Completed Havildar 36th Sikh Regiment, 1897

[blaster]

Hi Simon,

I likee. Just a variation suggestion for your colour scheme. Dark blue trousers and puttees but make the puttees a different shade to create some colour contrasts.

Victor

 

[Briggsy]

Hi Simon,

I likee. Just a variation suggestion for your colour scheme. Dark blue trousers and puttees but make the puttees a different shade to create some colour contrasts.

Victor

Interesting idea, wish I'd read this post this morning, but it's never too late. I was aiming to get a tonal difference between the red tunic and the red the turban as well.

Cheers Simon

 

[Briggsy]

So yesterday's progress is more build up of colour, trying to get good saturation, which looks better on the figure than it does in the pictures. I took Victor's suggestion and started changing the blue tone on the puttees, they are now predominantly Vellajo Dark Prussian Blue and the trousers are SC75 Deep Blue. The reds in the tunic are Vallejo colours and I will use the SC75 reds for the turban.



Cheers Simon

 

[Nap]

Hi Simon

Good session at the bench , liking the colour differences , works well

Reds building up well

Now looking the business

Looking forward to seeing more

Enjoy ....we all are

Nap

 

[Briggsy]

Hi Simon

Good session at the bench , liking the colour differences , works well

Reds building up well

Now looking the business

Looking forward to seeing more

Enjoy ....we all are

Nap

Cheers Kev, I was getting a little stuck getting the trousers and tunic right, when glazing only highlights the tonal difference you know you're doing something wrong. I sat back did some work on other projects and came up with a solution that seems to have worked, will post later as I'm on the school run just now..

Cheers Simon

 

[MalcC]

Hi Simon, He's really coming together now, and its definitely going to be a stand out figure.

Malc

 

[Briggsy]

Hi Simon, He's really coming together now, and its definitely going to be a stand out figure.

Malc

Cheers Malc, I'll post pictures tomorrow I haven't the will to get back to.my bench tonight.

Cheers Simon

 

[David Spencer]

I really like the tones. A nice piece of work thus far.

 

[theBaron]

... The reds in the tunic are Vallejo colours and I will use the SC75 reds for the turban...
Cheers Simon

I was wondering what your goal was for the tunic, when I looked at the early photo. Not challenging, just curious to know how you are "building" the color. Fun and instructive to watch!

Prost!
Brad

 

[Briggsy]

Many thanks David and Brad, much appreciated.

I tried something a little different to my normal approach on this figure, I'll explain the tunic thus far but the same technique was used on the trousers.

I first laid in a thin wash of red (Vallejo Deep Vermilion), then instead of building the saturation I went straight into laying in the shade. The plans was to then build the red blending it into the shade and not using a highlight colour at all. I just couldn't break the hard line between the increasingly saturated red and the shade no matter how much glazing I did. Rather frustrated by this I used a Vallejo Light Orange that is fairly opaque to break the line and continued by over painting more red. The orange was blended more easily into the shade colour because of its opaque nature.

Normally when I build the highlights with oranges and for really high highlights a yellow I give that stage a day to dry and fully cure before using a combination of glazes and washes to over paint it all red. This then shows through as a brighter red than the mid tone which is purely red right down to the base coat. If something really needs to be bright red a thin wash of white feathered in around the edges can produce a nice high highlight with enough overpainting to conceal the white. Some reds are more translucent than others, and as bright as Vermilion van be it is fairly translucent.

Hope this makes some kind of sense!

Cheers Simon

 

[Briggsy]

This is what I managed yesterday, as stated above I changed tac on my technique to something I am more comfortable with. Apart from the hands and turban he is in the all course accounted for, just need to refine things now I think.



Cheers Simon

 

[Nap]

Hi Simon

I do like this , looking forward to seeing your refining

Have fun @ the bench

Nap

 

[frog]

Hi Simon a bit late catching up on this one but looking good looking forward to seeing this finished

Dave

 

[NigelR]

That is looking very nice, the refinements are working.

 

[Briggsy]

Kev, Dave & Nigel, many thanks gents, I have been concentrating on him today and leaving other projects waiting. One other thing I locked up on, I forget to make the seam piping on his trousers so have had to paint them in, also need to find his Martini Henry!

Cheers Simon

 

[David Spencer]

Fast work!
And really nice tones, and the depth of colour is excellent.

 

[Briggsy]

Fast work!
And really nice tones, and the depth of colour is excellent.

Cheers David, it helps being able to sit at the bench for a few hours every day, apart from cracking through a lot of projects it helps me retain my sanity. Having Planet Rock on the radio all day helps as well. How is your winter project progressing? Post some pics on my thread if you want, it's all interesting stuff and decades since I last made an aircraft of any kind.

Cheers Simon

 

[David Spencer]

Hi Simon
The Utter Heresy thread in the Lounge is where progress photos are going.
It's jolly enough, but I will be glad to get finished and back to figs.

 

[Briggsy]

Almost finished, still got to do the base that I started before the figure and promptly forgot all about!

Anyway here he is with his rifle, as I am prone to missing things, like his trouser stripes, please let me know so I can sort it.



I tried to get away from the red and blue colour scheme that has clothed quite a few figures recently, didn't quite manage it with this, though it is reversed I suppose a change is as good as a rest!

Cheers Simon

 

[blaster]

Hi Simon

What a lovely figure!!! Rgds Victor.