"Tour Jackets, Souvenirs, and Trinkets" Completed

[JamesOLeary]

She looks like she's about to tell someone they full of it.

I think she may be a bit pissed off that the guy with the tour jacket over his shoulder bought his at a different shop.

 

[JamesOLeary]

Fantastic work. They all look fantastic. I cant wait to see the whole scene.
James

Thanks, James.

Hopefully I can have it completed soon.

 

[Rhino]

 

[JamesOLeary]

Today's progress consisted of painting and attaching the roof, attaching the structure to the base, and applying pigments to the tile floor and the base of the building. Unfortunately when I was positioning the structure, the Gorilla Glue Super Glue set before I got it into completely into position, so it is a bit off from how I wanted it, but it is close enough. It was supposed to be at more of an angle.

It looks better in person than it does in the photos, but it gives you an idea how it looks. Tomorrow I will touch up a few things and then move on to the accessories.

 

[moon puppy]

Can't see a thing wrong, Looks good.

 

[JamesOLeary]

I am starting to flesh out the store area. The two types of shelves are glued down, the Vietnamese dolls are secured to the shelf, the clothes rack has its base coat, and the boxes that were salvaged and painted to be sold to GIs as storage have received their initial coats of paint. I need to do some more shading and highlighting so they "pop". I still have a lot of accessories to make and paint. It is coming along slowly but surely.

 

[moon puppy]

 

[JamesOLeary]

Today's progress consisted of highlighting the boxes so they "pop" a bit, painting the hinges and lock area of the boxes, painting four tour jackets that I sculpted to be hung up together (two black and two in ERDL camouflage), painting the cooler, and placing the cooler and two cases of Cokes on the shelf beneath the dolls.

A couple photos have the guy with the tour jacket over his shoulder for comparison.

 

[moon puppy]

That's crazy James, well done!

 

[Rhino]

Nifty!

 

[JamesOLeary]

Thanks, guys.

I am finally getting some time to work on this stuff on a regular basis now. Today's progress consisted of painting and placing bins of boxed trinkets and stuff on some shelves, placing some more cases of soda and one of beer, painting and placing a protective case on the bottom shelf of the shelves on the right, and enhancing the metal hinges and clasps on the painted boxes.

 

[moon puppy]

 

[JamesOLeary]

I got the shelves stocked with some folded Tiger Stripe uniforms, a rolled up poncho liner, and folded Ao Dais. On the top we find a camo hat, a blue and yellow bag that ties this diorama with the "Buying Baguettes and Banh Mi" diorama, some woven bags, and a stack of conical hats. I don't have photos of it, but I also painted an Ao Dai to hang up with the tour jackets. I will continue to work on accessories and will hopefully have this done in the next couple of days.

 

[JamesOLeary]

I actually have a second update for today. I got the Ao Dai painted, the clothes on hangers glued to the rod, replicated oxidation on the clothes rack due to Vietnam's humid climate, and added some cardboard boxes. I probably will be able to add some figures tomorrow.

 

[Rhino]

Awesome!
Interesting that a dress in Vietnam comes with "bumps" included.

 

[JamesOLeary]

Awesome!
Interesting that a dress in Vietnam comes with "bumps" included.

Thanks.

There are actually two reasons for this. One is because of the way the Ao Dai is tailored. If you can see in these photos, there is a vertical line replicating the place where the material is taken in for the waist and torso under the location of each breast which causes the material above to puff out a bit.



The other reason has to do with how this was made. A couple of months ago, I had sculpted the group of tour jackets, a couple of single tour jackets (only one of those turned out well), and two Ao Dais to hang from the clothes rack. I had primed them all and had painted the group of the four tour jackets. When I was ready to paint the single tour jacket and the Ao Dais, I could not find them and I still have no idea what could have happened to them. The hanging Ao Dais were difficult for me to sculpt, so I was not looking forward to having to try to sculpt the bottom part of it again, so I took a figure from Diopark, drilled out the center of the legs and shaved away what remained, glued the back skirt in place, drilled a hole in the neck area for the hanger, and then used Magic Sculpt putty to make the collar, sleeves, and to fill in the gap between the back and skirt thing. That turned out to be a lot easier to make and looked better than if I had sculpted a new one.

 

[Rhino]

EVERY Man likes "Bumps"! I applaud your dress!

 

[JamesOLeary]

Sunday's progress consisted of gluing the clothes rack and refinished footlocker onto the base, adding two cameras between the blue bag and camo hat on the shelves, and gluing three of the five figures to the base. I am now on the home stretch.

 

[JamesOLeary]

Monday's progress consisted of gluing the stack of painted ammo boxes to the ground, making the strip of groundwork from Magic Sculpt and then textured with AK Interactive dark earth texture, and adding the last two figures. Tomorrow I will paint the strip of earth and add a few accessories to complete this diorama.

 

[moon puppy]

Looks great James