~ Russian Tankers ~ 1/35th~ S.B.S. ~ 5 Figures ~ FINISHED ~

SteveM

Member since
June 2006
From: AusTx, Live Music Capitol of the World

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!

Steve M.

On the workbench: ginormous Kharkov dio

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*INDY

Member since
April 2008
From: Ventura (at the beach) in California

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

"Well...you gunna pull them pistols, or just whistle Dixie?"

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*INDY

Member since
April 2008
From: Ventura (at the beach) in California

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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*INDY

Member since
April 2008
From: Ventura (at the beach) in California

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

"Well...you gunna pull them pistols, or just whistle Dixie?"

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Mic

Member since
June 2009
From: AusTx, Live Music Capitol of the World

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.

Steve M.

On the workbench: every tool, paint, brush, glue I own

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SuppressionFire

Member since
September 2007
From: Truro Nova Scotia, Canada

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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*INDY

Member since
April 2008
From: Ventura (at the beach) in California

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.........

"Well...you gunna pull them pistols, or just whistle Dixie?"

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*INDY

Member since
April 2008
From: Ventura (at the beach) in California

~ 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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