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I fully sympathise Rogue-Trooper!
My bloke is taking quite some time too. In most Of the "Victorian" reference I'm working from, the men seem to wear these fancy brocade waistcoats under their jackets. I'm trying to make one and found some quite suitable small print fabric, but the damn stuff frays so easily and is nearly impossible to machine sew on a 1/6 scale.

I think the eye-patch on your figure is a great touch.

Hello LeStryge, maybe you could try making the waistcoat out of thin canvas or pvc ( fake leather), glue together then glue the fabric onto that. Save on the sewing

I was lucky, got my mother to make this one

Always great too see the traveling salesman Rich!

It would just take a bit of work on the hair to get that VAM to look like The Childcatcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang!

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all ready for a medicine show

Richard ,as always your kitbashes are a great source of inspiration , superb ! and a fantastic looking  steampunkin geezer Chris !

Captian action wrote:

great steampunkin geezer Chris !

Cheers Jay. Although I'm not sure about the eyepatch...I might make another one.

LeStryge...do you have a pattern for the waistcoat ?? I've found one which I'm going to attempt to use. I can try to send it to you if you dont have one.

That wagon is superb! Did you make it? If so, how did you construct the wheels?

Rogue-Trooper wrote:

This is taking me much longer than I thought.  

Finding/making the outfit is proving harder than I thought although I made a new eyepatch today.

Lemmy?!

Lol....I've actually seen Lemmy dressed like that

wheels were made with bbq skewers and balsa sandwiched between rings of thin card, thin card glued on outer wheel and filled between the skewers on the inner part. Washers to build out the middle. Hope that helps  

What an elaborate process, and skilled craftsmanship! Totally "scratch built," then! Brilliant!

You could use the same technique to build a ship's wheel, then, by adding shorter pieces of skewer sticks to the outside of the rim.

(The white haired fellow has a nautical look to him, as though he belongs behind the wheel of a sailing vessel.)

Thank you for the info and the pics! Much appreciated!

Reddragon wrote:

wheels were made with bbq skewers and balsa sandwiched between rings of thin card, thin card glued on outer wheel and filled between the skewers on the inner part. Washers to build out the middle. Hope that helps  

Fantastic!!!

Thanks for showing us how these were made -- very effective and realistic!

Reddragon wrote:

Hello LeStryge, maybe you could try making the waistcoat out of thin canvas or pvc ( fake leather), glue together then glue the fabric onto that. Save on the sewing

That is indeed a good suggestion Reddragon.
Trouble with the brocade is that the pieces which of necessity have to be small insist on fraying when you try to turn a seam.
Maybe I should just hire your Mother? She seems to have the technique down pat.

Your bloke has exactly the sort of look I'm aiming for.
Part Edwardian, part Western.
Fantastic effort on that covered cart!

Rogue-Trooper wrote:

LeStryge...do you have a pattern for the waistcoat ?? I've found one which I'm going to attempt to use. I can try to send it to you if you dont have one.

I do have one which I made that seems OK, but if you have a professional one I'd be very grateful if you would pass it on to me.
I'm thinking mine has to have a serious re-think.

Testing out the new chair..which luckily came with an ashtray

Looking good Chris!

I’m really liking the chair Chris. I’ve got that chair to but in metal instead of black.

I've got a few of those myself. Quite handy really.
Have to say they are one HUGE pair of boots he's wearing, ....or are his ankles and feet just small?  

LeStryge wrote:

I've got a few of those myself. Quite handy really.
They are certainly HUGE boots he's wearing, ....or are his ankles and feet just small?  

Regular size vam feet...and regular size vam boots. Might be the angle I took the picture from. Also those adventurer jeans are drainpipes

It's just that his ankles do look tiny going into the boots.
A while ago I bought a whole job lot of boots on eBay thinking they would be very handy, but when they arrived they are all huge, and as most of my men are MAMs notorious for having tiny feet it turned out not to be such a great deal after all. Nothing worse than picking up your figure only to have his boots drop off!
I think all VAM boots were made overly large and as most of us don't really bother putting socks on before the boots, they tend to fit on the extremely generous side.

Nice chair!

on ashtray...

My recent purchase of a silver version was the first one to come with that included ash-tray too! Honestly took a while to work out what the hell it was supposed to be!

Captain Dashwood is getting there ........slowly.