WIP Napoleon in Egypt

[yoshi]

Almost finished this figure from Alexandros Figures. 75 mm white metal.
Painted in oils. Some printers ink added to the sword.
More work to be done on the belt, sword, and shawl.
Critics as Always welcome. Never to old to learn.

 

[Graham]

I was only looking at this figure today on the Historex site. Brilliant work on the gold on the coat tails, very impressive.

 

[Mat Lambert]

Great job and very fine work on all the gold embroidery
Cheers
Mat

 

[ellie]

Great job and love the Gold lace work well done.

Ian

www.elliesminiatures.com

 

[John Howard]

Very nice work. I agree with Mat, the gold brocade is very nice.

All the best

John

 

[Huw63]

Inspirational I think. Really well done.

Cheers

Huw

 

[yoshi]

Tx Guys, The perfect sculpting helpes the painting of the embroidery.

 

[megroot]

Ge zijt goe bezich mannukun.
Hoop hem snel te zien in Antwerpen.

marc

 

[smudger1960]

I do like this,I saw it recently at the BMSS nationals,the figure seems very tall though for Bonaparte,however it's still a brilliant piece and one I will probably get

 

[Richard Baxter]

Hi, how did you do the gold braid? What paints, etc did you use?

 

[Huw63]

I do like this,I saw it recently at the BMSS nationals,the figure seems very tall though for Bonaparte,however it's still a brilliant piece and one I will probably get

Why do you say it seems tall for Bonaparte? Napoleon was slightly above average height for the time (5'6") and the portrayal of him as a dwarf was a propaganda item. Just wondering...

Cheers

Huw

 

[Mike Stevens]

The gold looks a little to metallic to me. I would tone it down on the finished product.

 

[yoshi]

The gold looks a little to metallic to me. I would tone it down on the finished product.

Hi Mike, In real it's not so shining. It's oil paint so it matt down more.

 

[yoshi]

Hi, how did you do the gold braid? What paints, etc did you use?

It's a process:
I start with acrylic Gold Yellow (Vallejo), wash of oil Burnt Umber. Let is dry for some days.
Put oil Golden Ocre on various spots. Let it dry again
Then give it a wash of acrylic paint of gold, to give it a shiny tone.
Then a wash with Burnt Umber added.
After drying again. I put some small marks of oil paint; a mixture of Napels Yellow and Titanium White.

Hope you get it done. Need some patience doing this