Tommys War 1/10th scale bust - Corporal, East African Mounted Rifles, Mount Longido 1915

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A couple of hours with a wet palette and AK flesh paint set - colours mixed to gain grater tonal range and i got to this point;


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Please excuse quality of the photos, quick snaps before heading to work this morning on my iphone
 
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A couple of hours with a wet palette and AK flesh paint set - colours mixed to gain grater tonal range and i got to this point;


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Please excuse quality of the photos, quick snaps before heading to work this morning on my iphone

Hi Steve 


he is looking good already nice work with the skin tones and the eyes look great too
 

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looking good so far Steve,like the start of the skin tones,and do real like his eyes,with the darkness under them, :D
 

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he is progressing along very nicely Steve, :D
 
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I really like the work you have done on the eyes there Steve mate, to me there are always one of the most difficult things to paint and get right, 
 

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[SIZE=10pt]Spent a nice relaxing hour or so weathering up the bush hat last night, wet on wet washes to get variations in the tones on the hat, not forgetting the underneath. Started with dark tones around the base and above and below the cheetah band, then added a lighter tone and mixed this in dragging away from the dark tone. Repeated process with mid tones, until the lightest wash was added to the middle areas, edges of the brim and the peak of the hat, just needs a couple of coats of matt varnish, then a couple of drops of either fuel spills or engine grime to replicate sweat and muck.[/SIZE]


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nice work on the hat so far,do like the band, :D
 
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Steve mate, that is looking awesome. That hat looks like crocodile Dundees hat. 
 

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Very good skin tones Steve. Been out in the sun but not over done. Nice work on the hat!
 

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very nice tones to him Steve,well done, :D
 

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Very good skin tones Steve. Been out in the sun but not over done. Nice work on the hat!

Cheers, thats the look i was going for  xD . In all honesty the base coat was to dark, so had to work with what i put down, or strip it all off. Could try and lighten everything but i would probably make a hash of things and he would like he had gone mad with the Mascara - not something that would have happened back in 1915.
 

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Latest Update –


Small subtle sweat stains added above and below the band and stain drops added onto the hat


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Shirt has seen better days (doubt Daz, Fairy, Persil could shift those sweaty dirty stains)


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Painted the leather belt and pouches; used various revel shades of browns and ochre colours, brass buttons and buckle painted in and then to blend it all together a wash of Tamiya smoke. Hopefully get a matt varnish on the rest of the bust over the weekend and then mount on a plinth.
 
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