J
Judas.1044
Guest
Hi fellas!
Well, right after Christmas hangover, I've come back to the modelling world with new energies.
I have received some nice presents I will post in a future, but I wanted something different so I have tried some "restoration".
Here you have a trapper bust I painted some 18 years ago when I was younger and more inexperienced:
View attachment 96443
I used mainly citadel paints and citadel inks for shading, which goes well for 28 mm figures but in a bust they don't work so well. Anyway I guess I lost my patience since you can see that I didn't even finshed it.
This poor guy has been abandoned in a shelf for almost 20 years, exposed to dust and some terrible nephews:
View attachment 96444
That explains the missing of some feathers in his coonskin cap and the misterious unpainted spot in the tip of his nose.
Definitely, it needed a new look!!
So first of all I fill the holes in his coonskin cap with some green putty and I scribbed it, trying to imitate a fur texture:
View attachment 96445
Afterwards, I airbrushed all the figure in black:
View attachment 96446
In order to create quick references for lights and shadows, I airbrushed a neutral grey tone from above the figure:
View attachment 96423
And as I wanted to see the lightest points very clearly, I airbrushed from above a final coat of white:
View attachment 96425
Then I started with colour, airbrushing a sand tone for the leather jacket:
View attachment 96426
With a dark brown, first I applied a very dilluted wash in the darker areas, and then I unified the tones with the airbrush, pointing from below the figure:
View attachment 96427
For the lights, I applied the same sand color I used for the base coat, but with quite a lot of white, and I painted the highlighted areas quite roughly:
View attachment 96428
Next step, as same as with the darker tones, I unified everything with a more gentle mixture of sand + white, applied with an airbrush from above:
View attachment 96429
That creates that "velvet" texture I wanted for the jacket. Once the jacket was finished, I decided to paint the skin, so first of all, I protected the previous work with a latex based liquid mask:
View attachment 96430
Following the same procedure, I airbrushed a neutral skin tone, then a darker one from beneath and a lighter one from above:
View attachment 96431
Let's give him some life! Now it's the moment the figure gets its soul, when I paint the hair and the eyes.
Tips I followed for the details:
Try to use a mixture of the skin tone + red for the lower lip
Guess what? The white part of the eyes or sclera, actually is not white, try to use a bone colour
If you want to add light and realism, paint a white spot between the iris and the pupil:
View attachment 96432
This is how it looks when the face painting is finished:
View attachment 96433
View attachment 96434
Now let's go for some detailing. Using the same bone colour I used for the sclera, I painted the shirt:
View attachment 96435
Since I don't know any trapper to ask, I searched the Internet to see how I could paint the ornaments, and I managed to find some help:
View attachment 96437
View attachment 96436
View attachment 96438
View attachment 96439
Since the system doesn't allow me to include more pics, I will follow in the next post!
![FOTO (7).JPG FOTO (7).JPG](https://www.scale-models.co.uk/data/attachments/79/79010-4ebc39472783f760edf30379c722a735.jpg)
![FOTO (8).JPG FOTO (8).JPG](https://www.scale-models.co.uk/data/attachments/79/79012-fd3c871a6fafbfaf6ef142b8105169e6.jpg)
![FOTO (9).JPG FOTO (9).JPG](https://www.scale-models.co.uk/data/attachments/79/79013-8faea6d14512583bb859ab66c0a813a6.jpg)
![FOTO (11).JPG FOTO (11).JPG](https://www.scale-models.co.uk/data/attachments/79/79014-a992757149d1c376d472f2575b54f1af.jpg)
![FOTO (12).JPG FOTO (12).JPG](https://www.scale-models.co.uk/data/attachments/79/79015-8c6b76838a5ef086b2f37520cb18e478.jpg)
![FOTO (13).JPG FOTO (13).JPG](https://www.scale-models.co.uk/data/attachments/79/79016-afa7b636563ba4ca5e9137e33459967a.jpg)
![FOTO (14).JPG FOTO (14).JPG](https://www.scale-models.co.uk/data/attachments/79/79017-5b9b42ef76f10b209c8c86d7507e07de.jpg)
![FOTO (16).JPG FOTO (16).JPG](https://www.scale-models.co.uk/data/attachments/79/79018-874df0304639c85413e31a45d9d10c71.jpg)
![FOTO (1).JPG FOTO (1).JPG](https://www.scale-models.co.uk/data/attachments/79/79019-dd1d4f9b49ad829d6504cd8a59ebbb8c.jpg)
![FOTO (17).JPG FOTO (17).JPG](https://www.scale-models.co.uk/data/attachments/79/79020-31e5c67a816e7f632932a431a107e73d.jpg)
![FOTO (18).JPG FOTO (18).JPG](https://www.scale-models.co.uk/data/attachments/79/79021-390d1d7a960af6dfc24597f01e697560.jpg)
![FOTO (19).JPG FOTO (19).JPG](https://www.scale-models.co.uk/data/attachments/79/79022-58fc5da22675a8465b3b45e6ea4d425b.jpg)
![FOTO (20).JPG FOTO (20).JPG](https://www.scale-models.co.uk/data/attachments/79/79023-09b07550c461e2f2c0983fd0de3484dc.jpg)
![FOTO (22).jpg FOTO (22).jpg](https://www.scale-models.co.uk/data/attachments/79/79024-fa4ff57137507c6bda235571832a3258.jpg)
![FOTO (23).jpg FOTO (23).jpg](https://www.scale-models.co.uk/data/attachments/79/79025-3a1d83311f41a25283f3f354f8b5ea23.jpg)
![FOTO (26).JPG FOTO (26).JPG](https://www.scale-models.co.uk/data/attachments/79/79026-78329b617046b7e08725ee8dee3d3989.jpg)
![FOTO (2).JPG FOTO (2).JPG](https://www.scale-models.co.uk/data/attachments/79/79030-84754a12d21798a613f41721a582bf17.jpg)
![FOTO (3).JPG FOTO (3).JPG](https://www.scale-models.co.uk/data/attachments/79/79031-fddb6a82fcfe2f92fac408b6accdd09f.jpg)
![FOTO (5).JPG FOTO (5).JPG](https://www.scale-models.co.uk/data/attachments/79/79032-97d7176b2938d778f775e35887c5c94f.jpg)
![FOTO (6).JPG FOTO (6).JPG](https://www.scale-models.co.uk/data/attachments/79/79033-d947236a0686e56059505b08e20a0e6e.jpg)
Well, right after Christmas hangover, I've come back to the modelling world with new energies.
I have received some nice presents I will post in a future, but I wanted something different so I have tried some "restoration".
Here you have a trapper bust I painted some 18 years ago when I was younger and more inexperienced:
View attachment 96443
I used mainly citadel paints and citadel inks for shading, which goes well for 28 mm figures but in a bust they don't work so well. Anyway I guess I lost my patience since you can see that I didn't even finshed it.
This poor guy has been abandoned in a shelf for almost 20 years, exposed to dust and some terrible nephews:
View attachment 96444
That explains the missing of some feathers in his coonskin cap and the misterious unpainted spot in the tip of his nose.
Definitely, it needed a new look!!
So first of all I fill the holes in his coonskin cap with some green putty and I scribbed it, trying to imitate a fur texture:
View attachment 96445
Afterwards, I airbrushed all the figure in black:
View attachment 96446
In order to create quick references for lights and shadows, I airbrushed a neutral grey tone from above the figure:
View attachment 96423
And as I wanted to see the lightest points very clearly, I airbrushed from above a final coat of white:
View attachment 96425
Then I started with colour, airbrushing a sand tone for the leather jacket:
View attachment 96426
With a dark brown, first I applied a very dilluted wash in the darker areas, and then I unified the tones with the airbrush, pointing from below the figure:
View attachment 96427
For the lights, I applied the same sand color I used for the base coat, but with quite a lot of white, and I painted the highlighted areas quite roughly:
View attachment 96428
Next step, as same as with the darker tones, I unified everything with a more gentle mixture of sand + white, applied with an airbrush from above:
View attachment 96429
That creates that "velvet" texture I wanted for the jacket. Once the jacket was finished, I decided to paint the skin, so first of all, I protected the previous work with a latex based liquid mask:
View attachment 96430
Following the same procedure, I airbrushed a neutral skin tone, then a darker one from beneath and a lighter one from above:
View attachment 96431
Let's give him some life! Now it's the moment the figure gets its soul, when I paint the hair and the eyes.
Tips I followed for the details:
Try to use a mixture of the skin tone + red for the lower lip
Guess what? The white part of the eyes or sclera, actually is not white, try to use a bone colour
If you want to add light and realism, paint a white spot between the iris and the pupil:
View attachment 96432
This is how it looks when the face painting is finished:
View attachment 96433
View attachment 96434
Now let's go for some detailing. Using the same bone colour I used for the sclera, I painted the shirt:
View attachment 96435
Since I don't know any trapper to ask, I searched the Internet to see how I could paint the ornaments, and I managed to find some help:
View attachment 96437
View attachment 96436
View attachment 96438
View attachment 96439
Since the system doesn't allow me to include more pics, I will follow in the next post!
![FOTO (7).JPG FOTO (7).JPG](https://www.scale-models.co.uk/data/attachments/79/79010-4ebc39472783f760edf30379c722a735.jpg)
![FOTO (8).JPG FOTO (8).JPG](https://www.scale-models.co.uk/data/attachments/79/79012-fd3c871a6fafbfaf6ef142b8105169e6.jpg)
![FOTO (9).JPG FOTO (9).JPG](https://www.scale-models.co.uk/data/attachments/79/79013-8faea6d14512583bb859ab66c0a813a6.jpg)
![FOTO (11).JPG FOTO (11).JPG](https://www.scale-models.co.uk/data/attachments/79/79014-a992757149d1c376d472f2575b54f1af.jpg)
![FOTO (12).JPG FOTO (12).JPG](https://www.scale-models.co.uk/data/attachments/79/79015-8c6b76838a5ef086b2f37520cb18e478.jpg)
![FOTO (13).JPG FOTO (13).JPG](https://www.scale-models.co.uk/data/attachments/79/79016-afa7b636563ba4ca5e9137e33459967a.jpg)
![FOTO (14).JPG FOTO (14).JPG](https://www.scale-models.co.uk/data/attachments/79/79017-5b9b42ef76f10b209c8c86d7507e07de.jpg)
![FOTO (16).JPG FOTO (16).JPG](https://www.scale-models.co.uk/data/attachments/79/79018-874df0304639c85413e31a45d9d10c71.jpg)
![FOTO (1).JPG FOTO (1).JPG](https://www.scale-models.co.uk/data/attachments/79/79019-dd1d4f9b49ad829d6504cd8a59ebbb8c.jpg)
![FOTO (17).JPG FOTO (17).JPG](https://www.scale-models.co.uk/data/attachments/79/79020-31e5c67a816e7f632932a431a107e73d.jpg)
![FOTO (18).JPG FOTO (18).JPG](https://www.scale-models.co.uk/data/attachments/79/79021-390d1d7a960af6dfc24597f01e697560.jpg)
![FOTO (19).JPG FOTO (19).JPG](https://www.scale-models.co.uk/data/attachments/79/79022-58fc5da22675a8465b3b45e6ea4d425b.jpg)
![FOTO (20).JPG FOTO (20).JPG](https://www.scale-models.co.uk/data/attachments/79/79023-09b07550c461e2f2c0983fd0de3484dc.jpg)
![FOTO (22).jpg FOTO (22).jpg](https://www.scale-models.co.uk/data/attachments/79/79024-fa4ff57137507c6bda235571832a3258.jpg)
![FOTO (23).jpg FOTO (23).jpg](https://www.scale-models.co.uk/data/attachments/79/79025-3a1d83311f41a25283f3f354f8b5ea23.jpg)
![FOTO (26).JPG FOTO (26).JPG](https://www.scale-models.co.uk/data/attachments/79/79026-78329b617046b7e08725ee8dee3d3989.jpg)
![FOTO (2).JPG FOTO (2).JPG](https://www.scale-models.co.uk/data/attachments/79/79030-84754a12d21798a613f41721a582bf17.jpg)
![FOTO (3).JPG FOTO (3).JPG](https://www.scale-models.co.uk/data/attachments/79/79031-fddb6a82fcfe2f92fac408b6accdd09f.jpg)
![FOTO (5).JPG FOTO (5).JPG](https://www.scale-models.co.uk/data/attachments/79/79032-97d7176b2938d778f775e35887c5c94f.jpg)
![FOTO (6).JPG FOTO (6).JPG](https://www.scale-models.co.uk/data/attachments/79/79033-d947236a0686e56059505b08e20a0e6e.jpg)
Last edited: