"Crazy Horse" Lakota Sioux Chief 1841-1877, Andrea 54mm metal and MasterBox 1/35 plastic

[KenBoyle]

"Crazy Horse" Lakota Sioux Chief 1841-1877
Andrea 54mm metal and MasterBox 1/35 plastic

Another Andrea figure I always wanted to paint. To make it a little more interesting I decided to include a slightly modifed horse from a MasterBox kit. MasterBox is 1/35 but Indian ponies tended to be smaller and placing the horse behind and slightly higher than Crazy Horse helps to visually reduce the size difference.

I was going to do a WIP but since I've covered my techniques and base building in several other threads on my workbench, I refer you to them if you are interested.

All painted in acrylics, as usual.

Thanks for looking.

Cheers,

Ken

 

[MoboSchreuder]

Beautiful work again Ken

Mobo

 

[Merryweather]

Lovely job Ken

 

[Blind Pew]

Super painting. How did you find working on injection-moulded plastic? I'm familiar with Masterbox, I know their stuff is very reasonably priced, etc.

 

[Banjer]

That's a very nice job Ken. I wouldn't have noticed the scale difference if you hadn't mentioned it.

Bill

 

[Briggsy]

Beautiful piece, really striking with the horse, is it piebald or skew bold or something can never remember!

Cheers Simon

 

[clubcat]

First class, I really like it, congratulations
Melanie

 

[Rob]

Really nicely done. Indian skin tones are not easy to get right but you have done a great job on him.

 

[MalcC]

Wonderful work. great flesh tones.

Malc

 

[KenBoyle]

Beautiful work again Ken

Mobo

Lovely job Ken

Many thanks Mobo and Neil!

 

[KenBoyle]

Super painting. How did you find working on injection-moulded plastic? I'm familiar with Masterbox, I know their stuff is very reasonably priced, etc.

Thanks! I love working with the plastic kits but primarily for vignettes of two or more figures. Of course the details are not as pronounced as on a metal or resin figure, so I usually add extra details where necessary. Working with plastic makes conversions and modifications easier. My Planet Figure vbench WIP has threads for multiple masterbox vignettes that I have built.

 

[KenBoyle]

That's a very nice job Ken. I wouldn't have noticed the scale difference if you hadn't mentioned it.

Bill

Beautiful piece, really striking with the horse, is it piebald or skew bold or something can never remember!

Cheers Simon

First class, I really like it, congratulations
Melanie

Really nicely done. Indian skin tones are not easy to get right but you have done a great job on him.

Wonderful work. great flesh tones.

Malc

Thanks everyone! I really appreciate the comments.

Simon. As to the type of horse, I've heard many terms used but from an Indian perspective I would use pinto. Pintos were preferred because the coloring provided natural camouflage. Mine is based on a pinto but doesn't have enough pink skin areas to totally qualify. Pretty much an oversight on my part.

Rob, Malc. Indian skin tones can be tricky and they go from light skinned to very dark. Mine are somewhere in the middle. I use a simple but perhaps unorthodox method. I use Vallejo paint and base coat with a shadow color of calvary brown (dark reddish brown) and then highlight up by adding multiple layers of light brown (orange brown) and Sunny skin tone mixed with the shadow color.

 

[NigelR]

Lovely job all round, set off by fantastic groundwork. Well done!

 

[Warren SMITH]

Excellent work

 

[KenBoyle]

Lovely job all round, set off by fantastic groundwork. Well done!

Excellent work

Thanks Nigel and Warren! Much appreciated.

Cheers,
Ken

 

[marco55]

You hit it out of the park again Ken.
Mark

 

[KenBoyle]

You hit it out of the park again Ken.
Mark

Thanks Mark!

 

[MattMcK.]

Fantastic as usual! I admire your dedication to western pieces.

 

[steeleagle]

Great way to blend the scales. Beautifully done!

 

[arj]

You've done it again Ken.
Superb painting and presentation.
Very, very well done.

Cheers,
Andrew