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Purplethistle · Post by **Purplethistle** » May 4th, 2016, 8:31 am

Strat body gets coats of varnish then scratchplate, bridge, jack plug point and pickups.

AndrewR · Post by **AndrewR** » May 4th, 2016, 11:47 am

Impressive

Purplethistle · Post by **Purplethistle** » May 4th, 2016, 8:02 pm

All together now....the tremolo arm is a cut piece of a staple, shaped and double dipped in white paint at one end. Still got the tuning keys to do and the frets need more emphasis. I had intended to scallop all the fretboard, but had to give up on the last third as the frets were too narrow

Martin R · Post by **Martin R** » May 5th, 2016, 9:07 pm

Good skills!

Purplethistle · Post by **Purplethistle** » May 7th, 2016, 4:06 pm

Quite pleased with the likeness, especially as I had to sand off a beard and moustache, reshape the chin and use filler to make the upper eyelids. I'm trying to capture a particular expression that is not quite a pout and not pursed lips either. The eye shape on the kit was well designed and made to make eye painting easier......open eyes that is! I wanted half closed eyes looking down, requiring a some micro cutting and sanding and a teeny amount of filler

general rocket · Post by **general rocket** » May 7th, 2016, 9:15 pm

Feelings of inadequacy are rising.

Post by **JohnRatzenberger** » May 8th, 2016, 1:18 am

With all the facial sculpting, a career as a plastic surgeon perhaps ...

Clashcityrocker · Post by **Clashcityrocker** » May 8th, 2016, 1:21 am

Adding filler and sculpting in 35th scale. That's some very good work.

Nigel

Purplethistle · Post by **Purplethistle** » May 9th, 2016, 12:40 pm

I'm reluctant to admit that this one is 1/16 in case you then say, "Pah! a 5 year old could do that in a big scale!" I have previously done a Ritchie in 1/35, reshaping the chin etc, but I fancied really going to town with the guitar this time as I have tickets to see The Man next month

Purplethistle · Post by **Purplethistle** » May 16th, 2016, 7:12 pm

iggie · Post by **iggie** » May 16th, 2016, 7:29 pm

That's awesome work, and I don't care what scale it's in, it's awesome in any scale!

general rocket · Post by **general rocket** » May 16th, 2016, 9:56 pm

Nicely Deep.

Post by **JohnRatzenberger** » May 17th, 2016, 1:32 am

Good work -- and you can take it along to the concert

Clashcityrocker · Post by **Clashcityrocker** » May 17th, 2016, 5:33 am

Very nice work .

Nigel

Purplethistle · Post by **Purplethistle** » May 18th, 2016, 11:33 am

Many thanks guys, not only was it a fun build as well as a challenge with the guitar, but I'm planning on converting the Ernst Udet figure from this same company to a 'Winkle' Brown for the GB, so this has been good practice as I really want to bring my A game to that one and do the great man justice.

general rocket wrote:Nicely Deep.

I like what you did there, GR

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