Hello Harry!

Lookin' really good! I like the tiny details the most - looks like you had your fun painting that. Thanks for sharing and have a nice day

Paweł

Pawel

Hello Harry!

Lookin' really good! I like the tiny details the most - looks like you had your fun painting that. Thanks for sharing and have a nice day

Paweł

 

Yeah, it was one of those dream projects where everything just seemed to go right.

Cheers

Part 2.

Here's the other two figures. First set of photo's is another example from Pegaso. Second set is Alexandros Models version of the famous Tomeo Gozen and although she lived a few centuries before the armor worn by the other figures was developed, there's no way she was going to be left out of this vignette.

To be continued....

Another beautiful job there, I love your figures!

Gamera

Another beautiful job there, I love your figures!

 

Glad you're enjoying them. I wasn't sure whether I should post these in the Figure or the Diorama section. I'll try and find the photos detailing how the vignette went together and add them to this thread. Meanwhile I'll put some close-up's of Ms Gozen in the Figure section.

Cheers

Part 3

By this stage I had the figures painted, and we'd paid a visit to the mall where I tend to pick up miniature display tables for my vignettes and dioramas.

I usually just shovel the celluclay groundwork directly onto these miniature tables -- cos they're generally cheap enough, but there was no way I was going to ruin the beautiful gloss varnish finish on this one. So I had a hunt around town for something I could use as a sub-base.

We eventually found a round wooden placemat in IKEA that fits perfectly on the top of the table, and turning it upside down gave me a nice flat surface to work with. I could also fix the sub-base on top of the table using plenty of "tackey-wax", which would hold it in place without adversely affecting the varnished finish on the display table.

So I then got on with the groundwork on the sub-base. I also removed the figure bases then pinned them into the sub-base with a fair old amount of 2-part epoxy spread over the pins and allowed to pool onto the sub-base so that the figures are held firmly in place -- but I can also dig them out of there easily enough if I choose to do so at some future point in time.

The groundwork consists of a thin layer of celluclay painted a suitable color, with an initial blast of short static grass, and a couple of trees added....

....and then once the epoxy fixing the figures in place had fully cured, some longer static grass was shot on, with a few flowers, and so on adding interest to the sub-base.

To be concluded....

Hey, Heid, it's good to hear you're still out and about!  I was just wondering the other day, what'd become of you.  Great project, too!

Best regards,

Brad

Or wait--did I already see this?  It's been a while since we talked.

the Baron

Hey, Heid, it's good to hear you're still out and about!  I was just wondering the other day, what'd become of you.  Great project, too!

Best regards,

Brad

 

....I wondered when you'd notice Brad....

So, here's how the project worked out. A lot went into it, and I doubt that I'll do another vignette with 90mm figures, but it does make for a great talking point that breaks the ice when the wife's relations turn up for a visit.

I'm amazed and in awe of the attention to detail.  These samurai's have come to life, they look like the real thing!  You are masterful in your art!  I bow down to you sir!

Toshi

Toshi

I'm amazed and in awe of the attention to detail.  These samurai's have come to life, they look like the real thing!  You are masterful in your art!  I bow down to you sir!

Toshi

 

There's far better figure painters out there than me. These were 90mm, so they kind of had to be done with a reasonable amount of competence, but the sheer size of them made that a bit easier in certain ways -- for example; more space to work with the flesh tones.

You'll find far less attention to detail with my 1/35 scale stuff as I tend to follow the Shep Paine school of thought. When discussing the principle of scale distance in his book "How To Build Dioramas", he stated;

"The closest you can focuss on a figure is about 5-inches. At that distance, a 1/35 scale figure appears as a man standing 20-feet away. You need only include details visible on a real man at that distance".

Of course, he wrote that before the advent of digital photography, which can be made to show every blemish on a figure at the macro-level. I would never want to discourage anyone who wants to turn out magnificently painted 1/35 figures, but nevertheless, my own efforts in this scale are aimed at figures for dioramas, as opposed to figure painting at competition levels.

Cheers