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PostPosted: Thu Jan 26, 2017 3:44 pm 
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Another "WOW" Brian.

Well done especially from building from photos.

Steve


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Thanks so much, Steve!! I got lucky, thankfully the ebay seller took lots of photos and emailed me several key Dimensions...it really helped get it down.


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Forgot the back pic, and heres a pic with the flash....hopefully it shows the base color a bit more.


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The base looks like yellow and blue and green mixed.

Cool effect.


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Brian...

I've been checking the forum regularly hoping to see the finished version...well...I'm not disappointed...but never thought I would be... :lol:

The little dog is the perfect accent piece...I for one would like to see a close up or two of the painting being done...

Speaking of Pete's castings...has anyone ordered and painted any of the Santas?...

My very best regards...Howard...

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It beautiful you did a wonderful job, I love the colors. Looks like this pup found a good home!


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Brian - this is amazing! Terriffic job! You certainly have a talent! I have a few of Pete's figures also (dolls, dog, santa) and agree - they are a must have!

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Many many thanks for the kind words!! It was fun building a house again. Hopefully I'll get sometime to work on more soon. I actually started a project I'm really looking fwd to sharing with you all, but the artwork is pretty labor intensive...more than just making a pattern. I hope I'll find time to finish it!! :o

Steve, you are almost right on, I used green and blue coco, and a off white.... not sure why it came out so yellow in the photo....probably the flash. The coco is on a teal green base coat.

Howard Im going to start another thread right now with the pics of painting Pete's figurines.

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Howard I have a santa but not painted yet :cry:


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Good Evening!!

I was messing around with my phone and youtube, and made a tiny video of my new house for fun. The video does a better job with the colors than my pics did...guess I need some photography lessons! :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-SAlcL ... e=youtu.be

Also, I have plans to publish the pattern for everybody in a .pdf I can share on the forum. I've had a couple requests now, my new project is getting my artwork attention for a bit, but I'll try to get to it soon.

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