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[Paulo]

Hello Planeteers, my name is Paulo, i`m Portuguese and I actually live in Switzerland. I follow your site for long time but this is my first post here.
The subject is a French Nap sailor and I hope you like it, anyway you can post your opinion wich is shorely welcome !!

 

[mil-mart]

Paulo, very nice work, I was going to make the comment that his left hand looked unnatural, however then realised it was hanging in a sling . What material have you used and what is the scale . I Look forward to seeing him painted.

Cheers Ken

 

[tonydawe]

Hi Paulo,

Firstly welcome to Planet Figure and thank you for sharing pics of your sculpting.

I like the idea behind your piece, but the rifle seems to be over-scale for the figure.

 

[kansas kid]

Hello Paulo:

Like Tony, I want to sincerely welcome you to Planet Figure. And thank you
for posting this most eye appealing figure. You do very good work. I will be
eager to see pictures of it when you have it painted.

Again, welcome aboard,

Rick Brownlee
a.k.a. Kansas Kid and The Miami Jayhawk

 

[megroot]

Paulo,
Your sculptwork is sensational. Really something different, and i like that.
Looking forward to the painted version.
Is it gonna be a commercial figure??

Marc

 

[Paulo]

hello again, thanks for the comments, the scale is 54mm , the materials are duro and magic sculp, somethimes I also mix them together, the head is verlinden made by R. saunders and is a single piece not commercial.
as you I cant whait to se it painted.
i`ll send you new fotos
Paulo

 

[Paulo]

painting

some pictures of painting job, i let you know that I use acrilics andrea/vallejo, and somethimes artists oil, for faces (skin) and leather equipment. this is the first stage of painting i`ll rearrange the figures at the end to create a somewath armony !
see you sonn
Paulo
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[Paulo]

some troubles with pictures, sorry !!

 

[1969]

Welcome Paulo and nice work on the sculpting and great start to the painting, a French Nap sailor isnt something you see very often, very nice subject.

Steve

 

[Paulo]

Hello steve , thanks for the comments, is true thet wee don`t see often french Nap sailors, thats why I choose this one. I spent five years in the Portuguese Marines Corp
and left me a special like for Navy uniforms, there some very interesting in deed !

 

[Paulo]

almost finish

ok its almost at the end , same fine details to finish !!

 

[1969]

Lovely work on both figure and basework Paulo


Steve

 

[Dan Morton]

Well done, Paulo! Interesting and different subject and well-sculpted. Welcome to the Planet!

All the best,
Dan

 

[Paulo]

Thanks guys is allways nice to ear nice words, once finished i`ll atack one figure from the English civil wars , and shell post it here, ok !!

 

[maerlandt]

fantastic piece, great work!!!!!

 

[MCPWilk]

Quite a superb figure. One small point: cigarettes did not appear until the Crimean War, when soldiers started wrapping their tobacco in cartridge paper. Until then, tobacco was chewed or smoked in a pipe.............

Happy modelling.

Mike

 

[megroot]

Excellent work, both the painting and the sculpting.

Marc

 

[Paulo]

hoops !! (for the cigarret) I wasn`t really shore about it, next time i shell pay attention to those kind of things, anyway thanks !!