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Title: Adventures in East-Africa (Update page 4)
Post by: Frank on May 26, 2010, 09:22:53 AM
I started to paint some African explorer, hunter and trader, as well as some Massai for a small game. Here are the first pictures…

(http://gallery.modellfiguren-online.de/data/media/25/sudan_13.jpg)

(http://gallery.modellfiguren-online.de/data/media/25/sudan_12.jpg)

(http://gallery.modellfiguren-online.de/data/media/25/sudan_02.jpg)

(http://gallery.modellfiguren-online.de/data/media/25/sudan_08.jpg)

The lions are from Reaper, the rest is Foundry.
Title: Re: Adventure in East-Africa
Post by: Svennn on May 26, 2010, 09:25:05 AM
Frank, stop it will you. You are putting us all to shame with all these wonderful posts. ;)

The "lived in, grubby look" on the explorers is fantastic. We see far too many pristine pith helmets really.

Svennn
Title: Re: Adventure in East-Africa
Post by: former user on May 26, 2010, 09:37:03 AM
Mar-ve-llous

miniatures, scenery, pictures

everything!!

Title: Re: Adventure in East-Africa
Post by: Galloping Major on May 26, 2010, 09:37:39 AM
Lovely stuff beautifully photographed  8)





www.gallopingmajorwargames.com
Title: Re: Adventure in East-Africa
Post by: Hammers on May 26, 2010, 09:39:45 AM
Some  of the best Colonials I have ever seen. That rather dark colour scheme together with an excellent photography makes a very dramatic presentation.
Title: Re: Adventure in East-Africa
Post by: Plynkes on May 26, 2010, 10:03:14 AM
Oh yes. This guy is good. We need to clone another Frank to concentrate just on Colonials, so the original one can carry on with the Samurai and Fantasy stuff. More, please!  :)
Title: Re: Adventure in East-Africa
Post by: Ray Rivers on May 26, 2010, 10:54:10 AM
 :o

Very, very nice.

Love your style and love those cats!
Title: Re: Adventure in East-Africa
Post by: VSF Gamer on May 26, 2010, 11:07:34 AM
Excellent job on all!! I like how you did the photos.
Title: Re: Adventure in East-Africa
Post by: Hammers on May 26, 2010, 11:16:19 AM
Can't help but to loo again: the elephant grass looks very good to. Effective idea to mix the plastic grass with tan rubberised horsehair.
Title: Re: Adventure in East-Africa
Post by: Smokeyrone on May 26, 2010, 12:34:17 PM
Great stuff, man!



Reminds me of an old movie, called "East of Sudan"
Title: Re: Adventure in East-Africa
Post by: Traveler Man on May 26, 2010, 01:11:12 PM
Superb! I love the figures, scenery and the skilfull use of photos for the backdrops.  :-*
Title: Re: Adventure in East-Africa
Post by: chicklewis on May 26, 2010, 01:39:19 PM
Brushwork on the lions is just amazingly good !!!
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Post by: argsilverson on May 26, 2010, 01:43:52 PM
magnificent!
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Post by: Ignatieff on May 26, 2010, 04:19:22 PM
Superb!  It's so real you can hear the sounds and feel the fear!!!   :-*
Title: Re: Adventure in East-Africa
Post by: Frank on May 27, 2010, 10:04:22 AM
Thanks a lot!!! :)
Title: Re: Adventure in East-Africa
Post by: Furt on May 27, 2010, 10:41:08 AM
Absolutely gorgeous.  :-*

Love the male lion in particular.
Title: Re: Adventure in East-Africa
Post by: Axebreaker on May 27, 2010, 04:59:20 PM
Superb! :-* :-*

Christopher
Title: Re: Adventure in East-Africa
Post by: Frank on July 12, 2010, 07:47:23 AM
As I have promised, here are some WIP pictures of my savannah trees. The first step is to make the main structure from winding wire. In the second step you have to create the tree bark. There different kind of method to do that…I have used very fine sawdust which I have glued on the wire. After the glue has dried, I glued some filter floss / filter cotton on the upper side of the branches (only a very small amount!), this will present the small twigs. Now you have to give the tree a basic colour. Because of the filter floss you have to use spray paint / airbrush. In the next step you have to glue (spray) the leaves on the upper side of the filter floss. I have used “Noch – Laub hellgrün No. 07142”, but this depends on the size of the leaves you want to present. In the last step I gave the tree trunk a drybrush and I also gave the leaves a small amount of brown spry paint. That’s it.

(http://img682.imageshack.us/img682/1475/tree01.jpg)

(http://www.pondshop.de/pic-shop-02/183120.jpg)

(http://img684.imageshack.us/img684/8052/tree02.jpg)

(http://img695.imageshack.us/img695/2713/tree03.jpg)
Title: Re: Adventure in East-Africa
Post by: Captain Blood on July 12, 2010, 08:00:27 AM
Great trees Frank  :)

Can you tell me please, which plastic aquarium grass product you used for your tall grass clumps? I have been unable to find the right kind of size and shape here in the UK so far...  ::)

Thanks.

Title: Re: Adventure in East-Africa
Post by: former user on July 12, 2010, 09:33:28 AM
excellent trees
Title: Re: Adventure in East-Africa
Post by: Bugsda on July 12, 2010, 11:33:20 AM
Love them trees and excellent looking Massai  :-*
Title: Re: Adventures in East-Africa
Post by: Traveler Man on July 12, 2010, 02:19:15 PM
Oh, those trees are excellent!  :-*
Title: Re: Adventures in East-Africa
Post by: Digits on July 13, 2010, 11:06:51 AM
As if I don't have enough projects on the go, I'm itching to have a go at this period and these pics are doing nothing to disuade me!

Lovely work bud.
Title: Re: Adventures in East-Africa
Post by: Frank on July 13, 2010, 11:13:41 AM
@Captain Blood: I use deco-grass mats, the version with short blades (3 cm). You will find them in a garden-center or deco-shop. First step is to glue one piece of grass on a circular base. Than I use some small amount of brown spray-paint to tone down the bright green colour of the grass. In the middle of the grass I glue (hot glue) a bundle of hemp sealing. You can easily trim the hemp with a scissor. Here the pictures of the material:

(http://www.floraseta.de/WebRoot/FlorasetaDB/Shops/Floraseta/49A4/4B6A/099E/2F78/184A/5295/E519/3FFE/1724413_0020_Grasmatte.jpg)

(http://www.chrmullertouw.nl/images/dwcm/Pompvlas.jpg)
Title: Re: Adventures in East-Africa
Post by: traveller on July 13, 2010, 03:47:01 PM
So good!  :o :o :o
Title: Re: Adventures in East-Africa
Post by: Captain Blood on July 13, 2010, 06:57:12 PM
@Captain Blood: I use deco-grass mats, the version with short blades (3 cm). You will find them in a garden-center or deco-shop. First step is to glue one piece of grass on a circular base. Than I use some small amount of brown spray-paint to tone down the bright green colour of the grass. In the middle of the grass I glue (hot glue) a bundle of hemp sealing. You can easily trim the hemp with a scissor. Here the pictures of the material:

Thank you Frank. I shall see if I can buy some of that...  :)
Title: Re: Adventures in East-Africa
Post by: Furt on July 13, 2010, 09:18:19 PM
Excellent how-do thanks.

Never heard of heap sealing - what is it's actual function?
Title: Re: Adventures in East-Africa
Post by: Captain Blood on July 13, 2010, 10:15:11 PM
Never heard of heap sealing - what is it's actual function?

I think plumbers use it for the joints of pipes. It's the old fashioned version of that white tape they now use inside screw fittings.

Although I could be completely wrong  ::)
Title: Re: Adventures in East-Africa
Post by: ushistoryprof on July 13, 2010, 10:26:10 PM
Wow!  What great figures.
Title: Re: Adventures in East-Africa
Post by: Helen on July 13, 2010, 11:23:16 PM
Very nice brushwork Frank an I love the cats in particular, well done.

Helen
Title: Re: Adventures in East-Africa
Post by: Hammers on July 14, 2010, 07:36:46 AM
Frank, I'd like to tidy this thread up and place a copy in How to if I may.
Title: Re: Adventures in East-Africa
Post by: Frank on July 14, 2010, 08:09:14 AM
Sure, go ahead.
Title: Re: Adventures in East-Africa
Post by: Frank on April 17, 2011, 08:06:28 PM
Thanks to the LPL I was able to paint some more of the east african lead mountain...Here are some picture:

(http://img848.imageshack.us/img848/2880/carlpeters01.jpg)

(http://img826.imageshack.us/img826/854/lionhunt01.jpg)

(http://img859.imageshack.us/img859/1525/masai01.jpg)
Title: Re: Adventures in East-Africa
Post by: Ray Rivers on April 18, 2011, 02:48:59 AM
 :-*

Great stuff!  Keep it coming.
Title: Re: Adventures in East-Africa
Post by: Renaud on April 18, 2011, 03:12:01 AM
Marvelous. Could we have pictures of the making-off, e.g. close-ups and wider angles of the scenery? The way the bases blend with the earth, and the way the background photo is used is amazing. How do you achieve that?
Title: Re: Adventures in East-Africa
Post by: Heldrak on April 18, 2011, 05:11:23 AM
It's great to see more of your jaw-dropping round 5 entry here- Just beautiful!  :-*
Title: Re: Adventures in East-Africa
Post by: former user on April 18, 2011, 10:35:28 AM
the PJ are simply marvellous, especially the lions
who makes them?
Title: Re: Adventures in East-Africa
Post by: Earther on April 18, 2011, 10:50:36 AM
The way the bases blend with the earth, and the way the background photo is used is amazing. How do you achieve that?

Photoshop software or somesuch I assume… ;)
Title: Re: Adventures in East-Africa
Post by: Remington on April 18, 2011, 11:07:18 AM
I really enjoyed voting for these fellas. You have a very distinct way of painting and framing your miniatures and I love it. Very effective altogether and the pictures achieve their goal admirably. And in all the awesomeness... there are the lions...the bee's knees!
Title: Re: Adventures in East-Africa
Post by: discok3 on April 18, 2011, 11:57:14 AM
Lions...marvellous
Skin colour...marvellous
Shield design and execution...marvellous
Photography...marvellous
Overall...marvellous...jolly well done and pleasure to look at and drool over
Thank you :-*
Title: Re: Adventures in East-Africa
Post by: Aaron on April 18, 2011, 01:45:00 PM
They are all well done to put it mildly, but those lions!  :-*
Title: Re: Adventures in East-Africa
Post by: Frank on April 18, 2011, 01:56:31 PM
Thank you all for the kind words!  :D
@Renaud: I will try to create a picture “making off” in the next weeks…I am a little bit busy at the moment, working on the next entries for the LPL! o_o Please be therefore somewhat patient!
Title: Re: Adventures in East-Africa
Post by: Frank on September 12, 2011, 08:07:32 AM
I made some more pictures of my lions (Primaeval Designs and Reaper)…

(http://tabletopdeutschland.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/lionhunt-05.jpg)

(http://tabletopdeutschland.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/lionhunt-06.jpg)

(http://tabletopdeutschland.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/lionhunt-04.jpg)

(http://tabletopdeutschland.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/lionhunt-07.jpg)

(http://tabletopdeutschland.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/lionhunt-09.jpg)
Title: Re: Adventures in East-Africa
Post by: OSHIROmodels on September 12, 2011, 08:12:55 AM
Stunning work and composition  :-* :-*

I'm assuming you have lots of fun taking the photos  :)

cheers

James
Title: Re: Adventures in East-Africa
Post by: Tsune on September 12, 2011, 08:26:23 AM
The pictures are really nice!  :-* :-* :-*

(And the painting, and the scenery, and...).
Title: Re: Adventures in East-Africa
Post by: Prof.Witchheimer on September 12, 2011, 08:52:37 AM
wow, Frank, this is quite big cinema :)
Title: Re: Adventures in East-Africa
Post by: Barry S on September 12, 2011, 09:49:04 AM
Stunning work  :-*

Cheers,

Barry
Title: Re: Adventures in East-Africa
Post by: Ray Rivers on September 12, 2011, 10:21:40 AM
Your camera work and ability to nicely blend out the bases make for some fantastic photos.

As said, a number of times before, lovely lions!
Title: Re: Adventures in East-Africa
Post by: Bugsda on September 12, 2011, 11:01:09 AM
 :-* Made my lunchtime, cheers   ;)
Title: Re: Adventures in East-Africa
Post by: Ssendam on September 12, 2011, 12:17:18 PM
Excellent work. Any pointers on how to get the skin tones of your Maasai warriors.
Title: Re: Adventures in East-Africa
Post by: Mabden on September 12, 2011, 03:06:16 PM
Your terrain is stunning.
I have your masai fighting lions photo as wallpaper in my computer.
Congrats for your work. Inspire me for my own works.
Title: Re: Adventures in East-Africa
Post by: Frank on September 13, 2011, 05:16:36 AM
Thank you!!! :)
Title: Re: Adventures in East-Africa
Post by: Shikari Sahib on September 13, 2011, 03:00:10 PM
No words  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Piero
Title: Re: Adventures in East-Africa
Post by: abhorsen950 on September 13, 2011, 03:26:53 PM
Superb work! Love them all! Always been a huge fan of those hunter figures. I am right in saying they are from Foundry?

Thanks for sharing,
Steve
Title: Re: Adventures in East-Africa
Post by: cram on September 15, 2011, 08:26:44 PM
Outstanding stuff!!  :-*  :-*  :-* I think I could very happily study those photo's for hours on end. Theres nothing not to love there, both the painting of the figures and the scenery is first rate.
Title: Re: Adventures in East-Africa
Post by: FifteensAway on September 16, 2011, 06:12:23 AM
I do believe the "original" use for hemp sealing was for caulking wooden ships, a wooden mallet pounded the stuff between the clinks and then some sort of tar like substance is applied to waterproof the hull.  And I good be wrong, too.  There's another name for it but brain is tired and should be asleep along with the rest of me.
Title: Re: Adventures in East-Africa
Post by: Plynkes on September 20, 2011, 05:57:38 PM
Missed the update what with being away and all, but had to comment, even if it was a little late. I think you deserve a Royal Geographical Society Medal for this one, Frank. This is up there with discovering the source of the Nile.
Title: Re: Adventures in East-Africa
Post by: Frank on May 10, 2012, 07:35:58 AM
Thanks to the LPL I was able to paint some more Masai, animals and villagers…

(http://tabletopdeutschland.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/masai-01.jpg)

(http://tabletopdeutschland.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/masai-02.jpg)

(http://tabletopdeutschland.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/masai-03.jpg)

(http://tabletopdeutschland.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/masai-04.jpg)
Title: Re: Adventures in East-Africa (Update page 4)
Post by: marianas_gamer on May 10, 2012, 07:43:06 AM
Frank,
Those cattle are things of beauty  :-* :-*and better fed than any Massai cattle that I have ever seen pictures of. I can easily see any number of brush wars started over them.  They are the god damned Hellen of Troy of cattle!!
LB
Title: Re: Adventures in East-Africa (Update page 4)
Post by: H.M.Stanley on May 10, 2012, 08:13:55 AM
I think i love that cow ..  :o
Title: Re: Adventures in East-Africa (Update page 4)
Post by: Steve F on May 10, 2012, 09:01:26 AM
Gorgeous painting and photography and lush lighting.  Applause!
Title: Re: Adventures in East-Africa (Update page 4)
Post by: zuluwar on May 10, 2012, 11:35:56 AM
 :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Adventures in East-Africa (Update page 4)
Post by: Bugsda on May 10, 2012, 12:04:20 PM
Beautiful shots as usual, love that red sky  :-*
Title: Re: Adventures in East-Africa (Update page 4)
Post by: cram on May 10, 2012, 12:05:14 PM
Beyond perfect  :-*  :-*  :-*  :-*
Title: Re: Adventures in East-Africa (Update page 4)
Post by: Dr Mathias on May 10, 2012, 12:10:15 PM
Excellent! Who makes the cattle and goats? They don't look like the Foundry ones, at least I've not seen them painted that well before :)

Looks like a new standard has been set once again, and I have so many cattle to do...
Title: Re: Adventures in East-Africa (Update page 4)
Post by: Frank on May 10, 2012, 12:14:08 PM
Thank you boys!  :D
The cattle and goats are made by Empress Miniatures.
Title: Re: Adventures in East-Africa (Update page 4)
Post by: Ray Rivers on May 10, 2012, 01:28:54 PM
 :-*

Great thread! More fantastic miniatures!

Thanks for keeping all you Masai stuff on the same thread. Will be useful in the future..  ;)
Title: Re: Adventures in East-Africa (Update page 4)
Post by: Galloping Major on May 10, 2012, 03:43:28 PM
Great pictures  8)


www.gallopingmajorwargames.com
Title: Re: Adventures in East-Africa (Update page 4)
Post by: Traveler Man on May 10, 2012, 03:58:34 PM
Superb!  :o  :-*
Title: Re: Adventures in East-Africa (Update page 4)
Post by: Johnny Boy on May 10, 2012, 05:09:44 PM
As if I needed another head turning moment and enough unfinished projects I saw this! Great work and love the "careworn" Explorers!!   
Title: Re: Adventures in East-Africa (Update page 4)
Post by: Engel on May 11, 2012, 07:11:03 AM
This is pure art.  :-*
Title: Re: Adventures in East-Africa (Update page 4)
Post by: Kingscarbine on May 11, 2012, 07:27:39 AM
 :o Great painting and excellent photos. Not an easy job if you don't have the right lighting and a good camera.
Title: Re: Adventures in East-Africa (Update page 4)
Post by: Keith on May 11, 2012, 07:31:50 AM
How on earth did I miss this?!?

Pages of inspiration - wonderful work Frank!
Title: Re: Adventures in East-Africa (Update page 4)
Post by: Republicofalnwick on May 13, 2012, 04:24:06 PM
I swear I saw one of them breathe just now!

Superb. Absolutely brilliant.
Title: Re: Adventures in East-Africa (Update page 4)
Post by: luidinuovo on May 27, 2012, 07:12:54 AM
 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Einfach nur der Hammer.
Title: Re: Adventures in East-Africa (Update page 4)
Post by: Captain Blood on May 27, 2012, 07:42:16 AM
I had missed the cows. They are sublime. Great painting Frank.
Title: Re: Adventures in East-Africa (Update page 4)
Post by: FifteensAway on May 28, 2012, 05:33:58 AM
Just wow on the cow.  And now back to the original post and photo four - since you've been complemented on everything else - I think it is time to say that you did a great job on the "angle of the dangle"!    lol
Title: Re: Adventures in East-Africa (Update page 4)
Post by: Dr. The Viking on May 28, 2012, 06:33:32 AM
Frank I just love your stuff! As ever!