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HMAV BOUNTY - A “face lift “

Good morning everyone. I decided to do some work on my Bounty.

I printed the Lady Bertha figure head and started to do some painting. This is work in progress but I have not posted for a while so thought I had better.

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I have to do some modifications to the Knee of the head-
Here is a pic of how the Lady is mounted to the knee :
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Here is how mine fits - obviously the vintage billings kit had a different and out of scale figurehead so some shaping and perhaps filling is needed - (She is stuck on with prestick). Note the positioning of her feet.
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Cheers Grant
 
GrantTyler said:
Good morning everyone. I decided to do some work on my Bounty.

I printed the Lady Bertha figure head and started to do some painting. This is work in progress but I have not posted for a while so thought I had better.

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I have to do some modifications to the Knee of the head-
Here is a pic of how the Lady is mounted to the knee :
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Here is how mine fits - obviously the vintage billings kit had a different and out of scale figurehead so some shaping and perhaps filling is needed - (She is stuck on with prestick). Note the positioning of her feet.
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Cheers Grant
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Dear Grant
she is a beautiful Lady, well done my friend
 
You are much better at painting figureheads than I am, my friend. As suggested by @Steef66 , you can build up the billowing cloth with epoxy putty. I used Tamiya epoxy for my Fair American, which in her final configuration, fortunately required less cloth than Lady Bertha ROTF
 
shota70 said:
Dear Grant
she is a beautiful Lady, well done my friend
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Steef66 said:
use green stuff to let her cloth fit.
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pugwash said:
I do believe 'Bertha' was dressed in green, not black.

Smashing thread, thank you.
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Namabiiru said:
You are much better at painting figureheads than I am, my friend. As suggested by @Steef66 , you can build up the billowing cloth with epoxy putty. I used Tamiya epoxy for my Fair American, which in her final configuration, fortunately required less cloth than Lady Bertha ROTF
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Daniel20 said:
She has a lot of potential Grant. I can't distinguish between the black and green so that green must be a very dark green.
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Walterone said:
Drybrushing with dark green colour over the black base will create a nice effect, I think.
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Good evening Gentlemen. Thank you for the comments. I am chuffed with how the printing came out. OH BOY- I thought her dress etc was black. Even now on almost all pics it looks black but I can now see a hint of green. Not a biggie to change-thanks for pointing this out. Cheers Grant
 
GrantTyler said:
Good evening Gentlemen. Thank you for the comments. I am chuffed with how the printing came out. OH BOY- I thought her dress etc was black. Even now on almost all pics it looks black but I can now see a hint of green. Not a biggie to change-thanks for pointing this out. Cheers Grant
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You only need to dry-brush green onto the highlights. Leave it black within the folds, etc., and I’ll wager the effect will be astonishing.
 
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