Hi all,
Just wanna share with you my first ever figure. It is a WOLF miniature with a replacement ULTRACAST head to make the figure appear more youthful. He is a 12th SS Hitlerjugend tank commander and is hereby called Friedrich.




Many thanks to my brother-in-law Jon Matthews (s1lv3r) for taking the pictures for me, and sparing his time.
Note the scar on his left cheek.




He was painted with Vallejo model colour, and the bottom of his trousers were weathered with Mig Productions pigments.
There are some obvious omissions ie: I have run out of red paint and cannot therefore finish the ribbon on the tunic.
Hope you enjoy my poor effort.

Looks good man!!! keep up the good work!! stug

Nice looking figure!

I particularly like the camo pants. Are they accurate? I haven't done much research on uniforms, but I think they look quite good

As accurate as my poor skills can do. lol
Not particularly as this was a quick afternoons work to see what would happen

Hola!

Nice Job!! I love the camo work, very nice! Only pointer would be that the hair looks very yellow Maybe try giving it a wash of burnt umber or Vandyke brown oil paints

That looks really good. Did you have to drill out the neck to put the other head on? Have only worked on old Tamiya figures that have the heads attached and was just wondering. Also, what color vallejo did you use for the hair and boots?

Thanks, GR8Voyager

Thanks Anders, I will add some wash to tone it down a little. Looks worse online though. Also the highlights have not come out as well.

Gr8voyager: I used red leather washed over with black. The hair is lemon yelow toned down with grey (but not enough obviously hehehe) The WOLF figure comes with separate head so no work needed there.

Thanks very much all..........I feel humbled.....

Hi Mate, If this is your first figure then you have done very well. As said before the camo pants are particularly good. I have shyed away from camo up to now but will have to try it sometime

Keep up the good work, thanks for letting us see it, and WELL DONE.

Roger

Your figure is looking good !
I like it's clothes very much ! And the face looks good too !

Excellent! Never would have guessed this was your first figure.

Maybe rub some graphite or pastel in to the belt buckle to tone it down a bit. Bit, you have done very well on the face. Congrats :-)

Well laddy

You have done a great job on your first figure. i can start talk for hours and hours about my first fig but in short words I can say: It looked crap.....
Really good first timer congrats.

The painting looks excellent for a veteran painter, let alone a first timer. The camo pattern, as others have noted, is superb! The coat has a nice leather like sheen, very good. Very nice flesh tones. To me, the head looks a little small. Maybe it's the turtle neck that gives the impression of his head being underscale.
Keep up the good work...did you say this was an afternoon's work? Holy Schmoly!

Figure looks great. My first attempt at German camo wasn't nearly as good as yours. Keep up the great work.

Thank-you very much for the comments. I read up on figure painting from the internet and just followed the articles step-by-step.
The Vallejo paints dry incredibly quickly allowing me to finish the painting in one sitting, except for the washes and weathering......
I am pleased with a first effort, but to be honest have been making models for many years so it is easier to go from one subject to another.
The hair will be toned down as will the buckle.....graphite...good idea!...done.
The trousers were copied from ones on the internet with alittle artistic license.
Thanx again guys...

looks very nice i'm really bad in figures hope I could do figures this way

Very nice for first figure, Herr Martinus Incontinentius Maximus!!!!

You should see my first figure, it can not even come close to yours!!!

Great work. I like the camo very much!

Hi Desert Fox,
great figure, where do you get the paints you mention you'd used my local hobby shop only sells Tamiya or humbrol. I've seen them mentioned on various other posted messages, can you email me to tell me or pm me. Cheers and keep up the good work, Kenny.

very good work.congrats

:-) Would never have guessed this was a first figure, camo trousers particularly well done. Excellant :-)
Mal

Dont be so hard on your self. I agree with the other guys.... the camo trousers look amazing and the leather look on the jacket is likewise, outstanding. From photographs its hard to judege faces as they always seem to have a shine (which is recommended by a lot of the better known figure painters) but as Anders said the hair does look a bit bright.
If you were a figure painter with years of experience, you would kick yourself after getting comments like this but as its your first......... take a bow!

Kind words indeed guys thanks very much. I'm humbled.
Just shows what good references can do and a little attention to detail.
I have toned down the hair now and will enter him into the WW2 figure campaign i think.