Author Topic: Condottieri di Milano - Perry plastic conversions (Read 29246 times)

Heldrak · « **Reply #30 on:** August 31, 2011, 06:09:49 AM »

Congratulations on the win! I love the red-and-blue and I love those striped trousers...!!!

Any tips on those?

Captain Blood · « **Reply #31 on:** August 31, 2011, 02:21:57 PM »

Thanks again, all

Quote from: Marine0846 on August 31, 2011, 03:25:13 AM

May I ask how long do you usually spend painting a figure. Thanks for sharing.

Honestly, that's a very difficult one to answer, partly because it depends on the figure of course, but also because I rarely sit down and paint a single figure - I usually paint in batches of 5 or 10 at a time. Plus, I only ever sit down to paint for a couple of hours here and there - rarely in longer sessions. So progress always feels pretty slow.

I suppose, for a single figure of medium difficulty - i.e. several different colours, surfaces, textures, weapons and equipment, but not tartan or camo etc, it's probably somewhere between an hour and 90 minutes. But you know, sometimes they go well, and it's quick and easy painting - sometimes it just doesn't work as you want it to, and you can spend 10 or 20 minutes doing and redoing just one little bit of a figure before you get it just right...

It's hard to generalise

Captain Blood · « **Reply #32 on:** August 31, 2011, 02:29:58 PM »

Quote from: Heldrak on August 31, 2011, 06:09:49 AM

I love the red-and-blue and I love those striped trousers...!!! Any tips on those?

Oops. Sorry, Michael - missed that question...

Stripes are actually pretty easy to do provided you've got a steady hand... They look a lot more impressive than they actually are!

Basically, all I do is paint and highlight the whole garment (leggings in this case) in the 'ground' colour of the fabric first - then just paint on stripes!
Get a stripe a bit too fat? Never mind - just touch it in with the opposing colour until they look more or less even.
Then highlight the stripes you've just painted, picking up on any folds and creases...
You might then find that your 'feature colour' stripes are highlighted a bit more intensely than your 'ground colour' stripes - so now go back and add a bit more highlighting to the latter.

I think what makes stripes look so effective is just the exaggerated high contrast between the stripes, and small spots of paint picking up on the highlights.

Plus you have to pick nicely contrasting colours, obviously...

Ray Rivers · « **Reply #33 on:** September 01, 2011, 02:21:57 AM »

Late to the party here... August is a very busy month for us tourist folks.

Anyway... CONGRATULATIONS!

Fantastic display of art at it's finest.

ZeroTwentythree · « **Reply #34 on:** September 03, 2011, 10:24:36 AM »

Beautiful and inspiring figures!

Helen · « **Reply #35 on:** September 03, 2011, 10:41:38 PM »

Oh, I'm so late to this convention, nevertheless, out standing modelling and painting Richard on this condotteri band. Beautiful colours an a well deserve win.

Cheers,

Helen

carlos marighela · « **Reply #36 on:** September 03, 2011, 10:46:17 PM »

Sensational work Capt.

Remington · « **Reply #37 on:** September 03, 2011, 11:13:37 PM »

Blimey! Those are some serious beauties! Well done, Cap!

Sangennaru · « **Reply #38 on:** September 03, 2011, 11:56:51 PM »

Davvero Meravigliosi!

Being part of the Milan population i feel honoured to have been represented in your work!
The conversions are great, i really love all of them!

Captain Blood · « **Reply #39 on:** September 04, 2011, 12:53:04 AM »

Thank you all

abhorsen950 · « **Reply #40 on:** September 04, 2011, 10:34:58 AM »

Stunning work, truly brilliant!

Silent Invader · « **Reply #41 on:** September 04, 2011, 12:00:48 PM »

I've been away and watching a (mostly) text-only LAF from my phone..... I saw this thread go up and, dare I say, was looking forward to my return to see the images in all their glory. Wonderful.

PS: Most interesting and useful article (again) in WS&S - great to see it in print; BTW your colours are even more effective in print..... here's hoping that WS&S will publish a WOTR battle report, with a mass of your figures and terrain.

Captain Blood · « **Reply #42 on:** September 04, 2011, 01:37:58 PM »

Cheers Steve

Quote from: Silent Invader on September 04, 2011, 12:00:48 PM

PS: Most interesting and useful article (again) in WS&S - great to see it in print; BTW your colours are even more effective in print..... here's hoping that WS&S will publish a WOTR battle report, with a mass of your figures and terrain.

Hmmm. Is that WS&S issue 55 again or 56? (Is 56 out? If it is, I didn't know... Nobody tells me anything

)

Silent Invader · « **Reply #43 on:** September 04, 2011, 01:53:03 PM »

Quote from: Captain Blood on September 04, 2011, 01:37:58 PM

Hmmm. Is that WS&S issue 55 again or 56? (Is 56 out? If it is, I didn't know... Nobody tells me anything )

Issue 56. Picked it up on Thursday at a WHS. This issue has a bit too much ACW for me (aren't I fussy

) but the highlights include a nice barn tutorial by Paul Darnell, an interesting D100 discussion piece by Rick Priestley and your own technically and aesthetically most pleasing article.

white knight · « **Reply #44 on:** September 08, 2011, 09:02:50 AM »

I love your painting and colour choices.

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