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  • From: South Africa
Roman Centurion
Posted by Panzerjaeger on Saturday, June 3, 2006 4:53 PM

Greetings

I just thought I would share my latest figure completion with all of you. I am fairly new to this forum but find it a great source of inspiration and information. I've been reading through some of your posts and I cannot even begin to mention how much more I have learned regarding figure painting! Please follow the link to access some pictures of my figure. This is the Verlinden 120mm kit number 731. I painted it using Winsor & Newton artists acrylics. Let me know what you guys think! Heres the link:

http://s82.photobucket.com/albums/j279/gillas/Verlinden%20Centurion/?sc=5

This serves as a testament that figure modelling is alive and well here in South Africa!

Regards

Arthur

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Posted by Avus on Saturday, June 3, 2006 5:11 PM
Great work Arthur!
I particularly like how the leather and the cape turned out.

Klaus

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Posted by Panzerjaeger on Saturday, June 3, 2006 5:23 PM

Thanks Klaus! It took me ages to get that effect. I lost count after about the eighth wash of burnt umber. Then still came the dry brushing with burnt sienna and a touch of indian red! In the end I really enjoyed painting this figure. I suppose that's what counts?

Regards

Arthur

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  • From: Newport News VA
Posted by Buddho on Sunday, June 4, 2006 10:20 AM
Excellent work on the centurian, Arthur!

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Posted by Panzerjaeger on Sunday, June 4, 2006 1:00 PM

Thanks Buddho! Feedback is always welcome!

Regards

Arthur

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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, June 4, 2006 3:17 PM
Very nice work indeed. I like the blue cape, and the armor came out very nice.

 Verlinden puts out a few gems, and this seems to be one of them.
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Posted by m1garand on Sunday, June 4, 2006 9:30 PM
Nicely done Arthur!
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Posted by Panzerjaeger on Monday, June 5, 2006 3:00 PM

Hi Guys

thanks for the kind words guys! Yep Plymonkey, you're right about Verlinden although to be honest, when I first got this kit I didn't really like it much but did it purely because one of my mates at my model club has been doing a lot of Pegaso's romans in 54mm and he challenged me to do a roman. I had bought this kit a year or two ago, so I hauled it out and gave it a crack. I must say as work progressed I changed my view on the kit and was quite pleased with the end product.

Regards

Arthur

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, June 13, 2006 11:04 AM
That's some great work, and being a Classics major, I can always appreciate the subject! nice going.
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, June 13, 2006 12:04 PM

Excellent Arthur. The first thing I am always drawn to on any model is the face, and it is always the thing I struggle with the most but you really have it spot on.

My past experience with Verlinden kits is that they really lean towards character heads often with a strong expression and if you aren't careful they look very unnatural and almost characature, so I take my hat off to you for achieving such a natural looking cheerful expression.

 

 

 

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  • From: South Africa
Posted by Panzerjaeger on Wednesday, June 14, 2006 1:05 PM

Hi Guys

Thanks for the nods of appreciation! The face on this figure actually looked better with the side pieces of the helmet off! I really did a lot of work on the face to get it looking natural but unfortunately it is covered up by the helmet sides. I am not a believer in the "paint what you can see and leave what you can't" approach. I prefer to paint the face in it's entirety so that at least i know what it looked like and that it is there before it gets covered up by armour.

Thanks once again for the good comments

Arthur

Work, work, work! You gotta put models on the table somehow!
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