"Medicene Dog" - Cheyenne Wolf Scout

[Bluesking]

Great job Guy, one of my favourite figures.

 

[megroot]

Excellent work Guy,
This SBS on groundwork is a great inspiration to do more with my bases.

marc

 

[Guy]

Thanks guys for the kind words. Much appreciated.

I do have one question. It seems that every time I break open a kit that has arrows, they all look like lightning bolts rather than arrows. With something that small, do you have a hint you can share as to how you straighten them?

Thanks, Mike

Thanks Mike, I am glad the sbs's are helpful to you.

As far as crooked / bent arrows I usually take the side of a work base with the feather end hanging off the base and gently start to roll them with two fingers back and forth until they straighten out. I try to bend them as straight as possible first then roll them. Hope this helps

 

[John Bowery]

Guy,
Congratulations, it is a stunning figure and the base SBS is great. It will add to the figure overall. Well done.
Cheers
John

 

[Guy]

Thanks John, I appreciate the kind words.

Are you coming to Tulsa Show this year in June?

 

[Christos]

Good work,thanks for sharing!!!!!

 

[moore]

Hi Guy,

I really like your sbs's. I really enjoy doing groudwork and am always
on the look out for something different. Appreciate you sharing your
techniques. I have one of Ron's bases that has the irregular corner.
On yours your saying that you reapplied something on top of that corner,
correct ? I would like to try to do the same thing. I think I understand what
your saying about putting a MR Ltd. piece over it. Do you think you could
do the same with sculpt a mold over that corner ? Maybe put little bits
of rock in it.

Dee

 

[Guy]

Thanks for the kind words Chris & Dee.

Dee ~ You can use any number of different ways to achieve what I did or something simular by using Magic Sculpt or any other sculpting medium. I happen to have these extra bases Mike sold me and decided to use this method.

 

[Zlobov*S]

Hi my friend Guy, is really fine figure a scout, and also a fine list! My gratitude for your participation in an exhibition "Chief". We shall wait for an exhibition the next year!
Yours faithfully.

 

[Marcel]

Great work on the groundwork! I can still learn a lot from your SBS, thanks. btw great figure too.

 

[Guy]

Thanks Sergey & Marcel for the feedback. Much appreciated.

 

[Guy]

Now that the base colors are dry we can go ahead and do the washes. The was is done to give the ground depth and detail. I have decided to do the acrylic wash first with 4 drops of black acrylic to 16 drops of water. Sometimes you run out of wash and have to mix another.

Below the wash is ready to apply with a #3 brush being careful at the edges and have a warm wet cloth ready to wipe away and wash that me get on the wood base itself.

Below you can see the wash has been applied and now has to dry before the dry-brushing can start.

Below you see the color I chose, Humbrol flesh to do the dry-brushing. I use an old business card so that the oil carrier soaks down into the 2 cards leaving the pigment for the dry-brushing.

Below is the Humbrol flesh drops onto the business card and you can see the marks left by the dry-brush as I draw off the outside circle of paint where it has started to dry.

Below the upper half of the dirt has been dry-brushed showing the difference.

Below is the finished dry-brushing of the dirt.

Next, the gray rocks are given an enamel wash and then dry-brushed with lighter colors.


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[Guy]

The enamel wash is done in the same manner the acrylic wash is done. A 4:1 ratio is used as well. 1 drop of paint to 4 drops of thinner. The wash is applied over the upper rocks as well as the lower base rock as shown below. I chose to do an enamel wash because I didn't have an acrylic gray I liked.

The mix for the dry-brushing is floquil enamel mist gray with a couple drops of white onto the old business card.

Below you see one side of the upper rocks dry-brushed and the other side not. I took these photos to give you an idea what the dry-brushing lightly will do to the dried, washed rocks.

Below left you can see the rocks dry-brushed and the change from the photos above. The dry-brushing brings out the detail of the rocks. On the right you see the dry-brush card where the oil has separated to the uppper left and I worked with the semi-dry paint from the bottom right.

Below is the base with the first dry-brushing done. The earth color will be dry-brushed again as well as the rocks.

All comments / questions welcomed.

Next is the final dry-brushing and the vegatation.
thanks for looking.
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[megroot]

It is great to see that a wooden base can be the total part off the whole scenery. ( i hope i wrote it right).
Excellent.

marc

 

[Guy]

I agree Marc. It is rare that the base becomes part of the scene. I like the aspects of this kind of "representation" of a figure.

 

[Scott777]

wow guy as always excellent work. I love how you've incorporated the natural features of the base. I look forward to seeing you again in Tulsa!

 

[Guy]

Thanks Scott. I am glad you are coming to the Tulsa show this year. Look forward to seeing you and Nick again.

 

[Sambaman]

What fun it is watching that base come to life with the dry-brushing! Cool stuff!

Jay H.
OKC

 

[Michaelg]

Thanks for the clothes pins tip.

 

[Guy]

Thanks for the kind words Jay & Michael.