Hi All
Been working on the new Yury Serebrykov Viking bust the past week. Put a few more hours in on the flesh today and some work on the green of the cloak. Still a long way to go yet with the beard, hair, chain mail and fur but I am fairly pleased with how it is going. This is only the second bust that I have ever painted so it has been quite an interesting challenge.

All painted in Humbrol enamels and oils, any comments on improvement will be much appreciated.

I am going with the four section scull cap for the head wear.

Pictures can also be seen in the “Workbench” section of my web site.

http://tommi-miniatures.moonfruit.com/
Cheers
Tommi

Tommi this looks stellar. All of your work is incredible but this is destined to be my fav that you have done. I also have this bust on order, is it as fun to paint as it looks?

Tommi,

Your painting is just amazing.

Mike

Awesome Tommi. I got your email and I can find nothing for you to improve on.....Excellent. I just got mine the other day and look forward to starting it.

And he says he's FAIRLY happy with results - blurry good work so far old friend !!, gonna be great turnout.

Many thanks guys for your compliments. I have enjoyed this so far and hope to have more progress on this by the end of the week.

Mike, I am ver sure you will not be dissapointed when it arrives.

Cheers
Tommi

Hi Tommi,
nice work so far mate,realy like the eyes! they have life........
Hope your feeling better? I got boot in the ass from my wife for not going on F/book,sorry for not responding to your post many moons ago!
Take Care.
Best Regards
Paul
www.paulblaber1.moonfruit.com

Tommi, great start, he certainly has that weathered look and excellent work on the eyes. Will follow with interest.

Cheers Ken

That's very fast.
Got mine last thursday, and you are allready painting on this stunner.
So far i'm very impressed by your paintwork, in matter of fact it's excelllent.

Marc

Beautiful painting,Tommi.
Chris

for my opinion this is the best viking bust on the market today, it has a face with a lot of character and it has to be very amusing to paint. i like your idea to show a viking different from the conventional with blond hair and also the dark flesh tones you are choosing are something new but pleasant for my taste, very well done the eyes and good colour choice for the mantle, will follow with interest

cheers

stefano

Indeed a great work on the flesh tones. I assume that it's in oils!! Care to share your mix for this particular piece??
Well done again!!

Tommi:

For one thing you picked an excellent bust to work on. So much character
in the face. And in your skilled hands everything is really coming to life
Just a fantastic rendering on the face.

K Kid

Beautiful paintwork Tommi!
Looking forward to the rest of the paintwork.

Cheers,
Marcel.

Great progress!
Flesh color is very wonderful.
It seems to be real skin.
I liked it very much.
I'm looking forward to completion very much.

Mitsutaka

Hello Tommi,

amazing work, specialy the eyes looks very very realistic, great !!!!

Greetings

Karsten

Hi Tommi,

Love the work on the face, very natural looking skin tones-look forward to seeing this next month.

Keith

Very good so far Tommi!!!
chris

Brilliant work my friend . I like it a lot and especially the work on the face and the look of the eyes

Congratulations

Costas

Many thanks guys for your kind words on my work, I am really enjoying this one. Hope to get some more work done on it this week. Still a little uncertain which head wear to go for? Would be nice to get this finished soon as I just got some commission pieces land on my door step this morning that will need to be started very soon.
Paul, no problem with facebook mate, I don’t go on there that often.
Xenofon, I will post my oils colour mix when I get home from work tonight.
Cheers
Tommi