Completed 90mm Samurai

[FigureLover]

Hi all,
This is Pegaso's beautiful Samurai that I completed about a year ago. I have just purchased a Light Tent so am trying out some lighting techniques so please tell me what you think of the photos.
This kit was a joy to paint, but a challenge, it was stripped several times until I was happy with the outcome. Most of it is painted in Oils. It came second in last years Cheif Competition for the painting section.
Thanks for looking,
Ben

 

[tonydawe]

And first in Large scale figures at WASMEx too mate. Absolutely superb painting Ben. Your best work by far.

 

[FigureLover]

Thanks Tony, yep it got first at WASMEX . Thanks for your comments too
Ben

 

[specmod]

Hi Ben, that is a fantastic figure mate, beautifully painted, well done.

 

[Tecumsea]

Beautifully painted Ben and well deserved awards. I've had this in the grey army for years and never had the balls to put paint on it

Keith

 

[FigureLover]

Hi Andrew, Thanks for your comments, good to hear from you again
Cheers Keith, much appreciated. It is a mission of a kit to do and quite heavy, but the end product is worth every effort, well posed, looks great and I believe it's pretty historically accurate
Ben

 

[mil-mart]

Ben excellent photography and that is some beautiful detailed painting, congratulations

Cheers Ken

 

[megroot]

great painted figure.
For the pictures: I think that you have to set the light further from the tent. It's not diffuse enough.

Marc

 

[Mike Stevens]

I like it. Well done.

 

[FigureLover]

HI Ken, thanks for the great comments.
Thanks for that Mike, glad you like him.
Cheers for that Marc, thanks for the tips on the photos, I think you maybe right as they could be a bit contrasty
Ben

 

[Mark S]

Beautiful work Ben.
I think there needs to be some tweeking in the photos. I'd like to see a darker background to start with which is perhaps softly lit from behind.
And the exposure is off just a touch I feel. The fifth picture comes closest to the ideal exposure to me.
Anyway beautiful painting on a figure I consider one of my favourites.

 

[FigureLover]

Thanks for that Mark, I was thinking that a true black background would be too stark against the figure, its a dark grey at the moment, but maybe I will try the change and see how it goes. As for the exposure, I have since redone some more photos and moved the lights farther away from my light tent and that seems to have been better, a bit softer
Ta
Ben

 

[Ron Tamburrini]

Hi Ben
That is a splendid paint job, The photo's look great ,no shadows !

Ron

 

[Mariner]

This is just breathtaking, Ben. The tiny flowers on the sleeves blew me away!!
Mary

 

[Ferris]

Wow Ben, that is some amazing paintwork!
The patterning is particularly impressive. How did you get it so regular?

Cheers,
Adrian

 

[FigureLover]

Hi Ron, cheers for your comments, I'm glad you like the photos, I'm always trying to perfect them.
Mary, thanks for looking, there are quite a few more flower designs around his clothing but most of them got covered up when I put his armour on him, Oh well thats painting for you!!!
Thanks Adrian, I repainted him several times so I guess practice makes perfect. If you are talking about the red and blue patterns on his chest, they were done by drawing very faint fine lines with a lead pencil and then using coloured pencils to go over this in a irregular pattern according to reference material.
Ta
Ben

 

[sarouman]

Excellent paint my friend!!!

Alexandros

 

[dArtagnan]

Excellent paintjob on this classic beauty!
Eddy

http://www.bloggen.be/eddys_painted_figures/

 

[FigureLover]

Thank you very much Alexandros and Eddy, I am grateful for your comments
Ben