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~ Russian Tankers ~ 1/35th~ S.B.S. ~ 5 Figures ~ FINISHED ~
Posted by *INDY on Tuesday, October 26, 2010 4:22 AM

 

Gentlemen~

I''m presenting this as more of a background W.I.P. than my usual SBS blog. I''m going to need some number of carefully selected figures for the Russian Railside Re-supply Scene I''m working on--for which I''m already  working on the ongoing Railcar Projects in 1/35th.
 
The 1st two figures up are two of my very favorite I''ve found in 1/35th and are both Made in U.S.A. under the Platoon namebrand, now OOP but still findable (at anywhere from $3.99- to$23.99 !). Both of these are sculpts by  the fantastic Kwangyeol Lee.
 


 

Just superb stuff-really easy to clean-up.

 
No need for a replacement head here!
 
 

 

 Much better look at the details with Tamiya Super-Fine White Primer applied. They have a few light coats of acylic-flesh-base airbrushed on also.   (heads -not fully seated as kept seperate for now)

 

I actually built-up and primered these two Russians quite a long time ago and have wanted to get to painting them.
   I won''t go into all the exact painting  details in this thread, but my approach will be very much as seen in my previous recent figure blog for the  U.S. Armoured Infantry. Basically Oils for flesh & Vallejo primarily for everything else, although I sometimes make use of Floquil & Testors enamels as well as some inks
 
 
Following the acrylic flesh base, a number of oil washes are seen in place here, very much as outlined in the recent figure thread

 
continued~~
 

 

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Posted by *INDY on Tuesday, October 26, 2010 4:32 AM

 


 Continueing using oil paints..
 

And selecting a likely enough colour-scheme for his fur-lined Ushaka, I painted this in with acylics
 

 
 
 I'm around 95% done with this head here--a few details to improve still.
 

 

More coming soon guys~~
~~and thanks for joining me.........

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Posted by SuppressionFire on Tuesday, October 26, 2010 6:14 AM

Looking good Indi!

I really like the highlights on the red star, very realistic as well the hat. Great heads up on this fantastic company producing Russian resin figures, I may have to indulge in a few myself one day.

 

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Posted by Mic on Tuesday, October 26, 2010 7:28 AM

Nice start, Indy. The Platoon figs look great so far but, yeah, it never ceases to kill me how much Platoon charges for some of their resin figures.

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Posted by *INDY on Wednesday, October 27, 2010 3:02 AM

SuppressionFire

Looking good Indy!

I really like the highlights on the red star, very realistic as well the hat. Great heads up on this fantastic company producing Russian resin figures, I may have to indulge in a few myself one day.

 

Hey thanks--I appreciate your comments.

Just a note--these figures are all out of production but many of them are findable

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Posted by *INDY on Wednesday, October 27, 2010 3:05 AM

Mic

Nice start, Indy. The Platoon figs look great so far but, yeah, it never ceases to kill me how much Platoon charges for some of their resin figures.

Thanks Steve- A pleasure to have you along.

As far as prices go for available stock of these--you gotta shop around. I got these for $3.99 a while back from Squadron! (At the same time stankrats had them at about $23!!)

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Posted by *INDY on Wednesday, October 27, 2010 3:13 AM
              ~~Here's the next fellows head   (well underway)
 


 

Again, Oil paints for the skin-
-but for this one Floquil Enamels used for his Tanker's Lid
~Vallejo used  for his hair

 
He has a major squint and is posed shielding his eyes from the sun so modelling his eyes doesn't seem to be the way to go--still i need to add eyebrows---and definately a few extreme highlights

 

His 2-day beard was painted in with the old convention of mixing Payne's grey in with the flesh-colour---I'm considering a tad more....
 

I painted in his soft helmet pretty quickly using my favorite tires colors!
 Floquil Grimy Black and Primer + White--
I want to develope the blending a little bit more still
 
You may notice the long side of the chinstrap has a break in the piping(after a resin repair) I was already painting when I had to make this repair and made no attempt to hide the break in the piping thinking a tear there wasn't entirely unlikely()
 


Thanks guys for taking a look
cheers
        
 

 

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Posted by SteveM on Wednesday, October 27, 2010 9:04 PM

Really cool, Indy. The helmet looks awesome. Skin tone seems a little on the yellowish side, but that could just be the lighting. The blending is well done. Can't wait to see him atop hisself, full figure shots!

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Posted by *INDY on Thursday, October 28, 2010 9:31 PM

Hey--Thanks Steve,    I guess I was going for tan--I just didn't want him to have the same skintone as the other guy--anyway still a WIP- I knew he needs some lights and meantime I got some tips I want to try from Allen Y a world-class-type figure guy .See ya soon.

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Posted by M1Carbine on Saturday, October 30, 2010 1:32 AM

Adam - looking sweet as always bro.  Maybe Ill get to trying faces with oils soon.......................maybe....LOL

 

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Posted by *INDY on Monday, November 1, 2010 2:52 PM

~BoB~ Hey thanks my friend--& I wish you the best with that!

 

~Work's begun to leatherize the coats~
 


Again, not a real SBS here but showing a few steps--I began with a heavy over-all wash of Vallejo 867 Dark BlueGrey  just to show-up the folds clearly & afterward painted in the darkest shadows with 950 Black with a bit of of 927 Dark Flesh
 


Not too concerned about complete coverage--you can still see the overspray areas from the flesh areas I'd airbrushed in
 
The next step was an over-all brown glaze made of  596 glaze Medium, Matt Varnish, and a few drops of what else? 871 Leather Brown
 


Here's where I stopped treating both coats the same--I actually want a darker effect to the longer coat, so here on I've concentrated efforts on the other, again using Black lightened with dark Flesh, but switching to  845 Sunny Skintone for the lighter colours.
  


I think it's started looking a little leathery on the left, no? No bright  highlights  yet, but before I'm done I'll do some burnishing to get a satin effect if posssible
 

 
I replaced the heads temporarily to have a looky

 


I did make an attempt to employ a bit more facial highlght but I don't claim them finished there.
 

Ok, a little progress, I'm liking hat used look to his coat so far, plenty more to do and his buddy gets the blacker looking model.
 
What color do you suppose the jacket is on the fellow below?
 

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Posted by SteveM on Monday, November 1, 2010 7:20 PM

Hi Indy- no idea about the colors within the B&W, but your coats sure are lookin' nice.

Steve M.

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Posted by deafpanzer on Monday, November 1, 2010 8:59 PM

Gosh, I Heart your posts... keeping them coming! Yes Never thought about applying darker paints before the lighter thinned coat of paint for the uniforms.  I did the opposite... base coat first then darker and lighter washes.  Gonna give it a shot next time...

Andy

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Posted by *INDY on Thursday, November 4, 2010 2:46 AM

~Steve~ Hey thanks Bro--I believe that coat is a soft dark brown hide--possibly dyed black when new--now worn to mostly brown leather.

This jacket was repro'd to look about like that :

~Andy~ hey Buddy--thanks---The idea was to lay in some basic contrast-then kind of dye the whole thing just to get the different look from fabrics--tinting the shadow along with the areas really taking the color.

~~~Update Incoming~~~                      (maybe tommarrow--this site is crawling slow at the mo)

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Posted by jetmodeler on Thursday, November 4, 2010 6:21 AM

Indy, they are both looking great so far.Yes Keep to updates coming.Toast

 

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Posted by *INDY on Thursday, November 4, 2010 7:14 PM

jetmodeler

Indy, they are both looking great so far.Yes Keep to updates coming.Toast

~Jet~ Hey Buddy~~Thanks~~How are ya?

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Posted by *INDY on Thursday, November 4, 2010 7:22 PM
Hi Guys~  I kept going with the 2nd jacket, alot like the 1st but a little darker:
 


Then I added two darker (near)-blacks to my pallete (same as listed above)
 


And later added a little  003 Glossy  White for some highights
 


The fur collar and gunbelt are just blocked-in with some Black
 
 


 

 


Nearly there I guess. Certainly takes a good deal of painting to get anywhere with leathers!
  


I'd like it to have that satin sheen--I'll need to add that  later.
 

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Posted by *INDY on Saturday, November 6, 2010 8:22 PM

A bit of progress


Most of it to the fur collar and belts adorning this guy. I found that the best approach to a multi-colour fur like this isn't quite straightforward, but to have it be a bit jagged & broken when over-lapping the colours.
 


Vallejo colours used for the fur we're 872 Chocolate,913 Yellow Ocre, & 860 Med. Flesh.919 Foundation White over 950 Black. Before startinig on the fur collar, I sprayed the coat with  Krylon #1311 Matt Fixitive--which was less matt than the Vallejo finish and gave me a semi-satin glare to the leather, before going on to add the fur & the rest.
 


The other chap got a his shirt blocked-in  but I haven't gone back to detail the collar-tabs as of yet.
 


His trousers got based painted in 867  Dark Bluegrey (a favorite Panzer grey) and the other trouser was a mix of 880 Khaki & 914 green Ochre
 

 


The belts and harness on both figures we're based in near-black and painted with a rusty-orange glaze, a 822 Ger. Blk Brown wash and highlights made adding some  976 Buff to the glaze
Metallics we're added with  the 'ole Citadel Boltgun Metal .Wink
 


The boots have so far just been base-painted with one of the darker greys from the leathers pallete.
 
 
Back with more..............

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Posted by SteveM on Sunday, November 7, 2010 1:21 AM

Looks really great Indy. Nice jackets. What's the dio idea behind this, or did I miss the story somewhere?

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Posted by deafpanzer on Sunday, November 7, 2010 7:50 AM

Jeez, you have made those Russkies look real good... I thought they all were ugly! Huh?  Outstanding work on highlighting tones on the leather jackets. Yes

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Posted by *INDY on Sunday, November 7, 2010 5:21 PM

SteveM

Looks really great Indy. Nice jackets. What's the dio idea behind this, or did I miss the story somewhere?

Steve~ Many thanks-- No--you didn't miss anything--I hadn't really gone into anything about the Dio here. For a long time 've had in mind to build a Russian Re-Supply Scene . Basically  a couple tank commanders are having a chat standing in front of thier T-70's loaded onto a railcar, some crewmen off-load  a few supplies to a standing truck.   I'm doing a test build currently of a brand new 20ton Russian Open Railcar and the WIP is at MIG Forum The kit-maker is my friend Libor--there's a News Blip  at Armorama about the upcoming company LZ Models with a link to his site. I have several more test-builds scheduled around more of his kits for the openning so that takes priority over the Dio building but likely a number of these builds will contribute to the scene.

~Andy~ Thanks (I guess) I'm not entirely sure what you mean Buddy

 

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Posted by *INDY on Sunday, November 7, 2010 6:06 PM

~Ok... trousers & boots completed~


 
 

 


 

 


 

 


 

Boots painted entirely with 950 Black & 845 Sunny Skintone--but in totally different layers than the coats. Trousers painted in a consistant manner.
 


 

 


This chap had some challenging piping on his collar-tabs in red & yellow, but it barely shows up in the scale(Though I did get in there with the 0000!Sad)
 

 


This is likely "IT" for these two--I'll have another look tommarrow in the light of day, but I  think it's gone pretty well at least......still, I'll paint these same two again some day!
 
 
Thanks for joining me Gents &

 

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Posted by *INDY on Wednesday, November 24, 2010 7:55 AM

More to come........

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Posted by Pawel on Wednesday, November 24, 2010 8:25 AM

Hello Adam!

Sorry to be so late for this one - your painting is great, as always! From what I understand Andy meant the commies are bad guys, so they also should be ugly, but after your painting they look good! Dang, that cold war propaganda!

Rail transport - that seems to be interesting! Here in Poland it is still practiced a lot. All Warsaw Pact countries were good at rail transport operations.

It's worth to read any book by Viktor Suvorov, it gives you a good feel about the soviet army. If you didn't already, I recommend it. Good luck with your project, have a nice day

Paweł

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Posted by berny13 on Wednesday, November 24, 2010 8:29 AM

Very nice work.  The figures are just outstanding.  You have great talent in all of your figure painting.

Berny

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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, November 24, 2010 8:33 AM

Very nice work...leather treatment is really nice...some 5 star 35th scale figgies here... 

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Posted by bbrowniii on Wednesday, November 24, 2010 8:42 AM

Masterfully done, Indy.  Another one of your great WIPs!

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Posted by jetmodeler on Wednesday, November 24, 2010 11:49 AM

Excellent job Adam. They both look amazing.Bow Down

 

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Posted by Bodge on Wednesday, November 24, 2010 1:12 PM

Really nice work on these Adam, i think you have pulled it off a treat. Leatherwork is fab.YesStick out tongue

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Posted by *INDY on Friday, November 26, 2010 1:10 PM

Heyya guys--great to see ya---

~Pawel~ Thanks to you and yes we do find much more of interest in the regions of Eastern Europe concerning rolling stock than likely anyplace---and very little to find in kit form! This LZ Models means to fix some of that.   Thanks for the recommendation on the bookYes

~Berny~Thanks so much man

~Manny~Much appreciated--your assessment Herr Feldmarshel

~Boydd~Hey Buddy--Thanks! What's news?

~Jet~You too Bud- I appreciate the post

~Bodge~Thank you my friend--(how's the boy?)

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