Completed Officer of the 24th, Anglo-Zulu War

[Briggsy]

His face is looking good Simon, I agree with your thought to stop there until you have the other sections done, you will have to adjust for the shade of the helmet brim and potentially when you see the skintone against the black tunic anyway.

The 'tash looks better now, like he grew it rather than clipped it on.

Ha yeah a tash straight frin the Christmas cracker to the top lip. Thanks for the advice though I was at a loss as to what needed doing, must admit it makes quite the difference to the face.

Now to use my supplies of blue and black paint.

Cheers Simon

 

[Von Bock]

Simon,
Very ice work on the bust and thank you for the info on the cord on the jacket. Regards, Brock

 

[Briggsy]

Simon,
Very ice work on the bust and thank you for the info on the cord on the jacket. Regards, Brock

You are more than welcome Brock and thanks for your kind comment, he is on the radiator at the mo drying multiple coats of S75 Deep Blue.

Cheers Simon

 

[Briggsy]

Taken a lot of time but I have got good enough coverage of blue on this chap now to be happy moving ahead with highlights and shade. I have used SC75 Deep Blue and intend to use a mix of this and Black (not sure which yet) to shade and SC75 Navy Blue as the main highlight colour, painting it over the darker blue will not let it get too light in tone. The lace and braiding will work through dark grey and black, but not today.

Cheers Simon

 

[Warren SMITH]

coming along nicely..

 

[Nap]

Hi Simon

That’s a good strong dark blue there , look forward to the lace

Happy benchtime

Nap

 

[NigelR]

Good progress here Simon, the helmet looks really good. Like Kev said, sometimes the smaller pictures help give a better overall impression, the larger ones are very unforgiving.....

 

[MalcC]

This is looking very good, You've done well with the dark blue.
Keep up the good work.
I agree with Nigel, the smaller phots will benefit.

Malc

 

[Briggsy]

Nigel & Malc, many thanks, he's coming along nicely now. I know what you mean about the picture sizes, I do most of this on my phone. Yesterday I went on the laptop and scared myself to death, nearly, when one of my pictures popped up. Will have to remember not to use the digital zoom.

Cheers Simon

 

[Briggsy]

Trialing smaller photos after my fright last night. Today I have done the lace and braiding, not all plain sailing though. I was going to paint it all dark grey and work from there, however the desk gremlins have been out and my one pot of dark grey has gone AWOL. No doubt it'll be back tomorrow, that's usually the way it goes.

Anyway, I mixed V London Grey with varying amounts of Army Painter (AP) Matt Black using less and less black. I made the highlights fairly prominent and left it to dry for a while before applying a couple of washes of SC75 Deep Blue, just enough to bring the highlights down a bit and tint everything a dark blue.

I have also underpainted the water bottle strap a straight V Off White, the haversack strap is a light mix of V Khaki and SC75 Mojave White. I then started to paint the pistol lanyard, this is a straight V Khaki with high lights from the haversack colour. It was while painting this I discovered a fault with the figure. A lanyard is a simple length of cord, doubled over so a loop can go round the neck, this would mean that going round the neck it would only be single stranded. Unfortunately the lanyard carries on around the neck ad a double strand, which would be impossible. It doesn't distract from how good this figure is but now I know it's there I can't unsee it, oops now neither can you.

Anyway pictures.

Cheers Simon

 

[Nap]

Hi Simon

That lace looks good , the colours certainly work well

Flesh seems to have come together better now

I don’t think the lanyard looks out of place

You’ve done really well on this

Happy benchtime

Nap

 

[Briggsy]

Hi Simon

That lace looks good , the colours certainly work well

Flesh seems to have come together better now

I don’t think the lanyard looks out of place

You’ve done really well on this

Happy benchtime

Nap

No the lanyard isn't out of place its just that we're it splits at the toggle to go around his neck it should be just a single cord, the end of a loop. There is a double strand going round his neck instead. Just looks a little odd now I have seen it, still a great bust though.

Cheers Simon

 

[Dr Force]

Really nice neat painting on show here, great progress Simon.

 

[Briggsy]

Really nice neat painting on show here, great progress Simon.

Many thanks, not that far to go now.

Cheers Simon

 

[Briggsy]

Just a quick session this morning before Attila the toddler turns up after nursery. I have done some work on the water bottle strap and haversack strap. Will probably need more but that can wait until after the patrol jacket is finished. Also done the initial shading on the jacket simply by glazing very dilute AP Matt Black, it is very subtle so may not show up too well in the piccies. Next up will be some equally subtle highlights.

Hopefully my pictures are smaller now and not going to fill the PC screen too much.

Cheers Simon

 

[MalcC]

Brilliant. You've nailed the colours.
Going to look great when he's finished.

Malc

 

[Briggsy]

Brilliant. You've nailed the colours.
Going to look great when he's finished.

Malc

Cheers Malc that's nice to hear, I think I might even splash out and get a decent base and name plaque for this fella.

Cheers Simon

 

[Nap]

Brilliant. You've nailed the colours.
Going to look great when he's finished.

Malc

Agree there , really seems to have come together now

Nice one Senór Briggsy

Nap

 

[clubcat]

He is looking really good Simon.
Lanyards seemed to be double strand in WW1 onwards but are just single strand in 1879.
Congrats
Melanie

 

[Briggsy]

Kev, Mel, many thanks my friends I was determined to actually finish one bust in my time. Once I've recovered from Full Metal Granddaughter I do some highlights on the jacket tomorrow, far too exhausted now!

Cheers Simon