Box art figure for Thunderbird miniatures

Here is a new figure that I have just finished painting. I was trying to get it finished sooner for Mark but I had several life things happen and I was able to finally wrap it up. It was fun to paint and now that I have finished it up for the box art I will remove it and then place it on a base with more groundwork. I painted it the usual way using all acrylics. I think this was very well done by Anders and it has many possibilities. I may have to get another and see what I can come up with for a conversion.

Thanks for looking,

Joe

Ground work done

Here is the finished groundwork. I need to clean up a few spots on the base. I should have the figure finished either tonight or hopefully tomorrow.

A very nice surprise in the mailbox today!!

When I got home today I found a new fine Scale Modeler in the mailbox. Well, I knew it had to have something of mine in it because I do not get it with a subscription. I open up the package and was pleasantly surprised to see on the cover and small picture of one of my figures and a nice little write up in the readers gallery.

Here is the cover.

Here is the new custom I am working on

Here is the new custom I am working on. This one will be of TE Joe Klopfenstein in his Colorado Buffalo's uniform. I am hoping to get this one wrapped up soon so I can give it to him next month sometime. He now plays for the Buffalo Bills and had previously played for the St Louis Rams. Thanks for looking.

A little more work

Sorry ,I have been slow at posting any new work on the figure. I actually have another one in the works but no pictures yet. Here are a few pictures of the figure and where I am with it. I used some of my sons purple Sculpey for the larger folds. I did this to give me a little more time to work on trying to get the folds to look correct. Thanks for looking and hopefully it will be sooner for the next update.

Work on the legs has started

I have been down and out for some time now with this crazy flu but I did manage to get a little work in before it got the best of me. I have done more to the legs since these pictures but here are a few to show a little work.

The head/Helmet

Here I have repainted the original head and the helmet. I have painted it the usual method for me, acrylics. The helmet was painted with Tamiya flat white and then 3/4 coats of Future Floor polish.

Something really different for me, football customs

I have seen a few of these and was amazed and the different things these guys were doing so I wanted to try my hand at doing one. I have decided to one of Mark Sanchez, Jets QB during training camp. The figure is 6" tall and made of a hard plastic. Here are some pictures and I will post more later.