WIP Critique Youngs Usmc Fallujah 200mm Bust

Gellso · Feb 28, 2013

Got started painting this fella.
Decided to got with coyote brown for the vest as I thought it looked cool and also there's going to be enough tears with the Marpat camo on it's own.
Just waiting on the bottle of Marpat paint to arrive.

His eyes are acrylics, his face is pre shaded with acrylics and oils applied on top. The eyes on this guy are so recessed I kept bashing my brush off the optivisor trying to see.

Still need to do his lips, tidy the eyebrows and paint the facial hair.

I like my soldiers dirty and the Marines had a hard slog in Fallujah so he'll be fairly battleworn.
I wanted to create some dirt on his face, drawn eye sockets and red rimmed tired eyes.
It's hard to make the dirt subtle and not make it look like bad painting but hopefully it's passable

See what you think, got a new camera today so blatted off some shots down the range for practice.

Cheers,
Gells

DEL · Feb 28, 2013

Tell you what Grant that's a great face......nothing more to be said

Cheers
Derek

Karlosfandango · Feb 28, 2013

Yes I'd agree, the face looks good.
Karl

housecarl · Feb 28, 2013

Cracking start Grant.
Carl.

pmfs · Feb 28, 2013

Coming along nicely Gells.
Looking photo 3, the eyes seems very realistic.

Pedro.

Grod · Feb 28, 2013

Great painting mate. What camo are you going to give his little buddy?
Gordon

Ron Tamburrini · Feb 28, 2013

Looks good Gells ,you got the right amount of smudge to the face 'rubbed in dirt"

and you got that tired look too.

Ron

Sturm Grenadier · Feb 28, 2013

Hello Gells, Nice start to your Marine, the face looks great so far, and so do the eyes. Maybe some pastels would work for your weathering? There subtle enough to not overdo your weathering process. Looking forward towards your progress on this one. Good Luck.

Regards, SG

Oldironsides · Feb 28, 2013

Great skin tones. I sympathise over the MARPAT. It is a difficult pattern. Getting the base colour right is very important. If using enamels I would go for Humbrol 121 Pale Stone. Imagine the uniform being printed by a series of horizontal lines, line by line on a computer printer.

For the digital pattern use a series of horizontal brush strokes/lines across the uniform in the different colours to build the island shapes, working from lighter to darker. This will give you the square edges you need. Only at the end add the 'dots' of colour - but again as very short horizontal strokes/lines, rather than round spots. Currently I'm working on a MULTICAM pattern and that's doing my head in!

Sturm Grenadier · Feb 28, 2013

Gells, These might help. Regards, SG

tonydawe · Feb 28, 2013

Grant,

Those eyes are spot on mate. Just enough red. He has that look of exhaustion and tension you see in the faces of men in combat.

bagelman1952 · Feb 28, 2013

Excellent start

Wings5797 · Mar 1, 2013

WOW! great work Grant. 'Nuff said Mate.
Cheers,
Keith

Gellso · Mar 1, 2013

Cheers everyone for the comments.

Thanks Oironsides, I'll try that method and see how I get on.

Hi Gordon, Today he'll mostly be wearing....Marpat.

Gells

Helm · Mar 1, 2013

Have to agree with others this bloke has the look of a man who's been doing a long and dirty job alright

Steve

Alex M. · Mar 1, 2013

Looks great, I love this face sculpt! I've never been one for it, as it scares me mostly, but if you look at the photos from OP Phantom Fury, the boys are all FILTHY...

Gellso · Mar 1, 2013

Alex M. said:
Looks great, I love this face sculpt! I've never been one for it, as it scares me mostly, but if you look at the photos from OP Phantom Fury, the boys are all FILTHY...

Thanks Alex,
Yup, they had a hard fight sure enough. I liked this pic for reference...but if you went as dirty as this I think it would just look like bad painting.

Gells

sd0324 · Mar 1, 2013

You are off to a blazing start on one of the best modern busts ever made. The eyes and all other progress is spot on....but you know you want to do the woodland camo on the IBA. You know you do.

Gellso · Mar 1, 2013

sd0324 said:
You are off to a blazing start on one of the best modern busts ever made. The eyes and all other progress is spot on....but you know you want to do the woodland camo on the IBA. You know you do.

Yup he is defo a good looking guy! Not sure about the gi joe in his backpack though. I don't know what else I could put in there.
Lol i did mate but the coyote one will show up more dirt and grime and i'm hoping make him look battleworn.
Cheers,
Gells

sd0324 · Mar 1, 2013

Gellso said:
Yup he is defo a good looking guy! Not sure about the gi joe in his backpack though. I don't know what else I could put in there.
Lol i did mate but the coyote one will show up more dirt and grime and i'm hoping make him look battleworn.
Cheers,
Gells

Gells,it is actually an R.Lee Ermey doll..(ya gotta google it),hilarious...based on an actual pic,was carried all through Fallujah. The only other option I could think of is an MRE (Meal Refusing to Exit) pouch sticking out instead of the doll.

WIP Critique Youngs Usmc Fallujah 200mm Bust

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