I was curious as to b/w versus washed out color.

Looks great.

Marc - that is awesome!  Your foray into the b/w genre was very successful.

regards,

Jack

Wow Marc that is absolutely fantastic!!! I love the 'Living Black and White'.

Only bad thing I can say is now I MUST BUY THIS KIT to add to my burgeoning hoard!!!

Finally!  The site is back up so I can join the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen that have completed their builds for yet another fine FSM GB.

I give you...

THE CREATURE from the BLACK LAGOON.  In 1/8 scale from Moebius, in "Living Black & White"

Tim Kidwell

As I was eating lunch, I decided to see what Wikipedia had to say about Belit. Of course, it has a description of her as written by Howard:

"She turned toward Conan, her bosom heaving, her eyes flashing. Fierce fingers of wonder caught at his heart. She was slender, yet formed like a goddess: at once lithe and voluptuous. Her only garment was a broad silken girdle. Her white ivory limbs and the ivory globes of her breasts drove a beat of fierce passion through the Cimmerian's pulse, even in the panting fury of battle. Her rich black hair, black as a Stygian night, fell in rippling burnished clusters down her supple back. Her dark eyes burned on the Cimmerian."

Now doubt about the color of her skin and hair.

Cute, but I think I'll still go with the 'incomparable'  Dejah Thoris 

Tim they have matching outfits, money may have been tight. One animal, ten outfits???

Cue Basil Poldouris' "Wifeing" track... ;-)

She was a Shemite, so an ancestor of Abraham. And Shem is her ancestor.

According to the latest from Hollywood, Shem's mother Naameh looked like Jennifer Connelly, who frankly fits Howard's description pretty well except for having blue eyes.

I always thought of Belit as looking Hebrew. And under the circumstances of your scene, its probably she was a little green...

As I was eating lunch, I decided to see what Wikipedia had to say about Belit. Of course, it has a description of her as written by Howard:

"She turned toward Conan, her bosom heaving, her eyes flashing. Fierce fingers of wonder caught at his heart. She was slender, yet formed like a goddess: at once lithe and voluptuous. Her only garment was a broad silken girdle. Her white ivory limbs and the ivory globes of her breasts drove a beat of fierce passion through the Cimmerian's pulse, even in the panting fury of battle. Her rich black hair, black as a Stygian night, fell in rippling burnished clusters down her supple back. Her dark eyes burned on the Cimmerian."

Now doubt about the color of her skin and hair.

Tim

Great work on Conan, like Bish i agree about that much flesh on show! A very brave build

Phil

Yes, this is some serious eye candy here guys. But like Bish I have enough challenges just trying to paint a face in 1/35 as well. This is way outside my comfort zone. And the only thing thing I have remotely close for a kit is a Rodan.

That's looking really nice Tim, I am amazed at what you and jack are able to do with so much flesh. I get the shivers when ever I have to paint a 35th face and hands.

Conan's legs are finished.

OK, so despite my shaky iPad shot here, you can see the difference between Conan's upper body and his legs. I cooled off the base flesh tone with green and used that as the base tone beneath the Belit's body, where Conan's legs would be in deepest shadow. Then, I warmed up and brightened to give just a hint of light and something for the viewer's eyes to look at. 

Here's a closer look ...

I used the same principle on the back of Conan's legs. However, the shadow aren't nearly as deep because he doesn't isn't shielded by Belit. So, the base color here is just a tad darker than the highest highlight on the front of Conan's legs.

Here's the demarcation line between the shadow front and rear shadows. Remember the black and gray primer? Those helped me determine where this line would be. I softened it up and I think it's turned out all right.

I flat coated Conan to protect him from the masking I'll have to do before starting on Belit. I also blocked in his hair with a mix of Vallejo dark blue gray, medium blue, red, and black. I'm glad I laid that flat coat down because I put a swath of black across his chest and had to scrub it up with water and a cotton swab. How's that for thinking?

Tim: Looks great, love the face! I didn't do much with Picard's veins but he somewhat lacks the buffness of Conan... 

Hey SP, thanks. You should have joined us, lots of fun and I've learned a lot here. 

stikpusher

After a shameless self plug for Nemo on another thread, I was invited to come take a look... fantastic stuff guys! Capt Picard, Lord Vader, Conan, The Creature.... such a feast here!

Hi Stik! Thanks for stopping by and the compliments. Keep watching. We're coming into the final stretch.

A couple of hours in the workshop and we've got Conan's torso!

Before airbrushing flesh tones, I picked out Conan's prodigiously bulging blood pipes with a little bit of green. I'm probably going to go back with a very light mix of flesh highlight and green to make them pop just a little more.  I hope the effect isn't too subtle.

 Off his left shoulder.

Right shoulder.

And his back.

Up next, the legs! Then Belit.

GMorrison

So Nemo finally got his boots on, although they need buckles for the straps.

After a shameless self plug for Nemo on another thread, I was invited to come take a look... fantastic stuff guys! Capt Picard, Lord Vader, Conan, The Creature.... such a feast here!

Marc - yes, that looks really good.

So that is just lamp black lightened with white to arrive at some greys?

I like the overall hue, slightly warm blue to it.

regards,

Jack

Great work there Marc, another great build for this GB.

Good luck Tim.

Marc: Cool, the detail really pops and he's a dead ringer for how the movie suit looked! Super job there.

Tim: Good luck sir!

All right, I'm heading into the workshop. Wish me luck!

Thanks guy, appreciate the comments.

I think I actually have a shot at getting this in under the deadline. the gray gill guy is done, basically. After all the pastes and highlights I didn’t think I was going tot the black pin washes here and there but think I will.  Got the girl primed and will start on her shading tonight.

Tim, thanks! I went back and did the pupils but then the weather turned awful and I can't get any good lighting now so I'll try to get some face close-ups done when it clears off.

The full body shot you used is great, personally I can't see the missing pupils except in the close-up.

Additional announcement: Bish's Darth Vader and Gamera's Jean Luc Picard now appear in the Hall of Fame.

Thanks everyone! I'm glad Conan's teeth turned out as well as they did. I hoped to have more pics for you guys Friday afternoon, but my flesh-tone mix was off and my airbrushing session turned into something less than enjoyable. So, I took the weekend to reflect and breathe, and I'll make a new push starting tomorrow. Aaron and I are shooting the next NPRD this afternoon, so no painting today.

Marc - The gill-man is coming along nicely.

GMorrison - I'm think it's down to you and Shiv for the next guy across the finish line. I can't wait to see the underwater rifle.

Shiv - Glad to hear that you've been able to overcome your web challenge. Go-go Black Spidey!

Gamera

Although without Julie in place it looks to me like he just painted his nails (claws?) and is blowing on them to get them to dry faster. 

(As the young folks would say...LMAO!!!)

Truly excellent work on the highlighting and shadowing there, Marc! You can see every scale and fishy sinew in HI-DEF.

Marc that looks great, you've really got those scales popping out in all their glorious detail.

Although without Julie in place it looks to me like he just painted his nails (claws?) and is blowing on them to get them to dry faster. 

Thanks shiv.  Yup, so far just some progressively lighter dry brushing. I need to let it dry a bit more before I put a gloss coat so I can do some black pin washes the get back some of the contrast. I think at that point I will be getting close to the "that's enough point.

Bish, thanks my friend.

Shiv, thank you.

Marc, that's looking really nice, looking forward to more.

Bish - great job on the Sith Lord. The gloss and flat colours really worked well together. Excellent job my friend.

Tim -by Krom but Conan is looking good. Every dentist around would be jealous of those teeth. Nicely done.

Wing-Nut -the creature is coming along nicely. Did you drybrush the scales on his arms, legs, and chest?