Arthur Roy Brown

[El Tché]

Hello,

Here is my version of the pilot WWI from former LATORRE MODELS. To make it more personnal I called it "Arthur Roy Brown". This guy is in fact the one who claimed having shut down Manfred von Richtofen (but a canadian artillery team also claimed to have done it....)
The ground work is as usual "minimalist" because this is what I prefer (do not put a little figure on a 20x 20 " inches base in the middle of the jungle...)
Hope you like

Thierry Faniel

 

[taff edwards]

What beautiful figure love the tones and really great leather effect
Cheers Chris

 

[Babelfish]

That leather coat is as good as any leather coat I've seen painted on a figure. Anywhere.

- Steve

 

[ometz]

Wonderful effects on the leather jacket. What is the procedure you use?

 

[ghamilt1]

Hello,

Here is my version of the pilot WWI from former LATORRE MODELS. To make it more personnal I called it "Arthur Roy Brown". This guy is in fact the one who claimed having shut down Manfred von Richtofen (but a canadian artillery team also claimed to have done it....)
The ground work is as usual "minimalist" because this is what I prefer (do not put a little figure on a 20x 20 " inches base in the middle of the jungle...)
Hope you like

Thierry Faniel

Really nice work Thierry, especially like texture of the leather flying coat.
As an aside, and before our Aussie friends jump in here, it was an Australian artillery unit that claimed to have brought down the Red Baron with ground fire. They're wrong of course, despite what their "science" says, and most reasonable people would agree it was the heroic Captain Roy Brown that ended Richtofen's career

 

[El Tché]

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh yeeessssssssssss ! Indeed you are right
I wrote the comment by memory and yes, indeed, the company was from Australy.
None of the two situation has been proven : artillery ? pilot ?.... but, my preference goes to our mate Arthur. That way, the fight on the air could have been identical to middle ages fight between two knights.
I like to think that surely, at the moment he hit the Red Baron, Arthur should have been a little sad inside...

to reply to "ometz", the technique has been explained in an article I wrote at the time for "Figurines Magazine" and now, quite a lot of fellow paint their leather that way. The initial "wow" came from the work of our friend Hardy Tempest but instead of "dots" I paint strikes of paint on a random brown colour. Do not hesitate (if you paint with acrylics) to use very light colour : this helps to spot the lines of the leather, and then some shadows. Until now, I didn't found how to highlight this effect.

 

[arj]

That's a superb crazed leather effect.

Cheers,
Andrew

 

[Mike Stevens]

Nice work on this one, The leather affects are nice.