Hi all!



Finally got this finished!!
I don't like the pics so may well reshoot and I've spotted a couple of small bits needing a tidy up but essentially it's done!!

A word of advive if your doing this kit, add the fence at the very end!
I painted it up and glued it into the socket on the base, tacked the cross bars and then used a hair dryer to warm up the post and gently pushed it into position.

Once happy everything is glued and secure ( I hope )

As always it's just acrylics, no metallics and as matt as I can get it

Please feel free to comment, crit or correct ( though corrections will need to be tiny lol )

Excellent work!

Regards
Pedro

Outstanding work.

Marc

Well done. Nice colours.
Cheers
John

Lovely work on this.nicely shaded and highlighted.

Dam, now you've made me want to buy this figure, albeit my paint job will be nowhere as good as yours
Cheers
Roy
Ouch - that's from my wallet

Fabulous job Mark, the uniform colours look spot on!
Gary

I've always liked your rendition of this one, now I really like it. Such a good job all round.

What I find particularly appealing it that the paint work looks really balanced. None of this extreme highlight/shade mularky going on.

One for the scrapbook mate. Those skin tones are spot on.

Great work Mark The bugle and trumpet are great.

Better get my finger out and get fine done.

Barrie.

great job Mark well done mate.

Ian

Hi mark
Superb mate, thank you for showing such a beautiful paint job. It is great to see figures with paint on I am sure Moz will be equally pleased to see
All the best mate
Gra

I know somebody who will be parting with his cash for this one at Euro. Great job Mark cannot wait to see it in the flesh.
Peter.

Very nice Mark!!!

Cheers,
Pedro.

I have had my eye on this one for a while, the blue jacket is spot on....care to share your paint mix?
Steve

Beautiful work as always mark

Thank you all!!

Yes this will be at Euro and I'll be bunging it in the comp

Steve... funny you should ask for colour mixes
The commissioner of this piece has also bought the Grenadier miniatures box-art piece I did earlier this year.... So I used my own blog to do the mixes on this piece LOL!

Find the mixes here

The pictures... When I shot the first set I used a main light at upper right and a fill light at lower left.... however the fill light was way too low so it cancelled out the shadows a wee bit too much.
The re shoot I moved the fill light to just above the top of the figure . I think it looks better.
FYI I use the light heavily diffused with tissue paper and shoot each shot with the lens stopped right down.

f11 with a 5 second exposure on 100 iso....

So here are some better pictures

Brilliant. As always.

That's an excellent piece of work. I really like it a lot.

Xenofon

Fabulous paintwork

Marc