Southern Pride - H&V Miniatures - 75mm - Completed

[Ferris]

And this one's finished!

A lovely sculpt, a real joy to paint.

Most of the painting done with acrylics (Vallejo & some AK 3rd Gen), some outlining and shading done with oils.
Small metal bits are NMM, sabre is done with Scale75 dark acrylic metal undercoat plus a polish of metallic oils for a high-sheen finish.
Basework done with Milliput as ground cover, static grass, some twigs collected during a holiday hike and MIG laser-cut ferns.

A special thanks to everyone providing information and reference material about the subject. Highly appreciated!

Hope you like it.

Cheers,
Adrian

 

[Ferris]

And with a different background colour:

 

[sd0324]

Beautiful work! Very well done. And good photography to boot.

Steve

 

[Briggsy]

Beautifully finished figure, the confederate grey and yellow facings work really well together and the face is excellent, love it.

Cheers Simon

 

[MoboSchreuder]

Excellent work

Mobo

 

[clubcat]

Absolutely first rate. Congratulations
Melanie

 

[Nap]

Absolutely first rate. Congratulations
Melanie

That’s says it all

Excellent presentation and a great V Bench https://www.planetfigure.com/threads/southern-pride-h-v-miniatures-75mm.639463/unread

Nap

 

[arj]

Excellent painting and presentation Adrian.
Very, very well done.

Cheers,
Andrew

 

[JH Figures]

Absolutely loving it! The red background looks better, matches the color theory as well.

 

[Blind Pew]

Beautiful painting there. You've really brought this one out.

 

[Steve Ski]

Very impressive work, Adrean, and those pics set the mood, Bravo!

 

[NigelR]

Top class painting Adrian, absolutely superb. I love the very effective groundwork as well.

 

[Joe55]

What a marvelous piece of work Adrian! The dude looks suitably weary too!

Joe

 

[lpa53]

Really lovely work!

 

[Ferris]

Absolutely loving it! The red background looks better, matches the color theory as well.

Thank you!

I tend to use the black background for my pictures, because it is a pull-down curtain behind the desk I use for making pictures, but looking back at the pictures a few days later, I also prefer the red background and its contrast with the blueish coat. Shows colour theory really has meaning.

Cheers
Adrian

 

[Ferris]

Top class painting Adrian, absolutely superb. I love the very effective groundwork as well.

Thank you Nigel.

I was struggling with the groundwork actually. Couldn’t come up with an idea. Rummaging through the raw materials box I finally ran into these twigs that scalled nicely to the scene. I tried to have the lines of the twigs echo the diagonal line of the sabre. I usually do not extend groundwork outside the base’s dimensions, but I’m quite happy with how it turned out in this case.

Cheers
Adrian

 

[Ferris]

What a marvelous piece of work Adrian! The dude looks suitably weary too!

Joe

Thanks Joe.

all credits to the sculptor for the weary look! Eduard Perez’s head sculpts have a distinct style that not everyone likes, but I’m certainly a fan of this one.
The whole figure is brilliantly sculpted.

Cheers
Adrian

 

[MalcC]

Awesome, great brushwork.

Malc

 

[lpa53]

... I also prefer the red background and its contrast with the blueish coat. ...

The red background evokes thoughts of a burning forest (The Wilderness?) or town in the background.

 

[akaryu]

Excellent work!

Pierre