Miniature Figurines

Nuts Planet "Advance Guard Heavy Gunner" Certainly a change from what I've done up to this point, this threatening figure is in 1/24th scale and, once again, the casting work is very finely detailed. I have a feeling that these figurines are actually 3D-printed because the same figure can appear in other scales. This one is also available is 1/35th scale and that would be impossible if done using a conventional mould & casting method. The kit comes with most of it in one casting and then there are several separate items to be added, including the impressive multi-barrel chain gun and ammunition feed. There was negligible flash and casting seams to be cleaned up and after a trial assembly I primed the pieces with grey automotive lacquer, let them dry and harden for a day and then undercoated with a wash of Vallejo "Air" black. This gave a good metallic appearance and provided a base on which I then started to detail with washes of dark m...

Two 35mm characters The first of these two has already been displayed here and when I made the base out of modelling clay I did so with the intention of mounting them side-by-side. Made by the same company (Nuts Planet), the second figure is called "Overwatcher" and came with alternative weaponry - one (as displayed) with an automatic pistol in her hand and the other where she is holding a rifle. Preparation followed the same format as the previous figures in this scale, with the cleaned-up casting primed in grey auto lacquer and after a couple of days to ensure that it was dry and hardened I laid down a wash of acrylics in the basic colours. Once they had dried it was onto the detailing and in this case I elected to do the trousers as a camo-combat effect, based roughly on that of the US Army in the 1960s. Her sleeveless top was finished in all-over dull green and her hair finished in black. She has been injured on the right arm and hand and is bandaged in...

A couple of miniature miniatures! Whilst Felicia is still to be completed - detail work remains to be done and the oil paint has to dry properly before that can be attempted - I have been working on a couple of smaller figures, in 1/35th. scale. They are tiny! 😀 Produced by Korean companies - Tori Factory and Nuts Planet . The moulding is exquisite....so fine, yet these are resin castings, not 3-D printed. I've completed one figure (Isadora, by Tori Factory) and have mounted it on a 20c piece. She was done in Vallejo "Model Air" acrylic paints - brushed on, not airbrushed. The second figure, called "Scouter", is by Nuts Planet. and is in the final stages of detailing. She is posed on a larger base because there will be another figure accompanying her, to be started after "Scouter" is finished. That's "Scouter" in the foreground, temporarily assembled and ready to be washed and then primed. These two photos show the figure mo...