Bits, Pieces, & Clutter

[Malachi Constant]

Okay, Gordon ... how the heck did you do that?  You've got the shapes, the coloration ... what-the, how-the?

Nice work!
Dallas

[shropshire lad]

Actually that photo was taken outside Barney's house today and demonstrates the total disrespect he showed for his host by not disposing of his old fag ends properly after his numerous breaks from bating and generally winding up his afore mentioned host .

  It was good fun !

[lab-dad]

Thats just great!
Mj

[Ray Dunakin]

Amazingly realistic!

[chester]

It's always nice to see bad habits modeled well.

[Gordon Ferguson]

Dallas

0.3 mm brass microbore tube from Albion Alloys, 0.2 would have been closer to scale but didn't have any.
Cut to various lengths, between 30 to 80 thou.
Bent and or flattened with tweezers, cut extra as you will loose a few as they ping off into obscurity.
Primed and then painted with Vallejo off white , then light brown for "filter" ( 25 thou in length). End lightly touched with German Cam black brown.
Attached to base with gravel fixer and then dusted with some light grey dust pigments

Found the brass tube better than plastic rod as I could flatten and bend it better , might try annealing it next time.

Nick

Great comment, & how true 

[finescalerr]

Is this April Fool's Day or is that actually a model? -- Russ

[Gordon Ferguson]

Russ, just for you .......  un-cropped version which shows I lifted paint off  on one of the butts with tweezers

[Hydrostat]

I like that very much, Gordon. The model. Not the prototype.

Volker

[Xavier Alvarez]

just amazing !
top notch job !

[Malachi Constant]

Thanks!  Was wondering how the heck you got both the cylindrical shapes AND the "squished" look -- the micro brass tubing is a brilliant solution!  Agree with you on the off-white ... I don't use actual white on anything any more ... the Vallejo "chalk white", camo whites, etc work much better in these situations ... even the "whites" of the eyes are done mixing off-whites into very light skin tones ... nice work!  An extremely realistic and "ordinary" detail that's easily overlooked ... and not easily so well done.  -- Dallas

[lab-dad]

A bin to catch the swarf off the lathe.



Nice to be able to use the scrap from my work.
Mj

[Gordon Ferguson]

Now that looks realistic !!

When are you getting back to the floor boards? The picture will get even better with some wear & tear, oil & coolant stains, etc.

[Chuck Doan]

Two great additions to the thread. I don't know how expensive ciggies are over there, but a couple of those are still worth picking up. 

Nice detail Marty.

[finescalerr]

Yeah, what Chuck said. What a couple of terrific models. -- Russ