Hi all
So three further sets of 1/72 munchkins have joined this process and two have even maned to plod their way across the finish line.
So the first ones up.......
I'm not including these because I'm particularly proud of them - in fact they're average at best and that's probably stretching it somewhat.
Instead they're representative of a
major breakthrough when it comes to comes painting figures.........in short it doesn't scare the ^&%%!^$%"$$%$ out of me!
and all thanks to Tim's SBS a while ago on figure painting.
I'm not saying I have it sussed or even feel pretty confident when approaching figures but at the same time it doesn't terrify me either.
I stumbled across these 3/4 finished figures recently, having started them at least six years ago and just after I came back to the hobby. They're not the best figures to start with, were badly assembled, had seam lines on and were badly painted. I've tidied the painting up, slopped on some flesh wash and stuck them on a base finished off with my own homemade flock. They're from Italeri's 25pdr set, which was the only one available in 1/72 at the time and so they're dressed for North Africa. As we battle in NWE, I've had to pretend it's a hot day, so their dress is not right (sorry about the blurry pics).
Next up, the crews from my three 1/72 Plastic Soldier Company Sextons, albeit you only get four crew instead of the full compliment of six.
In this case I had intended to follow Tim's SBS but did it from memory with the predictable results in that I missed out the step of 'framing' the figure in dark grey and also not applying a shaded base coat of the primary colour. To try and get around the modelling faux pas, I applied a wash to sink into the recesses.
In terms of the main uniform colour I experimented with a range of acrylic colours to see what I liked and to break the uniformity up a bit, as follows:
- Vallejo's English Uniform 70.921.
- Revell's Dark Earth 82 - a touch less yellow than Vallejo's paint but still very close.
- Humbrol's Khaki 26 - quite a bit browner that the other two.
- A mix of Vallejo English Uniform and Humbrol's Dark Earth 29 - which came out somewhere between Revell 82 and Humbrol 26. I quite like the results of this experiment.
I also adopted a similar approach with the washes, to hopefully complement the base colour. I used two Vallejo Game Colour washes diluted with their Glaze Medium 1:1, as follows:
- Sepia (73.200) for those painted with Vallejo 921 and Revell 82.
- A mix 1:1 of Sepia and Umber (73.203) on those with the Vallejo/Humbrol mixed uniform.
- Umber only for those painted with the Humbrol 26.
Perfect they are not but I am genuinely pleased with them and they have given me a real confidence boost.
ACW as usual.
Andrew
The colours of choice. This was taken outside in good light and so is pretty close to reality, if a touch on the light side.
Vallejo's English Uniform 70.921.
Revell's Dark Earth 82.
The Vallejo/Humbrol mix (left hand two) and Humbrol's Dark Earth 29 (right hand one)
A complete mish-mash of all four colours to represent different uniform batches or when one of the troops has had to replace one part before the other.
