Hello all. I just finished up this marvelously sculpted mounted kit from Pili Pili as a Christmas gift to my wife. My wife actually bought this kit for me back at world expo 2005 (Boston) but quite honestly I did not have the balls to tackle it til now. She is painted in all freehand using Vallejo acrylics and believe me, this was quite a challenge with all these colors that are basically foreign to me. Thanks to Al Lafleche for help with ideas for the groundwork.

Hi! Dan.
Awesome work!
The expression of a face and the pattern are wonderful.
It is colorful and realistic.
I congratulate you on your completion.

Mitsutaka

Wonderful paintwork,what mix did you use for the skin tones ? I have a couple of these figures in the pipe line and was puzzling over the skin colour. As a BTW that's one solemn looking kid standing there, great job.

Steve

Beautiful painting Dan!!!

Fantastic painting Dan and miles away from your usual stuff.


Cheers David

hi Steve. These are all vallejo colors I'm giving you so here goes. medium fleshtone, burnt cadmium red, flat brown, brown rose, orange brown, dark sand and cavalry brown. No specific ratios, I just mixed them up until I had a base tone that I was satisfied with. I mixed more medium fleshtone with the base to get the midtone hi-lites and then I mixed the mid tone hi-lites with basic skintone to get the lightest hi-lites. Thanks for your comment.

Much appreciated Dan thanks I'll bear that in mind for when I start on mine

Stfeve

Looks Magic ! A great painting buddy, your style real suits the colourful palette ...

The skin tones look bang on as well.

Carlos

I am very impressed with this. Wonderful Christmas present

Colorful, crisp, clean painting. Wonderful gift!

Painting clean and full of atmosphere

Hello Dan, Very colorful, The detail painting and the skintones are excellent. Superb job with the brush Dan. A great gift for your wife. Congrats, Regards, SG

Another fantastic piece Dan. Excellent all around!

Congratulations Dan.
Perfect and clean painting with very vibrant colors.

marc

Very colourful and clean painting.Excellent all around .Well done!

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beautiful cleaning job..i like it !!

This will really brighten up the cabinet. Well done and nice colours and horse.
Cheers
John

Beautiful vignette, I also have this figure from Pili Pili-
- And beautiful painting!
Yours faithfully.

Great job on the colours you're not familiar with Dan! I'm sure your wife will be ecstatic when she gets it.

Einion

Hi John. Thanks for the comment on the horse. First one I have ever done so I was unsure about how it would be received.