Completed The Runner

[valiant]

Hi folks,

Almost finished this commission for a guy at our club. Its based on a photo of his soon-to-be son in law competing in an Ironman competition in France, a while back.

Sculpted in my usual Milliput over a wire armature and painted in acrylics, in 1/16 scale. It just needs a final matt coat and then a last check over before delivery!

Thanks for looking,

 

[Dolf]

Very nicely done!

Cheers!

Dolf

 

[Ferris]

Nice work and a great gift!

Nice job on the sunglasses as well.

Did you use decals for the black&white suit?

Adrian

 

[Dr Bison]

What a fab present that is, Steve, and a very cool model. BTW: How did you stay sane painting the zig-zaggy pattern on his running onesie?
Karl

 

[MoboSchreuder]

Beautiful work

Mobo

 

[valiant]

Thanks chaps! The hounds tooth pattern is three sizes of decal, fitted to the figure. It needed to be crisp and geometric and hand painting it wasn't really an option!! I think it would have exited via a window if I had tried.....!!

 

[Nap]

Hi Steve

Great to see you posting , and what a fine sculpt as well .....looks better in Lycra than I would ....lol

Very clever decal work and overall painting works well ...he's going to be very happy

Thanks for sharing this

Hope we see more from your putty covered bench soon

Have fun

Nap

 

[Warren SMITH]

excellent work

 

[Steve Brodie]

Superb

 

[Steve Brodie]

Very Cool

 

[Blind Pew]

Excellent!

 

[NRG]

Very nice!
I’ve not heard of anyone using decal’s like this, so you explain more please? Where do you get then from, what’s options are there, how do you cut and apply them etc etc etc?
thanks in advance.
Nigel

 

[MalcC]

Great work, and a nice gift for the recipient.

Malc

 

[valiant]

Hi Nigel, I printed my own decals for this. I took a houndstooth pattern from the internet, scaled them to the three sizes I needed, then blocked them to make a large enough square of pattern. I printed in black on clear paper, then painted the area where they were to go in gloss white, then it was a case of cutting the panels out, as you would a dressmakers pattern and applying to the figure. There wasnt any Dark Arts or witchcraft involved....

 

[NRG]

Thanks Valiant for that. When you say you print them onto clear paper, are they water slide or do you just glue them on?
N

 

[valiant]

Printed onto clear waterslide decal paper...available from an internet near you!

 

[Alain11]

Excellent, I like the tatoo

 

[NRG]

Printed onto clear waterslide decal paper...available from an internet near you!

Thank you.
N