Fishing Friar

Here's something I entered for a duel at Bennos Figures. Didn't do too badly and I learnt a lot on the way as it was the first time I tried to make  realistic water.

I also experimented with Noch laser cut printed foliage. Not overly impresed with these though. The bullrushes are a little weedy and the seed itself is very flat, so I painted it to look a little more three dimensional.  I've just realised it would look great with a vignette of 30mm flat figures.

Had fun painting a 1/72nd carp and perch from Preisser. The  figure is  from Valdemar Figures I believe. I converted him to a  monk, expressing my inner hermit!

 I tried to showed the various layers of geology as the river had cut through them over time. 

Originally the  sides of the vignette showed the  underlying stratigraphy, but this was lost when the resin water glued the shutters tight and I had to incorporate them.

The water took ages to dry, used capillery action to climb up my shutters and spread across the grass! When the shutters were removes the still soft lower layers started to bulge out. Plastic sprue was used for the branch / rod and human hair  for the line.

Mr Apatosaur

Built this little dio in 1/72 for Bennos figures forum.  The theme was 'I met a monster', so I had a think and came up with the idea of  some children seeing their first dinosaur. Set in the 50's or 60's USA, our children and their carer, take a trip out into the desert to see the excavation....

Here's the whole scene; see if you can spot the fossils!

This shot shows the assistant as he takes a break from clearing away the spoil.  He comes from a Noch set of workmen. A couple of metres to his right is a  much smaller relative from the Prieser animals set.

Here's the supervisor explaining something about 'Mr Apatosaur' to the visitors.  'Mr Apatosaur was very big for his time, even compared to his friends!' (He's a little over 1/72 but I'm not up to sculpting dinosaurs yet). The Supervisor is a Prieser US WW2 mechanic.

I tried a long view, not great for my new camera as I haven't worked out manual F stop yet, but I was pleased how the monitor picture worked as a background.

And to finish, Ma takes a picture of the Apatosaur skull. She was a Noch journalist and the kids came from a very rough train passengers set. I had a lot of fun making this and hope you like it. Thanks for dropping by.