painting modern u.s. soldiers tutorial (edited 8-28)

well, the important thing is your getting help bud! lol...

Yeah ... I'm retarded ...

I think I posted this before I had any coffee. DDDDDRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr..................

ummmmmm scott????? this is it right here!!! LOL...LOL....LOL!!! just go back one page!!!

Hey Chris .... or Tom ... I was looking for that thread where Tom was talking about "how to" do his method w/ oils, but I couldn't remember what it was called or where it was. I want to copy/ paste and save it for later. Let me know if you can point me in the right direction.

Me too- glad I brought it back from the dead!

What really shoud be stickied is the contest you wrote this up for Tom- had a whole bunch of figure tuts by a bunch of different people, featured oil and acrylics and quite a few styles that looked pretty good if I recall.

sounds like a plan sir... and glad you like it.

I like this.  This needs to be stickied.  I'd be happy to put this all together into a pdf file for you.  Since I will probably do it anyway and keep it on my hard drive for my own personal reference, but would be happy to forward a copy to you when I do, so you can share it as such.

Thanks a lot! Glad they pass the test

oh i agree about the brown but that happens with the technique. but this is a clearer pic and the flesh looks alot better from this pic. i think they will look great bud! congrats!

Tell me what you think- here's another sneak peek but I gave it it's own thread her in F&M

Try to envision just the actual flesh parts on their own, it looks too dark if you take into account all the brown on the shoulder.

no that's fine. if they dont look that bad then im sure you did it right. i suspected it might be the camera so no worries. lets just see the final result!

Oh man! I don't know why I didn't check the pic before I went to work, they don't look half that dark, in fact, they don't look half that... red in real life either, I think it was the flash. Sorry about that. I'll try and fix that when I post it over in Figs

they still seem a bit dark chris. are you mixing yellow ocre with the other two? might just be the pic of course. but it looks like you got it down bud!

Hey Tom, figured I'd go ahead and bump this one up from the depths as it's near impossible to find anything pre-update and you only have a link to this one on HLI. (if you could go into the main tut. post and copy everything and paste it over there that'd be cool with me! lol)

I'm working on a New Years Quick-build as I type, put in about 10 hours so far. Figured it was time to go ahead and post some shots before work at 5 as I wait for the oils to set up.

Here's where I am so far on the camo junkie figure painting with oils guide.

These guys are French Foreign Legion at Côte d'Ivoire btw- they're going to have the standard woodland CE Pattern

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:053_French_Foreign_Legion.JPG

Always a pleasure!

camo junkie wrote:

as far as confidence, well, maybe that's all it takes to move forward, but i wouldnt say it if it wasnt true. if "I" can do it, i assure you ANYONE can.

Awesome tut camo... can't wait to try out some oils and techniques on my next figure 

camo junkie wrote:

i can help ya sure...but his colors for oils just wont work.

Thanks for the vote of confidence- sometimes my lil bro just needs that push though to get from base paint to actual shading and highlight work on figures. He's really getting the hang of it though. Heck- he has a figure painted up in 1/72 that looks on par with some of my 1/35 guys, so I don't know how much more help I can give him.

But yeah- if you want to use them, you should have just let me know. Scott's right, I packed them up and they're in the car- but I doubt I'll use them before Thanksgiving. Lucky I caught this before Sunday- would have been GONE! And I think Oils will blend real nice for the horse work you wanted to do- no need to airbrush it like you were thinking. Might take a while to dry, but you'll have forever to blend it all in.

No butt kicking required!

I only have a few colors and I don't think they're 100% correct for flesh- it's Winton Oils #2 Burnt Sienna #27 Light Red and #29 Naples Yellow Hue

I got these to start trying flesh out, haven't done it yet- so Will, make sure Tom helps you out with all your questions, I'm not real good with oils on canvas so I'm worried that's going to translate to 1/35 faces as well. 

modelchasm wrote:

HAHA!, thanks brother! I've been farting around w/ some oils if that makes you feel any better!?! Other than that, "no excuse, Sir".

modelchasm wrote:

Hell ... he's going back to school soon anyway right!?! Just makes them "magic" oils and see how they disappear. HAHA!!

see at least someone is thinking!!! and i didnt see anything.  btw, lil bro, i have a thing on painting horses with oils too if you need it. i will have to scan it and p.m. you...but let me know (i cant do it until monday as im not home but still let me know!)