I've been keeping busy. Today's project was to work on some accessories for the base. I'm picturing this guy in an ancient city his army just sacked, maybe looking for loot. I had a few vases my dad picked up at a toy soldier show and I thought they would work well for what I wanted. They originally had this awful textured paint on them so that had to go. Plenty of sanding later and I was back to the bare metal ready to start again. I snapped a few photos of actual vases from a museum so the two smaller ones are based on real vases. The figure is there to give you a sense of scale.

Working on the base. For the city scene I created a portion of a building and a stone texture for the ground. Did some weathering and then added the vases.


I still need to finish up the figure, but I placed him temporarily on the base to see how everything looked together.

Wonderful idea ! And a great realization !
Andrey

Really impressive, I like it a lot.
Just a vague idea that are too many elements in a small space. And maybe some desorder, the high vase a little more oblique, I don't know.
The right leg is too close of one of vase, even that i understand and you emphasize the defensive position of hoplite.
Maybe some more photos will be nice.
A smal question: did you paint the small motifs on the vases? Look amazing at this scale.
Otherwise, warm congratulations!

Thanks, everyone. Nicolaos, I agree, he's a little too close to the vases. He's not glued down yet, so I'll reposition him. And yes, I painted the designs on the pottery. I used some reference material for ideas, so they're based on real vases but not exact copies. The real Greek vases have a ton of detail on them, too much for me to do at this scale!

Bailey, just some opinions. One of my friends just asked me if your are gonna to make a step by step tutorial.
Can' wait to see the final result!
Cheers,
Nicolae

No problem, its helpful to hear from other artists. Sometimes there are things I don't see until someone else points it out.

And yes, I was planning to write up a step by step for this figure. I'll be sure to post a link here once I finish it.

Great work, I like the metals especially. Cheers Borek

I put the finishing touches on the hoplite this weekend. I added a few scratches and dings to his armor and then did a little more weathering with pigments. I also repositioned the figure a bit so he's not quite so close to the wall. Overall I'm very happy with how he turned out. At some point in the next few weeks I'm going to put together a tutorial on this figure. I'll be sure to post a link here once it's done. Thanks for following this project!



Here's the figure in the CMON gallery:
http://www.coolminiornot.com/351030

You've done a wonderfull job, Bailey! Thanks a lot for sharing this expericence with us.
Best regards,
Nicolae

It took a little while, but I finally put together the SBS tutorial on this hoplite. If you are interested it's posted over on WAMP:

http://www.wampforum.com/VB4/content.php?r=3665-Painting-a-54mm-Historical-Figure-Greek-Hoplite