Dragon 1/9 Feldgandarme acrylic

[Jamie Stokes]

Pastels and weather effects

Mark, love the idea of a multi layer effect...

very subtle, but you do have the canvas for it...the effects would be lost on a 1/35 bike, and pointless on anything much smaller

here is a link on pigments, rain marks etc from missing lynx.

http://www.missing-lynx.com/rareworld.htm

Just to clarify, has it been a spring rain where he has been traveling, from a few days ago? That, in my mind, would justify dry mud, dust, and some rain effects (under a light coat of fresh dust).

Just read the above; that may sound arrogant, I'm not intending it to be.
You have done such a great job on the figure and bike, I'm just trying to help you marry the figure to a base the complements it all. Rather then be some smart alec who waits until the figure and base is finished, then say "oh, but weathering blah blah blah........" when it could have been said 8 steps previously. Useful feedback after the critical moment has passed, isn't.

attached are some Google images of bikes with travel muck, and the backs of riders. There seem to be lots of images of fronts of riders, but rear views of weathering effects is uncommon.

The dust build up seems to be all around the boots (which you probably intended to do anyway [my personal 'duh' moment]) and like you plan to do, gets lighter as it travels up.

Be interesting to see how you handle it.

cheers

 

[Markus]

Hi Mark,

I love what I see until now - especially the face comes along excellent !!!

Keep it up !!!

Cheers,
Markus

 

[gothicgeek]

Jamie! many thanks on those links and your thoughts.....

Marcus! thank you very much.....

this is nearing the end now (HOORAH!) it's 2 months since i started this

anyway started to really get stuck into messing up the smart and cleen dude

i based the area with lots of washes of graveyard earth as a base to the weathering.

covered hands and face and attacked with 2 shades of diluted chalks and then a spattered layer of tamiya weathering master followed by thick layer of the same round the boots and the hem of the coat...

overdone???

&

mark

 

[theseeker]

Mark,
He came out excellent!
Rocky

 

[tonydawe]

Mark,

Excellent job mate. The weathering effects are perfect.

 

[Jamie Stokes]

Weathering effects

So far, the weathering effects for the figure are good.

Looks like several hours of hard riding, gradually drying as the day warmed up..

The key thing will be to match the weathering of the rider to the bike.

To make a variation on a technique passed on by Tony Dawe, invert the bike to see where most of mud, dust and crap would build up. True, most of it is under neath, and mostly invisible, but some subtle texturing would help marry it all together.

Any thoughts on groundwork yet? Your progression through this project is logical and coherent, the figure deserves a good base to tell the 'snapshot of a story', and show off your work!

Which Tony were you thanking, the General Monash one in West Australia, or the ancient Greek god of Janitors and hallways in Tasmania?

(Tony's original hint was to take a top down view on a figure for spotting highlight areas.)

Cheers

 

[Brent Fordham]

You're doing wonderful work on this, Mark! Really enjoying your posts - the weathering looks very well done.

 

[gothicgeek]

Cheers guys!

Jamie.... still mulling the basing of this over, have an idea of mounting it onto a piece of black plexiglass on one of these turntables.

or not LOL

gonna experiment with some basework over the next couple of days

effectivly finished, some small tweakwork required but much more fiddling and i'll spoil it

 

[Black Army]

Congratulations! This result is fantastic. You have done a great job with this "monster". For me is this figure to big.

Cheers,
Balázs

 

[Marcel]

Excellent piece of work Mark, the wheatering looks great!
Now give him some nice base.

Regards,
Marcel.

 

[Jamie Stokes]

Truly a excellent result

Mark,
the figure has really come together.

I really have to look at the photos to see the subtle detail of weathering, but I can see it. (Cameras do so remove those subtle textures)

As for base, your ideas for a round base are spot on.

As for groundwork, my thoughts are part of a dirt track, perhaps with a dried (or drying) mud puddle, a grass verge, and perhaps one of those concrete road markers that says Paris, 75km, or something like that. Your figure would look really at home, and you would be telling such a story!

Cheers

 

[gothicgeek]

bet you all thought this thread was corpsed eh?

figured a way of making lots of leaf shapes out of paper as i want a bramble or hedge ontop of a small ridge of earth... trying to get this put to bed so hope to have it done by sword and lance

( if i don't de-fenistrate the thing )

i plan on a lot of leaves ..... UUUHHHH!

 

[Mike S.]

Exceedingly well done, especially since it holds up to scrutiny so beautifully at such magnification!

The "Cartoon" effect you might be referring to is the overly doe-eyed look as a result of making the irises just a tad too large. This will always give a child or womanly look, or at worst, a Japanamation character appearance (think Speed Racer).

 

[housecarl]

Nothing more to say, excellent!

 

[Jamie Stokes]

Wow,
missed the update.....
good to see the idea for doing a bramble plant, the earthwork supports the figure, glad this was 'bumped'

Cheers

 

[eissteban]

hi Mark,
what a piece of madness !
result is really impressive, great scale and great work

congratulations

 

[mil-mart]

Mark, Can not believe how I missed this thread, superb painting, very informative and great contributions. It must be my lucky day, think I'll go buy a lottery ticket.
Thanks for showing

Cheers Ken

 

[gothicgeek]

Thanks Guys!

and to everyone who commented

this is now consigned to "the display cabinet" which i am overhauling ATM

keep your eye's peeled later in the year for the sequal "1/9 Zundapp with Falschirmjager"



i learned alot on this model and the next one should be a fair bit nicer ( read Much nicer LOL )

Cheers

Mark

 

[Black Army]

Congratulations Mark!

The result is absolutly great!

I'm looking forward your next SBS!

Cheers,
Balázs