Chris’ Spring Clean 2025
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About the Project
This year I'm going back to an old vignette that I made in the 1980s. It's been very battered by the passage of time, and I'm going to try to rebuild it, making it better than it ever was.
Related Genre: Pulp
Related Contest: Spring Clean Hobby Challenge 2025
This Project is Completed
Bring it all together.
Before I started glueing everything to the base, I added some Green Stuff World ‘True Blood’ effect paint to the paving stones under the victim, being careful to add rivulets running through the cracks, rather than a large pool.
Next I added Dr Watson, Sherlock and the Bobby. I had the plinth and status dry fitted perpendicular to the base edges, and was toying where to add the tentacles (creeping towards Dr Watson or heading for the gum shoe) when my eight year old wanted to get involved again.
When I explained my quandary, the very first thing she did was rotate the plinth to offset it with the edges of the base. I really liked that idea and decided to use it. So the statue was next, with the gum shoe hiding behind it. Finally the sewer lid with tentacles was added.
I’m really happy with how this turned out. Of course it could be improved, and maybe I will return to it, but not for another 35 years. Now, where was that plastic bag it was stored in? Only joking : onto a shelf for this now.
Another duplicate
Really, if anyone can tell me how to delete this I will.
Somehow my last post got added 3 times...
… and I can’t work out how to delete the duplicates.
