Hi Planeteers,

here is my humble collection of figures painted in 2009, actually..., both were finished by the end of January Comments are welcome though!


Happy New Year to All!

Denes

Yeah they are both really nice pieces!

Mark

Excellent work.

Marc

Great painting of the camo on both figures, like the smoke effect.

Cheers David

Excellent camo painting Denes.

Great couple of figures,Denes.
Beautiful painting,well done.
Two up on what I actually completed last year.

Thanks for your comments guys, glad you like 'em.

Carl, the thing I feel bad about is that 90% they were done in 2008... Hardly had a brush in my hand last year.

Mark, that's a pity, on the other hand comforting to know I'm not the only one

Cheers
Denes

Hopefully, the time will come. . .

Hello Denes:

As I've grown older and retired from the newspaper biz, I've come to
agree that it is the quality and not the quantity that matters. And these
two pieces are definitely quality work that you can be proud of. So much
skilled and subtle painting on these two presentations.

Hopefully, with good luck and a healthy life style the period when you are
retired will come along. And it won't take as long for those years to roll by,
as you might think. Then you'll have the time to really enjoy the hobby, and
you'll be able to fill your time with fun like this, and not be sitting around
bored to tears, because you didn't take the time to get interested in
something besides work, during your working life.

Well done,

Jaybird

I have seen both in person and they are absolutely fantastic. The camo work on Jeff Shiu figure is perfect and the texture effect is well balanced. BTW, the figure won gold in Moson show... well deserved IMO.

Great stuff Denes! Now, back to the brushes and don't waste your talent any more...

Mario

Denes, outstanding camo work on both figures.

Cheers Ken

Rick, Mario, Ken, thank you for the kind words! These two were experimental, on the Alpine figure I tried the Blurred edge pattern, which was quite difficult, also due to the small scale, but the textures went easier than expected.

Rick, I hope this year will be better already!

Cheers
Denes

Denes, maybe only two but it are two beautiful painted figures!
I could also finish only two figures in 2009.

Cheers,
Marcel.

Dénes,

Very nice figures indeed. I think I did the grand total of one figure last year, so actually I find two not so bad.... ;-)

I find the burn marks very well done and original. I think it is difficult to make it look realistic and you've got it spot on!

Can you explain how you get the cloth effect? It looks like many faint lines painted over the camo pattern. Do you do this before or after shading? It looks really good and I would like to give it a try some time.

Again, great work!

Cheers,
Adrian

denes
those are pretty darn good, nice work on both!

What Carl said

Marcel, Adrian, Rob, Matthew, many thanks for the thums up!


Adrian,

yes, they are simply faint lines, I use acrylics, the key is thinning (depends on what colour you use and how visible you want the effect to be), colour can be anything that goes with the basecolours, as it shows through. I did it after shading, though I adjusted the shadows with a thin dark wash, and the midtones with an even thinner, so the original texture is left only on highlights, it also helps the shading of difficult camos - the light texture colour picks up the wash more, the base colours less, not alterning them much. With a thin repaint of the base colours you can tone down the texture if it went wrong.

Used light greenish grey on the Alpine (hence more visible in photo lighting), in grid pattern.
Straight lines of sunny skintone on the Jeff Shiu's at an angle trying to represent HTB material, but due to the scale went over the highlights with a lighter colour and did the deep shadow texture only with black, also, to control contrast, did the lightest pattern colour's texture separately, would have been too strong on the rest.

As a possibilty, the texture could be done before shading, then do the shading with lightened / darkened base colours, thinning adjusted to let the texture show trough.

There are many ways to textures, hope it helps and is understandable Looking forward to see your version!

Denes

Thats two more than me too.
Got to compleat a figure....before I die at this rate!
You are very good at painting SS camo, Denes.

Thanks Denes for the elaborate explanation!
I'll give it a go some time and will show the result.
For now, first I have to finish my own tankers, one in pea dot, one in plain black.
Boy is finishing hard... So tempting to start something else!

Cheers, Adrian

Hi,

this topic passed me along
Both figures are fantastic, but I doubt the peadot camo in german airborne
The camo´s are amazing and your humble figures please me so much.
Thanks for sharing this two beauties