Completed Critique Ivar, Northern Raider

[Goetz]

Hi fellows,

this little fellow from Nocturna Models came of my workbench a few days ago. It was started as a paintjob "in between", and that's what it became: pure fun!!!
Painting was done in oils over an acrylic basecote and some PI for the metals.









Any comments are welcome.

Cheers
Goetz

 

[Nap]

Hi Goetz,

Thanks for sharing this , its a lovely sculpt IMO , really like what you have done with the helmet and the hair ...lovely highlights on this especially ......what did you do to achieve the helmet effects ?

If anything I would probably put a dark wash over the cheeks and lips ...like the eyes and the work you have done on the underneath them ..looks tired out

Nap

 

[Karlosfandango]

Like it, very nice . Hair, eyes, and the green are well done.
Thanks Karl.

 

[BobLff257]

Great work Goetz. I really like this bust, it goes to show that a great charactor study doesn't need torso embellishment for it to work.

Rob

 

[BobLff257]

Great work Goetz. I really like this bust, it goes to show that a great charactor study doesn't need torso embellishment for it to work.

Rob

 

[megroot]

Extremely well painted bust.

marc

 

[Edorta]

Very good work Goetz, I know this bust and it´s in a small scale. Yoy have made a really clean and precise work, adding to the figure a lot of life.

Military miniatures painted by Eduardo Garcia

 

[pmfs]

Lovely paint.

Pedro

 

[Alex Long]

Looks great, the hair is particularly good.

Alex

 

[brian]

I've painted this little bust a while ago and you've did a very good paint job Goetz.
Brian

 

[Santiago Moltó]

Superg Goetz !

Specially the blue turquoise tone and the subtle scars in his face.

 

[Martin Antonenko]

Very intensive eyes! Like him very much!

Well done.

Cheers

 

[Captain Lol]

Great work Sir .

 

[Babelfish]

A simple bust but beautifully done. The face and hair are knockout.

- Steve

 

[smudger1960]

Very nice work,the more I see this bust painted the more I'm tempted to buy it,I really like the eyes and the hair has been very well sculpted and painted

 

[davidmitchell]

Excellent painting Goetz, love everything about it.


Cheers David

 

[Ron NL-S]

That's one serious looking fella!
Love the paintjob. What a fantastic use of colours.
Just one small remark; if he is that fatigued looking, I would expect some blue underneath his eyes. I think that would blend the eyes into the face more, making it more of a unity. These intense eyes stand out a lot now.

And what do you guys mean by "little scale"? Surely it is 90mm or larger, right?

 

[Goetz]

Wow, thanks a lot to all of you! I didn't expect such a "wave" of replies...

Hi Goetz,

Thanks for sharing this , its a lovely sculpt IMO , really like what you have done with the helmet and the hair ...lovely highlights on this especially ......what did you do to achieve the helmet effects ?

If anything I would probably put a dark wash over the cheeks and lips ...like the eyes and the work you have done on the underneath them ..looks tired out

Nap

Nap, the non-metal areas were done by a mix of paynesgrey and medieval yellow as base, this mix received a little red and black for the warmer appearance in those darker areas. The upper part was painted with the base combined with more yellow.
The metal parts were done with a mix of PI silver and sepia & van dyke brown. Lighter shades (with less oils) were stippled in after the base had dried. Some brown washes (burnt umber in combination with black) were put around the corners to imitate a little rust.
A few of the battle "scars" were already in place, the rest was painted (most of them!).

Hope this helps.

I still have some problems to get the right light for photographing, the cheeks are darker in reality then in the pictures.

That's one serious looking fella!
Love the paintjob. What a fantastic use of colours.
Just one small remark; if he is that fatigued looking, I would expect some blue underneath his eyes. I think that would blend the eyes into the face more, making it more of a unity. These intense eyes stand out a lot now.

And what do you guys mean by "little scale"? Surely it is 90mm or larger, right?

You're right with that, a blue or bluegrey shadow below his eyes would have been possible too. I took the red as a contrast to bring out these eyes even more.

The figure has a heigth of approx. 45 mm and the box says 1/12 as scale.

Thanks again to all of you.
Cheers
Goetz

 

[Elaphus]

Hello Götz,

i see it very late, but now .

This bust is great, absolut beautiful !!!

Hope to see it in Duesseldorf,

greetings

Karsten

 

[John Bowery]

Really well done and great tones.
Cheers
John