A good while ago I purchased some figures from Artizan Miniatures. All the figures with the exception of this one were Old West figures and were painted months ago. This one was bought for one reason and one reason alone, I liked it. It didn’t typically fit with what I normally paint but the pose and facial character appealed to me greatly and I just wanted to paint the little chap. The only problem was I forgot to do so! Somewhere along the line he got submerged among other piles of stuff until I recently rediscovered him for Azazel’s monthly challenge.
Not a great deal to say about him really. Painted in acrylics with some oil washes here and there and some pretty basic base work. The key thing with the base was to find a stone from the garden which would provide some height and the appearance that Mad Jack is looking into the distance. Hopefully that comes over.
TIM
The Imperfect Modeller 
Excellent!!! The angle of the base does exactly what you wanted it to do. Why is he mad? Is he mad because he’s lost his lighthouse?
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It’s Artizan that called the figure Mad Jack but why is a good question. You could be right about losing the lighthouse but I reckon he’s mad at having to go out at night when he could have been modelling! 😉
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Haha ahh I see.
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Coincidentally I’m watching a doco and a chap called Mad Jack Churchill was mentioned haha. Weird how the world works. Is your chap dedicated to him?
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No, mine is dedicated to Mad Jack IRO who hasn’t produced a YouTube doco for a while! 😉
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OMG are you kidding meeeeee???? You and I are uncannily connected mate.
I’m literally back on wp to do a quick post to promote the new YouTube upload video haha. What the shiiiiiit??? That’s spooky
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By a remarkable coincidence just received notification of your latest YouTube! Will check out when I get back from walking the dog and going down to the town. 😊
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Hang hang hang… did you comment about the video before you got the notification or after? If it was before that will blow my damn mind haha.
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Definately before, spooked me too. Must be a father son thing! 😉
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Something strange is going on that’s for damn sure. Kinda cool. Maybe we were married in a past life, obviously I was the man.
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Um, only the other day you were getting a boob job to get free pints! 😉
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Hahaha
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Great work on him. He looks great staring into the dark night.
Cheers,
Pete.
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Thanks Pete, much appreciated.
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Another excellent piece – though you weren’t tempted to add a tiny LED to his lantern? Wires through the arm and down the leg to a switch in the base? Super easy with metal models, so I understand. 😉
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Bloody brilliant Dave I can’t believe that the stone you found in your garden was hand picked so well !!!,did you intend the face it shows to mirror some ghost of some previous light house keeper or what ,though I feel he looks more like an apache or an Arab with that head gear.
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Thanks Pat, glad you like him. Just somethjng about the figure I like but can’t claim to have done anything special with the painting on this occasion.
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Well done, and I love the shape of the rock as well. Gives the setting a nice framing.
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Thanks Mark, always appreciate your comments.
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Maybe Mad jack is the lighthouse? Think about it, standing tall on a rock with a lantern… maybe he is a giant and the lighthouse is in his lantern? Regardless, great job man. Love your work.
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Excellent. Very simple and straightforward but bags of character.
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Thank you and I agree with you but it’s all down to a great little sculpture by Artizan, he really is a lovely little figure. They have some excellent character figures so I may well look at doing some others in due course.
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Just talked to a mate ,he prefers photo no.4 over my comment on no.5 ,he feels 4 is more sinister ,which after studying it I feel he is right ,we would both like to know what your message was and if it was intentional , no one else seems interested or mentioned The youngan reckons it’s just the way it looks and was accidental ! .
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No real message Pat. If there was a story line going through my head it was just a case of Mad Jack investigating a noise at night by going to see what was going on. His features are all part of the sculpt so I can’t take any credit for that other than just painting, him great face though which is why I was drawn to the figure in the first place.
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Sorry Dave ,I have confused you it’s the rock that we were looking at ,it wasn’t just me and my mate but Techsdviser saw it straightaway .If you look at Mad Jack in the profile photo ,no.3 I think you will see a face in profile mirroring him! ,I’m still going to say you meant it Ha!.
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Wow, the truthful answer is I never spotted that at all. The official answer is I searched high and low, visited every country on the plant and eventually found the ideal rock in my front garden of all places. Clearly I meant it and am so glad that you, your mate and techadviser spotted it!😉
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