200 mm resin U.S. Vietnam Soldier

Thank you, Ikaro1 and M1garand.

The head, helmet and grenades are seperate pieces. The sweat beads, I think, are actually the chain to his dogtags.

Amazing! is that trails of sweat coming down on his neck or am I seeing things?

Very good figure.  Much better than I've done yet.  I may have to get one and do tiger stripes.  Is the helmet a seperate piece?

Thanks again everyone for the kind comments! This is a Verlinden 200mm resin bust. I bought this one off of Internet Hobbies.

Regards, Dan

Perfect job! Looks like a real man!

what is this model?

Michel

 

I have no problem with the skin tones.  The tropical sun in Vietnam would cook us "boonie rats" like a chunk of fried chicken and after humping with the grunts for a year, the average infantryman had browned up considerably.  He also looks like he's scruffy and seasoned from combat, as would be the case, and those misty eyes capture the "thousand yard stare" quite nicely.   Excellent job.

Hello,

The figure looks great. I love the 5 O'clock shadow, how did you create this effect. It looks like you could light a match on it!!. Skin tones are great in my mind. In the heat of Nam their faces would get tanned so I'd say this is pretty accurate. Nice work.

Rich

I think the graduation of skin tones is excellent. I would have worked the highlights more strongly, and maybe that's what Peter is really getting at, but frankly, we're looking at a simple digital pic with natural lighting, and one must take that into consideration as well, when judging someone's work. Not all of us have the benifit of an 8 megapixel supercamera and a staggering array of lights.

 I can't tell exactly what's going on with the eyes, re: the moistness thing (just glare, I'm guessing), but I do see the various tones to the pupil, which are also excellent.

 I find acrylics difficult to work with, as the main medium for figure painting, being an old school oils man, and my hat's off to anyone who can get a handle on them.

No offense, Peter, but no brown was used on his face...only shades of flesh and a 5 o'clock shadow. I am sure others might not agree with the eyes either, but that is personal preference. Thanks for commenting!

Regards, Dan

Hi. I have a couple of problems with the figure. This is obviously a caucasian soldier, and I take it you were trying to make a suntanned face, but I think you went about it incorrectly. Making his face brown evenly only makes him look darker skinned, odd for a caucasian. It looks like he put on some facepaint for halloween. I think it would have looked better with only certain areas of his face were browned. Maybe working off a picture would help?

The second thing is that I think you went a little overboard with the moistness in the eyes and mouth. 


The uniform looks excellent.

Thank you Avus, CNW, Gregory and JB. The Citadel colors do have crazy names and when I list the ones I use, people think I am batty! As for his eyes, I added a bit of Tamiya clear to give them some moisture, along with the inside of his mouth. On fleshy areas, I go dark to light, starting with Citadel's Dark Flesh, which is like military brown. I then drybrush layers of Dwarf and Elf Flesh until desired skin tone is achieved. I  use a thinned Dark Flesh wash over the entire face, concentrating on his eyes, wrinkles, etc. Sometimes, 10 layers of paint will be applied to reach what im looking for, by repeating these steps. On clothes, I go from light to dark, adding washes to darken folds and wrinkles, then drybrushing the entire surfaces with the original color + white to fade and soften darker edges.

fantastic work dan.  Are his eyes supposed to look like they are watering, or is it the photo.  If its supposed to look like that, how did you achieve the effect?

Dan;

Nice work! I have only used Citadel on a limited basis for my figures. After seeing this I will have to give them a larger usage. I really like the names they give their colours, always good for a laugh when you read colours used in articles.

Cheers;

Gregory

excellent work

Great work as usual!

The uniform really looks bleached by the sun, I like how that turned out.