Hi All,

Finished Werner over the weekend, after a break of a few weeks of no painting.

Somehow I found the pants difficult to paint. I found it hard to find the right areas for highlights and shades. For example his crotch area is in the shade of the arms and hands and I used the base colour for highlights, otherwise it looked strange. Took me quite a bit of fiddling. The pose places the shades and highlights in unexpected places, maybe that's it, not sure.
On the other hand, the boots were a breeze and fun to paint, a task I had been looking forward to since the beginning; the contrast of the shiny leather and matte felt parts was very pleasing to imitate. The sharp sculpting really helped here Mike .

The base is rather plain and simple, basically because I did not want to imitate Ernesto's box art version, yet had no better ideas. There's some empty space left and if you have any suggestion for something to add there, please let me know!

I couldn't choose between photo backgrounds, so I posted them both (too late for decisions here).
Overall a very satisfying figure to paint on which I could try out some new techniques, such as the leather.

Hope you like him.

Cheers,
Adrian

Nice!!

Good paint work around!

Nice!!! Love the saturated colours.
How did you do the leather coat?

Grtz
Patrick

Excellent. I also have a pilot figure to paint and this is great reference and inspiration. What kind of varnish did you use for the coat?

Superb work Adrian!

That is very, very nice .


Cheer's,
Jeff.

Excellent paint Adrian!

Cheers,
Pedro.

Damn ! I don't think Werner ever looked so good !

I know what you mean Adrian, some figures seemingly paint themselves, while others are very tricky. Nonetheless, you pulled this one off magnificently, as only you know how !

Joe

Ecxellent work! Well done all over but I really like the jacket, how did you do that? It looks so real.

Cheers Lars

For all your troubles it came out very well and excellent colours.
Cheers
John

Ferris, killer finish, as usual! Awesome, love the Large Scale Figs.

Cheers, Ski.

Looks gorgeous, the jacket is killing me. Warm congrats!
Nicolae

That is truly stunning work, Adrian. Very, very impressive

Excellent painting!

excellent work! the leather is great.

Very nice painting

That's one of my favourite figures; wish only I could paint it like you, this is superb

As everyone above is saying, superb work but the jacket is outstanding!

Great stuff Adrian ,Like the leathers and the very clean paint all round

Ron