Not a euphemism for the contents of Donald Trump's codpiece, and now known as "Pen Lady", due to the fact she is no longer a pen- after conversion below; this charming 19th Miss, was one of the more esoteric items in a recent parcel from Peter Evans.
You can see she would happily pass muster
at any ball from the Wellintonian age to the late 1800's, taking the Crimea, ACW,
Scarlet O’Hara and Wild West saloons in her stride. She's just over 70mm, so a
bit on the tall side and she has 'Disney' eyes, but they can be reduced with
some fine brush-work.
Hardly a 'conversion' but rather; the
removal of the pen's barrel and the adding of a suitable base. I wasn't sure of
the plastic type of the novelty pen, and while it was certainly heavy enough to
be resin, while sawing it though, there was a distinct smell of polystyrene? I
cut from both sides due to the nature of the skirts' sculpting; it also left me
with a slight hollow in the middle for the gluing phase.
Equally, while I had a nice piece of opalescent
'turf' - courtesy of my tubs of old game counters, gambling chips and
tiddlywinks for just such jobs - I'm not too sure what its polymer is either! It's
very likely to be tumble-polished, and either a Bakelite, an early phenolic resin or even a urea-formaldehyde
compound of some kind?
So they get the mixture; a couple of drops
of styrene-cement on the base, some plumbers-sealant dollopped onto the cut
area of the figure, then two drops of super-glue over the styrene-cement and
another two over the sealant, then both halves squished together and twisted a
few part-turns to get the mix mixed!
A two-part epoxy would do the job just as
well, but it's a faff and where's the fun in that? The beauty of the mix is
that as it 'goes off' the sealant pulls everything tight and the combination
seems to prevent the frosting you'd otherwise get with that quantity of
cyanoacrylate.
Not looking too shabby! A useful addition
to any collection, and I bet there are a few different designs to look out for,
one day I may re-paint her, but for now she'll do - Thanks Peter, I hope you
don't mind the vandalism required to obtain the stand-alone figurine!
2 comments:
Not such a bad sculpt. I wonder what it would like to gnaw on that one?
Well, it was quite soft plastic, although it looks like resin, I'm sure it was styrene, so it would be a little like chewing on a lollipop, albeit one with little flavour . . . like one of those cheap seaside ones Jan!
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