Hi fellows,

this little fellow from Nocturna Models came of my workbench a few days ago. It was started as a paintjob "in between", and that's what it became: pure fun!!!
Painting was done in oils over an acrylic basecote and some PI for the metals.









Any comments are welcome.

Cheers
Goetz

Like it, very nice . Hair, eyes, and the green are well done.
Thanks Karl.

Great work Goetz. I really like this bust, it goes to show that a great charactor study doesn't need torso embellishment for it to work.

Rob

Great work Goetz. I really like this bust, it goes to show that a great charactor study doesn't need torso embellishment for it to work.

Rob

Extremely well painted bust.

marc

Very good work Goetz, I know this bust and it´s in a small scale. Yoy have made a really clean and precise work, adding to the figure a lot of life.

Military miniatures painted by Eduardo Garcia

Lovely paint.

Pedro

Looks great, the hair is particularly good.

Alex

I've painted this little bust a while ago and you've did a very good paint job Goetz.
Brian

Superg Goetz !

Specially the blue turquoise tone and the subtle scars in his face.

Very intensive eyes! Like him very much!

Well done.

Cheers

Great work Sir .

Very nice work,the more I see this bust painted the more I'm tempted to buy it,I really like the eyes and the hair has been very well sculpted and painted

Excellent painting Goetz, love everything about it.


Cheers David

That's one serious looking fella!
Love the paintjob. What a fantastic use of colours.
Just one small remark; if he is that fatigued looking, I would expect some blue underneath his eyes. I think that would blend the eyes into the face more, making it more of a unity. These intense eyes stand out a lot now.

And what do you guys mean by "little scale"? Surely it is 90mm or larger, right?

Wow, thanks a lot to all of you! I didn't expect such a "wave" of replies...

Nap, the non-metal areas were done by a mix of paynesgrey and medieval yellow as base, this mix received a little red and black for the warmer appearance in those darker areas. The upper part was painted with the base combined with more yellow.
The metal parts were done with a mix of PI silver and sepia & van dyke brown. Lighter shades (with less oils) were stippled in after the base had dried. Some brown washes (burnt umber in combination with black) were put around the corners to imitate a little rust.
A few of the battle "scars" were already in place, the rest was painted (most of them!).

Hope this helps.

I still have some problems to get the right light for photographing, the cheeks are darker in reality then in the pictures.

You're right with that, a blue or bluegrey shadow below his eyes would have been possible too. I took the red as a contrast to bring out these eyes even more.

The figure has a heigth of approx. 45 mm and the box says 1/12 as scale.

Thanks again to all of you.
Cheers
Goetz

Hello Götz,

i see it very late, but now .

This bust is great, absolut beautiful !!!

Hope to see it in Duesseldorf,

greetings

Karsten

Really well done and great tones.
Cheers
John