Hi planeteers,
let me present you my latest painting. I started this a few weeks back and this is where I am now. The sculpt is fantastic and besides it I also admired the painting of Danilo Cartacci from the Pegaso boxart and that´s why I try hard to be satisfiend with my version. So thank you for watching and any comments are welcome

Looking good so far, did you use oils for the skin?

Yes Ernest, I paint everything in oils with synthetic (somethimes acrylic) basecoat

WOW! what a fantastic start Robert, the skine tones are beautiful, very smooth and subtle, looking foward to following the progress on this one
Cheers
Tommi

Great start Robert.
I agree with tommi.

Marc

Fantastic start Robert your fleshtones are superb, what is your flesh mix.

Cheers David

Indeed great flesh tones I'm also (as an oil painter) to hear about your mix.

Xenofon

Great start Robert!

Jay H.
Okc

Great Work Robert
I liked very much the skin tone

Mario

Beautiful skin tones Robert. I saw this posted over on Med-Rom and loved the blue's you have done too.

He's looking fantastic Robert!! The hair, fleshtones, and blue are all beautiful. As others have said, I'd be interested to know your formula for the flesh and also the blue.

Jason

Hi! Robert.
The skin tone is very wonderful.
It seems to build into a very beautiful work.
I'm looking forward to completion of your work very much.

Hi friends, thank you all for kind words and encouragement.
Requested flesh tone mix:

medium: Mars Orange+Naples Yellow
shadow1: Ultramarine Pink+Naples Yellow
shadow2: is shadow1+Burnt Umber
highlight: medium+more Naples Yellow
highest highlight: pure Naples Yellow

I tone down a day after with a touch of Ultramarine Pink when too much light. As I am not a speed painter, I work in areas, so at the I make corrections here and there to achieve the same intensity in all parts.

Really nice work and beautiful warm tones on flesh . Congratulations

Costas

very good flesh painting !

HI Robert,

Beautiful work! and thanks for the information on the flesh mix-as a point of interest what do you use as the acrylic base for the flesh as obviously this has an effect on the subsequent oils.
Keith

Thanks Keith,
first I airbrush the figure with white synthetic Humbrol matt white, this is a best base for next, this time acrylic basecoat. under flesh colour I´ve used Vallejo Flat flesh (very thinned with water and I brush it on surface in 2 thinn layers).

Excellent flesh tones Robert!! Welldone!!!

Ray

Hi Robert,

An excellent start - well done on the flesh tones. I will be following this one closley my friend.

Ciao
Franco

Hi Robert, thanks for the colour info, looking forward to seeing the completed project-by the way who makes Ultramarine Pink?
Keith.