WIP Hero of Soviet Union , scale 1/9

[Martin Antonenko]

55. Day, January 8, 2020


The cap band - whereby I tried to imitate the damaged area where the SS skull was torn off as closely as possible ...:




Unfortunately, sensible pictures are not possible with the lighting conditions today - and the whole cap still shines very much.

But I show you the pictures anyway ...:






Cheers

 

[Martin Antonenko]

For all of you waiting for the next chapter...:

I will go on next Monday with the details of the cap - the oils need a bit of time to dry.

C.U.

 

[Nap]

For all of you waiting for the next chapter...:

I will go on next Monday with the details of the cap - the oils need a bit of time to dry.

C.U.

Right here waiting ...the cap looks good look forward to Monday's update

Have a good weekend

Nap

 

[Martin Antonenko]

56. Day, January 13, 2020


Sorry - I'm only now coming to put my day's work in ...

The last brushstrokes apply to the details of the cap that our comrade put on the piglet's head.

Let's take a closer look at the officer's cap from Hitler's gang of murderers ...:



The SS variant of the Reichs eagle (1) was not embroidered on these caps, but was stamped from aluminum and attached with two clips ...:





The two buttons (2) to which the garter strap was attached were made of the same material ...:



I used silver printer's ink and then worked out the details with very thin washes with a mixture of "neutral black" and printers ink ...:




The storm belt (3) consisted of cord for the officer's caps, which was braided from silver threads ...:



I first painted them with "Vallejo" silver - and then applied thin washes of silver and black ...:




The cap peak (4) is not high-gloss at my templatee, but looks rather matt ...



... so that I don't have to paint "hard" light reflections, but can use black and white oil paints ...



... which are veneered as smoothly as possible.

And that's it, the finished cap - although I want to do a little rework on the top piping tomorrow ...





So much for today.
Cheers

 

[Martin Antonenko]

57. Day, January 14, 2020


I have just finished correctures of the cap - the pipings and the peak, where I have tightened the light / dark contrasts a bit ...


... then the cap was put on the piglets head with two-component glue ...


... and now I'm ready!








Tomorrow there will be some final pictures ...


Thank you Palo for sculpting this wonderful bust, it was a real pleasure to paint it!
I hope I was able to do justice to your awesome sculpt with my painting ...


Cheers

 

[Nap]

Martin

The cap looks great my friend

THANK YOU for such a interesting and detailed SBS ..I have enjoyed every post

With the cap on schnitzel ....it really does look wonderful ...look forward to seeing the final pictures

You should do a sepia/black and white period photo as well

Look forward to the next

Why not put something into FOTM as well as voting in previous months

Thanks for sharing

Happy benchtime

Nap

PS Thanks to Palo for the sculpt ..you are one lucky guy Martin !!!