Spanish Royal Guard Music Unit

[sberry]

I am glad to see that there is progress on this interesting project!
And I insist: you are a real master! It is not only about your painting style, it is also about these wonderful conversions, which always look better than the original figures you are starting from...

[Rich W]

Great update Santi. Keep on keeping on!

[Susofrick]

PSR thinks that these guys needs a a little updating and you are doing it! Can wait to see these painted, but it will be a hard wait! But in the meantime there is a lot to watch!

[Bessiere]

Wow Santi! Your conversions are blowing me away. Ive been playing with greenstuff and have a clue how hard it is to sculpt anything at this scale. I don't know how you do it but it's very clean and precise. So well done sir.
Cheers,
Bessiere

[Konrad]

I can only agree with my colleagues.
I admire your creativity and discipline.
I'm also looking forward to seeing what happens next.

[C M Dodson]

Excellent work although I wonder whether you glue yourself to the bits sometimes with the fiddly parts.

I do.

Best wishes,

Chris

[Santi Pérez]

Thank you very much for your praise and encouragement, dear colleagues Enrico, Donald, Michael, Stephan, Rich, Gunnar, Bessiere, Konrad and Chris. They certainly help to keep the project moving forward, despite its slow progress.

...And I insist: you are a real master! It is not only about your painting style, it is also about these wonderful conversions, which always look better than the original figures you are starting from...

Ok Stephan, I accept that my painting style is very particular and that I am good at conversions. The truth is that it is the part of the hobby that I enjoy the most since I discovered some years ago the great potential it offered to get unique figures that don't exist in the market and that only you have. That's why I practice it more and more and little by little I'm improving it.

Sometimes I think that the ideal thing would be for me to make the converted figures and one of the master painters of the forum to paint them.

PSR thinks that these guys needs a a little updating and you are doing it!...

Wow Santi! Your conversions are blowing me away. Ive been playing with greenstuff and have a clue how hard it is to sculpt anything at this scale. I don't know how you do it but it's very clean and precise...

Excellent work although I wonder whether you glue yourself to the bits sometimes with the fiddly parts...

Thank you, friends, I refer you to the answer I gave above to Stephan on the issue of conversions.

And finally a couple of pictures (sorry for how dark they are) of the three types of drums that will appear in the band and that I have already made. From left to right, normal drum (made with half a drum added to another one), bass drum and box drum (made with half a drum):




Best wishes, friends!

Santi.

[Susofrick]

HELLO?!?!? Where is the love-button?

[sberry]

The truth is that it is the part of the hobby that I enjoy the most since I discovered some years ago the great potential it offered to get unique figures that don't exist in the market and that only you have.

For me, it is the other way round: I am always happy when the figures (buildings, ships etc.) that I need already exist and I only have to buy them.
But this is so fascinating in our hobby, that there are so many different aspects: painting figures, converting them, free-hand sculpting them etc. - so everbody may find something that fits his talents best.

[Santi Pérez]

HELLO?!?!? Where is the love-button?

Here it is, Gunnar: Thanks so much.

...But this is so fascinating in our hobby, that there are so many different aspects: painting figures, converting them, free-hand sculpting them etc. - so everbody may find something that fits his talents best.

I couldn't agree with you more, Stephan.

Santi.

[Santi Pérez]

Here comes the last figure to join the band. This is the first of the trombone players.

In this case the starting figure from the Airfix set didn't need major conversions, except for the usual removal of excess plastic in different areas and the transformation of the fur cap into the typical ros.



And this was the result:





The little plastic box in which I keep the converted figures is getting full, I will soon need another one.



Thanks for watching.

Santi.

[sberry]

Here comes the last figure to join the band. This is the first of the trombone players.

Dear Santi, so you have reached an important milestone of the project - and I am getting more and more curious to see the painted figures...

[MABO]

Dear Santi, so you have reached an important milestone of the project - and I am getting more and more curious to see the painted figures...

Me, too! It is going to be great again!

[Iceman1964]

Great work Santi, happy to see the project is going near and near to take life

[Rich W]

Great update Santi! Looking forward to seeing some paint on them now!

[CliosPaintingBench]

Oh these new sculpts look very crisp, there's decent detailing on the trombones

[Santi Pérez]

Thank you very much for your great support, my friends.

I'm closer to the first goal of my project: to finish the 16 different figures that will appear on the band.

The second stage will be to get the remaining 8, which are repetitions of some of the first ones.

And finally there will be the process of painting them all. I hope that this will be possible because by then we will be able to be living in our house.

Santi.

[sberry]

The second stage will be to get the remaining 8, which are repetitions of some of the first ones.

I suppose there will be subtle differences between the figures when you repeat some poses, and I think this might be good, because in real life it is the same: No two persons look absolutely identical, even in identical poses (e.g. during a parade). Because your figures are hand-crafted, rather than just identical copies of a single pose from the box, the effect may be quite nice.

[Santi Pérez]

Phew, Stephan, considering the simplicity of these Airfix figures, there is little room for me to include major differences between different examples of the same figure.

Rather, I think I will introduce those differences in the final painting process, in details such as hair colour, gold or silver colour of some brass instruments (saxophones, trombones, tubas, etc.), or military stripes (privates, NCOs and officers).

Santi.

[Ochoin]

Personally, Santi, I don't think you need more differentiation that what you've outlined.
The military frowns on being different, especially in formal situations like a parade.
And the effect is of a body of musicians, not individuals.

I'm still champing at the bit to see them 'on parade'.

donald