Is this how one sculpts figures

[Aksu]

Those railway figure sculptors seem to have all the fun..
https://www.preiserfiguren.de/showpage.php?Models_und_Modelle&SiteID=48
Cheers,
Aksu

[Shedman]

 

I'd forgotten the vast range of stuff

Elastolin for instance

https://www.preiserfiguren.de/showpage.php?Neuheiten_2020/Elastolin_Sammlerfiguren_Massstab_1_25&SiteID=147

[petercooman]

No wonder Phil sometimes cuts his fingers, probably watching the model!

I wonder how long he took to sculpt keira...

[Techno]

Cheek !! 

But it's a bit of a coincidence regarding the railway figures.

I had to go down to the Doc's yesterday afternoon, to do a preemptive strike strike on a 'bronchitis bug'...wot I seem to have acquired. (Hit it before it gets really horrid !)

Anyway...sitting in the waiting area with a number of other folk....ALL who seemed to have nasty coughs...and were probably of the same mind set as yours truly, I looked for something to read from the pile of magazines.
There were load of railway model type mags, so I flicked through one of those...You never know, I might spot a useful article as regards the models.
The pics of sculpts that Aksu has linked to, look an awful lot better than the ones on the magazines, which I think were 00 scale. (What does that equate to ?......20 - 25mm tall for a figure ?)

Keira ?.....Not long.....The worst part was trying to make a 'male dolly' look vaguely female...and try and make the face as androgynous as possible.....Female faces, I find, are one of the hardest things to do, at this size.

As far as 'watching the model'.........I know I've already mentioned this....But having the tablet in front of me on the table, loaded with relevant pics, helps enormously.
There must be 20 photos of sodding bears on it, at the moment.

Cheers - Phil

[petercooman]

So what pictured were on your tablet when you sculpted kiera then?

[steve_holmes_11]

00 was 4mm to the foot, meaning a man would be 22 or 23mm to the top of his head.

One of the great hobby confusions is that railway gauges were often quotesd as the length of a scale foot.

A wargamer reading about 7mm scale might assume that Heroics and Ros or Baccus had suffered a bit of a scale creep.
The railway man would be talking about a scale where people are around 40mm tall.

Vice versa, the wargamer mght show off his new even bugger skirmish scale figures to a railway man, and a heated discussion over their scale would ensue.

[FierceKitty]

...even bugger skirmish scale figures....

We're getting to the bottom of a serious issue here.

[Orcs]

We're getting to the bottom of a serious issue here.

[Techno]

So what pictured were on your tablet when you sculpted kiera then?

I didn't have a tablet then, Peter. Only had that since Christmas.

I think I just found a pic.....left it on the PC's screen.....and then kept turning to check it....Giving myself a crick in the neck.
Can't do that in the room I make the wee models now....The screen's completely side on to desk.

Cheers - Phil

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Well laptops dont react well to green stuff, or coffee or hot chocolate.

[petercooman]

I didn't have a tablet then, Peter. Only had that since Christmas.

I think I just found a pic.....left it on the PC's screen.....and then kept turning to check it....Giving myself a crick in the neck.
Can't do that in the room I make the wee models now....The screen's completely side on to desk.

Cheers - Phil

Fair enough.

I still picture you in a room with every inch of the wall covered in photographs though....

[Techno]

Well laptops dont react well to green stuff, or coffee or hot chocolate.

But you don't mention Bovril, Ian.

I still picture you in a room with every inch of the wall covered in photographs though....

Peter, The only things actually on the wall of this room are a clock, a small piece of slate with the Welsh Dragon carved into it, my bit of Ian Miller artwork, some wall lights.....and the light switches. 

(There are quite of few bits of furniture against the wall......and most of my CDs, in cabinets. )

Cheers - Phil.

[petercooman]

But you don't mention Bovril, Ian. :-

Peter, The only things actually on the wall of this room are a clock, a small piece of slate with the Welsh Dragon carved into it, my bit of Ian Miller artwork, some wall lights.....and the light switches. 

(There are quite of few bits of furniture against the wall......and most of my CDs, in cabinets. )

Cheers - Phil.

Off course, you removed the evidence after Keira was sculpted 

[Sandinista]

photos of sodding bears

I don't think I'd enter that in my search engine ;-)

Cheers
Ian

[Raider4]

I don't think I'd enter that in my search engine ;-)

Bravo, sir! That elicited a genuine LOL.