Hello everyone. My name is James Hill and this is my first post on Hobby Talk so here's my background. I grew up in the Golden Age of modeling --the '60s. My brother and I built the Aurora monsters and figure models as fast as the stores could stock them. But most every type of plastic kit had its appeal (kits by Hawk, Pyro, Revell, Monogram, etc). I switched over from models to painting military miniatures in 1970 because of my love of military history and uniforms (and I could never airbrush the kits worth a darn). Lately, though, I have been purchasing aircraft and armor models and the excellently sculpted Moebius and Monarch releases (mid-life crisis?). I hope to start airbrushing kits with Vallejo Air acrylics and Tamiya acrylic paints with more success than I had when I was young trying to do it with enamels.
The kit shown is these photos is the 90mm resin Geometric Micro Wolf Man. I painted it in artist's oil paint over a base coat of Humbrol enamels. The pants are a dark blue-gray and the shirt is a pale gray-green. I decided to make his face and hands a little more "fleshy" than the dark brown that is often seen just to have a little more variety of color. The wall is made of actual small, flat rocks super glued together and painted with enamels (as was all of the ground work, including the real tree-branch "log" and the forest floor leaves made of Italian seasoning and Oregano).
By the way, I am not a prolific modeler so you may not see too many new finished kits from me.
The kit shown is these photos is the 90mm resin Geometric Micro Wolf Man. I painted it in artist's oil paint over a base coat of Humbrol enamels. The pants are a dark blue-gray and the shirt is a pale gray-green. I decided to make his face and hands a little more "fleshy" than the dark brown that is often seen just to have a little more variety of color. The wall is made of actual small, flat rocks super glued together and painted with enamels (as was all of the ground work, including the real tree-branch "log" and the forest floor leaves made of Italian seasoning and Oregano).
By the way, I am not a prolific modeler so you may not see too many new finished kits from me.
