WIP Boudicca - Pegaso 75mm

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I got this from my wife for christmas; she has more faith in my ability to paint this than I do.

I'm not sure, but this may be an old figure for Pegaso now. There was ALOT of cleaning up of flash and mould lines to be done - big chunks of XS metal that needed to be dremeled off in awkward places like the hair and cape and the front of the bare legs.

I plan to give her a plaid cloak of the design shown - if I can. stay tuned.
 

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The cloak is painted in the normal way with very strong contrasts from black thru greens to white.
The 'Tartan' IS original art by me (you will not find it anywhere else) - however, it was scanned into photoshop and turned into a recurring tile.
I then printed an A4 size of tartan on decal paper. Then the decal was cut into sections to fit the folds of the cloak and carefully applied.
You need to use decal paper that will take solvents to melt it to the paintwork and work quickly so the colours do not run or the decal wrinkle and stick in the wrong place.
The decal has to be made at 25-50% translucency for the pre shading to show through this is at 50%, but needed a few trials to work out.
I havent finished with it yet as it needs a few clear coats to add texture and a matt top coat as well as weathering and final shading in some folds - but it already looks painted on those parts the viewer will see.
I learn't this technique after making hundreds of airplanes with inadequate decals and needing to redo them myself.
When seeing if this had already been done on the site I saw a link carl had made to some prorietory tartan decals - and got the idea from that.
So if you can paint a few cm's of tartan on the flat, you can get it on a cloak or perhaps pleated kilt. Bewarned - it is not fun or relaxing to do like painting the tartan may have been, and comes with its own frustrations and stress (and solvent smell).
I hope this has perhaps opened up the hobby to a new technique; like it or not, it can be made to look real; and to anyone that could have done this freehand :notworthy::notworthy::notworthy: .
 
Hi Peter,

The process of creating tartan decals for figures has been discussed on Planet Figure before, however this is the first example of it that I've seen. Based on your results, I think a lot of people will be very keen to have a go at it.

There's simply no other word for the results you've managed to achieve than "stunning".:cool:

If you have the time, I think many of us would appreciate seeing a detailed SBS of the process you've used. I hope you'll bring this figure along to WASMEx this year so the Perth figure modelling community can admire your work.(y)
 
tonydawe said:
Hi Peter,

If you have the time, I think many of us would appreciate seeing a detailed SBS of the process you've used. I hope you'll bring this figure along to WASMEx this year so the Perth figure modelling community can admire your work.(y)
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AGREE 100 %
Would love to see it with screenshots.
No hurry Peter, but maybe finish it at the end of februari :D:D
 

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