In the meantime; a few lose-ends which
didn't fit into the other posts or which I only thought of later . . .
A few marks which missed the boat in Part
1, labeled collage so self-explanatory, I defy anyone to argue the spidery'ness
of the three - quite different - logos! Note also how the numbering of the
Rococo figures is more than a hundred-count apart?
Cleaning - The pirate was quite filthy when
I got him, and while I thought about a quick dry-brushing, in the end I got the
ear-buds out and did a proper job. Here you can see how one corner of the base
and plinth came up.
In the course of which a lot of Fontanini's ageing wash came off, I
didn't mind, as while it 'adds' to the two Rococo figures, if anything; it
subtracted from the Pirate, who came up much brighter for losing what was in
effect a water-soluble layer of yacht-varnish brown!
He also had a furry base, which I cleaned
with postal-labels as they are gentler that parcel tape! Work out from the
centre and always at a slight angle from square so you don't pick-up an edge
and lift the whole flocked patch.
You can still get flocked material, but
it's backed on modern vehicle/shop-sign vinyl, whereas Fontanini/Carrara used flocked paper labels which I'm not sure where
you'd get now.
You can also use costumiers felt cut into
suitable rectangles, or even crafters self-adhesive felt, but trying to get them
cut and glued square to the piece is hard work and it's a much thicker material
- useful for chessmen and the like as you just cut a larger piece and trim-back
to the edge, but these need to have a very thin layer of flocking and for it to
be cut back from the edge a mm or so.
Sublime detail/sculpting given that the
material is a dense PVC.
Bit of fun - I had to go to Farnborough
today (Thursday) to get a part for my Vape (three years; no fags!) and popped
into the old (independent) party shop to see if they had anything new, and
while I balked at two quid for these chrome-finished, placky-tacky 'Sexiest
Costume' awards, I thought they were suitably statuesque to 'shelfie' for this
post - remember also the Hong Kong Grecian lady in white styrene we looked at a
few weeks ago.
Growing-family
portrait!
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