Step by step U-Boat 1st Watch Officer (my way)

[RRR]

I love the "step-by-step" articles here on this place. Thought I make one myself. Not always to take, but sometimes to give too.

I know there are better ones, but hope you enjoy viewing anyway.

The subject is the 1st Watch Officer, german U-Boat crews 2nd WW, a bust by Scale75

A small number of pieces, all very well cast, almost no sanding necessary

Of course the sprue pieces have to be removed

Very nice detailed sextant..

A test to see if everything fits well - it does

Prepared for the primer

I used Vallejo Panzer Grey this time, but all of these are good primers

That's how it looks after priming

and after I sprayed some lights with the white primer

For the U-Boat leather coat I used a mixture between graphite and caspian blue acrylics frome scalecolor

and that's how it looks

continued in the next post....stay tuned

 

[RRR]

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The face - I begin with a careful approach with a dark flesh tone

after that, I use a mixture of different flesh tones which I already filled in a bottle

With a thinned base color I paint the face and blend it with a wider brush as long as the paint is wet (By the way - the filters in the background do not play a role in this project, they were used in another work )

Next step, I use three different oil colors for shadows and lights. For oils I use Winsor and Newton brushes only

First I go for the shadows, with the smaller brush I paint some points and stripes, with the bigger brush I blend the tones, this procedure will be repeated if necessary

As You can see I did the eye before, but normally it is done when the face is finished. In this case the eye is not finished yet

Setting the shadows made the face darker again, so I set some lights, using the same blending technique

Again, this step can be repeated several times until I am satisfied with the result

While doing the face, I do the hands too, just to get the same colors (sorry the photo is not sharp)

The U-Boat great coat needs much blending and drybrushing to give it the look of a worn and scuffed well-used piece

I used different techniques, mostly drybrushing with a mixture of the base color and earth tones

For the sextant I used Dark Iron from Mr. Metal Color, love this paint, very thin and really good to work with

As I assembled the hands with the sextant, I recognized that there is a gap between the sleeves and the hands.

That I didn't like. So I decided to take some "Green Stuff" to sculpt sleeves from a shirt

And as I had some "Green Stuff" left over, I also sculpted the cap insignia of the german 9th U-Boat Flotilla

The bust is finished

There will be better photos of the finished bust later, these were taken in a hurry with artificial light, I prefer to take photos by daylight

Hope You enjoyed viewing.

Cheers
Robert

 

[Hauke aus Rinzeldorf]

Great work, i love this bust! Thanks for showing

 

[Warren SMITH]

Very well done, thanks for taking the time to share...

 

[Zim]

Great W.I.P. with a lovely finished bust.

 

[Nap]

Hi Robert

Great to see this , well explained , good pictures and a nice result

Happy days

Nap

 

[Ferris]

Nice to watch your approach. Thanks for taking the time to make this SBS.
Very nice effect on the coat as well.

Adrian

 

[KenBoyle]

Very nice work and a wonderful SBS.

Cheers,
Ken

 

[RRR]

Thanks a lot

Robert