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Miniatures Adventure => Adventures in the Far East => Topic started by: Svennn on 12 April 2011, 09:05:23 PM
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Chinese bloke for a change ;D
(http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w198/svennnthedhnut/mb110.jpg)
Old Perry sculpt from Foundry
Svennn
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All good but that blue is especially vivid. Love it. :)
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I agree...the vivid colors really suit this guy well...nice work sir!
Blue
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Oooh yes, he is ......... Gorgeous ;) :-*
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Excellent lush bit of paintwork :-* But you'll feel like doing another one in half an hour ;)
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What Svennn painting a china man :o :o :o
lol lol lol
Perfect job.
Love the colours :-* :-* :-*
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Lovely paint job, but wow does he have a big head.
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Those colours are vivid and beautiful! Using him for anything in particular or painted him for a change?
Damien
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The figure is nicely painted but the terrain modelling completely blew me away. Be the first on you block to have a wargames table layout that can be seen from space!
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Svennn,
Glad to see that you are back to painting Chinese and am looking forward to more :D
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beautiful paint :-*
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Lovely paint job, but wow does he have a big head.
Svennn or the figure ;)
Nice work that man!
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Thank you kindly Gentlemen. I need a bit of encouragement at the moment and have now started the next four of these and four others to go with them.
The blue is an old Citadel colour which no longer has a label on it. Electric Blue? It must be well over twenty years old as I have not bought any of their paint since I left them all those years ago. I mixed it with Ultramarine watercolour for the shading an a tad of white for the highlights.
Those colours are vivid and beautiful! Using him for anything in particular or painted him for a change?
Damien
I have had these for years and always thought them too dated to fit in with the Victorian Chinese adventures in my head. I have a palace guard thing in mind now and although nearly three hundred years too late I think I will also press them into service as allies for my Choson Koreans as Ming hvy. inf. - I'm not that much of a purist ;D
cheers
Svennn
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then there were five
(http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w198/svennnthedhnut/mb121.jpg)
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You can't fool us, you've just loaded photoshop! ;)
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You can't fool us, you've just loaded photoshop! ;)
He,he that's just what I was about to say lol
More splendid Peachy goodness, but you are not quite up to my tally of six for the week. ;)
But thats where it ends as I went back to work today ::)
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Lovely paint job, but wow does he have a big head.
It's all the praise he keeps getting for his lovely figures and buildings ::)
Oh... the figure.... yes, he does! Never noticed that before :?
I have had these for years and always thought them too dated to fit in with the Victorian Chinese adventures in my head.
Svennn - I think they'd work for VSF. Look at some of the Imperial Chinese in the Taiping or Boxer wars. Very traditional dress. Your figures are a bit "old fashioned" but not too different from them.
I'd use them! ;D
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I have had these for years and always thought them too dated to fit in with the Victorian Chinese adventures in my head.
I have the same problem. So I have two spare ones of these if you are interested? Quite happily send them to a new home.
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You can't fool us, you've just loaded photoshop! ;)
Naww, I can spot various discrepancies between the lot's paint-jobs. ;)
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Naww, I can spot various discrepancies between the lot's paint-jobs. ;)
They are not discrepancies >:( they are artistic licence ;)
An officer for the ranks
(http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w198/svennnthedhnut/mb144.jpg)
and then I got bored with blue for now
(http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w198/svennnthedhnut/mb135.jpg)(http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w198/svennnthedhnut/mb136.jpg)(http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w198/svennnthedhnut/mb137.jpg)
I think I am favouring the yellow but will probably do about a dozen of each. Its very tempting to do more colours as though they are fantasy figures but hopefully I am avoiding "Hong Kong Garden" syndrome by keeping them simple?
Svennn
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WOW :-* :-* :-*
The yellow is great.
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I think I am favouring the yellow but will probably do about a dozen of each.
Svennn
Yes and next a green dozen , a black and white dozen and so far. Finally you will have an army each unit of different base colour!
Excellent top job sir. Both versions are very nice!
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don't forget the trees in colours matching the uniforms ;)
they look really very neat
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Excellent! Love the yellow :-*
The officer's great but I've got a bird on the painting bench that'll carve him up like a Sunday roast ;)
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Excellent! Love the yellow :-*
The officer's great but I've got a bird on the painting bench that'll carve him up like a Sunday roast ;)
Hope shes wearing green ;D
Not happy with the officer picture, it has really washed out and a lot of the shading and colour is not showing. I found another casting of this figure this morning so a yellow officer is next on the cards.
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Blueberry and Tangerine ;) delightful ;D
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WOW :-* :-* :-*
The yellow is great.
Agreed - the yellow is GREAT!
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Lovely paint jobs! The officer looks good so don't beat yourself up.
Perhaps a puce lime next time.......
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I like the faces a lot. Very nice Svennnnnnn
Björnnnnn
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Yellow chap with sword
(http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w198/svennnthedhnut/mb208.jpg)
and a mini group shot of both colours
(http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w198/svennnthedhnut/mb206.jpg)
Svennn
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8)
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Lovely again :-* :-*
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Lemons :D
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Plaka yellow?
Excellent pigmentation application :-*
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a very lovely group!
You need a scribe (in green robe ornamented with a dragon!)
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With a title like that and I miss it ::)
Great colours going on there 8)
Now to paint about 2000 of the buggers and you can play Red Cliff all in one go ;D
cheers
James
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Plaka yellow?
Excellent pigmentation application :-*
Does that give good even coverage? I always struggle to get a smooth yellow without resorting to lots of coats. GW's yellows are shite!
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I like. You may continue.
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Plaka yellow?
You expect me to share my secret recipe? Oh, go on then as it is very simple but dont call me names for using craft paints.
Base coat of Inscribe Golden Yellow shaded with Burnt Umber watercolour, Inscribe Sunlight and then same with a little, you guessed it, Inscribe "Snow" added for the last highlights. All over a white undercoat but they have the pigment to cover over black.
In fact as I think about it these yellow ones are almost entirely Inscribe colours despite the dozens of Foundry, CdA, Vallejo etc. in my paint racks.
http://www.fredaldous.co.uk/shop-online/inscribe-59ml-acrylic-paint.htm
Its basically the same as I used on this chap sometime ago
(http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w198/svennnthedhnut/KAR013.jpg)
Svennn
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Looking Very nice Svennn...that yellow is eye popping... :o
cheers,
Blue
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Does that give good even coverage?
Better'n anything else I've tried, you still have to layer it on though.
I wouldn't take the piss Svennn, I use inscribe as much as I use plaka 8)
Wouldn't like to try their yellow over black though, life's too short for that amount of layers ;)
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Inscribe is my staple paint. Cheap and wonderful.
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That's where I've been going wrong. Three top painters and they all use Plaka/Inscribe.
I spend a small fortune on expensive "brand name" paints and turn out consistently average work >:(
lol lol
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Really like that colour scheme. The blue is stunning...