Brilliant Mark, that face is outstanding and looking forward to taking a closer look on Sat

Cheers Ken

Mark this is looking lovely,you nailed the fur hat,leather and flesh areas really great work

Keith ... Cheers! I'm undecided about the goggles reflection. Being plate glass the reflection will be un distorted, might be a bit much visually. Still I could always paint it out again

Hi Mark. Figure is progressing very nicely,unbelievable realism. I really like this one.
I did try the moutainous reflection using xara coral. All I did was to leave the dark grey background and add thin almost imperceptible subtle snowy peaks, using only two colours blue/grey for the light side and purple for the shadow. I was surprised how good it was for such a simple few brush strokes.
Looking forward to the completion of this figure.
Cheers Keith

That face is brilliant and the rest of the piece is coming right along!

Jim

Carl ... Cheers Carl

Lancio ... Many thanks

Ken .... Thanks ...

Carl ... Many thanks

Keith ... Cheers again Still umming and ahhhing about the goggles

Jim .... Thank you!!


Steady progress ... Probably still some work to do on the rope

Dear Mark.

...amazing painting job!

Luiz.

Like it

Looks great Mark, really fantastic painting.......What chance the rest of us!!!!
Cheers
Keith

Excellent work so far

Marc

My wife hates people like you. After seeing this I have just had to go and order one for myself. Nice job.

Ken

Very well done Mark, I like all I see so far. I have taken a look moving away a little from my pc and the realism is amazing. Only the closer view reveals, that this is a painting work.

Military miniatures painted by Eduardo Garcia

Superb work and a genuine signature style Mark......brilliant.
Cheers
Derek

Luiz ... Thank you

Ernesto ... Many thanks !

Keith ... Cheers! It's just lots of practice

Marc ... Many thanks!

Carl ... Cheers again

Ken ... I can live with the hate Lol!

Eduardo ... Thank you!

Derek ... Thank you too!


Minor update as I have a few pieces in to prep

painted the body of the back pack .... AV Olive Drab then AV Khaki and finally Khaki with AV Light Flesh as a Highlight.

I might make the creases sharper but I'm going to do the leather work first to check it balances with the rest

Great painting Marc!!

theo

Very very nice work

Laurent

That is looking very nice indeed mark.

Ron

Good progress Mark!

I like how this comes together step by step. Your best work yet, IMHO.

Cheers,
Adrian

Brilliant!!!!

Grüß Di' Mark,

Excellent work on your Soviet Mountain Trooper!

I would recommend that you lighten up the rope to make it pop. Period climbing rope was made of hemp and is very light in color. Here are a few examples from my collection:





Berg Heil,

Patrick


IMG_0293 by bergfuhrerkiser, on Flickr