WIP Life Miniatures - Erwin Rommel Bust

[Viking Bob]

Thats a nice bit of painting, excellent flesh tones and on the field grey too, not my period but I like what you've done.
Thanks for sharing.

 

[CondeJulian]

Thank you Bob. It’s a pleasure to paint such great sculpture.

Julian

 

[spinnerguy]

Some excellent painting there,with the five o'clock shadow and the leather jacket.The German officers were well turned out with their uniforms.............

Getting me in the mood to try Montgomery.......

 

[CondeJulian]

Some excellent painting there,with the five o'clock shadow and the leather jacket.The German officers were well turned out with their uniforms.............

Getting me in the mood to try Montgomery.......

Thank you ! I should get it done by next week. I am very impressed with Abteilung's oils (first time using those) on skin and leather. The pigment is fantastic. I should now retire my old beated Rembrandt's.

Yes, these officers were all groomed up, despite Rommel's Africa scenario, I wanted this one to be a little more on the neat side.

Best
Julian

 

[Huw63]

An excellent SBS to this bust. Thanks for sharing your mixes etc.

Cheers

Huw

 

[CondeJulian]

Huw, thank you for the feedback.

Best
Julian

 

[CondeJulian]

Finally, done. Sorry about the dark photo of the finished bust, my workbench warms up the flesh tone too much, but I will get pro photos next week.

As I mentioned earlier, this build will give a couple of articles for the Michigan Toy Soldier Blog, which I write, I will give a full review of the bust itself, also Abteilung 502 Oil paints, and 02 turorials on how to Paint Leather with oils and another on flesh tone with oils (my humble method).

So stay tuned for those who would like to get a closer look on oil painting...

Thank you all for the support on this build

 

[Viking Bob]

Nice, superb finish all round.

 

[Graham]

Very impressive. Really like the style of painting and look forward to reading your articles.

 

[CondeJulian]

Thank you ! Will update soon

 

[phil_h]

Well done and thanks for the SBS
Phil

 

[CondeJulian]

Thank you Phil, I'm learning from your bust now...

 

[Steve Brodie]

Will you post a link on here to the fulL SBS over on MichToy ?

 

[CondeJulian]

Will you post a link on here to the fulL SBS over on MichToy ?

Steve, I will have a Full review of the bust itself for Life Miniatures, Then a review of Abteilung’s Oils.

I will them write 02 tutorials on how to make leather with oils and skin tone, my method. They willl be published at Michtoy’s blog in sequence, starting April, and I will place the links here.

This was a fun build, and my first time using Abteilung’s range.

 

[CondeJulian]

Now, finally some good controlled photos :

Thank you all for the good support. Soon will post here the tutorial links

Best
Julian

 

[CondeJulian]

The Article on painting leather using oils just came out :

https://michtoy-from-the-front.blogspot.com.br/2018/04/so-after-ive-reviewed-life-miniatures.html

 

[CondeJulian]

The Article on painting Flesh tones using oils just came out :

https://michtoy-from-the-front.blogspot.com.br/2018/04/mtsc-trench-runner-dispatch-julian_23.html

 

[Graham]

Interesting read. The paint it on, wipe it off method is ok so long as the head has no other detail cast on. Not sure as I would use it with beards, chin straps moulded on. Not saying it wouldn’t work but the way I would work. However, the rest of it is really the way I like to work

 

[CondeJulian]

Graham, I do this even with other details, that's why I mention it must be the first thing to paint on the face or area. You just have to be extra careful for the later details. Since oils dry to a thin film, quite resistant, You can paint over them with acrylics and wipe of any mistakes with a wet precision cotton, without problems. That's how I do eyes after, paint on and correct any mistakes with Tamiya Precision Cotton Swabs moistened with tap water. when you have beard and hair, it's even better to get a smooth transition in color, I like it. For small scale figure this process is 80% of the work, you get instant good skin tone after wiping it off.

Thanks for the input

 

[Graham]

I have switched to Abteilung oils though and very nice paints they are too