.jpgIMG_20240621_173228065 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

53812311358_aff0d791f6_c.jpgIMG_20240621_173539222 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

53812506795_3aa83d6b5e_c.jpgIMG_20240621_173546076 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

Then from there it got a blast of chaos black primer

 

53812403039_2c24404795_c.jpgIMG_20240621_194001506 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

Once dry I grabbed a massive brush and some black and white artists acrylics, and went from a dark grey to medium then a light grey for highlights. I wasn't dry brushing as such as it was all quite wet, but I was just usiing light stroked just to pick out the raised detail.

 

53812311218_5e29c09407_c.jpgIMG_20240623_200331339 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

53812311178_8a73bc73f8_c.jpgIMG_20240623_200919264 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

53812311188_16bb9fa5a8_c.jpgIMG_20240623_201245227 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

53812402929_51a85a5f9b_c.jpgIMG_20240623_222721503 by Nick Frost, on Flickr

 

So the next step will be to mix up some snow and get the tauntauns in place and then it will be done

 

Thanks for looking, more soon :)

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Sorry Neil, I only caught up with this thread now that you’re almost done! You’re doing a great job here.  Looking forward to see the finished models on their base.

 

Mike

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58 minutes ago, Hunter Rose said:

Cheers Mike! Appreciate it:yes:

And FYI its Nick :D

Oops! Sorry Neil, errrrr Nick!🫣

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Very nice Nick. The base building looks very efficient! I'm looking forward to the snow. Not always the easiest thing to do.

 

Alan

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