Hello to all, this may have been touched upon on this forum, however I have after careful researching for a very long time and the lack of research I thought what I would do is record my work on the concord to share with any one else that may be having a hard time or just would like to see how I tackle this strange modeling subject. I will keep adding my progress until I have finished it, and with my current work schedule this could be a while. So enjoy and please feel free to add any comments or suggestions at any time as I usually build autos or airplanes, this is a first for me for a stage coach and the most challenging is gonna be the horse and the figures…
Ok I have started the kit and have progressed into it some what so I have glued the horses together and have been working on them to get ready for paint and the main body of the stage coach. However from here on out I plan to photo it step by step…
The mock up of the main body…Figures give some scale to it…A lot of primer has been used. If your not familiar with lindberg kits, they are awesome models, great subject matter, however on this kit, there is a lot of time spent filling in sink marks, and various other short comings. The horses them selves did not meet in a lot of places, such as around the mane, tail and undersides. I have already primed and sanded and filled the horses. I am on the last check before painting them.
I’m lovin’ it! Anything with horses and a lady in a long gown gets a big [tup] from me! [C):-)]
Can you still purchase this kit, i have never seen it before. I would love to get it just for the horses…
This will look brilliant finished. Can’t wait to see it…
Boomer…
I love seeing this. I have one of these in the stash. My Mom fell in love with it and bought it for me to build. How is the walking stick? Mine is busted and I’m going to replace it with wood or metal when I do it.
Yep it is still available. It was a limited run kit, but Model Expo had it in their recent flyer along with a new kit of a Union Artillery piece with, crew, team, and caisson. They are out there so look for them.
Yes I have that same flyer from expo and it looks like the artillery model has the same exact horses and bottom carriage. The only draw back to the stagecoach kit is the horses. The horses have the same pose on two of them. I have been thinking of reposing them in some way but do not feel that my skills are good enough. I have not had much time this last few days to work on the kit. One thing I do suggest is to drill the hinges on the doors so they are poseable. More coming soon.
One obstacle is to get this mess cleaned up…
I got a few more things done last night, not a lot but had about an hour to work on things. These are two of the three luggage boxes that they provide in the kit. They go together really easy. Will need to do a lot of clean up on the bigger box.
Top photo: I am almst done with the doors, My reference material from the net doesnt show a closeup of the interior but I am guessing that the real stage coaches must have been pretty smooth so I filled and removed all sink marks in the door, this is the last step before painting
middle photo:This just shows the extent of clean up on the parts
last photo:the inner side of the wheels have injector pin marks that should been cleaned up on such a large kit as you will be able to see the inner sides of the wheels after it is built.
a little mock up of the driver and shot gun. The figures are really detailed however you will spend a lot of time on cleanup of the figures and getting rid of the mold lines and re creasing the clothes. I will need a lot of help on painting the figures. Like I said earlier post that figures and horses are the hardest things in the world for me to paint.
A little off from the subject matter at hand, however here are a couple of 1/9th scale kettenkrad and zundapp drivers that a friend painted for me several years back that has deceased that I plan to use as reference material for the skin tones and shading. I know they are too shiny but I cant bring myself to touching them up since they were done by a good friend of mine that has passed away. I still havent finished that kettenkrad or the zundapp, but I should so they would look natural sitting on them,the kettenkrad is the dragon kettenkrad and the instruction sheet, like the instruction sheet for the lindberg stagecoach really are very difficult to follow because they were drawn as one big mock up and you have to read it step and study the instruction sheet to figure out where everything goes. I have been curious as if the revell 1\9th scale kettenkrad is better built, if it is then Ill get that kit to finish…
I have done a lot of research on skin tones and painting figures, a lot of them reference vallejo paints and paints that are very hard to get in the states, that makes it frustrating when you can not use the same paints as the reference material. Does anyone have a good site or know of a good reference materail that uses model master paints as the paint of choice to paint figures? Any help in this area would be greatly appreciated. I figure if I can not paint the figures or the horses to look natural and not ruin the look of the stage coach I can always finish the stage coach by itself and put that in a diorama…
Her’s a great way to start on a great skin tone, MM–First coat your figs witha base coat of any tan or white-ish color. Then use burnt sienna+ white mixed together in various degrees to get an awesome skin tone. You can add a little yellow ochre for variation. You can use oils or finer acryics, like Artist’s style in a tube…the raw sienna is good for painting creases too.
Another way to do it is to paint the face in off-white, and then do a thick wash of the same raw sienna+white OIL paint over the flesh parts. Let this sit for about five minutes, and then with a soft, lint-free cloth/tissue, wipe it 90% off, leaving only the tint of it on the higher parts, and the creases will be nicely defined. Try it out on an extra figure first.
These are the best way to get a good skin tone on a figure. Here’s an example of what it would look like.
Thank you, I will give that a try. Since figures kinda make me shy away from them. I love figures and especially the whole garage kit thing but never tried them for fear of trashing them. That figure looks awesome. Thank you again.
Ok I have some time today and I just got done doing the final priming of the main body of the stagecoach!!! Question that I have wrestled with is to paint it brown or red. I have done a lot of research on the net and they were either red or brown. I was thinking of painting it red since the wheels should be yellow. It would be colorful, but then again if it was brown it may be more authentic. I am not sure as I also model cars planes or tanks this one is very hard. I am gonna go to the hobby shop and get a can of red and brown and spray different parts to get a feel for it in either red or brown…
Well I do not like the brown, that does not look good at all so I have settled for the red. Im starting out flat, althought the decals will not look good on the flat when it comes to the decals Ill airbrush that part gloss then Ill hit it all up with a semi gloss clear coat.
