Jonathan,

Wonderful work! I admire the fact that your taking the "old fashioned" approach to detailing. When all is said and done, it is extremely satisifying to take an old kit and bring it up to snuff. Of course, you could have always taken the "easy" way and chose a DML kit lol.

Your figures too.. awsome! I can barely PAINT figures, let alone SCULPT them!

Bravo!

Matt

I must also add my $0.02 and say ............... great thread.............. great work.

Making my own figuers is on my list of to-do's one day !!! Even more inspired now after seeing yours.....................

SENSATIONAL work Jon it's really amazing what one can do to such an old and outdated kit your scratchbuilding is unbelievable and those figs magnificent i can't wait to see it fully finished

This one is at the top of my list for finishing this season and it's sooo close!

More wire bending and clay sculpting...

...right were I left off...


It's pretty dang tight in the back of this thing,


so some of the guys are getting built as a unit.


Here is the whole crew


I have a couple of them on the priming table right now, I hope to have some updates by the end of the weekend.

Oh yeah, this is a little different, usually I drill out the lens of the binoculars (if they will be in view) but instead I just added some foil rings.

It's another expirement so we'll have to see weather it is a keeper when it's all said and done.

You are very skilled ! your build is very inspiring !

Thank God you are still at this one!

Keep it up. I really want to see you finish this beauty!

interesting!hope to see it when it finish

Well there was some progress this weekend, but not as much as I had hoped.
How come it is so easy to get distracted with a new project?
Here is the crew with more arms than before...
Before

After

I did get a coat of paint on a couple of them tonight, so maybe tomorrow some color shots!

Sad but true, it seems that I'm calling this one done even though I didn't get all of the guys stuffed in there. Maybe one day I'll finish 'em up but for now...

I went from here...



...to here with a coat of dust, this really tied the paint job together.


I added the final details, two of the eight figures (darn), and placed it on this small base.
Ahhh...





Thanks for following along with this one!