Wednesday 21 August 2019

'Can You See What I See?'

Some time ago I made some conversions to create a mounted Prussian and French Officer with binoculars - well what I was prepared to accept looked a bit like them.

I always fancied an infantry officer with binoculars.  Before I got my recent diagnosis, I had started hacking a figure about to try to make one.  For some time now the various bits - arms and bodies have sat on my desk waiting to be put together.  To be honest I couldn't be bothered to complete it.  But in one of my brighter moments I thought 'why not'.

So I set about joining the arms to the body.  Needless to say they broke, fell on the floor and I was left crawling around trying to find the two parts of the arms.  I eventually found them more by luck that judgement.  My big problem now is that I have a cataract in my left eye.  This is the eye I use for close up work.  I do not mention this to solicit yet more sympathy but to explain what happened next.

I set about fixing the arms in place with superglue and green stuff.  Having completed this task which I thought seemed more difficult to line up the arms than before and leaving everything to dry off. I picked up my finished creation only to discover that I had stuck the arms on upside down!  I blame this entirely on my eye! 

Having got this far I really couldn't be bothered to try to undo the fixing or start again so I just proceeded to paint what I had done.  Again painting is a real problem the brush seems to have turned into a broom!  Anyway this is the 'finished article' which just goes to show how wrong you can get it!


'Can You See What I See'
 


Needless to say, I won't be making anymore versions of this particular conversion!

6 comments:

  1. I’d be happy if I made that!

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  2. Don't beat yourself up...in this scale you would be hard pushed to notice!

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  3. The paint applied and an elbow looking to be in the right place makes everything look fine to my eye.

    It did make me smile though, as I too have had a recent upside down arm episode with the very unforgiving super glue and then messing around with it, came the closest I have ever come to super gluing two fingers together and not getting them to part!

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  4. Ahhmmm, should I confess that I did the upside down binocular arms in 54mm? Luckily I eventually spotted it in time to reverse them before painting started.

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  5. Figure actually looks pretty good to me. The trials of getting there did make me smile though.

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