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Hello ! Black hair are never really black. You should probably add another colour to your black base colour. The colour you add depends of the race of the figure portraid. For american indians and asiatics I think you can go to blue or purple and make your higlights adding white. For arabics the...

I understood Pete, don't worry, I was on the third degree ;)

I'm not possessed by the devil :angry: so I will try to answer with my english. Yes I think you have to much paint on our brush. Even if the paint is always deluted with water when you paint with acrylics, when you put the light or shadows you don't work with washes. So you must carrefully...

Thanks Jason, I'm starting a new sculpting project and I wil try this technic also. It looks like a good idea. Bye Jean-Philippe

Hello Jason, It's going to be very interesting again to follow the progress of this project. Just a question for the moment. Why did you choose to use plastic card to start the feet? congratulations for your work and many thanks to share it here Bye Jean-Philippe

About anatomy I would suggest these great books : « Modelling and sculpting the human figure » by Edouard Lanteri « Modeling the head in clay » by Bruno Lucchesi « Modeling the figure in clay » by Bruno Lucchesi You can find them at Amazone Bye Jean-Philippe

No every thing is free hand painted. The base for the blue is acrylics and the design are made with oils.... Bye JP

The interpretation of the pirate bust on the report is the one of Denis Nounis but unfortunatly he doesn't speak english... Concerning mine I will be glad if I can help you. ([email protected]) I already wrote an article (in french) on our website : Etendard Occitan There is also a second...

No this 25mm is not mine, it's was part of a beautiful display. The picture below is one of mine, it's a scratchbuilt bust of an arabic cavalryman from the 12th century.bye Jean-Philippe

Hello everybody, I put a report on the Paris/Montrouge competition wich took place last week-end on the Etendard Occitan website. 60 nice pictures of figurines are online. It's in the webpage called "Les reportages". Have fun... Best regards Jean-Philippe

Merci pour les compliments et votre français est impeccable. Prochainement un reportage sur le concours de ce week-end à Paris/Montrouge (près de 800 figurines) sur le site de l'Etendard Occitan, je vous tiens au courant. Very soon a report on the Paris Montrouge competition (800 figurines)...

These are on my workbench these days. The fist one is a 54mm kit from 1rst guard. The second one is a scratchbuilt bust of an arabic cavalryman. Hope you will like it... Bye Jean-Philippe It doesn't work ! I will check my links...

You're welcome. I catch many ideas in this forum so I think it's normal to give what I can... If you need details on the article because it's in french I can translate parts for you. Bye JP

Hardy I'm impressed with the level of detailing. The little line of fur at the edges of the coat really add something, it's very nice but I wouldn't have enough patience to do so...Bye (I think they must be sleeping overthere at this time !) This is a reply for Joe Hudson. There is also an...

Hello hardy, Your leather is very impressive, it probably needs a lot of patience. :thumb: I suppose Mill mod is Military modeling ? Do you already now in wich issue it will be ? Bye JP

Thank you again... I used both both oils and acrylics. The coat is paintet 95 % with acrylics. I also used oils for the lightest highlights and also for the darkets areas. The boots are are painted with acrylics, the flesh and hat with oils. The flesh tones are detailed in the article if you...

Thank you very much. I you want, you can find many pictures of my work and the one of the other members in the Etendard Occitan website. Etendard Occitan .It's in the "galerie" webpage. Hope you will enjoy ! Bye JP

Thank you. Glad you like it. :) It was a real pleasure to paint. About the composition : The wood cases (?) are from verliden, italeri and Tamiya from my spare part box. I used to make model kits when I was Younger... I chose to paint these cases in cold shades of brown mostly by adding green...

Hello everybody, There is a new article in the Etendard Occitan website. "With a cloud of milk..." Hope you will like the pictures if you don't speak french... If you have any question ask it here, I will try to answer as best as can with my english . ;) Best regards. JP PRAJOUX

I could not manage to insert an image from my hard disk ! How do you all do that ? Bye JP