WIP Youngs Roman (Maximus)
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Viking Bob
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Very nice painting, like the armour effects.
Gellso
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Hi Nige,
This looks great.
Great reds and the armour looks excellent.
Following with interest,
Gells
This looks great.
Great reds and the armour looks excellent.
Following with interest,
Gells
tonydawe
A Fixture
Very nice Nige. I'm looking forward to seeing the bust come together.
Phater
Well-Known Member
Very nice! Please share your colors and technique for the armor.
Tom
Tom
Jeff T
A Fixture
Looking good Nige!
Cheer's,
Jeff.
Cheer's,
Jeff.
megroot
A Fixture
Looking great so far.
Marc
Marc
TERRYSOMME1916
A Fixture
Nige, I have this bust myself so nice to see someone else working on it before I start mine, you have some really nice effects going on there with the armour and you have obtained a great result with the dreaded reds, looking forward to seeing the finished article and as Tom said if you have any tips on how you painted this bust they would be very useful.
TERRY
TERRY
Thanks for the comments Tony, Tom, Jeff, Marc and Terry. 
Tom and Terry - if I remember correctly the colours I used went something like this.
For the Bronze I used Pale Gold Printers inks which I got many years ago from Phil Kesselings shop. I used Winsor & Newtons' Liquin as a carrier.
For the base colour I added Yellow Ochre pale to the pale gold. This dulls it down a little.
Shadows add Raw umber.
Deep shadows neat Raw umber.
Highlights base colour with more Pale gold.
High highlights on edges I used Dark star Bright Steel acrylic.
For the Steel I used Silver Printers ink again from Phil.
Undercoat was Humbrol matt black.
Base mix is the Silver ink with Lamp Black plus a touch of Prussian blue.
Shadows is more and more Black.
Highlights add more and more Silver.
Scratches were pure silver ink and a few with Dark star Bright Steel acrylic.
I wouldn't say it was pointillated but I dot away also adding scratches at the end. If it looks too bright its easy enough to darken with washes. Hope that makes sense.
The dreaded Reds. Only done one red figure before (a 54mm 17 years ago lol) so its pretty much experimental for me.
On the sleeves I used a base coat of Humbrol (73) wine colour. (similar to Andrea (13) Dark Red in the Acrylics range).
Went over this with Cadmium Red Deep.
Added a highlight with a tiny amount of Naples yellow which I toned down with Army Painter Red Tone Ink once it had dried.
Shadows were Cad Red Deep with Prussian Blue.
Deep shadows were Army painter Dark tone Ink.
Red Ribbon (which still needs more work).
Base was a mix of Humbrol Red (60) and Humrol (178) Scarlet.
Shadow was Cad Red Deep with a touch of Lamp Black.
Highlight added a little Humbrol flesh to the base.
Hope that's of use to you guys. The colours are a little washed out with the camera flash but here a couple of photos from the left and right also. (jeez these cameras are unforgiving lol)
Tom and Terry - if I remember correctly the colours I used went something like this.
For the Bronze I used Pale Gold Printers inks which I got many years ago from Phil Kesselings shop. I used Winsor & Newtons' Liquin as a carrier.
For the base colour I added Yellow Ochre pale to the pale gold. This dulls it down a little.
Shadows add Raw umber.
Deep shadows neat Raw umber.
Highlights base colour with more Pale gold.
High highlights on edges I used Dark star Bright Steel acrylic.
For the Steel I used Silver Printers ink again from Phil.
Undercoat was Humbrol matt black.
Base mix is the Silver ink with Lamp Black plus a touch of Prussian blue.
Shadows is more and more Black.
Highlights add more and more Silver.
Scratches were pure silver ink and a few with Dark star Bright Steel acrylic.
I wouldn't say it was pointillated but I dot away also adding scratches at the end. If it looks too bright its easy enough to darken with washes. Hope that makes sense.
The dreaded Reds. Only done one red figure before (a 54mm 17 years ago lol) so its pretty much experimental for me.
On the sleeves I used a base coat of Humbrol (73) wine colour. (similar to Andrea (13) Dark Red in the Acrylics range).
Went over this with Cadmium Red Deep.
Added a highlight with a tiny amount of Naples yellow which I toned down with Army Painter Red Tone Ink once it had dried.
Shadows were Cad Red Deep with Prussian Blue.
Deep shadows were Army painter Dark tone Ink.
Red Ribbon (which still needs more work).
Base was a mix of Humbrol Red (60) and Humrol (178) Scarlet.
Shadow was Cad Red Deep with a touch of Lamp Black.
Highlight added a little Humbrol flesh to the base.
Hope that's of use to you guys. The colours are a little washed out with the camera flash but here a couple of photos from the left and right also. (jeez these cameras are unforgiving lol)
TERRYSOMME1916
A Fixture
Nige thanks for taking the time to explain the colours and processes that you used on this bust the information will come in useful as we all feed of each others colour mixes and techniques etc, like many painters I am still trying to find a formula for painting metals that I am happy with, I tend to change with each figure tweaking my method slightly to incorporate tips that I have picked up on PF, in fact I was using Citadel metallics last night to paint the Eagle on youngs miniatures Roman Aquila bust and I am sort of pleased with the result even though I had tried them before and didn't like them. I agree with you thoughts on the camera, when you look at the bust in its real size you think that's a lovely satisfactory paint job that I have done and then you take a picture and horror sets in lol.
TERRY
TERRY
Jeff T
A Fixture
Nige, the patterns on the armour and leather are superb!
Really well done.
Cheer's,
Jeff.
Really well done.
Cheer's,
Jeff.
Lovely paint job Nige.There's no way that i'd put pictures of my busts as big as that on this forum.Your pictures have turned out really well.It's easy to throttle back the size of the pictures,unless your showing off,Nige.
Look forward to seeing this fella finished.
Brian
Look forward to seeing this fella finished.
Brian
Cheers Jeff and Super.
Showing offs no for me bud as you well know you little rascal . I'd much rather have smaller photos to avoid the without resorting to the slideshow format that takes you to another page. Not a fan of that. Any tips are welcome.
Showing offs no for me bud as you well know you little rascal . I'd much rather have smaller photos to avoid the without resorting to the slideshow format that takes you to another page. Not a fan of that. Any tips are welcome.
tonydawe
A Fixture
Great pics . Blowing up your photos to this size does help you spot little flaws that you can go back and correct, that may not be visible when looking at the bust with the naked eye. Love the detail you've put into the leather and metals.
Nige
Thanks for sharing this and the colour info , must admit really like the armour on this , like all the damage very effective
Like the wolf skin as well
Must give this pointy thing a go as well
A real popular bust
Nap
Why not put something in FOTM as well
Thanks for sharing this and the colour info , must admit really like the armour on this , like all the damage very effective
Like the wolf skin as well
Must give this pointy thing a go as well
A real popular bust
Nap
Why not put something in FOTM as well
You're correct in that respect Tony as I've a few corrections in mind. The pics are just taken with automatic macro mode on the wee camera I've got, so they're just uploaded after I've cropped part of the background out. Main gripe is how the colours tend to appear more washed out at that size (though its possibly more to do with the lighting - I don't know). For example - Although the pelt isn't finished the grey merges into a brown before hitting the off white. Can see it with the naked eye but not the pics.
Thanks for your comments
Hoping to get more done towards the end of next week but its a slow process. Maybe next month
Thanks for comments 
Very nice finish on the leathers.
Like you, I also suffered with my camera set on auto.
I always had the camera on a tripod, but now I've set the ISO to 200, use aperture priority (set at maximum), turned off the flash, focus manually and let the camera take its own sweet time. As long as some reasonable daylight is in the room, it seems to work. If the shot comes out too bright, I just position myself to block out some of the light and try again.
Cheers,
Andrew
Like you, I also suffered with my camera set on auto.
I always had the camera on a tripod, but now I've set the ISO to 200, use aperture priority (set at maximum), turned off the flash, focus manually and let the camera take its own sweet time. As long as some reasonable daylight is in the room, it seems to work. If the shot comes out too bright, I just position myself to block out some of the light and try again.
Cheers,
Andrew
