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I planned to fill the seam
with soft Milliput. To reproduce the skin texture I casted rubber moulds. |
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Unfortunately the Milliput
was not very responsive to having the rubber moulds pressed into them and
the skin texture was hard to reproduce. |
A lot of filler is required! |
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| I sprayed on a little
primer to see how bad the seam problem was. They were dreadful. |
I used a lot of Superglue
Gel on the seams. |
Then I used a ball reamer
in a rotary tool to try and get back the skin detail in blend in those
seams. |
Rubbing with a stiff wire brush worked
some wonders too. |
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| You can still see the seams
if you know where to look but they are blended enough not to be too
noticeable to the casual observer. |
Next problem, how to make
him stand-up? |
Solution: engineering! I
drilled out the leg and inserted a brass square section hollow rod that I
then bent into an "L" shape. |
I drilled a matching hole in the base
so that the bottom of the "L" laid flush inside the profile of the base. |
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Two part epoxy resin was
then used to secure the brass rod to the base. |
My daughter and I had fun
decorating the base with JoeFix grass tufts which I then blended together
with the Airbrush. |
I had a lot of fun painting with the
airbrush using Tamiya acrylics with my daughter watching. |
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| The hardest job was
painting the mouth. It took a lot of paint and experimentation to get it
looking realistic. |
Let's not forget the baby
Triceratops which was a mini-bonus model all in it own right. What fun. |
Final touches with a
Humbrol Matt coat. |
Everybody ROAR! |
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| I have to say I was really
very please with the result on this. Although a quick/fun build it really
does belong amongst the Small Wonder "canon"! |
The best trick in the end
was to douse the skin texture with Mig Black Night Panel Line Wash as it
really made the details pop. |
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