WIP Young Miniatures Ardennes Bust

[Jason]

Hi all,

as i said here my work in progress pictures of the Young Miniatures Ardennen Bust. It´s my first Bust and the second Kit that´s scale is larger than 1/35.
The cigarette is not applied yet and comes soon.
The uniform will be in autumn-pattern and i show you pics asap.
The whole kit is painted in vallejo acrylics.

Here are the first 2 images. The shadows of the scarf need to be reworked because i choosed the wrong color to shade it down:

*edit* does this forum edit the uploaded pictures to bring more contrast into them? They look different on my harddrive than uploaded now

hope i didnt do a bad paintjob.

bye
Jason

 

[gordy]

Looks really good Jason for a first bust

The forum does auto-magically create a thumbnail of your image, if you click on the thumbnail you are taken to a larger untouched photo.

 

[Michael Tse]

It's beautiful, Jason!

I wasnt aware this is your first bust. Funnily it was my first bust too. Having painted the face 7 times over, I came to love and hate every curve or the lack of it along this soldier's face.

Those were the days when Young's WW2 line awaited expansion and one hasn't learnt about his tendencies over face sculpting, admittedly not rejoiced by all... Of course, the firm has come a long way now in terms of facial diversity. That issue aside, no one could do much flaw-picking to this game-changer of a figure firm.

Look fwd to completion!

 

[Jason]

@ Gordy: Thank you. Shame on me, reading so long on PF and i didnt recognize that i get better images when clicking on them

@Michael: Thank you very much. I find this bust very attractive and i really like the pose of this dude. Im so glad that i´m not the only one who repainted it. I had to repaint it 8 times because i think its very very difficult to paint such a big scale.
I´m really not satisfied with the beard but it was my first try to paint one and i think i´m going to keep it that way.

 

[SRP]

For a first bust that is first rate...well done Moritz
Steve

 

[Michael Tse]

Hi Jason,

Yeah I used to be massively bothered about beard too. I only recently came to terms with it, when painting another Young release (Soviet Tanker bust). If I set my hero to be dark-haired, I can comfortably swim between greys of various depths and have mad mad fun. It is featured in my recent posts on Vbench.

I still dont know how to do beard for blonde persons. Have decided to stay away from it. How lame, right?

 

[Jason]

Hey Steve thanks,

@ Michael : No its not lame i will have several dark haired guys in future too to train beards. I´m sure when you can paint dark beards, the next step of painting blonde bears will be much easier.

Im gonna search your tanker right now

 

[yoshi]

Hi Jason, I've used amixture from camo pale brown and flat brown as base for the camo. The dark islands are done with germa black brown. The orange spots are from two orange colors. Last color used is english uniform for the lighter browns. Hope it can help you further.

What can help you are the books from and Calvin Tan and Jaume Ortiz. Both are availible from Osprey. These help me a lot with colorchoices.

 

[Jason]

Hey yoshi,

thank you, i own both of the books. I used palebrown + another brown to do the basis, german black brown was used for the dark islands and a mix of orange brown and german cam. orange ochre for the "orange" spots. What i forgot was the lighter brown. Thnx for the input, it seems i have to research my reference pictures

The problem i have with the books of Mr. Tan and Mr. Ortiz is that the colors they use, seem to glow/shine more on their figures than on mine when i use their colorcombinations. I always have doubts of doing it right because my paintings look so dark.
I hope you understand what i try to tell you i´m gonna put some pics online soon.

 

[housecarl]

Looks a great start to me Jason.
Carl.

 

[yoshi]

Hi Jason,
It's better when the painting is not shining. Because it has to be a mat / flat colour. Clothing is in most occassions not glinstering.

In most situations when you take pictures there will be a glossy effect because of the lights used.

Good luck.

 

[Jason]

Hey Carl thanks.

@ Rob : Ahh it seems i used the wrong words i didnt mean shiny, i would say the colors look more intensive. I cant find a good translation for german "intensivere kräftigere Farbe" i try to show you with a picture:

For example on the left side you see how it is shown on the figures of Mr. Tan & Mr. Ortiz. On the right side you can see that my colors are more "darker" when i try to use the mentioned colors. I have nearly always these colordifferences when i try to use colors that other people are using.

Hope you can understand what i am meaning

 

[Totenhosen]

Jason, I think the word you are looking for is "vibrant". (genauso 'kräftig'?)