Time for books and coff ieeeee

This month I show you another fantastic figure.

Found him as a free STL file on the internet HERE

If you know me a little bit,

you know that I am always looking for non violent figures. 

And this one is so funny, I had to have it.

Just sent the link to my bonus son: The Frost City

Fortunately, my bonus son has a 3D printer,

and I ordered 2

so I could duel with these on Bennosfiguresforum.

I chose a somewhat colorful outfit, 

and decided to give him socks with a stripe pattern.

But that was not the intended result,

so it ended up being a diamond pattern.

In the end everything was in a color combo I liked,

and even though the coffee broke down 2x during the painting process,

I was happy with the final result,

just need to take some pictures for the duel....

And yes, I want to take it off the painter's helper,

and crack.... ohhh no....

So off to work with the superglue again,

first his leg and later for the third time the coffee,

and then touch everything up again with paint.

Eventually this also gave me the obligation 

to give the bottom of his stockings

a slightly different motif through the glue layer.

This result too was satisfactory.

And even though my opponent also made a great entry,

I got to declare myself the winner for once. 

A nice little figure, though difficult to paint with the books,

but highly recommended as far as I'm concerned.

Check out the duel on Benno's Figures Forum HERE

Breton

This month I didn't have much time to spare, 

so just picked a figure from the Asterix range

It is a figure from the Album "Asterix and the Britons"

The colours will not be correct as I had no example at the time,

so a colour combination I came up with myself.

Although it was a rush job, I am quite happy with the end result

In particular, the pattern on his trousers was a small challenge

Painted, these figures look much nicer anyway...

That's it for this month again, thanks for visiting! 

I'm off to paint another Roman soldier!

Bassie

This month another scratch project of an Asterix figure,

and this clown Bassie known in the Netherlands was my inspiration.

For this conversion, I chose an Egyptian figure

who already has a bit the body of "Bassie".

With a hobby knife, I first cut away the Egyptian clothing,

and tried to give him more of a trouser look .

Then using paper tissues smeared with PVA glue 

I gave him his coat.

This is always a time-consuming job

because there are several layers of glue 

on top until I am satisfied.

Then the paintwork, and in particular his coat

had to start giving him the looks.

I started by making this red, 

then carefully applied vertical lines with white paint.

Then it was the horizontal lines turn 

and his coat got all red squares, so to speak.

Finally, I tried using green paint 

to put another line in the middle of all the white paint.

And even though the end result of this tricky paint job 

didn't really resemble the original, 

I'm quite happy with how it turned out. 

I gave him a green tie,

which he didn't have at all in real life,

so that was only temporary.

Then it was just a matter of putting on the familiar smink,

and giving him his final "Bassie" look.

Dutch visitors will undoubtedly recognise him!

And now I commit myself to making

his companion acrobat "Adriaan" as well....

So to be continued, hopefully you found it another fun conversion.

Orangina

Meet witch Orangina, yet another delightful scratch project.

This time I used this lady from the Asterix chewing gum range.

I started adjusting her arm so just cutting and drilling...

And after some fitting and measuring,

I bent pieces of paperclip into the right position

Then I started on her nose,

which of course has to be a witch's nose.

With pva glue all pieces of paperclip were skillfully hidden

Then glue a piece of electrical wire to the paperclip.

And only remove the protective layer from the wire after drying.

Once everything is firmly in place,

the broom will take some more shape...

Now to pick a matching hat to go with the blobs of hotglue.

Again, I used a ring to mark off the round shape,

a quick cut and done....

After a slice was cut from her head,

her hat glued on and then primed her.

After painting, she immediately started chatting

with her colleague about spells...

But first the photo shoot.

She too has a beautiful wart on her nose!

Simple colours completed it

Hope you are as entosiastic as I am.

This was another enjoyable little project to make.