My latest: S&T's GI...in 12 hours...straight...

[bwildfong]

Hey all,

Been a while since I've posted anything (done a lot of lurking however), but here's a few shots of my latest. He's one of S&T's US infantrymen, superbly sculpted in 1/35 by John Rosengrant, from his "Calm Before the Storm" dio set.

As a bit of backstory, I chose this figure for our club's (Guelph, Ont.) annual "12-hour build" event; as the name suggests, each modeller has 12 hours to take a kit from unopened box to completed model. We started at 8:00 am, opened our first beers at 8:00:30 am and dove on in, pausing only for coffee, pee breaks, more beers, lunch, more beer, pee, you get the picture... My neck muscles began to cramp up about hour 6 and I was in spasm for the rest of the build and into the next day (the 12 hour build ain't for wimps )but I managed to get him done and on to a base with 15 minutes to spare:

After a day or 2 to recover and let the oils dry, I gave it a spray of Dullcoat, added the snow (baking soda) and rivulets of water (acrylic gloss medium) to the base, and voila !

Thanks for looking and comments/critique are always appreciated.

Cheers,

Brian

 

[herbwf]

Gotta admire those Canadians! Beer and figure painting at 0800. He looks real good for being beat on for 12 hrs straight. He is oil over acryl? If so, did you use something to dry him out a little between colors?
He does look very good and that day sounds like a real good time. Thanks for the idea.
Herb

 

[bwildfong]

Thanks guys, compliments much appreciated (being judged insane IS a compliment, right ? )

Herb, you're right, he is oils over acrylics, and no, I didn't add anything to speed up the drying time of the oils; I was just really careful not to cause any cross contamination of the colours - that was fairly easy to avoid since the uniform colours all drew on the same 4 or 5 colours; I just toggled different amounts of the individual colours when mixing for each piece of clothing or equipment. So even if there was a little mixing, there was no obvious damage - it may even have helped to give the clothing a more weathered look. Once the build was done, I waited a couple of days to let him really dry off well before I Dullcoated him.

Again, thanks for looking,

Cheers,

Brian