popeye the sailor
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popeye the sailor got a reaction from CDW in The Last Bridge: Vadim with cart by Jack12477 - Master Box Ltd - 1:24 scale
nice work! gee, you could do a 'Walking Dead' scenario with these guys. very nice work indeed!
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popeye the sailor got a reaction from mtaylor in At the Edge of the Universe: Ianis by Jack12477 - FINISHED - Master Box - 1:24 scale
Scalehobbist is in Nashua.........they have a pretty good selection. I was just looking at your new build, and I saw the others on the site, but did not see the guy with the cart. perhaps he's shown in another section. I'll bookmark the site.....thanks!
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popeye the sailor got a reaction from mtaylor in The Last Bridge: Vadim with cart by Jack12477 - Master Box Ltd - 1:24 scale
nice work! gee, you could do a 'Walking Dead' scenario with these guys. very nice work indeed!
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popeye the sailor got a reaction from Old Collingwood in At the Edge of the Universe: Ianis by Jack12477 - FINISHED - Master Box - 1:24 scale
Scalehobbist is in Nashua.........they have a pretty good selection. I was just looking at your new build, and I saw the others on the site, but did not see the guy with the cart. perhaps he's shown in another section. I'll bookmark the site.....thanks!
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popeye the sailor got a reaction from Old Collingwood in The Last Bridge: Vadim with cart by Jack12477 - Master Box Ltd - 1:24 scale
nice work! gee, you could do a 'Walking Dead' scenario with these guys. very nice work indeed!
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popeye the sailor got a reaction from Egilman in At the Edge of the Universe: Ianis by Jack12477 - FINISHED - Master Box - 1:24 scale
Scalehobbist is in Nashua.........they have a pretty good selection. I was just looking at your new build, and I saw the others on the site, but did not see the guy with the cart. perhaps he's shown in another section. I'll bookmark the site.....thanks!
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popeye the sailor got a reaction from Egilman in The Last Bridge: Vadim with cart by Jack12477 - Master Box Ltd - 1:24 scale
nice work! gee, you could do a 'Walking Dead' scenario with these guys. very nice work indeed!
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popeye the sailor got a reaction from Canute in At the Edge of the Universe: Ianis by Jack12477 - FINISHED - Master Box - 1:24 scale
Scalehobbist is in Nashua.........they have a pretty good selection. I was just looking at your new build, and I saw the others on the site, but did not see the guy with the cart. perhaps he's shown in another section. I'll bookmark the site.....thanks!
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popeye the sailor got a reaction from Canute in The Last Bridge: Vadim with cart by Jack12477 - Master Box Ltd - 1:24 scale
nice work! gee, you could do a 'Walking Dead' scenario with these guys. very nice work indeed!
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popeye the sailor reacted to CDW in At the Edge of the Universe: Ianis by Jack12477 - FINISHED - Master Box - 1:24 scale
Great looking project, Jack.
I've often wondered the same thing about products from Ukraine. How the heck are they doing it with all that's happening. I own quite a few of their figure kits but have yet to crack open one to finish. Your work is inspirational.
That could be a beer-bong, Ken. A high-speed libations dispenser of sorts.
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popeye the sailor reacted to Canute in At the Edge of the Universe: Ianis by Jack12477 - FINISHED - Master Box - 1:24 scale
He's turned out nicely Jack. 👍 Waiting for Vadim.
I have an app named Hobby Color Converter on my Android phone. It's used to give you color equivalences for hobby paints. If instructions give you Fed Spec colors or Gunze colors, you can look up many other equivalent paints in other lines. The other feature for me is the hobby news portion. It gives you new releases for a/c, armor, auto, figures, fantasy figures (like Ianis), Model Shipwrights, model railroading and some more in-depth reviews. The shipwrights and railroad announcements are pretty thin, but since this is from the Kit Maker website, their website coverage in these areas is kind of minimal. I check in every other day or so to see what's new on the site.
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popeye the sailor reacted to GrandpaPhil in At the Edge of the Universe: Ianis by Jack12477 - FINISHED - Master Box - 1:24 scale
Very nicely done!
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popeye the sailor reacted to Jack12477 in At the Edge of the Universe: Ianis by Jack12477 - FINISHED - Master Box - 1:24 scale
Thanks ! Master Box Ltd is a Ukrainian company based in Dnipro. Don't know how they are able to continue producing such really detailed kits with a war going on in their backyard. They have a really nice line of WWII military & civilian figures in addition to these "fantasy style" subjects. And they recently came out with Ukrainian Army figures. SCALEHobbyist in Hudson NH near you carries their line.
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popeye the sailor reacted to Jack12477 in The Last Bridge: Vadim with cart by Jack12477 - Master Box Ltd - 1:24 scale
Almost finished :
Still have some touch-up to do. Biggest challenge for me post cataract surgery is finding the right closeup lense to use in the Optivisor. Mine has 4 interchangeable glass lenses, +1.5, +2.0, +2.5, +3.0 diopter. Pre-surgery I would just hold the figure closer, but I could still see the paint pallette, now the figure is in focus, but the pallette isn’t, so finding the little drop of paint requires lifting the visor. 🤷
Next up is detailing the base. Stay tuned 🤫
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popeye the sailor reacted to Jack12477 in The Last Bridge: Vadim with cart by Jack12477 - Master Box Ltd - 1:24 scale
A small progress report. Some light shading.
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popeye the sailor reacted to Jack12477 in The Last Bridge: Vadim with cart by Jack12477 - Master Box Ltd - 1:24 scale
I find it does that for me also, but I don't find that it has much effect as I then go over it with a light misting of the white primer which breaks up the sheen.
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popeye the sailor reacted to Old Collingwood in The Last Bridge: Vadim with cart by Jack12477 - Master Box Ltd - 1:24 scale
I picked up a little tip (I am yet to try) I was finding Vallejo Surface Primer (Black) dries with a slight sheen and not a nice flat surface like other primers, so an idea floating around was to add some matt acrylic flat coat to it, the idea is that any normal acrylic colours on top of it should adhere better and be a proper flat shade (as Blue acrylic on mine was not drying flat on top of my un altered vallejo primer.
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popeye the sailor reacted to Jack12477 in The Last Bridge: Vadim with cart by Jack12477 - Master Box Ltd - 1:24 scale
The technique I am using to paint the figure is this: first airbrush a coat of Vallejo black surface primer over the entire figure, then after drying overnight, I lightly brush a coat of Vallejo white surface prime trying to hit mostly the high spots on the figure, leaving area like deep creases on clothing etc, black. After that dries overnight, I start applying the main coat using a wet palette to thin the paints. I keep applying light coats until I am satisfied with the coverage. Then let it dry overnight.
This is the wet pallette I am using, it's available at Michaels stores in their artist paints area. The wet sponge underneath keeps the paper moist. And a tight cover keeps it from drying out .
This is Vadim after the first application of the base color
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popeye the sailor reacted to Jack12477 in The Last Bridge: Vadim with cart by Jack12477 - Master Box Ltd - 1:24 scale
Perhaps it was this series. There are several characters in the series. I only have 3 of them
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popeye the sailor reacted to Old Collingwood in The Last Bridge: Vadim with cart by Jack12477 - Master Box Ltd - 1:24 scale
I have seen this kit somewhere on the net.
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popeye the sailor reacted to Jack12477 in The Last Bridge: Vadim with cart by Jack12477 - Master Box Ltd - 1:24 scale
The next in the series by Master Box in 1:24 scale is Vadim
The box art and contents
A simple kit to assemble. The challenge is in painting the figure to closely approximate the box art. When the paint dries, I will post some progress photos.
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popeye the sailor got a reaction from mtaylor in At the Edge of the Universe: Ianis by Jack12477 - FINISHED - Master Box - 1:24 scale
I've seen the old Aurora figures around..........and Atlantis is beginning to reproduce some of the old animal kits. but I've never heard of these kits..........truly off the beaten path very nice job !
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popeye the sailor got a reaction from AJohnson in At the Edge of the Universe: Ianis by Jack12477 - FINISHED - Master Box - 1:24 scale
I've seen the old Aurora figures around..........and Atlantis is beginning to reproduce some of the old animal kits. but I've never heard of these kits..........truly off the beaten path very nice job !
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popeye the sailor got a reaction from Canute in At the Edge of the Universe: Ianis by Jack12477 - FINISHED - Master Box - 1:24 scale
I've seen the old Aurora figures around..........and Atlantis is beginning to reproduce some of the old animal kits. but I've never heard of these kits..........truly off the beaten path very nice job !
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