"Volgor" - The Skull Hunter - Finished

[Guy]

Originally posted by Ulrich@Jan 18 2007, 01:12 AM
For myself there are to many skulls at the groundwork, but this is my opinion.

Thanks Ernest.

Ulrich ~ I originally had 8 skulls attached to the groundwork. Wife said it was "Over-kill" and I took 5 of them off. She's a great critic

 

[mvonb]

Guy, having looked at the detail shots of the biceps, did you paint horizontally across the muscle to give a striated appearance, or is it a natural effect? It looks similar to the rain marks added to panzers by armour modellers. I think it adds a great unnatural touch to the beast. Great painting mate.

 

[Guy]

Thanks Martin. When I did the bicepts I dry-brush accross the bicepts like you would accross the grain in a piece of wood. The dry-brush technique will pick up anything in the casting, even a fingerprint from a sculpter and bring out the detail. This is why I am very careful when I clean up a figure to remove casting lines and other marks. This is also how I get the detail to show in his cape by dry-brushing carefully accross the grain of the hair.

Hope this answers your question.

Guy

 

[mvonb]

Certainly does Guy. I've been looking to reproduce this effect in acrylics, with varying success. It's very similar in appreance to how Jaume Ortiz and Calvin Tan highlight their 1/35 single coloured fabrics.

MfG

Martin

 

[godfather]

very nicley done! Who makes this figure? thinking of buying

 

[Guy]

Thanks Talino,

It is, as the topic title states, a 54mm (actually 90mm) Andrea kit.