As Hirsuite As Deep Purple ca. 1972. . .

Which one looks the most like the late Jon Lord to you?

Here's where we stand with the batch of now 15 Minden and RSM95 Croats after catching up Private Gulyás (now with a muted yellow and blue cockade on his shako) and tackling the combination of mustaches, hair locks, and queues in three or four different shades of brown. A particular challenge was allowing those slivers of ears to show and NOT obscuring the tips of noses with tiny flecks of paint.

Briefer than usual painting sessions helped, of course, but definitely not feeling like a highway star with the paintbrush after several sessions focused on these related details during the last couple of days. Whew!

Never what you might call fun, these particular details on figures of any size have always been a real challenge for my painting skills and concentration. And it hasn't become any easier these last 40+ years or so. Still, they look reasonably good, and I can now move on to the various belts, straps, facings, braid, and musket stocks before the inevitable touch-ups.

But time now for a coffee break and then some actual "real life" work to prepare for a Zoom meeting with a colleague this evening.

-- Stokes

Comments

Rob said…

For me it has to be the officer on the far left.

11:29 AM

WSTKS-FM Worldwide said…

I thought the same almost as soon as I asked the question, Rob! He's missing only Jon's habitual dark glasses. And Hammond organ of course.

Kind Regards,

Stokes

12:16 PM

tradgardmastare said…

“ There once was a Croat, a strange kind of Croat, the kind that gets written down in history …” as they say.
Great figures coming along very nicely.
Alan

12:04 AM

WSTKS-FM Worldwide said…

Thank you Alan! Little by little.

Kind Sunday Regards,

Stokes

8:15 AM

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