Completed Critique Bersaglieri Officer 1870

[ChaosCossack]

Hello all

I needed a break from my cavalry diorama so after conscripting a couple more pieces into the grey army, I painted up this one during the last week.

This figure is an Italian (Sardinian) Bersaglieri Officer, 1870, persumably during the attack on Rome. This figure is a 54mm Pegaso, painted in Vallejo acrylics.

Thanks for your concideration, any helpful comments and critiques are most welcome.

Cheers

Colin

 

[Ferris]

Very nice. I like how you did the dark blue!

Funny, looking at the pics I thought you did this in oils....

Cheers,
Adrian

 

[Babelfish]

Very nice Colin. And your groundwork is coming along also.

- Steve

 

[tiberius57]

I love it. Very balanced weathering and nice integration with the groundwork. The posture is very natural and I like how you did the blues.
Excellent work.
Zeno

 

[MarquisMini]

Excellent work on the blue, i especially like the red cuffs, i like the effect of "mute" red .
And the pose is very unusual,which bring interest and character to it.
Avanti Bersaglieri!

 

[housecarl]

Nice piece Colin, like the groundwork.
Carl.

 

[Edorta]

Well done Collin, clean painting. I like the golds of uniform, the plumes and ground.

Military miniatures painted by Eduardo Garcia

 

[Ron Tamburrini]

Nice blues and reds

 

[ChaosCossack]

Thanks everybody for your kind words. This was a fun one to paint. A simple figure with lots of character, gave me a chance to work on some of my weaker areas... Shading and highlighting and mixing some colours I haven't done before, like the pinkish red on the turnbacks and the green-black on the plumage.
I got some great feedback on my question in the painting forum re: shade/highlight placement that helped alot on this piece. It's far from dead on but I think it turned out better than some of my previous efforts.
Thanks again for the help and encouragement

Cheers

Colin

 

[Alex M.]

Great work Colin! The flesh tones are a definate improvement! Very nice blues and reds, what blue are you using?

 

[gioazz]

Hi Colin,

Excellent painting of this glorious piece.

If I may, you have painted this as the box art (like I did) unfortunately the box art was wrong in different things.

Few examples, the gloves were always black, the "cremisi" piping on the front wasn't there etc.etc.

I did the same mistakes and amended the figures, if you want to know more, you can look at the first wrong version here : http://giovannimodelling.blogspot.com/2011/02/bersaglieris-officer-italy-1870.html

Here you can find the final and correct version with the mistakes amended: http://giovannimodelling.blogspot.com/2011/03/bersagliere-amended-version.html

Hope it helps, and it took me not too long to repaint what was wrong.

Ciao

Giovanni

 

[ChaosCossack]

Great work Colin! The flesh tones are a definate improvement! Very nice blues and reds, what blue are you using?

Thanx Alex
I think I still need a little more darker shadow. The blue is a base of Prussian blue + black, highlighted with base + Prussian blue + sky grey and shaded with base + black.
I got a bunch of resin heads to practice the flesh tones.

Talk to ya later

Colin

 

[ChaosCossack]

Giovanni

I see the differences on the amended figure. You were right, I painted directly from the boxart as I don't know much about this regiment... I just really dig the uniform when I saw it at the shop!
The changes will be easy and I thnk I'll add more weathering... You did a great job on this fig and inspired me to take it a little further.
Thanks for the advice

Colin

 

[megroot]

very good painted figure.

marc

 

[ChaosCossack]

Thanks Marc

 

[gioazz]

Giovanni

I see the differences on the amended figure. You were right, I painted directly from the boxart as I don't know much about this regiment... I just really dig the uniform when I saw it at the shop!
The changes will be easy and I thnk I'll add more weathering... You did a great job on this fig and inspired me to take it a little further.
Thanks for the advice

Colin

Ciao Colin,

I'm glad I could help.

Please post your pics when done!

Thanks

Giovnni

 

[flart1943]

Very nicely painted figure.
Pete

 

[ChaosCossack]

Thank you Peter, I appreciate your comment

Cheers
Colin

 

[Marcel]

Very nice painted figure Colin!

Cheers,
Marcel.