20 January 2014

Blackbeard -- Prepwork: Intermezzo (1)

The cocked hat is now fitted and the join finished. As a brief aside, the reworking of the crown is about half-way done.

While I was cleaning up the hat, I discovered the second unforgivable faux-pas on this sculpture: there is a tiny skull on the bow of the cockade! Really??? Again, the fix is easy and quick; but the question remains: WHY???!!!

Given the quality of the kit as a whole, I suppose these are little more than assumed-market-dri- ven indulgences, a venial infraction. But it does make one wonder what the perception of history might be at either end of the marketplace?

Back to the bench!

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