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So, I guess I will just put it like this at the moment.
Having the snow being recreated with soda powder, I have the base completed, with some MIG pigments. The wooden box has been darkened and put aside.

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For me, putting together a proper floor has always been a tough task for my 1;35 figures. On this build, I have finally come up with the idea of a little snow floor with some tool boxes and fuel tanks around.

With reference to the wooden box from Tamiya kits, I have built a wooden box myself. I guess I will be putting some little objects on it instead of this telephone box. But anyway I will have the boxes painted first.

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OK, now it is going to be another piece that I have completed by the end of 2010. I just need the floor to get done before it is put into one of my display boxes.

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Having too much bikes and cars for some weeks, I think I will have this little figure on my bench as a little break. I have got the scarf and the telescope painted. I always hesitated when thinking about the scarf, as the pattern has to be painted very accurately and carefully. But after a simple try on paper, I think I would be able to realise it on the figure.

To brighten up the figure a bit, I have this scarf in red, so as the boxart was done. I think the result look just fine on this picture but I do think I could have done this better on the real stuffs.
I will have the gloves and the boots painted next and will start preparing the floor.

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Finer details have been painted on the uniform. I hope I wil; be able to start working on the scope and the scarf soon now. But there are already a few spots around where I would like to fix a little bit.....

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The uniform has been painted with a mix of black, white, red and blue. Highlights and shadows were mildly painted. Finer details will be remarked.

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Today, I have finalised the painting of the pants.
And then I have get the hat painted too.

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Here is a quick look of what went on today. I have the back of the pants painted as well. So it just leaves some fin details around to get the pants done.

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At my third attempt, I am starting to feel comfortable with the up and down of the pants.
I have washed the figure twice until I am reaching something like this.
Again, just the front upper part was painted and hopefully when I complete a round trip of the pants, I will go deeper into the fine details. At the moment, I just tried to have the shadows and highlights together first.

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I have just started painting the pants for this LAH officer, but it turns out to be one of the most horrible nightmare ever since I experience painting figures....
The white is easily the most difficult color to try on one single pair of pants! I can hardly differentiate the tones of the white paint and I can just do it trial and error every time the brush touched the painting object.
I have spent a couple of hours getting started with the front upper part of the pants and it has been exhausting....
Fortunately, if it turns out that I cannot complete this in white, I will be washing away the paints and turn it into camo, since this is a resin figure! Haha~~!

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As the Lorenzo R1 is pending for polishing and I have little intention to jump into the M1 project at the moment, I would like to move back to this wonderful figure first.
For some simple and relaxing 30 minutes, I have managed to give this figure the first face. I have a rough run over it and it will be fin tuned a bit later on.

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THis is another practise for skin tone. I have practise the flesh tones with a couple of spare heads.

This two are a trial over Andrea AC-41 as base. The result is too dull and even I have tried to soften the tone with loads of red.


Then I have tried to switch the base color BACK to AC-10. Surprizingly his gave a much better result. So I suspect the red liquid I have removed from the AC-41 has a lot to deal with the tone.


A final touch with the pracise heads.
As you may notice, I have used some soft pink color as a foundation for these heads. I found it much easier than priming the heads with darks, as in my own practise, I always try to give a very light and thin base color to avoid messing up the details.

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The second day of the practise, this Dragon figure has been completed except for the rifle.
So sooner the NCO will be started.

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At some point, I have enough time about F1, MotoGP, and anything with wheels. So I have decided to take a break for awhile and have a good time with my military figures.

This is going to be my second Alpine figures in progress. Althougth I have seen this figure being painted by lots of talented painters, I think I will be working on it in a slightly my own way.

This figure consists of just 5 different parts, the body, the arms and 2 alternative heads, meaning I will not be working to too much accessaries at all.

And at a setup, I have chosen the head with he waring hat which gives a windy look~

As a custom for myself, as I have not been working on figures for some months, I have kick down to a simple practise on some of my previously unfinished Dragon figures first. This time I have the suit painted for this figures and the practise session will finish at its completion.