Young Miniatures Navy Seal Bust, Vietnam

[Deleted member 6559]

Another generous donation by Richard Pearce. This one may be a bust too far, what with the tiger-stripe camo and face paint, but I feel like a challenge.

The usual Young's quality sculpting and casting:



He's wearing the small life vest designed for special forces on brown water ops, and is equipped with a radio and smoke grenades

The reference:



There seem to be about a million variations of tiger-stripe, so I think I'll try and match that in the first photo.

Pray for me....

 

[Neil Merryweather]

looks like fun ,Peter....................

 

[Jim R]

Hi Peter
Difficulties - a man of your abliities laughs at difficulties Great looking bust.
Jim

 

[James Robert Noble]

Hello Peter! I would like very much to be front and centre on this one!
My big notepad and pen as always at the ready with your amazing work!

 

[Steve Jones]

If any one can nail this it's you Peter. This is your Everest. Good luck!!

 

[rtfoe]

Stripes Yikes!!! If it's anyone it's you Peter to pull this off. I've seen Youngs stuff up close but can't remember if he painted this one or had someone else paint for the box art. He's a prolific sculptor and usually only needs a day to paint....craaazy.

Cheers,
Richard

 

[Deleted member 6559]

Welcome along chaps. I have done a small amount of tiger stripe before and it was challenging, but do-able. Fingers crossed.

The head:



I decided that there was no point doing a complete flesh job, only to cover it with camo later, so I just went for it and applied the camo colours first - Vallejo Intermediate Green, Saddle Brown and German Uniform. The most difficult part was shading each patch of colour, and it took me some time to realise that I could afford to be quite bold with the highlights and shadows. Really tricky.

 

[Deleted member 4539]

Excellent face Peter .

 

[Jason Crausby]

Wow...that’s brilliant...I’d been out of doing faces with camo paint on as I didn’t think I could do it justice but that’s superb!
Jason

 

[scottie3158]

Peter,
That face is simply your best yet, superb.

 

[Andy Belsey]

Wonderful Peter!
Andy

 

[Deleted member 6559]

Thanks for the kind words chaps. It's the first camo face I've managed to complete. I think having done all that Denison camo before perhaps helped.

 

[Mickc1440]

Wow Peter that is superb

 

[Neil Merryweather]

Reminds me of Martin Sheen in apocalypse now. Ok I know he wasn't wearing camo, but he has a similar look.
Stunning,by the way, Peter.

 

[SteveH]

Morning Peter

You don't do Sci Fi or even the Ice King from Game of Thrones, but............................

What a superb piece of painting Sir.

You really should try something with a none pink flesh base, you might enjoy the release from "normal" boundaries.

Tiger stripe camo next too!

You might get a taste for the abstract?

Looks like you will have fun today.

Should be a better light day, as its clear with a heavy air frost here.

I shall look forward to seeing your camo when I get back from my joint clinic appointment this morning

Have fun, it should be a natural next step after your wonderful head.

Regards

Steve H

 

[Deleted member 6559]

Mick - Thank You.

Neil - Many thanks. Martin Sheen wore tiger-stripe, and he did paint his face for the final assassination scenes, as did Marlon Brando when he delivered the head of Chef (anorak, anorak):



Steve - I'm so relieved this has worked out. It's a bit tidy, but the dilemma is a similar to the one when painting German sprayed camo - if it was really as messy and random as it was in reality, you'd be accused of bad painting. The tiger-stripe is about working out a method, so I've been thinking about how to go about it overnight. The thing that bothers me most is that the torso is very complicated - the uniform, life-vest, radio harness etc. I may get everything else done before painting the camo.

Good luck at the joint clinic - not long now!

 

[James Robert Noble]

Wow! Superb Peter! Par excellence!

 

[Steve Jones]

The guys have said it all Peter. Absolutely stunning

 

[Deleted member 6559]

Thanks James and Steve - I'm overwhelmed by the response to this one. The great sculpt helped a lot.

 

[Lee Drennen]

Yes like Steve said if anyone can pull it off it will be you and yes it is stunning