My only two figures done in 2009
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I'd be happy with two, if they looked like these.
Carl.
Carl.
gothicgeek
A Fixture
Yeah they are both really nice pieces!
Mark
Mark
megroot
A Fixture
Excellent work.
Marc
Marc
davidmitchell
A Fixture
Great painting of the camo on both figures, like the smoke effect.
Cheers David
Cheers David
Guy
A Fixture
Excellent camo painting Denes.
M
Mark S
Guest
Great couple of figures,Denes.
Beautiful painting,well done.
Two up on what I actually completed last year.
Beautiful painting,well done.
Two up on what I actually completed last year.
dinovision79
Active Member
Thanks for your comments guys, glad you like 'em.
Carl, the thing I feel bad about is that 90% they were done in 2008... Hardly had a brush in my hand last year.
Mark, that's a pity, on the other hand comforting to know I'm not the only one
Cheers
Denes
Carl, the thing I feel bad about is that 90% they were done in 2008... Hardly had a brush in my hand last year.
Mark, that's a pity, on the other hand comforting to know I'm not the only one
Cheers
Denes
kansas kid
Well-Known Member
Hopefully, the time will come. . .
Hello Denes:
As I've grown older and retired from the newspaper biz, I've come to
agree that it is the quality and not the quantity that matters. And these
two pieces are definitely quality work that you can be proud of. So much
skilled and subtle painting on these two presentations.
Hopefully, with good luck and a healthy life style the period when you are
retired will come along. And it won't take as long for those years to roll by,
as you might think. Then you'll have the time to really enjoy the hobby, and
you'll be able to fill your time with fun like this, and not be sitting around
bored to tears, because you didn't take the time to get interested in
something besides work, during your working life.
Well done,
Jaybird
Hello Denes:
As I've grown older and retired from the newspaper biz, I've come to
agree that it is the quality and not the quantity that matters. And these
two pieces are definitely quality work that you can be proud of. So much
skilled and subtle painting on these two presentations.
Hopefully, with good luck and a healthy life style the period when you are
retired will come along. And it won't take as long for those years to roll by,
as you might think. Then you'll have the time to really enjoy the hobby, and
you'll be able to fill your time with fun like this, and not be sitting around
bored to tears, because you didn't take the time to get interested in
something besides work, during your working life.
Well done,
Jaybird
I have seen both in person and they are absolutely fantastic. The camo work on Jeff Shiu figure is perfect and the texture effect is well balanced. BTW, the figure won gold in Moson show... well deserved IMO.
Great stuff Denes! Now, back to the brushes and don't waste your talent any more...
Mario
Great stuff Denes! Now, back to the brushes and don't waste your talent any more...
Mario
dinovision79
Active Member
Rick, Mario, Ken, thank you for the kind words! These two were experimental, on the Alpine figure I tried the Blurred edge pattern, which was quite difficult, also due to the small scale, but the textures went easier than expected.
Rick, I hope this year will be better already!
Cheers
Denes
Rick, I hope this year will be better already!
Cheers
Denes
Ferris
A Fixture
Dénes,
Very nice figures indeed. I think I did the grand total of one figure last year, so actually I find two not so bad.... ;-)
I find the burn marks very well done and original. I think it is difficult to make it look realistic and you've got it spot on!
Can you explain how you get the cloth effect? It looks like many faint lines painted over the camo pattern. Do you do this before or after shading? It looks really good and I would like to give it a try some time.
Again, great work!
Cheers,
Adrian
Very nice figures indeed. I think I did the grand total of one figure last year, so actually I find two not so bad.... ;-)
I find the burn marks very well done and original. I think it is difficult to make it look realistic and you've got it spot on!
Can you explain how you get the cloth effect? It looks like many faint lines painted over the camo pattern. Do you do this before or after shading? It looks really good and I would like to give it a try some time.
Again, great work!
Cheers,
Adrian
captnenglish
Well-Known Member
What Carl said
dinovision79
Active Member
Marcel, Adrian, Rob, Matthew, many thanks for the thums up!
Adrian,
yes, they are simply faint lines, I use acrylics, the key is thinning (depends on what colour you use and how visible you want the effect to be), colour can be anything that goes with the basecolours, as it shows through. I did it after shading, though I adjusted the shadows with a thin dark wash, and the midtones with an even thinner, so the original texture is left only on highlights, it also helps the shading of difficult camos - the light texture colour picks up the wash more, the base colours less, not alterning them much. With a thin repaint of the base colours you can tone down the texture if it went wrong.
Used light greenish grey on the Alpine (hence more visible in photo lighting), in grid pattern.
Straight lines of sunny skintone on the Jeff Shiu's at an angle trying to represent HTB material, but due to the scale went over the highlights with a lighter colour and did the deep shadow texture only with black, also, to control contrast, did the lightest pattern colour's texture separately, would have been too strong on the rest.
As a possibilty, the texture could be done before shading, then do the shading with lightened / darkened base colours, thinning adjusted to let the texture show trough.
There are many ways to textures, hope it helps and is understandable Looking forward to see your version!
Denes
Adrian,
yes, they are simply faint lines, I use acrylics, the key is thinning (depends on what colour you use and how visible you want the effect to be), colour can be anything that goes with the basecolours, as it shows through. I did it after shading, though I adjusted the shadows with a thin dark wash, and the midtones with an even thinner, so the original texture is left only on highlights, it also helps the shading of difficult camos - the light texture colour picks up the wash more, the base colours less, not alterning them much. With a thin repaint of the base colours you can tone down the texture if it went wrong.
Used light greenish grey on the Alpine (hence more visible in photo lighting), in grid pattern.
Straight lines of sunny skintone on the Jeff Shiu's at an angle trying to represent HTB material, but due to the scale went over the highlights with a lighter colour and did the deep shadow texture only with black, also, to control contrast, did the lightest pattern colour's texture separately, would have been too strong on the rest.
As a possibilty, the texture could be done before shading, then do the shading with lightened / darkened base colours, thinning adjusted to let the texture show trough.
There are many ways to textures, hope it helps and is understandable
Looking forward to see your version!Denes
grenadier
Member
Thats two more than me too.
Got to compleat a figure....before I die at this rate!
You are very good at painting SS camo, Denes.
Got to compleat a figure....before I die at this rate!
You are very good at painting SS camo, Denes.
Ferris
A Fixture
Thanks Denes for the elaborate explanation!
I'll give it a go some time and will show the result.
For now, first I have to finish my own tankers, one in pea dot, one in plain black.
Boy is finishing hard... So tempting to start something else!
Cheers, Adrian
I'll give it a go some time and will show the result.
For now, first I have to finish my own tankers, one in pea dot, one in plain black.
Boy is finishing hard... So tempting to start something else!
Cheers, Adrian
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