Little Caesar. 1931. Miniaturas Fortes

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fermatgom

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Dear friends,

This is my last work. The marvelous sculpture from the hands of Diego F. Fortes. Size is 75 mm. From the moment I bought it I had the idea in my mind of painting it in Black and white, just like the film.
I must say that the technique has been much more difficult than I expected. The shades of grey are not forgiving at all and achieving differences between the different parts of the figure was a challenge.
Anyway, I'm quite happy with the result but I think that my next figure will be a hussard or a landsknecht :LOL:
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A very dynamic sculpture and an excellent painting job! Congrats! (y)

May I ask what you've used to achieve such a great "black & white" result?


Cheers!

Dolf
 
Thank you my friends!
Dolf said:
A very dynamic sculpture and an excellent painting job! Congrats! (y)

May I ask what you've used to achieve such a great "black & white" result?


Cheers!

Dolf
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Dolf, I used acrylics, different shades from black to white, but always neutral tones without any other color mixed. For the suit I used the help of the airbrush to mark the shadows from the back and below. All the paints from Vallejo except for the black, which is from Scale75. I find it darker than Vallejo and totally matt.
 
Thank you my friends!
MattMcK. said:
I would love to see a tutorial on this techni
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Matt, really it is nothing different from the standard techniques with colors, just to use very different shades of grey for different parts, and many many glazes. Also helps the use of airbrush to make a very clear directional light.
 
Fernando,

"Dolf, I used acrylics, different shades from black to white, but always neutral tones without any other color mixed. For the suit I used the help of the airbrush to mark the shadows from the back and below. All the paints from Vallejo except for the black, which is from Scale75. I find it darker than Vallejo and totally matt."

Guess you probably know a bust (actually a two busts set) from Scale75, Laurel & Hardy. It's one of those on my wishing list. All pics I've seen so far (including the original ones on the Scale75 website: https://scale75.com/en/busts-to-scale/87-laurel-and-hardy.html ) are painted in B&W, as they were shown in the movies during that time period.

Now, my "problem" is that apart from Mr Hobby Mr Primer Surfacer 1000 (which I've been using to prime my figures and busts), I don't use acrylics, only enamels (for the base coats after the primer) and then oils.

Do you think it will be possible to paint these busts in B&W using oils? Or will I have to temporarily convert to acrylics in order to have these two characters painted? :rolleyes:
You've done such a wonderful work with this figure using acrylics that I wonder what will I have to use in order to paint Laurel & Hardy... :oops:


Cheers!

Dolf
 
I know it has been said already, but the sculpt and gray mono-chromatic color application look fantastic.

Great job on this one...

Ben
 
Dolf said:
Fernando,

"Dolf, I used acrylics, different shades from black to white, but always neutral tones without any other color mixed. For the suit I used the help of the airbrush to mark the shadows from the back and below. All the paints from Vallejo except for the black, which is from Scale75. I find it darker than Vallejo and totally matt."

Guess you probably know a bust (actually a two busts set) from Scale75, Laurel & Hardy. It's one of those on my wishing list. All pics I've seen so far (including the original ones on the Scale75 website: https://scale75.com/en/busts-to-scale/87-laurel-and-hardy.html ) are painted in B&W, as they were shown in the movies during that time period.

Now, my "problem" is that apart from Mr Hobby Mr Primer Surfacer 1000 (which I've been using to prime my figures and busts), I don't use acrylics, only enamels (for the base coats after the primer) and then oils.

Do you think it will be possible to paint these busts in B&W using oils? Or will I have to temporarily convert to acrylics in order to have these two characters painted? :rolleyes:
You've done such a wonderful work with this figure using acrylics that I wonder what will I have to use in order to paint Laurel & Hardy... :oops:


Cheers!

Dolf
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Hi Dolf. I don't see any problem translating this into oils. In fact maybe blending all the range from black to white should be easier with oils than with acrylics.
 

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