Hoplite

[gforceman]

Hello everybody,

Included are some early in progress pics of the figure I'm now working on. It's an old Pegaso figure from their Sparta vs Athenes set. The age became appearant because of the cleaning work needed and a lot of pitting on the figure. It makes me realize how spoilt we are now. As always all is painted with acrylics and inks. I'll post some more updates as soon as I have done some more work on it. As always I would love to hear your comments on this figure.

Cheers,

Gino

 

[Christos]

Very good start,looking forwrd to see it finished!
christos

 

[nickverbakel]

Hey Gino,

Nice job, to bad it isnt military
What colour did you used for the helmet?

Gr
Nick

 

[captnenglish]

nicely done

 

[flart1943]

HI Gino
Great start.
Pete

 

[megroot]

Dat is een goede start.
Ik vind je metaal erg goed. En je laatste bezoeken hier kan ik zien dat het gelukkig wat beter met je gaat. Hopelijk gaat het weer de goede kant op.
In ieder geval met het schilderen. Eindelijk is geen WW II

Marc

 

[jaime]

Hi. Great start. Did you use oils for the helmet

 

[Theodoros]

Very good beging. I'm looking forward for the final resault !

 

[gforceman]

Back again

Hello guys,

After being seperated frm my brushes by illness I'm finally able again to paint. So I have worked some more on this Hoplite figure. It now became appearant what bad quality this figure is (small lead balls all over the figure, no smooth surface, the need to resculpt some parts and a terrible fit of parts) that I'm now confinced this must be a resculpt. The man I'm painting ths for didn't knew this when he bought it frm the internet, but this proves that you can't be carefull enough. Anyway, I think the upperbody and right arm are finnished, unless someone points out something that really needs to be corrected. I will do something about the bad fit of the right arm to the sleeve. I'm now doing the groundwork and will then continue painting the body and final part will be the left arm. All is painted with acryllics, some inks and weathering so far was done with Andrea pigments.

As alway I'm curious to hear what you think of it and how I can improve my painting so next figures lookbetter. Many thanks in advance.

Here's what I did to the helmet ( I used the same technique Jaume Ortiz used). Base was English Uniform + Gloss black. To this I added Ochre Green for the highlighting while pure black was used for shading. I then painted on a thin coat of satin varnish to the area's where base or highlightcolours are seen. The extreme highlighs finally got a thin coat of Gloss Varnish.
Best wishes,

Gino

 

[megroot]

Gino,
I've seen it in life yesterday, and after all the work you have done, he looks very good.
Hope to see the finish very soon.

Marc

 

[Roc]

Gino, good work, I like the bronze in particular, looking forward to seeing more.

Cheers
Roc

 

[gforceman]

the shield is finished!!!

Hi guys,

Finally some more progress to show on this one. By now I also got the inside and outside of the shield with left arm painted. As always all was done using acrylics, inks and some pigments for the dusting.

I'm curious to hear what you guys think of it?

Cheers,

Gino

Inside:

Outside:

 

[megroot]

Gino,
Excellent work. But i will not accept less from you.
I think, when i see this everything is going the right way.
See you at 5 and 6 off april

Marc

 

[vergilius]

Still two weeks to finish it. I'll tell Ramir to make an extra gold medal !

 

[gforceman]

Thanks

Hi Marc,

Thanks for the nice comments, I really appreciate it!

I will be there for sure! Normally I will also be at the clubmeeting next Tuesday.
Do you come too?

Hi Patrick,

Thanks. You could get one too, should you paint with real paint (acrylics)!!! (LOL)

Cheers guys and thanks again,

Gino

 

[megroot]

Hi Marc,

Thanks for the nice comments, I really appreciate it!

I will be there for sure! Normally I will also be at the clubmeeting next Tuesday.
Do you come too?
Gino

No, i don't come next tuesday. We have the contest at the following weekend. I'm in for the whole weekend. With todays gas price's it is gonna be to expensive three days to Antwerp.
So we see eachother at the contest weekend.

marc

 

[Major_Goose]

Different and Beautiful my friend !!! I like the internal line designs , makes it look 4 more complicate and attractive . I dont know if its historically accurate , but i dont care so much !!!! Most of all i am glad to see you back using the brushes !!!!

Keep Safe Bro

Costas

 

[Glen]

Wow... great shield! Looking forward to seeing the finished figure.

Cheers,

Glen