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Back againHello 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
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
