Painted face.

[Paccus]

This morning I decided to paint a face the easy way, that is with a minimum of colours. This method was given to me by a fellow modeler and I just had to try it. I bought the colours needed fot this and after an hour and a half it looked like this. It's a 1/35 head from Hornet.

I'm looking for an easy and fast way to get a decent face and thought this little experiment proved it's possible.

I used the following colours from Vallejo:
1: Primed (airbrush) with Black.
2: Basecolour Brown Sand.
3: Highlight Basic Skintone.
4: Shadows Flat Brown.

I used these colours both pure and mixed ( a 50/50 mix between basec. and highl. and basec. and shadows). For the darkest shadows a bit of Black was added to the shadow-mix. A small amount of Vermillion (mixed with the basec. and highlight mix) for the red on the cheeks and black pigments for the unshaved look.

Thanks for looking. Any suggestions or comments are appreciated.

Best Regards
/ Mattias Larsson

 

[kansas kid]

A very well painted face. And thank you for saying what scale it is. At 1:35th
this is really impressive. That is a very small head. Well done.

K kid

 

[pmfs]

Very nice

 

[Paccus]

Thanks guys for your kind comments .

I've got some minor things pointed out, that I took care of this evening.

I added darker shadows under the eyebrows and a tint of red to the nose. I also added semi-gloss varnish to the nose, ears, cheekbones and above the eyes. Gloss varnish were put on the lower lip and the eyes.
I think it made quite an improvement and hope you'll think so too.

Here's the final result.

Cheers
/ Mattias Larsson

 

[Hammond_Lord]

Hi, Mattias!

Very nice rendition of a 1/35 face! It has a lot of detail considering the scale! You made it look easy! Please send some more pics!


Cheers,

Nemanja

 

[Ferris]

Looks good to me.

I'm not sure if this method really is very quick (all in all about 2 hours I understand?) , but hey, the result matters and that result is good!

I do not understand your use of the black undercoat, can you explain this? Do you start out with Calvin Tan's method?

Cheers,
Adrian