Medic-326th Airborne Medical Company, 101st Airborne Division Ba
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Great paint work..
Ferris
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Very realistic result, impressive.
Can you say a bit more about how you tackle flesh areas?
Cheers,
Adrian
Can you say a bit more about how you tackle flesh areas?
Cheers,
Adrian
Certainly! I posted an article on how I painted resin headsculpts some time back on my blogsite RAN, but nevertheless the technique is basically similar and begins with a basecoat.
Note: I certainly didn’t develop this technique. Here it is below:
There are many techniques to painting resin headsculpts, but if you are adventurous, this “deconstruction” technique might be the one for you.
It’s basically adding thin wash layers of skin colour to “flesh” out the final outcome. I used acrylic paints and a slow-drying medium to aid in blending and to create a tinted layer on top of each painted layer.
For this exercise, I used one of Tony Barton’s latest headsculpt.
For the start, the original colour of the resin was not modified and left as is.
The first layer, after cleaning up andwashing the resin headsculpt in soapy water, is a diluted shade of grey-blue colour painted under the eye-bags, upper lip and general beard/stubble and any short hair-cropped areas. After the layer has almost dried, a diluted shade of flesh colour is thinned down with the medium and painted on the top and sides of the forehead and cheeks, and neck areas.
A diluted shade of ruddy-red flesh colour is then thinned down with the slow-dry medium and worked into the cheeks, sides of the nose and upper part and sides of the forehead.
I then worked on the eyeballs, white paint is never used for painting the pupils as the white is too stark, I prefer the earlier shade of grey-blue. Upper eyelid shadows were carefully painted in as were the irises and pupils. A reddish flesh colour was used for the tear-duct areas and the inner part of the lower eyelids. After setting the headsculpt out to dry, I would then return and improve on the minute details around the eyelids, lips, checkbone areas. Speckling a colour that is a shade darker than the skintone comes next. Gloss varnish would be added to the eyes upon completion of the headsculpt painting.
Note: I certainly didn’t develop this technique. Here it is below:
There are many techniques to painting resin headsculpts, but if you are adventurous, this “deconstruction” technique might be the one for you.
It’s basically adding thin wash layers of skin colour to “flesh” out the final outcome. I used acrylic paints and a slow-drying medium to aid in blending and to create a tinted layer on top of each painted layer.
For this exercise, I used one of Tony Barton’s latest headsculpt.
For the start, the original colour of the resin was not modified and left as is.
The first layer, after cleaning up andwashing the resin headsculpt in soapy water, is a diluted shade of grey-blue colour painted under the eye-bags, upper lip and general beard/stubble and any short hair-cropped areas. After the layer has almost dried, a diluted shade of flesh colour is thinned down with the medium and painted on the top and sides of the forehead and cheeks, and neck areas.
A diluted shade of ruddy-red flesh colour is then thinned down with the slow-dry medium and worked into the cheeks, sides of the nose and upper part and sides of the forehead.
I then worked on the eyeballs, white paint is never used for painting the pupils as the white is too stark, I prefer the earlier shade of grey-blue. Upper eyelid shadows were carefully painted in as were the irises and pupils. A reddish flesh colour was used for the tear-duct areas and the inner part of the lower eyelids. After setting the headsculpt out to dry, I would then return and improve on the minute details around the eyelids, lips, checkbone areas. Speckling a colour that is a shade darker than the skintone comes next. Gloss varnish would be added to the eyes upon completion of the headsculpt painting.
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Really amazing work there! Very life-like and compelling.
Tom
Tom
Ferris
A Fixture
Thanks for the SBS.
Really like the look of your figures.
Cheers
Adrian
Really like the look of your figures.
Cheers
Adrian
Grod
A Fixture
Top work.
Gordon
Gordon
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