Nosferatu bust

[Herb Metzler]

Kevin Peart invited me to post on here, my first time, with my latest effort: the long OOP bust of Nosferatu, sculpted by Mike Good some 20 years ago for Jaguar. Graf Orlock is, of course, Count Dracula, whom Stoker describes as "clad in black from head to foot." The challenge I set myself was to paint this old kit utilizing the newer painting styles inspired by illustrators and graphic artists, while trying to distinguish between different textures of black silk, wool, velvet, and frogging. I made extensive use of an airbrush for the first time, and used oils, enamels, acrylics, inks, and even rattle-can texture paint on the base.The flesh tones were inspired by Gericault's study of the head of a corpse, conveniently located at the museum where I work. I hope you enjoy it -- I've wanted to paint this for...well...over 20 years!

 

[sippog]

Like the textures, especially the coat.

 

[pmfs]

Hi!
Great work all-round.

Cheers,
Pedro.

 

[Viking Bob]

Nice painting and the hair behind the ears, superb.

 

[MoboSchreuder]

beautiful work and painting

mobo

 

[Edorta]

Great work, Herb, you managed the light effects, colors and textures, as well as the bright in the eyes masterfully.
Scale, please?

Military miniatures painted by Eduardo Garcia

 

[Franco]

Hi Herb

I saw this on your Facebook and think you have done a lovely job both on the face, garment and ambiance.

Excellent well done.

Ciao Franco

 

[arj]

Nice painting and the hair behind the ears, superb.

Seconded.

Cheers,
Andrew

 

[clrsgt]

Excellent painting; texture on the coat is amazing.

 

[ELENA SHTENTSEL]

Very beautiful painting !

 

[phil_h]

Beautiful work
Phil

 

[bonehead]

Nice to see this one painted after all these years! Great job!

Of course, it is the same figure as seen in my avatar. The scale is 1/6th....

Mike

 

[Herb Metzler]

Mike, thank you so much, and for answering Eduardo's question, too. Have admired your work for years, so I was a real pleasure to try my hand at this.