Completed Lieutenant Royal Marines 1805

[MENTAL DENTAL]

Another recently completed.









Acrylic sash and lace.the rest is oils.

Cheers David

 

[housecarl]

Another cracker David.
Carl.

 

[ChaosCossack]

David,

I must say I'm running out of adjectives for your work without repeating myself ad nauseum.
Therefore, at the risk of sounding maudlin, your Napoleonics are the benchmarks to which I strive

Thank you for sharing

Colin

 

[kingbingo]

Wounderfull painting, like it. The red paint, is perefekt!!!

 

[megroot]

perfect paintwork.
Like the lifelike skincolor.

marc

 

[Edward]

Brilliant! I really like this one.

 

[Tecumsea]

I have to echo Colin, I love this period and you are the reference for me also, I still keep and refer to your many magazine articles, so glad to see you back full steam into the hobby.

Keith

 

[MarquisMini]

Outstanding job,as usual.
that red scarlet coat is amazing in detail and colors.

 

[BobLff257]

Wow! another corker

Rob

 

[MENTAL DENTAL]

Glad you like 'em folks. Just wish I could get a better focus......always seems to be a tad 'soft' on the image.


David

 

[Mike S.]

Impeccably well painted. Two thumbs up in all regards.

 

[jcichon]

Thanks for your red mix! WHats your gold mix?

 

[MENTAL DENTAL]

Acrylic Vallejo, yellow brown base, shadows add purple and dark blue, highs sunny skintone and lemon yellow to the base.

David

 

[P GREEN]

Very nice work David. The gold lace is really good. How do you get that in oils?
Thanks
Paul

 

[MENTAL DENTAL]

I would imagine an good oil base would be yellow/gold ochre, shaded with purple/dark blue and highs of ?? cadmium yellow and white into the base oil??

David

 

[Silversurfer]

Hello David,

stunning paint job!! I love the red coat!

Thomas

 

[Don]

Another super job David, I think the Royal Marines would be proud of this one.
Love what you have done with the red coat. Very nice indeed.

Don

 

[Edorta]

I like the treatment of face, reds and golds. The white of breeches is perfect too.

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[johndavies]

Wow! Your painting technique is superb. Could you please tell me how you achieve the wonderful matt finish with your oils? Have you posted anything on your painting technique that i can refer to? Cheers, John

 

[oldtrousers]

Fantastic, I have been working on this same kit for a few weeks and modifying Verlinden's Royal Navy Carronade kit for a base. I'm really impressed with the British Scarlet and still struggling a bit with it now, using Vallejo at the moment but may switch back to the good old oils.