WIP Critique BlackSheep 120mm 6th Army Stalingrad

[gothicgeek]

Hi All!



This is my next Box-art for Stu, for his Black-sheep range and I'm going to try and have it done for Euro &

It's kit number BS120/01 and is available from here

This kit has a relatively high parts count and so required a bit of time for the clean-up.

The fit is excellent and after removing the casting blocks, cleaning a few seams, washing and undercoating I got on with the skin parts.

A bit of work still to do refining the finish but essentially done



Please feel free to do any of the C's or not


Parts out of the box...

And after a few hours of brush work ....

 

[tonydawe]

G'day Mark, You and Stu are a great team. Prolific and excellent quality both in sculpting and painting. I hope you get this done in time.

 

[wappengenosse]

Hello!!!This figure have base or not?Regards.

 

[sarouman]

Hi Marc,
Excellent preparation for painting the figure, but face is pretty well painted, giving the impression, the agony of the battle.
Excellent so far, expect the remaining part to be painted.

Alexandros

 

[Major_Goose]

Thats a kit with lots of work Mark ! You made a nice start !Good luck with the rest !

Costas

 

[housecarl]

Euro..... Loads of time.
Great start mate,
Carl.

 

[stu]

Been waiting for this, its one of my favourites.

Great start Mark

 

[1969]

Lovely looking figure and im sure you will do it proud mate.

Steve

 

[gothicgeek]

Tony ... Cheers mate! here's hoping

Igor .... Yes base supplied

Alexandros .... Many thanks

Costas ... Thank you!

Carl ... yeah loads and cheers!

Stu ... Thanks and hope you enjoy the finish

Steve ... Many thanks



Face is almost there, extreme enlargement always shows the tiniest flaws and really helps in getting a nice finish. Notice the eye on the right hand side face? there is a flash of white from under the top lid ... !? I will sort it out at the start of the next painting session

Thank you digital photography!!

 

[gothicgeek]

Working on the uniform

This is Lifecolor Field Grey 2 as a base, darkened with AV Black and lightened with AV Light Flesh ....

 

[winston]

Very nice work mark!!!

You can try to darkened field grey by using red black or purple red dark this most rich like color in finish.

Philippe

 

[gothicgeek]

Philippe .... Thank you! Yes other colours can be used Prefer to flatten the colour for this kind of uniform

Working on the leather ... Usual mix of colours for this, AV Black base and then lined and blocked with GW Blazing Orange, Snakebite Leather and Scorched Brown... Added a touch of AV Light Flesh to the Snakebite for final picking out, Blocked back in with GW Chaos Black

 

[tonydawe]

Very nice leatherwork.

 

[unknown01]

The color of the uniform is very wonderful.
Beautiful!

Mitsutaka

 

[gothicgeek]

Tony ... Thanks time consuming

Mitsutaka ... Many thanks


Working on the equipment .....

One of my favourite parts of doing this kind of figure is the various bits and bobs hanging from belts and webbing, as it allows me to fiddle about with details, lots of little details that hopefully add to the visual interest of the piece without distracting from the face ... Kindathing! fun anyway

nothing is actually finished

 

[Marcel]

Excellent paintwork Mark!
It´s gonna be another great figure.

Cheers,
Marcel.

 

[gothicgeek]

Marcel ... Thank you!

Head in place!

Finally stuck the head on the end is in sight with this piece but still a lot to do, next I need to fix the ammo pouches and arms ....

 

[mil-mart]

Mark, another masterpiece, great detail work on the equiptment. Following.

Cheers Ken

 

[gylaci]

Hi Mark !

Flawless painting work.
Congratulations.

Cheers.

László

 

[gothicgeek]

Ken ...... many thanks

László .... Thank you!


Arms are now fixed in place, touched up bits and bobs and base coated the boots, most small details are now done and the equipment just needs some graphite on the metallic parts, used the Peddinghaus set EP 1447 for the stick grenades ( thanks again Carl! ) ....

Note! I coated the grenade head with a couple of coats of Klear, after it had dried I placed the decals in a layer of Klear and again allowed to dry, then used a W&N Acrylic Matt Varnish to flatten it back down, some chips applied with dark green finished the painting