Roktman Posted December 21, 2021 Report Share Posted December 21, 2021 I'm calling it close for this year's Christmas model. It's Bob Crachit from Christmas Carol sculpted by John Dennett's MoonDevil Studio. A typically nice kit in 1/5 scale. It's 2 parts of purplish resin - the bust and the base. As with the Scrooge bust from a few years ago, it's based on the 1951 film. Since the film was done in B&W, I had to look fro movies posters to see how the characters were imagined. I found two images of Bob - one with a blue tie/scarf, and one with red. Thinking there's nothing Christmas-sy about blue, I went with the red one. Plus the red tie sort of ties in with Scrooge's red scarf. As usual I started off with the face. All images show him fair skinned with dark hair so here we go. Besides the red tie, I'm planning for a white shirt, green vest and a brown jacket, with hopefully some texture on it to make it look tweed. We'll see about that. But that's for next time. I started out this session by painting the hair. On TV it shows up very dark. I hit it with the darkest brown I had, Then highlighted it when dry. Ugh. Too light. Then 3 coast of Citadel's Nuln Oil got it back to a decently dark color. For the clothes, I had the colors I wanted picked out - White shirt, red tie, green vest with brass button, and black piping, and then a brown jacket. It went along well. for the vest I added a little design in a light green and ten went a little lighter for the 2n'd highlight. The jacket I decided to make a tweed jacket. A dark brown was the base coat. A lighter brown stippled with one of my ruined brushes started the tweed look. Finally, I used V's English Uniform, which is a lighter brown but with a lot of green in it was stippled on and this gave me the tweed color I was used to seeing. Only problem was that it dried a satin. I found a bottle of Anti Shine that The Army Painter put out and it dulled the jacket down quite a bit. I'm still trying to get my clear coats straight. When I spray gloss, I want gloss. When I was matte - I want completely flat - not almost satin, not even egg shell. I want flat. Any discoveries will be reported. A simple gray stone base was painted with a white cut out and Bob's name in red. To finish it off, A let it snow on the base. Thanks for looking. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheveuxroux Posted January 3, 2022 Report Share Posted January 3, 2022 Nice work on the figure. Very interesting and useful description of how you did the painting. I viewed the movie recently on the local Chicago station but that wasn't the only Christmas related appearance by the actor. One of my favorites: The Avengers Too Many Christmas Trees also had an appearance- again Dickens themed- by Mervyn Johns Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highlander Posted January 3, 2022 Report Share Posted January 3, 2022 Well done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roktman Posted January 4, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 4, 2022 Thanks, guys! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noelsmith Posted April 23, 2022 Report Share Posted April 23, 2022 Lovely character model. Based on the definitive Christmas Carol movie with Alastair Sym playing Scrooge. Very often copied but never surpassed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roktman Posted April 24, 2022 Author Report Share Posted April 24, 2022 Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyFNG Posted November 11, 2022 Report Share Posted November 11, 2022 Nice work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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