Robert M’s Calvin and Hobbes

Robert M. recently purchased one of our Calvin and Hobbes resin kits and did one of the best jobs we’ve seen so far of assembly and painting.

Robert says:

I’ve been building models for many years and worked for my uncle in the auto body business for some time as well. I think that has something to do with my skills. Believe it or not I hand painted both of them. The color for Calvin’s sneakers took me three tries before the color was right. Now with Hobbes I didn’t prime his white fur. That’s the color of the resin, I think it gives it that look of real fur.

Here’s from prep to finish

Prep-
I let the kit parts sit in a container full of water a Dawn dish soap for a day. Then I rinsed and used an old toothbrush to scrub them. I let the parts dry and then cleaned them up by sanding and then repeated this and then let dry.

Paint-
Floquil railroad colors – primer, flesh, reefer white, reefer orange, rail box yellow and engine black.

Nicole’s craft paint – red, light pink, violet pansy.

Prismacolor fine line maker 01 black for the eyes and brow.

I think you’ll agree with us in congratulating Robert on what a great job he did.