Charge! The Pacific War

[Honster]

Hello again, I would like to show you my latest painting, a great figure from Alpine 1/16.
Thanks and hope you like it.

 

[megroot]

Beautifull work.

Marc

 

[T50]

Excellent work! Congrats.

 

[bagelman1952]

Very nice

 

[Paul N]

excellent!

 

[John Bowery]

Well done, Nicely displayed as well.
Cheers
John

 

[YongA01]

Nice to see a different version from the box art... Nice experiment with the different depth of colors! Well done

 

[Mariobusta]

Beautiful figure ,Oils or acrylics?

 

[Mirofsoft]

I like it
Nice colour' shading

 

[Honster]

Beautiful figure ,Oils or acrylics?

Thank you everyone, I painted with acrylics, mostly vallejo model color.

 

[Paul-H]

Nice bit of work you have there Honster, can I ask what colours you used for the clothes, I have a US Marine bust to paint and the Marines are a bit out of my comfort zone.

Thanks

Paul

 

[Honster]

Nice bit of work you have there Honster, can I ask what colours you used for the clothes, I have a US Marine bust to paint and the Marines are a bit out of my comfort zone.

Thanks

Paul

As I did this figure from start till finish within two days for a local modelling show, I was in a bit of a rush and I might be missing something but here is what I can remember.
For the base color, I choose olive grey and fieldgrey. Shadow by adding dark prusia blue to the base mix. And the deepest shadow by only dark pruisa blue and a tiny bit of black if needed.
Highlight is base color mix with Camo green from Citadel, then next add a little sunny skintone into the highlight. And final highlight is came green with sunny skintone.

Hope this could help you a little and do not worry too much, this is the first US marine I have ever painted. Just remember to get more reference and play around with the colors

Cheers

 

[Martin64]

Nice job! Especially the face and the eyes stand out. Well done

 

[taffjones]

Love the rich colouring of the rifle mate. Did you use inks to give it that effect?

 

[housecarl]

Looks well, and thanks for the mixes.
Carl.

 

[Grod]

Great action pose and painting. Top stuff.
gordon