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Miniatures Adventure => The Second World War => Topic started by: Rick F on May 03, 2020, 05:51:18 PM
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My go at the outstanding Empress Miniatures Late war British. Again, apologies if lots of people have seen these on Facebook, thought it was about time I went back to forums as well.
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Excellent paint job.
Ta
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Terrific work on those. 👍👍👍
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Nice painting.
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Outstanding!
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Thank you everyone for the comments.
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Brilliant! :o
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very nice
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Some signallers.
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Very nicely done.
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Very nicely done.
Cheers mate, it was your figures that inspired me to get these.
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That's the last of the packs now, Vickers machine gun.
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Those are really nice. Just one observation, the leather over-smock.
I used to have one, and it was very much darker in colour, and was actually quite soft. Now bear in mind, it was an old garment when I had it 40+ years ago, but the original leather was less orange and more chocolate in colour. I would be tempted to give them a wash of a brown ink, or Agrax Earthshade or similar.
Doubtless someone else will be along shortly to tell me I am quite wrong, and the version they had utterly different :-)
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The figures have a lot of character...great job!
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Those are really nice. Just one observation, the leather over-smock.
I used to have one, and it was very much darker in colour, and was actually quite soft. Now bear in mind, it was an old garment when I had it 40+ years ago, but the original leather was less orange and more chocolate in colour. I would be tempted to give them a wash of a brown ink, or Agrax Earthshade or similar.
Doubtless someone else will be along shortly to tell me I am quite wrong, and the version they had utterly different :-)
Ha ha, it's a bit like field grey. I've seen them go from this to this, chose the light colour to stand out against the boring uniform. I should imagine most were in between the two. Cheers :)
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yup any shade of brown leather depending on age and usage, but making it look like leather (rather than brown cloth) is actually quite hard - I haven't mastered it yet but I have seen those that have.
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I accidentally managed to do what I thought was quite a good leather look, and it was a base colour, a brown wash and then quite high contrast highlights but very 'sharp' as in small and straight lines, which makes it look 'shiny'.
I dare say places like CMON and others will have brilliant tutorials, but that was what worked for me.
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When I'm doing units and not leaders etc a mahoganyish base coat and wash is plenty for me. But you're right, a large leather garment is far harder to make look realistic compared to thin straps etc
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I reckon they look great and I am very envious of your painting eyes. I have basically given up as I always get them wonky.
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I reckon they look great and I am very envious of your painting eyes. I have basically given up as I always get them wonky.
Thank you, I've recently changed my method. I used to do the eyes first, white line then a thin black vertical line and base coat flesh around. Now they're the very last thing on the figure, black dot (if I'm feeling adventurous, a blue grey dot with a black dot, like the Richard I figure on the medieval board) then with the smallest brush a tiny white spot either side.
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Yes nice work on the eyes but where the braiding round the rank chevrons? lol
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Yes nice work on the eyes but where the braiding round the rank chevrons? lol
o_o lol
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Superb job!
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One of my favorite range of figures, great painting.
What colour are you using for the wood on your Enfields? Mine always look too dark, you've got a really nice warm tone, really looks the part.
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One of my favorite range of figures, great painting.
What colour are you using for the wood on your Enfields? Mine always look too dark, you've got a really nice warm tone, really looks the part.
Thank you very much, yes I love all Paul Hicks' work.
For the wood I use the process described in Painting War issue 3, it's all done with washes. Vallejo Dark Sand undercoat, then Citadel washes, Sepia, Earthshade, Fleshshade, Sepia, Flesh, Sepia. Sounds a faff but it's not, they dry quite quickly and you can vary the amount to get different shades.