I've been working on Tom the spitfire pilot and have most of the uniform now done and documented. When I did Brad I adjusted things to fit, nipping and tucking and cutting here and there but it's like making a recipe and adding a "dash of this" and a "splash of that" til it tastes right and then not having a written recipe to repeat it. Talk about dumb and dumber [&:] Anyway, having learnt that huge lesson, I wont make the same mistake again and it's always so much better the next time anyway. I found better reference material - that always helps too. So a couple of progress pics, he's only half painted and the gloves only primed. He's standing on my sewing bench with one of my Elvgren pinup paintings behind and it looks like he's engaging with the larger than life lady

Once the Mae West is done, (I have good records of that as I had to create it from scratch and wrote good notes) I can move onto the American Mae West. I found some great stuff to make them from so am looking forward to trying it out. Then it'll be on to some more heads.

cheers
Patti