Completed 3rd Kűrassier Regt

[Briggsy]

Many thanks Neil, I do like the unusual figures and prefer relaxed, or at least non action poses. If nothing else the non action pose represents 95% of a soldiers life, the other 5 being the nitty gritty parts of the job. Again thanks for your comments, makes me feel thar I'm doing something right we shall see if I can manage a leap up in size in the new year thanks to Steve and the lads at TFB.

Cheers Simon

 

[marco14]

I think this is a very small little piece,djeez,I couldn't see that anymore,my eyes are absolute very bad
but I love what you do

Mario

 

[Rocco82]

This is tremendous. Definitely have a talent mate. Great thread!
Will be awesome when done I'm sure

 

[Briggsy]

I think this is a very small little piece,djeez,I couldn't see that anymore,my eyes are absolute very bad
but I love what you do

Mario

Many thanks Mario, my eyes are bad for distance but I can see good up close, only the close is starting to get closer. I missed my last eye injection so I am hoping it holds up for an extra month!

Cheers Simon

 

[Briggsy]

This is tremendous. Definitely have a talent mate. Great thread!
Will be awesome when done I'm sure

Many thanks Rocco, just waiting for the Magicsculpt to set on the last bits then the rattle can comes out. Then we'll see if I have done the figure justice or not.

Cheers Simon

 

[Briggsy]

Well I started the painting but I have to say some of the detail is beyond me in this scale. The lace on the jacket is white with a central silver stripe edged both side with blue, in 1/35th this is a big ask. I have redone it a couple of times but don't think I'm going to get it any better. This really is a subject that should have been better, oh well live and learn. It looks awful.on the blown up images, not quite so bad life size.




Thumbnails can be made larger by clicking them but it's probably best not to!

Cheers Simon

 

[Rocco82]

Like you say mate blown up it can look not the best when you've given it your best. It doesn't look bad. And when looking at it in real time etc and with the rest painted it should fall into place when you've given enough to suggest it.

It does sound tricky what your looking to get. It's times like this you need great paint consistency and the brush loaded to hopefully achieve it in one swoop as there's not much room for error, literally. Tried it with a brand new brush?

Maybe paint the rest and see how it looks or if you feel you need to attempt it again you'll have fresh eyes. But I think you'll be good to go.

 

[Briggsy]

Cheers Rocco, yeah I'm gonna finish it and see how it goes, even if it doesn't turn out very well I'll have learnt from it. I used brand new very very fine liner brushes that hold enough paint to do the lines in one go, just getting the next one to line up well is the issue, may be I should have done him in the kűrasse! Hey ho such is life, at least he didn't hit the wall!

Cheers Simon

 

[Rocco82]

At least he didn't hit the wall mate, very true

 

[NigelR]

Keep going, it will look better once you have more painted and the lace is in context with the rest of the figure.

 

[Briggsy]

Keep going, it will look better once you have more painted and the lace is in context with the rest of the figure.

I intend to finish it, in fact I've been doing some this morning, had to stop though as I'm being nagged to play with my Granddaughter now. Apparently I have no choice, she says "I did say please"!

Cheers Simon

 

[Rob]

In 1/35th that is a very tricky thing to try and do. Patience and perseverance really.
I would probably be inclined to cheat and ignore the silver line and just do the blue with white edging.

I have a few old school 54mms to finish up at some stage but will probably not do anything smaller than 75mm going forwards, they are getting to be more struggle and less fun to do.

 

[clubcat]

We are are own worst critics, truth be told. I think it is coming on a treat, keep up the good work.
Melanie

 

[Briggsy]

In 1/35th that is a very tricky thing to try and do. Patience and perseverance really.
I would probably be inclined to cheat and ignore the silver line and just do the blue with white edging.

I have a few old school 54mms to finish up at some stage but will probably not do anything smaller than 75mm going forwards, they are getting to be more struggle and less fun to do.

Cheers Rob, I'm starting to think that 1/35th is a bit on the small side, shame I have plenty of Hornet heads in that scale. Going to have to bite the bullet and get my 3D printer working so I can print off heads and hands etc and work in a larger scale.

I'm going to try and reworking the lace though, hopefully won't stuff the whole thing up.

Cheers Simon

 

[Briggsy]

We are are own worst critics, truth be told. I think it is coming on a treat, keep up the good work.
Melanie

Thanks Melanie, yes you're right we are our own worst critics, I shall persevere and hopefully make a half decent figure. I shall post some progress pictures when I get the chance, with a start on the uniform it's not as bad as it initially looked, maybe.

Cheers Simon

 

[Briggsy]

OK so I have started the uniform which offsets the lace a little. The camera picked up the tonal difference between the oth colour and shading making it look out of kilter, still got plenty to do so will tone it down quite a bit. Also going to have another stab at the lace.

And I thought this was going to.be a simple one!

Cheers Simon

 

[NigelR]

Now that's starting to come together nicely! It does help to paint more of the figure.

 

[Nap]

Now that's starting to come together nicely! It does help to paint more of the figure.

Agree there

Nice one Mr Briggsy on the lacework , the whites coming along well

If I might ask......intrigued about the piping around the shoulders ?

Looking forward to seeing more

Nap

 

[Briggsy]

Cheers Nigel, I really wasn't happy with it to start with, I worked quite long into the night and have blended the shade better, though I still need to see it on camera to be sure. Also redid the lace which looks better, though still needs work. Pictures when I get the chance today.

Hope your experiments with ripples are working out.

Cheers Simon

 

[Briggsy]

Agree there

Nice one Mr Briggsy on the lacework , the whites coming along well

If I might ask......intrigued about the piping around the shoulders ?

Looking forward to seeing more

Nap

Cheers Kev, I'll do more piccies later when I get the chance, the taskmaster has jobs for me.

The piping around the shoulders is normal on this uniform, it sports the Lancer like piping on the back and sleeve seams and then round the seam where the sleeve connects to the body of the jacket. It's not the best but I re did it so many times as I kept knocking bits off that I just went with what I had in place when complete.

Cheers Simon