Bailey
A Fixture
I started a new project over the weekend. This is one of my favorite kits from Pegaso. It's the 75mm mounted Captain of the Hussars. He's been sitting partially assembled on my work bench for quite a while now just tempting me to start painting him. Other projects kept intervening but, having just finished up at the Crystal Brush competition, it was finally the right time to get started on him.
The work is still in the early early stages. I've basically just done the face on the rider and started base coating his upper body. I've seen quite a few versions of this figure online, often painted as one of the 4th or 6th hussars. So I decided to do something slightly different and paint him as one of the 5th hussars. This means I'll be going for a lighter blue for the basic clothing and then white for the pelisse. Here's what I've done so far...
I paint the face in a couple stages. The first step (below on the left) is to get the basic highlights and shadows in. At this stage I'll step back and evaluate how he looks. In this case I thought a few of the shadows needed more work, a couple blends could be smoother, and I wanted brighter highlights on the tops of the cheeks. So then I'll go in to fix those things. I'll also take care of details around the face (like the hair, collar, and chin strap). I'll take another look at the shading on the face to make sure I'm happy and then I'll start to add in color variation through glazes of thinned down ink. This is where I put the red in the cheeks, nose, and ears. I use blue to tint the jaw and create the impression of stubble. I'll also add a bit of blue/purple under the eyes. You can see the difference this makes by comparing the two images below.
Another thing I did with this face was alter the shading on each side. His head is turned and slightly titled, so the right side will be more in shadow and then left will be more in the light. It's not as noticeable from the front, but you can definitely see if when you compare the two sides.
Up next will be his colback. Once that is done, I'll move on to his body and see how well I can do with the blue for the 5th hussars.
The work is still in the early early stages. I've basically just done the face on the rider and started base coating his upper body. I've seen quite a few versions of this figure online, often painted as one of the 4th or 6th hussars. So I decided to do something slightly different and paint him as one of the 5th hussars. This means I'll be going for a lighter blue for the basic clothing and then white for the pelisse. Here's what I've done so far...
I paint the face in a couple stages. The first step (below on the left) is to get the basic highlights and shadows in. At this stage I'll step back and evaluate how he looks. In this case I thought a few of the shadows needed more work, a couple blends could be smoother, and I wanted brighter highlights on the tops of the cheeks. So then I'll go in to fix those things. I'll also take care of details around the face (like the hair, collar, and chin strap). I'll take another look at the shading on the face to make sure I'm happy and then I'll start to add in color variation through glazes of thinned down ink. This is where I put the red in the cheeks, nose, and ears. I use blue to tint the jaw and create the impression of stubble. I'll also add a bit of blue/purple under the eyes. You can see the difference this makes by comparing the two images below.
Another thing I did with this face was alter the shading on each side. His head is turned and slightly titled, so the right side will be more in shadow and then left will be more in the light. It's not as noticeable from the front, but you can definitely see if when you compare the two sides.
Up next will be his colback. Once that is done, I'll move on to his body and see how well I can do with the blue for the 5th hussars.
