Cossac Dancer

[Martin Antonenko]

120. Day, April 24, 2015

Well, from these colors...



...my skintone is mixed.

With it I just have painted the breast of our heroe...:

 

[Martin Antonenko]

212. Day, April 27, 2015

Next step: Painting the little silver cross around the neck of our hero.

It is sculpted after templates of the 17th century...:



I used this colors for that...:



And here is the result...:

 

[ChaosCossack]

Coming along nicely Martin. The boots turned out very well. The musician's really starting to take shape.

Still following along closely

Colin

 

[Martin Antonenko]

Thanks Colin!

122. Day, April 28, 2015

Well - the next step.

Our hero wears a simple white "rubashka" (=shirt) with a litte standing collar, like it is to be seen in many pictures...:









With these colors...



...I have just ready painted the shirt...:

 

[Martin Antonenko]

123. Day, April 29, 2015

Today I have painted the folded collar ends of the caftan. For this I use gray tones...:



The colors are just slightly darker than on the exposed coattails, because the breast is located in a shadow zone.

The use of color brown to darken the "gray" also causes this zone "far away" enough from the color of the shirt, which indeed also grays were used ...:

 

[Martin Antonenko]

124. and 125. Day, April 30 and Mai 1, 2015

Painted the front side of the caftan...:

 

[Martin Antonenko]

126. Day, May 04, 2015

Next step ready: Painted the back...:

 

[Martin Antonenko]

127. Day, May 5, 2015

Painted the armholes...

 

[Martin Antonenko]

128. Day, May 6, 2015

Just painted ready the sash - with mixes from these colors...:



The front side (shadow zone!) is a bit darker...



...than the back...:

 

[Martin Antonenko]

129. Day, April 7, 2015

Just mounted the upper body and the lower body of my Cossack together...:

 

[Martin Antonenko]

130. Day, May 8, 2015

Cleaned the first arm, fixed it to a cork and primed...:

 

[Ferris]

It's coming along very well Martin.

I'm still amazed by your approach of painting the different parts before assembly. Don't you trouble during assembly? How do you hide seams and other small gaps for example?
I always try to minimize handling of parts after painting and prefer to assemble as much as possible of the figure before painting.
No critique by the way, just curious.

Cheers,
Adrian

 

[Martin Antonenko]

Hi Adrian!

First of all, thank you!

I'm used my method of painting "segments" for years so I have no problems with the color design.

Concerning the fittings I have checked them all before painting, they fit absolutely accurate and without reworking. Is just a super-sculpt by Markus.

And at this figure I must proceed so, because if the musical instrument is mounted, can I get a lot of points not zoom with a brush.

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131. Day, May 11, 2015

The caftans, which (not only) the Cossacks walked around that timees, had a very typical asymmetrical and "triangular" shape the cuffs ....:



On the next picture it is also good to see - the Cossack in blue wears the cuffs droopy, his buddy in red at the left shows how the cuffs looked rolled up...:



Markus sculpted the cuffs of the musician also in rolled-up condition - otherwise they would have been while Kobza-playing in the way.

The collar I have just painted my grey-brown ...:

 

[Martin Antonenko]

132. Day, May 12, 2015

Today I have made the blue part of the sleeve . I am particularly concerned with the dark inner parst (in the shade) - please excuse the blurry photo ...:



The front side - later visible - is still applied relatively coarse, it will get its color finish if I have tomorrow mounted his arm ...:

 

[theBaron]

...Concerning the fittings I have checked them all before painting, they fit absolutely accurate and without reworking. Is just a super-sculpt by Markus...

Very good point, and how the parts fit, how a kit is engineered, is a criterion of its quality, I believe. I'm working on an anime kit, a 1/6 resin figure, and it's really designed so that I can paint the various parts and then assemble them. The parts layout is well thought-out, seams occur in natural places, and not in the middle of a bare limb, say, or across a blank expanse of cloth.

Prost!
Brad

 

[Martin Antonenko]

Yeaaah - cheers to those sculptors!

 

[Martin Antonenko]

133. Day, May 13, 2013

Today I have fixed temporarily first the second arm, the second hand and the Kobza to the figure to ensure that all parts fit together later. Then the finished arm was fastened with two-component adhesive ...:


In this position, I have the figure allowed to stand for about an hour until the adhesive is cured and was strong. Then the unfinished parts came away again and the arm was finished painted ...:

 

[Martin Antonenko]

134. Day, May 14, 2015
With the musical instrument, a Ukrainian "Kobza" (a kind of articulated sounds) it continues today!
Here the part that Markus has sculpted...:


Markus has been working after this model ...


...so far everything is correct.
I have nevertheless decided to convert the instrument to individualize it, so to speak!
On many pictures - but still - you can see the top of the neck very voluminous tuning screws for the strings ...:



Something like this I also wanted to have!
So I have slaughtered an old 1: 100 ship's rail...:



This results in six identical clamping screws ...:



Next step is the grinding of the cast-on instrument turnbuckles - with the "Proxxon" ...:


Then Little holes are drilled in the appropriate places - much careful so that nothing breaks. Three on each side, for Markus has the Kobza equipped with six strings ...:


Six strings, incidentally, were the standard at Kobza, although there were also instruments with eight and even more strings.
Next step: I drill at a later no longer visible place another hole ...:


In there a toothpick is temporarily glued and Kobza mounted on a cork - for better handling during the later painting ...:


Finally, it is primed. I like this remodeling!

 

[Martin Antonenko]

135. Day, May 18, 2015

Highly new motivated by the great paintings, I have seen at the "Duke of Bavaria" at Ingolstadt, it is now getting painted the music instrument.

When we look at old images of a Ukrainian Kobza, we can see three things:

The "belly" of the instrument is much darker than the "top plate" and this in turn is significantly darker than skin color ...:





Today I painted the "belly" of the instrument, with the base color from red and brown stock. To lighten I take yellow and to darken a little black ...:



I think this dark reddish brown color is perhaps the most beautiful of all Colors that succeeded me while doing this sbs- I'm really a little in love with this color ...:

 

[Martin Antonenko]

136. Day, November 19, 2015
I have just finished the painting of the front of Kobza. I tried very hard to make them "used" look - and took these colors ...:


With the result I am quite pleased ...:





With the strings I proceeded somewhat differently:
They should "approximately equal", but on closer inspection quite different.
The strings have successively need to go through three "drybrushing-phases" respectively.
First, with yellow, then brown, and finally with gray ...:


Extreme enlargements show that the colors have been partly linked, but only two out of three, and in turn to other places to be in some places alone.





Sorry for the blurry enlargements, but I think, you can recognize quite well what I mean.
By the way:Metal Finish would be wrong here, because at that time the strings of intestines were made ...!
For example, the strings and the cover sheet of Kobza add to a harmonious whole together ...:


And as before said, the visible notch to the left of the strings is not a casting defect, but there the cuff of the arm after mounting rest ...