Adolph Galland Bust

[Mongo Mel]

Greetings all,
This is another piece I've begun work on recently. It's Andrea's Adolph Galland bust. I believe it's 1/9th scale. I do know that it's white metal and very heavy.
Just the face being worked on so far. I'd appreciate and constructive criticism and comments you might have.

Thanks,
Craig

 

[Lou Masses]

Craif,

Looks excellent. Really good blending on the face.Please post when the eyes are done. He spooks me like that - very zombie-esque!

 

[KeithP]

Craig-

Looks good. An interesting character. For his highly skewed version of the Luftwaffe, give his book "The First and the Last" a try.

Keith

 

[Robin]

Looking good Craig I saw an example of this figure at a show recently that was good and look forward to seeing more of this.

Robin

 

[Mongo Mel]

Hi guys,
Thanks for taking the time to post your comments. They're greatly appreciated.
I worked on his hat tonight (sorry Lou, didn't get to the eyes yet ).
I'll try to post pics tomorrow night, after it dries.
Thanks again,
Craig

 

[Roc]

Your flesh colours are life like, very realistic.
Can you elaborate on your formula for flesh.

Roc.

 

[garyjd]

Craig, Very nice job on the flesh tones. If they are oils I would not mind the mix.~Gary

 

[Mongo Mel]

Hi guys,
Thanks for the comments.
Here's a picture with the base color, shading and highlighting done on the hat. It will get a second treatment of shading and highlighting tonight (I hope).

The skintone here looks closer to the way it does in real life. Figure it's really between the two photos, closer to the second one .

And there are a couple more pics in my gallery, if anyone is interested.

I'm happy that you guys like the look of fleshtone. A very nice compliment .
Here's the mix I used (Gary, these are all oils, except for the undercoat):
1: I undercoat with Liquitex Deep Portrait Pink (acrylic).
2: I mixed Burnt Sienna, WN Flesh and a little Gold Ochre to a medium brown. I take some of this mix and lighten it with T. White to suit and paint this on as a base color. While still wet, I shadow this with the original mix and straight Burnt Sienna in the deeper shadows. For highlights, I mixed T. White, some WN Flesh and a little Gold Ochre to a creamy looking color and applied it to the wet base color.
3: After this dries, I do my secondary shadows with Brown Madder Alizeran and highlight with the highlight mix from above.
My only problem is that my flestones never come out looking quite the same from figure to figure. There have been some that I wish I could duplicate but just can't seem to get it .
I hope this helps.
Thanks again,
Craig

 

[garyjd]

Craig, Is the Liquitex deep portrait pink basecoat acrylic?~Gary

 

[Mongo Mel]

Hi Gary,
Yes, it's an acrylic paint. And I just reread my post and saw how misleading it was.
Sorry about that (I need an emoticon for being embarrassed here).
At first, I used to paint it by hand. But for this piece and for my kamikaze, I airbrushed it on. It airbrushes very nicely. I think it was well worth the effort.
Craig