French Revolutionary 1789

[Patrick Kamsma]

Here she is, Pegaso's 75mm French Revolutionary. The one with the boob hanging out.
Figure was ready for EuroMilitaire but didn't had any chance to shoot some pictures.

First time fleshtones with oils. The rest is acrylic.
With my previous miniature I had a bit of critism that there was not enough contrasts in my whites.
So I tried to be a bit more extreme in my white in the flag.
Hope you like it.



Grtz
Patrick

 

[Babelfish]

The piece itself does absolutely nothing for me. Not Pegaso's finest hour by any means. Contrived and cliched, and I don't think the face is particularly well sculpted. The left leg looks odd-shaped and too thin as well, although that may just be the camera angle.

But all that said, you've done a very nice paint job on it, and the flag looks great. The shading & highlighting on the cape also look spot on to me.

- Steve

 

[kagemusha]

Hi Patrick, a great improvement to your previous piece.
If I may offer a tip for getting the balance right with regard to contrast/shading of whites. Keep a piece of white cotton (old t-shirt) or heavy cartridge paper handy.....works for all colours by the way.
Introduce similar folds in to it, so it resembles what you are painting, then shine a light from the same angle you are portraying in the figure/flag etc., which will give you an accurate idea of how far to go with the shading/contrast.
Hope this helps.

Ron

 

[John Bowery]

Patrick,
I like it.
Cheers
John

 

[Patrick Kamsma]

Thnx for the tip, Ron.
Didn't think of that.

 

[smudger1960]

Very nice Patrick, I saw it at euro and liked it very much

 

[megroot]

Heel erg mooi werkje. Heb er is goed naar gekeken op Euro, en ik stond ervan versteld.
Als je het wit nog meer opgehaald heb dan ben ik ervan overtuigd dat het nog beter geworden is.
Zou hetzelfde aan de schaduwkant doen, dus donkerder, Vooral in het diepste van de vouw.

Marc

 

[Ferris]

I really like the flag. Colours seem right, including of shades and highlights. If you'd indeed push the contrast slightly, the flag will be excellent. I think you only need to add some extremes in selected places, the midtones and smoothness of transitions look perfect.

Groeten,
Adrian

 

[Patrick Kamsma]

Thnx Smudger, Marc and Adrian.

Adrian I heard you are coming to SMC next weekend.
You can witness this one in real live. She will be on the competitiontables.

If you want to join the competition I would like to ask you if you want to pre register your models.
It saves us lots of work during the show.
You can pre register till sunday oct. 6th.
Check www.scalemodelfactory.nl
Smc2013 pages -> wedstrijd (Or competition)
Link at the bottom.

Grtz Patrick

 

[Ferris]

Will indeed be there and will pre-register tonight. Just three entries this time, too many distractions the past year.

See you there, cheers,
Adrian

 

[steve j]

i think the flesh is too dark looks like a bloke in drag

 

[Patrick Kamsma]

Thnx Steve.
Photo's are a bit too dark indeed.
I have some in progress pics, the face was ready though. They we're photographed against a white background.

 

[Mirofsoft]

Like "it" as it is
Enough shading for me

 

[Mariobusta]

I think you have done a very nice job on this figure . I personally like the figure and will give it a go at some stage. I find female flesh tones easier with acrylics and an airbrush base, and I am an Oiler from way back !

 

[samonac]

Nice patriot
Sam

 

[swralph]