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Lilliput: Spit, rust and carpaint. Lilliput rearmed


chilli

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I thought I would like to make some replica arms for my lilliput , he looked too much a war veteran missing his lower arms, so with a bit of spit, rust and carpaint I built the new lower arms. Thanks to Dirk for supplying a close up of his Lilliput so I could see how the lower arms fitted

See what you think. Not perfect but okish.

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cheers

Chilli

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Great Job Chilli! I know, there are a few Lilliputs without the lower arms out there.

I would not refuse to add a selfmade arm to complete These rare toys. Looks really great!

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thanks all,

I really like the look now.

The arms and hands were from a repro but  the repro is built with the arms about a third too wide, so they were opened up and and trimmed down. The hands should be a bit more spooky and longer thinner fingers , I used the repro hands and filed the groove a bit deeper, then they were dropped into my rusting solution for a couple of weeks.

I did not spend much time today putting it all together and I think I can improve.  I did actually give my sink a complete respray in an unwanted orange carpaint because I am a daft prat!!!!.

cheers Chilli

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Oh, the bars though the hands are different to the repro which are just a round rod which has a domed head and flattened end. On the original it is a flat cross piece. That was one of the trickier bits to copy.

Cheers Chilli

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Many thanks,

yes Andyman, easy to replace.

Thanks Nasa.

My missus did not see the talent, she just saw the mess I had made in the sink with the paint aerosols !!!!!!!!

cheers

Chilli

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