Hi Jean Bernard,
You are working so fast i can't even follow this thread.

Your glamour photos are great. You are right, the first one is a bit overlit on some areas, the white of the chimney especially. The second one is really good.
Are you going to build a glass case to protect it from dust?

Good luck on the sculpt, you will need it.
Haha, seriously, i am sure you will do the sculpt to the standard of the dio, excellent!

Speaking of one of your favorites, Marijn Van Gils, this BOS at Euro is really great stuff, the idea and execution itself already, but all that in 54mm !, ................boah!!

Cheers
Claude

And the figure now, look good JEan
Keep the good work
Cheers
seb

The sculpt is coming along nicely and quite quickly too.
A bit rough, but only after an hour its nice.

Thanks my friends for all the comments!

Thomo, the reason why this head is already painted while the rest was not even build is that i did some Lifecolor painting set review -using this head for example

Claude, the glass case is already built. in fact, but that's more a dust protecting item than something that makes a diorama part -contrary to a wooden base. So i won't be taking any picure of the very dubious looking glass case (I still have plenty of glue stains to remove with Acetone )
Ah well, that Van Gils BOS leaves me a bit.. well, that particular work of his I had seen on Internet for ages it seems, looks a bit like Magritte but well.. I am absolutely not sensible to that particular piece, I really prefer his officer vs Hippo or African American vs snake figs. it looks kitsch compared to last years' Storm Child by the late and regretted Roy Hunt. But then Van Gils really deserved a BOS for years so i am very glad he finally got what he deserves!
uh, i am still ages away from Van Gils when it comes to fig sculpting and painting, but i am slooowly getting decent years after years..

Yep Jan, i didn't realized before reading you that in fact the mast really begun to tie with the rest only when i would have had those wires. those are the kind of details I add just for the sake of balance. There 's a big side part of the mast missing (probably taken away by wind eh..), the searchlight is missing and the mast should also have been in a more vertical position maybe 1 meter behind its actual position, this a trick of the sea! Dreamlike quality, yes this is 100%µ the point of all my diorama work. A Dutch colleague on another forum told the guy was the Flying Dutchman, he is

Thanks Steve as usual, For my next project I have *3* child to sculpt.. I should really have resume the painful process of 100% fig sculpting right now, but I got lazy..
Polyclay I didn't used, but thanks for the tip I will try. I still use magic Sculp and some Duro too. classic and efficient stuff. The thing with polyclay seems indeed the baking. I did some diorama years ago that istill have to take pictures of with some Egyptian columns that were done of unbaked clay. I break those whenever i change the diorama of place!

Seb and Scott right we are, here is a bit more of rough sculpting!
just the front and the sides of the sailors ragged uniform for the moment. I will start the sanding/ trimming process this evening. There's nothing on the collar for the moment, because those are quite big indeed and I will have to do some extra layers on those specific points



err,, really, sanding is needed But i think the main wrinkles are okay? eh?

Jba, I've been watching your builds for some time and must say that yours is the probably the most realistic water effects ever! Absolutely fantastic work! I love the depths of blues, highlights and representations ! It really looks like a little freaking ocean you have there!
This is another superb piece! Not forgetting your Sokol, Abbey, Koktebel and Tchernobyl..
Truly inspiring and I hope I can use your methods for a diorama scene I've been commission to build myself.

FANTASTIC WORK!!!

Good work so far on the figure - but I think the wrinkels should be a bit more oriented to the side where his arm is raised - they (might be the photoes) look a bit to even.

The texture could be used to look like rough cloth - so consider how much yuo will sand it.

Good and convincing pose and porprotions, and the head is superb.

Thanks Nick, with comments like yours i don't regret anymore not being a wrestling superstar Good luck for your own work, i hope I see them someday here or there!

hey Jan, i think you are damn right about the position of the wrinkles towards the semi-raised hand; this is why i have been doing the work again yesterday night, i think it looks better now. thanks for your input!

As you can see, lots of sanding will be needed! But then I know the reason: i should let the Magic sculp harden more before doing the folds, but i was in a hurry to sleep yesterday. Never mind, I will sand it this evening i suppose.

Much better - or: dead on. The jacket has a "baggy" feel, so its good its not overdone.

My kids found me rather funny posing in front of the mirror testing the wrinkes on my jacket yesterday

Looks good. The proof will be in that first layer of paint.

Wow! Great water effects and how it's tied in to the structure...Coming along extremely nicely! Thanks for the progress updates and techniques you're using, good info!

Cheers -
Tim

Thanks Thomo, a bit of sanding was nevertheless quite required

Thanks too Tim, hope to see a maritime diorama from you then

Hey Jan, that's about the only way you can find out about wrinkles. I first bought that book whose name escapes which shows the artistic and theoretical way of the wrinkles -but then I always recoup using my own self! i try to find some convenient clothes and ask my wife to take the pictures. Now my kid is too small to have yet a laugh at his father
Well, this is what i usually do, but then this time I couldn't care doing it which is probably the reason why the shoulder's wrinkles are still not that top.
But anyway, those will be partially recovered as shown here :
first the big stupid collar is done of Duro:

it's really the best stuff for this kind of extra coats of clothes..

here's now the probable place of the guy:


A cheap trick: some tape mask for the 2 white lines on the colar (yep, it seems 1870+ french sailors looked like that !


and the acrylic basecoat

Very nice - what would "ghost" be in french ?

"fantôme" eh
thanks
JB

"oh"
his position is very thought provoking. Why there? What's he looking for? Why is he 'back'?

really i don't know what to answer to your question Scott!
I think he's got very few control of his own destiny, I want him to look like he's been there for quite a while. Really, he's a kind of Flying Dutchman

Hi JB,

Looking great. Sorry, I've been away for the last week so I couldn't thank you earlier for giving feedback on my work.

The figure sculpt is looking good, I remember the face tutorial and that in itself is very helpful. Faces are still one of my weak points and with my next diorama involving about 6 people I need to start improving!

Chas

Good morning, after a timeout was absent for reasons of lack of time, it seems that now I can go back to enjoy the jobs that are here.
No doubt when it distributed the good taste and know-how, we give you play a lot.
I love these as well as enjoy doing and seeing your work and I hope that I can learn many things

Domi

hey, i didn't want too much time to spend without thanking you guys!
Chas, I didn't sculpt the head this time, I merely added some hair and beard to a close shaven Hornet head

Domi what can you learn from me ytou don't already know?
I hope you are back for good this time!

Well I am quite sorry for this, but I will let Galilée sink in the bottom of the dioramas forums 'till probably early or mid next week as i won't be able to really start the painting of the fig till this time.

In the meantime here's the Flying dutchman (man version, not the ship) halloween version as requested on a ships forum

Very mysterious...

Woooooo !!!!!! That's a really SCARY concept ! But seriously, Jean, what an AWESOME SBS for the rest of us to follow . Thanks for posting it, my friend. I'll definitely be looking forward to your next artistic creation . Cheers !
Kenneth .

REally great figure JEan
Now Is it finish now the dio ??
Cheers
Seb

those lifeless eyes... ...outstanding execution JBA. I almost get motion sickness looking at it!

jba - having no answers to my questions is perfect. My questions are those that only I can answer by seeing this diorama. The only person who would have answers is the man himself, as a viewer I get the joy of providing my own answers since he can not give them himself. Art.

... So from the depths of the forums here comes Galilée again, rising to the surface with a great splash and actually very few pictures.
So I had to put some tiles in the bathroom, that's reason why of the late, aaah, water
But it is here to stay at least a few days more until it is finished!

So thank you guys for popping out while I could basically do nothing else than watching from afar!

Kenneth thanks for your enthusiasm! galilée is not completely finished yet though
No Seb, still that fig to paint. But there will be also an article to write and great pics to take, all those things are actually part of the building process..
Mike, Motion sickness I don't know, but sea sick I hope so
Scott, actually the guys is a bit me as well so.. there will be some answers at some point

Trousers painting, according to the direction of the light and also to the fact that most of the trousers will be in the shadows. Could it be that I threw of in 5 mn the font of the trousers that won't be viewable at all? hmm..

Tonight the light blue collar.. maybe a part of the jacket too.

Going in the garden earlier today to take those shots I fell on that:

Which kinda reminded me some hints done at a fellow modeller whose name I won't cite -the fact is that when you are a youngster, you are likely to be at school and interested in the opposite sex.
The thing is, if the gals begin to know that you have such a dreadful hobby that is panzer modelling, they will think you are a freek and will run away because they will think you will come with a M16 in the schoolroom next. Such are our times.
When i was at school, *I* was seen as being a real freek despite very nice blue eyes. So i began to show ANOTHER part of my painting abilities, which was to do some miniature portraits for girls I fancied, so I was still considered as being a freek, but quite a *talented* freek.
let's be honest, now at 38, I still enjoy an immense success everytime (very rarely) when i indulge of doing such portraits again

Nice drawing, I have found that figure sculpting and drawing goes hand in hand, I cant draw people, so i suck at scuplting - guess its something about porportions and dimensions...

Repeat to yourself "tiles are fun" - and remember that tilegrout (glue) is great for building up groundworh on a diorama.

Cheers/Jan