Andrew provided this commentary for his version of the Frog:
Jason Moses purchased a
pack of toads and gave one each to myself, Tom Schadle and Joel Patton to
commemorate our time together during Games Day Baltimore and Origins.
I tried doing a fancier base for him, and used very natural tones (and
normal metallics). I went for a fairly standard era blue, white and red
uniform. The toad's skin is military green highlighted with Russian winter
green.
The model was glued onto a standard round base, and I glued some rocks
around his metal base to give the impression of a river bank. The cat tails
were fun to make, they are just wire with some putty on the end (though a
bit too big - hey, they're mutated cat tails!). The water has just been the
bare base painted blue with several coats of gloss on top of it.
The paint job isn't spectacular, but this is still one of the favorite
models in my collection.
- Andrew Lum