Hi,

as said before, here an example of how I would paint dirty white (figure is not ready, just a control picture to see the bad areas better - the makro is too honest...)



Painting was relatively easy - started with very light grey, painted white lights on all surfaces that are directly lighted and used light brown-grey washes for the shadow areas - "Worn Patina 1" from the range of "True Earth".
That't all...

David - as you said:patience is key when you are figure painting - and using a good brush and a 2.00 dioptres reading glasses .

Brushes from Windsor&Newton or Raphael are very good for acrylic paints, durable and with a good point, very recommended by many figure painters. Don't use synthetic brushes for acrylics - that will not work.

... and last but not least the male comrade for my little zombie schoolgirl:


Both figures from the range of Not Yet Dead Miniatures (NYD-Miniatures) and 1:35 scale.

Cheers
Thomas

Thomas,
A lively looking pair of Zombies you've got there! Nice work!

I am in need of some new brushes, so thanks for the buying tip.

—mike

David

At the same demo as I learned about the wet palette method, I learned about liner brushes, aka signwriters' brushes. They are designed to hold a good point.

When I can find where I've hidden mine, I'll put up a pic.

Regards

Rob

G'day gents

OK, I found the brushes. Left to right - 30/0 script liner (sable I think), 5/0 Taklon, 00 Taklon script, 20/0 liner, 20/0 Taklon script.

The different brush on the right is a No. 1 sable Filbert, which has a rounded off "square" point, which doesn't leave lines of built up paint at the side of each stroke.



Regards

Rob

Thanks Rob!

Hi Rob,

for what purpose you are using these script liner brushes in figure painting?

Due to the length of their hair they hold a large amount of color and so they are perfect for drawing long, unbroken lines - for free hand linings or writings. On real cars they are used for pin striping.

But I have no idea how you are using these brushes in figure-painting.

These script liner brushes will give you sharp lines, while on figures you mostly want to get soft color transition - so you are mostly working over the brushes sides to evenly spread you pigments...

You have made me curios.

Cheers
Thomas

G'day Thomas

I use the liner brushes for fine line work on the figures, particularly on the faces, and blend/soften them later.

Regards

Rob

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Outstanding! thank you for all your efforts.

EJ

Back to Moe, Larry & Curly. It's been a while since I worked on these guys due to other projects.

Not sure what happened to my original images, so I replaced them here along with today's base coat paint update.

[Edit: Repaired images]

Happy Turkey Day!

—mike

Good to see these guys back! Great start on the base coats too. The FJ's coat has the tricky square pattern, got to be careful with that. It might just be the lighting but it looks like some of the detail on that got lost in the painting, hard to tell. Just something I noticed, a thin wash should bring those details back out though. I think it might just be the lighting since the middle Russian has a similar jacket pattern, and that looks fine. Keep it up!

-Conor

Thanks Conor!

Yup ... already triple-checked ... lighting + the kit has varying degrees of sharpness (much more pronounced on the jacket top). Hopefully the wash will bring back those details. However, I'm prepared to scratch with a knife in a few places if needed.

—mike

Aha......got ya !

Hi mike ,

i'm checking in on this one too , it's always good to learn !

Kurt.

From my mistakes!

—mike

Hi all,
These guys got pushed-aside for quite some time. I recently did some more work on them and decided to finally clear them off the workbench.

Three guys walk out of a bar …




Hope you enjoy.

Cheers!🍺
—mike

Hi Mike - nice to see these guys wrapped up. Interesting contrast of the three uniforms - they look very good! I went back through the post - cool. The only comment I have is regarding the shoulder strap being worn by the guy on the far right. First, I like how you show it going under his collar. Second, the strap itself looks a bit flat or thin? Maybe it needs a buckle or something? Who knows? That said, as you are well aware, I'm not great with figures! I could just be wrong!!

Thank for showing these guys!
Nick

Hi Nick,
I agree. Looking at the photo … kind of disappointing … and there’s that huge gap at the back of his satchel I keep forgetting to fill in ... yeeeash! 😬

However, the strap you mentioned is OOB sculpted onto the figure. I didn’t do any undercutting on these … in fact the only thing extra I did was to add the rifle slings. I may fix the issues with these guys sometime down the road, but for now, Ive got other projects to catch up on.

Thanks again for looking in!

—mike

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