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  • Member since
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  • From: Portland, Oregon
First real attempt at 1:35 scale figures
Posted by fantacmet on Tuesday, July 31, 2007 4:55 PM

Well here is my first actual attempt at a 1:35 scale figure.  Only other figure I've done is the Thor that I am working on.  I will have pics of it up soon hopefully.

 

This is from an Italeri Panzer IV kit I did for the Italeri GB on here.

 

    

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  • From: Massachusetts
Posted by ajlafleche on Tuesday, July 31, 2007 6:37 PM

Young Grasshopper, you have begun the long journey in the world of figures.

Please don't take this harshly, but you need some work. All figure painters need some work. We are constantly striving to get better. So, please take this as constructive and as encouragement.

I don't think there was piping on the greatcoat, just feldgrun.

The eyes, always a tough thing to paint, need to be made much, much thinner, ovoid slits, with just the tiniest bit of off white to either side of the iris, which should take up 1/2 to 2/3 of the eye.

 You'll need a flat finish to the whole thing, right now he's way too glossy.

Unless he's in drag, his lips are too red. LOL.

To me, the flesh , in general, looks too pink. You're probably using a commercial flesh and most of these are way off. Try mixing burnt sienna with white. Both are available in the Model Master line.

IIRC, you said you work mostly in car models. That's a very big transition, from cars to figure, and a very difficult one. When I do a car, I go for a very uniform paint finish. When car guys do figures, they tend to take the skill of getting a very uniform color caot to the figures. Figures require much more shading and highlighting. Just about every surface is a gradient of the base color. Cars are mostly glossy, figures, flat.

Every figure I paint represents a new challenge. Even after all these years (I painted my first serious attempts in the mid 70's) I learn more with each figure and from other painters.

 

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  • From: Portland, Oregon
Posted by fantacmet on Wednesday, August 1, 2007 1:09 AM

Ok I will respond to each point.  However I don't take this harshly.  I didn't think there was piping either.  However I wasn't going for straight accuracy, I just thought it looked good.  LOL.

The eyes actually do look better in person as does the whole figure.  The camera flash makes them look too big.  They really are pretty thin.  I think the glare makes them look too big.  The lips are way too red, I plan to rectify that.  The skin tone actually looks pretty decent.  I started with a commercial flesh tone and then modified it from there.  Although it does need to be lightened.

There is quite a bit of highlighting and shading on this figure, but the camera seems to obscure it.  The camera was recently played with by someone and all settings were messed up and I had to reset it back to factory settings, and I haven't yet had time to balance out anything.  Took me about 3 horus last time to get it perfect.

As I said I agree with the lips part.  Usually I see people leave the lips the same color as everything else and just shade them a big between the lips.  Was thinking of going over it with thin coats of the flesh color to tone it down.

I think the best part of this figure is the shirt and collar area.  I'm really happy with that part.  The coat I am satisfied how it turned out, even if the camera doesn't show it.  The face turned out better then others I have attempted, but still not happy with it.  After I do some more work on it, I was planning on giving it a coat of flat.  Although the coat is pretty flat as is.

 Cars is what I am used to, but have recently began working on armor models.  Have done ok.

Michael

    

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Posted by Model Maniac on Wednesday, August 1, 2007 7:46 AM

That's a good start, fantacmet! 

If you want to try painting more figures, I'd suggest you try Dragon's figures instead. I've never seen a good looking figures from Italeri, whatever scale.

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Posted by Phil_H on Wednesday, August 1, 2007 8:12 AM
 fantacmet wrote:

There is quite a bit of highlighting and shading on this figure, but the camera seems to obscure it.  The camera was recently played with by someone and all settings were messed up and I had to reset it back to factory settings, and I haven't yet had time to balance out anything.  Took me about 3 horus last time to get it perfect.

If you're going to get that close when you take your photos. don't use the on-camera flash. A typical flash on a "compact" type digicam has a minimum recommended distance of about 1 metre. When used at macro distances (typically less than 30cm) it will "burn out" the highlights and tend to "flatten" shading and subtle variations. Better to take the pics outdoors under diffuse natural light (not direct sunlight).

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  • From: Portland, Oregon
Posted by fantacmet on Thursday, August 2, 2007 4:48 AM

Outdoors do make better photo's but it was night time.  I did diffues the flash a bit, but not enough.  I usually keep a home made light diffuser taped onto the camera, but I took it off when I loaned it to my Grandmother and her husband for their vacation, like I do every year.  I got the camera for free.  I'm thinking of buying a DSLR with interchangeable lenses when I get the money so I can still use the lenses from my film camera.  Shouldn't be too hard to get a DSLR that my lenses will fit.  Up until recently it was one of three camera's(three names, Canon, Yashica, and Nikon(yes Yashica had a good camera, but just one), but it was the same body.  Only difference was the name and paint) that a Carl Zeis lens would fit.  So shouldn't be too hard, it's pretty standard.  That should help alot with my photo's.

Michael

*EDIT*

Reminds me, about the Dragon figures.  I'm doing the Kursk Build, and I have a good Dragon Halftrack the 3 in one kit, which is supposed to have some great figs in it.  Too bad the Marder I'm building for Kursk doesn't have any figs.  If there is enough I may use a Dragon fig or two for my Marder.  If not I've been thinking of buying some Dragon figs for it.

 

    

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