Julien-- many thanks, I find these tutorials one of the many benefits one can derive from this fine site.
Appreciate your efforts
DJ

Thanks Julian. I'll be doing my first figures as part of an LCM-3 landing craft build. Painting those sailors and army medics had me very worried, but I found your tutorial and the pics very very helpful. Gives me some courage to proceed.

EJ

Hello,

Eugene and DJ, thanks a lot for your kind words, really appreciated. Don't worry, I would scared to build anything armored
And anyway if you don't feel the courage to paint your little grey army, I can still do it for you

Best,
Julien

Merci Julien!.

I will try!

Regards, from the south

Alvaro

Hello Gentlemen,

Alvaro, thanks for your post. Good luck with your fig.
It's time to say goodbye I think. I've finished this little Soviet scout and I'm quite happy with the result. I think the perspective of this tuto gave me motivation to paint him.

The idea for the final step is to apply the same process to the brown spots than to the green overall. Except that the light must be applied only on the edge of the folds. For the hollows, I used black color given the initial brown is pretty dark. For the light I mixed the in initial brown with some flesh color.

I'll have to find time to make a base. I have in mind to use the Greman officer within this Zveza set :

But I'll have to hencance him by making some modifications (head, medals, scratches etc). But time is becoming a more and more precious thing..

I hope you found this thread interesting as somehow instructing.

And now the pics

A real beauty!! Well done and thanks for the tut!!!

Cheers

Romain

Nice tutorial. I surely learned a few things from it. I like the end result as your scout is not overly "contrasted" with the shadows and highlights being just right.
I am seeing a kind of "cartoon" look becoming popular with figs and I am guilty of it as well.
J

Thanks for the methods. I just got some figures for my LCM-3 and some heads with sailor "white hats". Gonna give it a go.

EJ

Thanks guys for your comments, I really appreciate them.
Jerry, what do you mean by cartoon look ?
all the best,
Julien

First of all Julian,let me make it clear I did not mean that YOUR figure had the cartoon look. Your fig does NOT have the cartoon look.
By cartoon I mean the colors have been contrasted way too much,including the skin areas. The only way these figures look good when painted like that is when you look at them from about 5 feet distance. Get my meaning?
I like your painting here because that didn't happen so when you get close up like your pictures the effect still looks good.
J

excellent SBS Julien. Thanks

Hello Engin, thanks for your comment.
Jerry, I understand what you are saying. I attended this week end a scale model competition near Paris. The level was very high, some mind blowing pieces. But some of them were as you say over exegerated in the treatment of light and shadows. This is pretty true for the historic model painted in oil in the old way. Whereas I could understand that for 28 mm figures (very common in Fantasy) you need to over exagarate the contrasts.

Personaly I'm satisfied when the blending between the different tones is as smooth as possible. That's what I tried to show in my tuto.

Jerry I must say in return that your work is quite inspiring, specially uour transformation that gives life to your figures. The two GIs under MG42 fire blown me away ! I'm eager to see some progress on your night attack dio !

All the best,
Julien

Thanks Julian,

I appreciate the kind words and you reminded me of something.
There were in-progress pics I took of those figs that I never posted. Thanks!! I posted them now.
Do you plan a dio or vignette for this soviet scout? Will he invade Ukraine?
J