Dear friends,

Some shots of the Red Army figures I have been working on for my SU-100. to date I think they are the best I’ve managed using Acrylics. The first figure is from Alpha Image with a Hornet head added. I also bulked out his sharovarii trousers with miliput adding to the breecher look of them. Looking again at the pictures I could tinker a litter more but guaranteed I would ruin it







Next we have Mig’s lovely T-34 crew man straight from the box, I wanted him to look a bit ill as thought he is suffering from mild dysentery which was quite common in the GPW, hence the greyish flesh tone.



Finally a work in progress, the commander’s campaign wife, She is a Verlinden figure from the East meets West set. Her right arm and shoulders are sculpted from Games Work Shop putty and I gave her the rank of Junior Sergeant after painting feel need to practice on getting a better finish on my sculpting since her Gymnastiorka looks a bit moth eaten. Her head is a Hornet offering thanks again Roger I sculpted the hair and the beret with Games Work Shop putty again pleased with the result, will be high-lighting the hair at some point soon.








Thanks for taking the time to look. I would be grateful for any comments and advice

Best wishes,

Jerry

Hi Jerry,

The figures are looking great, love the faces, much better that I can do. The ashen faced chap looks grand, they will look great with your vehicle.

Thanks for sharing, any tips on the face painting would be much appreciated.

Cheers


Al

Al,
Thanks for kind words , I painted the faces in oils on an acrylic base. I follow a method know has the Bannerman Way after Mark Bannerman you can see the more details by following the links below:

http://www.missing-lynx.com/articles/figures/mbface/mbface.htm

http://www.missing-lynx.com/articles/figures/mbpart2/mbpart2.htm

Regards

Jerry

Funny, but have you noticed that the fellow with the goatee looks like Koulikov, Ron Perlmans character in "Enemy at the gates"?

Hi Steve,

I never noticed that until you pointed it out , Ron Perilman is one of my favorite actors , it must have been my subconscious as apposed to pure luck !!

Thanks for your comments

Jerry

They look very good. I am looking forward to see them next to/ on to the SU-100.

so do I mate , don't hold your breath

Jerry

Hi Jerry,

Apologies for the delay in replying. Thanks for those links.

Cheers

Al

Jerry,
what colors/paints did you use to paint the Koulikov looking fellow?

Hi Steve,

I used Vallejo acrylics for the uniform. Basically

I undercoated him by spaying him NATO black (Tamiya)

Then Mixed the acrylic Khaki to the consistency of thinned cream and coated (the method I read by Calvin Tan suggests to the consistency of milk) and coated the then I gradually lightened the mix with sand and pale sand for the highlights and darkened the folds by adding Russian Uniform and a brown colour (can’t remember which) once dry did several pin-washes with black and browns to give a depth and contrast. Finally did a wash of Russian uniform and British Uniform Mixed with water at about 1:15 ratio to tone down the whole jacket and make it appear grubby.

The sharovari where painted with a mix of Russian uniform and British Uniform Mix and highlighted in the same way by lightening and darkening the colour to represent folds and finishing them off with a wash as mentioned before.

For more details of this technique see Calvin Tan‘s Book, Painting SS uniforms by Osprey, since that is what I based the technique on
Hope this helps

Jerry