WIP British Royal Engineer officer in trench waders, 1916

[gforceman]

Hello all

Here are some early in progress pictures of this 65mm resin casting by Wars and peaces miniatures. Almost no cleaning up and a wonderful sculpt.
Only downside is that it comes with only some written instruction. They do have a picture of a finished figure by David Lane on their website. Should anyone know of a website where pictures of the real stuff can be found, please let me know.
All's done with acrylics, among which the new Xpress paint by Vallejo, and these are great!

Should something be painted in a wrong color, or if you can give me tips on how to improve my painting, please let me know; All help is welcome!

Gino.

 

[Warren SMITH]

Excellent work so far.. The face is brilliant..

 

[MalcC]

Very nice start, the face alone is excellent.

Malc

 

[NigelR]

Here's a thread with some good pictures of troops in cold weather gear: https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/245826-ww1-cold-weather-kit/

Colours? The cap and bits of uniform you can see would be khaki, the pistol holster brown leather, the belts buff, the rest as you see fit.

Great start, I'm tempted by this figure.....

 

[Nap]

Hi Gino

Great to see your benchtime , a really nice figure , do like the sheepskin coat , well painted

Fine painting on the face as commented

This is a excellent book with original items , there’s also a 1914 book

Look forward to seeing more

Happy benchtime

Nap

 

[arj]

The Imperial War Museum have a number of items if you search for 'sheepskin':-
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/search?query=Sheepskin&pageSize=&media-records=records-with-media
The sixth item on page 1 has a jacket showing four views and full dimensions. (It is one of the items in Nigel's link above).

Cheers,
Andrew

 

[Robert Jan de Wit]

Good start Gino.
Great to see you painting again.

greets
RJ

 

[Steve Ski]

This is looking good to me!

 

[gforceman]

Hi guys,

Thank you very much for your nice comments. Faces are the most fun to paint I find. I do have a lot of figures on which I've painted the faces and then lost interest because I saw another face to paint. And this way I'll get about one figure a year finnished.

On all the pics the goatskin seems to be more black and the leaves white, just the opposite as how I painted it. Do I have to repaint the goatsking or is my version as a version that could have been used.

Thanks for all the comments and help. I hope to post some more wip soon, then maybe I have finnished two figures already this year. The first figure? I'll show it after the 2nd of june.

Take care,

Gino.

P.S. I have now seen on the b&w pictures that there was a lot of variation, so I don't have to repaint this.

 

[Briggsy]

Fantastic start Gino, love how you've done the goatskin, lots of variety as you found so you can't be wrong however it's painted. Great face, it looks well lived in as I imagine it would being in the trenches.

Cheers Simon

 

[gforceman]

Hello,

A little bit of progress. Apart from finetuning the weathering and a couple of seams I want to repaint, I think the upper body is ready. On to the legs!!!

Cheers,

Gino.

 

[Briggsy]

He looks great, really like how you've weathered his uniform and gear but very impressed with the dirty face, love it.

Cheers Simon

 

[Oda]

Very convincing sheepskin effect.

Oda.

 

[Nap]

Hi Gino

That is looking so good , love the way your painting this , you can almost smell the dirt and grime

The facial work looks just spot on

Look forward to seeing more

Happy benchtime

Nap

 

[NigelR]

This is coming along very nicely, the goatskin looks great.

 

[housecarl]

Very. very nice Gino.
All the best,
Carl.