Trip Wire

[Raymond Repping]

Hi,

This is my 2nd figure i've painted, the figure was slightly converted to match the scene. this one was a lot of fun to do. It took gold at a dutch competition last week.

Sorry for the somewhat blurry picture. i'll see if i can make some better ones.

I also want to thanks Marijn and Gino for their comments to further improve my painting skills. Thanks Guys

Have fun

Ray

 

[Christos]

Very nice figure Ray.I also like the groundwork very much!Great effort!

 

[megroot]

Prima Raymond.
Was het bij de TWENOT dat je het goud haalde???
In ieder geval genoeg aktie en goed geweatherd om het op zijn Nederlands te zeggen.
Erg mooi.

marc

 

[Sambaman]

Ray,
clever subject, and nicely executed. I like the action and pose of the figure allot. I think he could use just a bit more highlight and shadow over all but the weathering is spot on. Keep up the good work!

Jay H.
OKC

 

[garyjd]

Raymond, Nice job on what is only your 2nd figure. The uniform color looks very good, a little more highlighting would make it even better. I also like what you've done with the dirt on his uniform and boots.~Gary

 

[captnenglish]

Awesome job, well deserved gold medal!

 

[Joe Hudson]

Raymond,

First congrads on your Gold. I really like the whole idea of this figure, almost a mini vignette. I like the movement in the figure, the touch of the dogs tags flying up and you did a really good job tying the ground work in with the figure. I think we are all in for a treat if this is only your 2nd figure, can't wait till the 5th one!

All the best,

Joe

 

[Kevindunne]

very good job on the color uniform..don't recognize the shoulder straps of the web gear though...what reference did you use?
Kevin Dunne

 

[Raymond Repping]

Thanks guys but this is way to much for me... (Blush) Just learning from other people and try to adopt some techniques and have as much fun as i can get painting the figures.

Yes Marc, it was at the Twenot Show wich was held last weekend....

Basically the figure is a Hobby fan figure wich i changed only a little bit to fit the scene. I found the groudwork very hard to do and i've learned a lot on do's an dont's. I visited AMSS last sunday and got some good feedback on how to work on future groundwork.

The whole idea came sort of from Marijn's snakenbite, i really like the action in the scene the way this is presented. I kinda changed the idea along the way, i wanted to have the GI step into a punji steak at first but found that to difficult to execute so i changed the scene into the tripwire idea. The punji steak idea is not gone but i want to practice a lot more before i'll do another GI in Nam..

As for the comments on the weathering, this is all done with Humbroll paint, i placed very diluted humbroll paint on the most obvious places (knees, ellebows etc...) on the knees i've put about 4-5 layers of paint varying the color (darker, light, somewhat less diluted) The boots recieved the same threatment and i used the same colours on the groundwork.

Kevin : i did not used any reference on the uniform or if it's correct, i just painted the figure. so i do not know if the uniform does entirely represent a correct Nam era GI.

Again many thanks for all your comments...

Thanks Ray

ahh so much ideas, so much to learn and so little time

 

[Uruk-Hai]

Nice figure in a very apropiate setting. I like the mud on the boots a lot.

Cheers