Hello one and all. Well, here it is, my first large scale figure model... well, that's not quite true, I've built and painted MANY 120mm figures, I've just never finished them because I wasn't happy with them for one reason or another, the same can be said for this one too, but it's at least heading to where I want to go. The figure is a John Smith figure and was painted with acrylics for the uniform and oils for the face and leather. Any comments, good, bad or otherwise are eagerly sought... I've got a growing collection of large scale WW1 figures I want to complete and I'd love to improve my painting skills to do them justice. Thanks for looking. Regards, David Scorer
A bit of shadow in the folds of the clothing might improve it, so long as you don't take it to the extreme highlight/lowlight-fest that looks OTT.
The barrel of the T-Gewehr might be darkened a bit so that less is highlighted, but that's about all I would criticise; the wood effect is very good and the frost on the ground convincing too - well done David.
Hi David, Theres not much wrong with that apart from some of the shadow area's (as pointed out by TCT). The line along the jacket to trousers and some areas low down near the figure to ground line. The colours all look spot on though and it may just be your lighting that is giving it a frosty look. Not sure there was any frost in September around Cambrai Keep up the good work and can we see some more please. Paul
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I suspect it's more lighting/camera issues. I have copies of these images since they will go on the AMMS Brisbane website. Took one of the images, rebalanced it with Gimp, tweaked the brightness/contrast a little. The difference is quite noticeable.
It's nice, but it needs shading. You can do this to the model from where you've got to, then some highlighting as you feel appropriate. The "basic colours" as I would call them (no criticism, just my own terminology) are great.
