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Progress on Flemish Mercenary..
tankysgal1
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Posted: Thursday, March 24, 2005 - 02:58 AM UTC
This is some in progress shots on a 54mm Flemish Mercenary Resin Kit by MModels. This will be my entry fot the Hastings to Bosworth Field campaign. I am painting him in Vallejo Acrylics. I still have a lot of work to do on this, but any comments and or suggestions are welcome...
Mary



rv1963
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Posted: Thursday, March 24, 2005 - 04:09 AM UTC
That looks pretty good so far Mary, will he be holding a pike or other weapon.
AndersHeintz
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Posted: Thursday, March 24, 2005 - 04:30 AM UTC
Hola Mary!

Not much to say yet as nothing really looks finished except the armor plates. Make sure you give the chain mail some dark washes, chain mail was very a very dull dark steel color. To spice it up some you can add some very gentle rust streaks in it as well.

Keep it up!
Sticky
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Posted: Thursday, March 24, 2005 - 07:24 AM UTC
Looks good so far! Does he look like he is about to do a jig to anyone else?
jackhammer81
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Posted: Friday, March 25, 2005 - 06:40 AM UTC
John I think you are right!!! Mary, I think you have done a great job to this point. I am looking forward to seeing you progress with some rust and the tunic painting. Also looking forward to seeing the base you will put him on. Keep posting progress shots Cheers Kevin
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Posted: Friday, March 25, 2005 - 12:04 PM UTC
Coming along nicely. Hard to comment as I dont know what if finished and what is in progress.
One thing stands out to me is his red lips. In pic 3 this is very apparent.
A good tip I read by Mark Bannerman for doing lips, is to add some wine colour into the face base colour and paint the bottom lip only with this. then add some white to this colour and adda little dot in the middle. Ive used this method since and it works well, giving the lips the colour they need, but never looking feminine.
Ive added a link to these articles as they are very useful IMO.
link here
Major_Goose
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Posted: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 - 04:34 PM UTC
Mary u seem to be on the good way . I think Anders advice on chain mail will improve some hte look of it. Ur metals do look good also.

Plasticbattles tip on the lips is also useful. Waiting to see more painting on the clothe so the figure will start to shape up . Keep the good work

Costas
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Posted: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 - 06:32 PM UTC
Looking good so far Mary.
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Posted: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 - 11:18 PM UTC
i liked the metal effect so much especially on the helmet..chainmail looks great too. so good to see you in figure side sister,watch this dio guy behind you well
best regards
Tarok
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Posted: Monday, June 06, 2005 - 07:47 PM UTC
Any more updates on this figgie, Mary?

How did you do your chainmail?

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