Aoshima Samurai kits

Going thru my stash of unmade figures, I cam across these pieces. They were made by a Japanese company in 1/35 scale representing various types of samurai kits. I had bought only a few kits then and these were the results. Despite the very exciting box artwork, the actual pieces aren't very interesting. However, I may use these in some future projects.

Adding fetlocks to horse hoofs

I have added melted plastic sprue to the horse legs and used a pyrogravure to etch out fetlocks. These pyrogravures were the rage about 20 years back for detailing plastic kits.

Russian Medieval Knight 9

After minor resculpts and cleaning, the figure was finally painted. The base was gloss varnished and now awaiting final lettering.

Marlborough 9

I also decided to redo the horse's head and neck by thrusting it upwards and forward, as a counterpoise to the backward leaning figure.

The neck was removed and a new neck was built up. First attempt was too long. The neck was trimmed down and fetlocks were added with a pyrogravure.

Marlborough 8

At this stage, I determined that the figure was sitting too high in relation to the horse.

I cut the figure in half and removed about half a cm. When repositioning the figure I twisted the upper torso back to generate some dynamism.

I then added the gun holsters to the saddle.

Mask dancers of the Sulka, PNG

These pieces were made about 25 years back. I had refurbished them a few years ago, especially with the use of raffia grass to cover most of the bodies, in place of sculpted putty. The figures were also placed in elaborate displays.

They represent the Hemlaut and Tokati masks as was worn by the Sulka tribe of Papua New Guinea in their ceremonial rites. 

Rommel 5

The face was painted and the figure was mounted on a simple base.