Eddie Rickenbacker bust

[Mongo Mel]

Greetings all,
I just finished my Eddie Rickenbacker bust and thought I'd share a picture of it with you. I picked it up in a trade but I believe it was made by Kirin and was included in a DML airplane kit.

Ok..gordy was nice enough to set me up with a gallerey to help solve my posting problems. So...here goes:

I can't vouch for the uniform color or for the color of the two badges on the left breast. I couldn't find any info beyond black & white photographs. If anyone out there can verify or correct what I've done, the help would be greatly appreciated.
Any and all comments and constructive criticism is welcome and appreciated.
Thanks,
Craig

PS: For those of you that may be interested, I'm the guy that's painting the Dave Greive bust of Von Blucher. I had a setback with it and had to strip off the paint on the uniform. No matter what I did, it just kept getting worse and worse. So there is no progress worth showing yet. But he's not done for yet!

 

[gordy]

excellent work
MSN is finicky when it comes to picture linking.. you should have the option to upload a pic to your post or have a gallery album set up

 

[Guy]

Hello Craig,

I checked in my "manual for critiqueing" and went to the section where you critique something that looks perfect and the page was empty. If you did anything more, the bust would be breathing. He looks absolutely great. wow....keep up the great work.

Guy

 

[gforceman]

Great painting!!!
I like the way the colour of the uniform turned out and just love the face. Awesome work. I've that bust just came available seperately.

keep up the good work, and keep on showing us pics of it.

Gino

 

[Richard E]

Craig

Help..... I can't get to see your bust (stupid msn, causing errors), and Eddie Rickenbacker is a particular favourite of mine.
Can you try posting in the forum again please. ?

Richard

 

[Mongo Mel]

Greetings guys,
Well...I just want to say thanks for all the nice compliments. It's very kind of you all to say the nice things you've said .
I've seen the work you fellas produce and I consider this high praise indeed!

Richard:
I've tried several different ways to get the image to show here but with no success. Funny, I've posted at least one other picture form MSN under mt Napoleon bust thread and it works just fine. So the best I can do right now is to post another link to the fig. This one is in my gallery on ArmoramA.

Rickenbacker on ArmoramA

I hope this one works. If not, I thought I would try asking Gordy about geting a gallery here.

Thanks again,
Craig

 

[Guy]

Craig....beautiful.....I love the eyes, soft, like he has his eyes partly closed, and the facial tone is super.

btw....we do have a gallery here with quite a few postings of the guy's work they are working on. Each member has actually 3 galleries that they can use.

Guy

 

[Richard E]

Craig

That's better, must be MSN ???.

Lovely work, the face is very expressive.

Richard

 

[LCoote]

Beautiful work Craig, love the face. !