Andrea 54mm Mountaim Man

[Lancer]

Hi All
After a few months with no camera I'm back in business, since my V-Bench vanished I thought I would post a few pics here! This is Andreas 54mm Mountain Man 1840, pretty much an airbrush effort except fot he beadwork and flesh! Comments welcome!
Cheers
Mark

 

[Lancer]

Here is one more!

 

[garyjd]

Mark, Nice job. Your way of doing groundwork that extends off the edge of the base reminds me of fellow Pf member John Long's work.~Gary

 

[fsdesimone]

Looks very nice. In that second picture, with the red background and the "warm colors" of the photo it looks like he's standing on a hill in front of a sunset.

Francesca

 

[nagashino]

Nice job mark. I have done this one too and it's one of those figures that oozes character.

Phil

 

[Roy]

Hey Mark...that's a nice job with the airbrush...
I like the presentation of the groundwork and base too.

@Phil..."sock it to 'em" :lol:

All the best.

Roy.

 

[nagashino]

@Phil..."sock it to 'em"


Roy

This was a motto from a banner used by some old Sealed Knot mates of mine from way back 30 years. Surprising how few folk picked up on this bit of dog-latin at that time :lol:

 

[mahross]

Just noticed that Phil. LOL :lol:

Ross

 

[nagashino]

Hi
Mark

Just managed to snap off a shot of my version of Andrea's Mountain Man. This one is in oils throughout. It was done for a magazine article that didn't get published - but I got to keep the figure

Phil

 

[Kisifer]

Great painting Phil. I really love your groundworks.. Keep up the good work man.

 

[Einion]

I like this figure myself and you've done a nice job on it Mark.

Great to see more airbrush work here too, especially at this scale; it can be remarkably effective can't it?

Einion

 

[Lancer]

Thanks for the comments!
Einion your dead on! The airbrush is a great tool that most figure painters under utilize especially at the smaller scales such as 1/35 and 54mm. I'm finding these days I'm using the oils for fine detail, some flesh and areas where I didn't like the airbrush results. As a tool for laying down your base colors its invaluable! I recently fine tuned my airbrush with new needles and washers etc. and then tried it out on the Hornet figure I'll post below. Except for the eyes its all airbrushed and I was happy enough with the results to leave it as is. I'd love to see some more airbrush work here, especially from those using a quality brush like Iwata!
Cheers
mark