WIP Critique Officer of the Guide

[Bailey]

Thank you. Colin, I just took a look at the realism discussion, very interesting conversation. David, thanks. You're right, the lighting would be quite bright. It's a bit tough with these colors. I want to keep the green a dark hue and highlighting red is tricky. I may try to push the red a bit, but I'm sure when I add in the lace that will help brighten up the figure. I've held off on finishing the pants as I keep handling the figure there and don't want to rub off the paint.

 

[Blind Pew]

Superb.

 

[frank h]

I like how this is coming together

Frank

 

[tonydawe]

A great looking figure. The colours are superb

 

[ChaosCossack]

As usual, the face of this fig is super realistic... so well done. It's becoming your trademark.
To my eyes, this is a great chasseur green... it's meant to be a very rich dark green/black. I like the use of the burgundy to adjust the green, that's what has given it such richness as opposed to darkening with black alone.... I dig it!
For the gold lace, your best bet is to tap the mind of the other Colin (crf)... he seems to have it down pat.

I'll be following this one closely

Colin

 

[Kisifer]

Perfect work...just perfect.

Xenofon

 

[Ron Tamburrini]

Good green , much truer than the box art ,been tempted with this one also

 

[dfmoss]

Love the face - excellent work!

 

[sayeret]

Fantastic work!!!
I cannot wait to see it finished

Roberto

 

[clrsgt]

I have this one in my great grey army to do, so I am following your progress closely. I very much like your green. Which paints did you use?

 

[Jeff T]

Wow, that is beautiful work so far Bailey!

Absolutetly gorgeous.


Cheer's,
Jeff.

 

[Bailey]

I have this one in my great grey army to do, so I am following your progress closely. I very much like your green. Which paints did you use?

Thanks, it's a nice piece to work on. I hope you enjoy doing yours!

The green mix is something I worked out on a figure a few months back. The exact paints aren't critical, any similar colors should do. I use mostly reaper acrylics but for some reason the dark greens I have gave me a satin finish, so I used a dark green from Badger's Minitaire paint range instead. To give the green a darker look I mixed in some Burgundy Wine, a dark purple. The midtone was roughly 2 parts dark green to 1 part burgundy wine. For the shadows I used more burgundy wine and added a bit of black in the very darkest spots. For the highlights I avoided added any lighter greens as that would brighten the look too much. Instead I started to slowly add a medium-light grey, Rainy Grey, to the dark green and burgundy mix. This helped produce desaturated highlights which helped keep the overall dark green look.

The burgundy wine paint looks almost black in that picture, but it is just a very deep purple. You can get a better idea from the pictures of the figure. The unfinished lower part of the plume is just burgundy wine over a white primer.

 

[MarquisMini]

Great explanation of the colors , thanks for sharing and keep up the great work.
Very interesting subject and figure.
Regards

 

[clrsgt]

Thanks much for the info on the green paint and thanks also for taking the time to repeat it for someone who scrolled right past your reply to Pan.

 

[Joe55]

That is some really nice brush work going on here !

Thanks for including your green formula as well. That's very helpful.

Joe

 

[ChaosCossack]

Interesting approach on the Chasseur green with great results. Now I'm going thru my GA looking for something to paint green
Usually I mix Flat Green, Black and a touch of English Uniform for the base, shade by adding Black and Highlight with Sunny Skintone.... but this seems to be more of a "fade" than a highlight

Dying to try this mix

Colin

 

[MarquisMini]

ahhhh, I knew ChaosCossack will pass by to take that recipee

 

[Bailey]

clrsgt, no problem! It gave me a chance to expand a bit on the description.

Colin, I'm glad you're inspired to give the mix a try. Next time I might add a touch of english uniform to the mix as well. Gotta keep experimenting!

I made a few touch ups to the uniform and face, then I tackled the lace details. I mixed the metallic paints with matte paints but I may have used a bit too much matte. I went with a roughly 1 to 1 ratio of metallic to matte, in retrospect I should have done closer to 3 to 1 metallic to matte. I'm working with the Scale75 metallics which are a bit thin to begin with. They're great for metals because they flow extremely well but the matte colors I mixed in overpowered them a bit.

 

[MarquisMini]

You nail it on the lace!.
Can you share you mix for the red?

 

[Bailey]

Thanks! For the red I used paints from Reaper. The midtone is violet red then shaded with burgundy wine. For the highlights I used Fire Red and for the top highlights were Fire Red with just a touch of Fair Skin.