phil_h
A Fixture
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Hello everybody...
I hope everybody had a good holiday, New Years and so on
My first project for 2017 is this wonderful 200mm bust from YS Masterpieces. First off, this thing is huge - it's basically the entire top half of a 200mm figure.
Here he is unboxed and unassembled after each piece has been prepped:
Here he is all primed up and ready to go. (Everything except the right arm has been blu-tacked in place; once primed I removed the pieces for painting.) I think this photo also shows just how amazing this sculpt really is. It's incredible.
As with all my figures, I always start with the face, and my approach is always to just base coat the face in a very quick and dirty way, and then start the real work with the eyes. Here are the finished eyes:
A couple of observations on the eyes:
Hopefully I'll be able to paint them all by the end of the year!
Regards,
Phil
I hope everybody had a good holiday, New Years and so on
My first project for 2017 is this wonderful 200mm bust from YS Masterpieces. First off, this thing is huge - it's basically the entire top half of a 200mm figure.
Here he is unboxed and unassembled after each piece has been prepped:
Here he is all primed up and ready to go. (Everything except the right arm has been blu-tacked in place; once primed I removed the pieces for painting.) I think this photo also shows just how amazing this sculpt really is. It's incredible.
As with all my figures, I always start with the face, and my approach is always to just base coat the face in a very quick and dirty way, and then start the real work with the eyes. Here are the finished eyes:
A couple of observations on the eyes:
- One very common rule of thumb we all learn when painting eyes is to always paint them looking into the direction that the head/face is turned to. This usually helps the face look more natural, and avoids the cross-eyed or surprised look that faces have when eyes are usually painted dead ahead. Unfortunately, with this particular bust, he is looking dead ahead getting ready to shoot a firearm. By virtue of the sculpt you're forced to paint the eyes looking straight ahead or else it would just look weird. Getting the sizes and alignments right between both eyeballs took a little longer than usual. (The fact that the right eye socket is a little smaller than the left due to a slight squint didn't help either)
- If you are going to paint this bust for yourself, pinning and gluing the right arm in place before painting the face was a very bad idea on my part. Save yourself the hassle and put the arm in place after painting the face. It constantly got in the way when I was trying to paint his right eye.
- While there is the chance that this could be wildly inaccurate from a historical perspective, I went with a pale blue-ish color for the iris. The eye sockets are so deep set and craggy, I thought this color would be much easier to see and would make the entire eye detail easier to pick out.
Hopefully I'll be able to paint them all by the end of the year!
Regards,
Phil
