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Offline HGB Paul

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Polar Exploration
« on: 21 November 2016, 07:31:49 PM »
Thought I'd show some pics of my newly painted Polar Bears. They come from Fenris Games.
Took a lot of trial and error to get the photo's to look anything like the paint jobs


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Re: Polar Exploration
« Reply #1 on: 21 November 2016, 07:51:53 PM »
Thought I'd show some pics of my newly painted Polar Bears. They come from Fenris Games.
Took a lot of trial and error to get the photo's to look anything like the paint jobs



Those are nice. Fenris, you say?

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Re: Polar Exploration
« Reply #2 on: 21 November 2016, 08:08:21 PM »
Great brushwork on some really nice sculpts.
Nice basing too.
 :-* :-*


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Re: Polar Exploration
« Reply #3 on: 21 November 2016, 08:55:41 PM »
Your bears are great.
Love them.
« Last Edit: 22 November 2016, 01:19:46 AM by Marine0846 »
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Re: Polar Exploration
« Reply #4 on: 21 November 2016, 09:03:53 PM »
The Whites your achived both on the polar bears and your other thread are very emotive.I for one will be looking out for more of your work.
Mark.

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Re: Polar Exploration
« Reply #5 on: 21 November 2016, 09:43:42 PM »
Excellent, really lovely brushwork, you've captured the look perfectly. :-*
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Offline War In 15MM

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Re: Polar Exploration
« Reply #6 on: 21 November 2016, 10:02:49 PM »
Great looking stuff.  I hope the exploration will continue.

Offline Jeff965

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Re: Polar Exploration
« Reply #7 on: 21 November 2016, 10:26:21 PM »
Love em, nice clean style :-*

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Re: Polar Exploration
« Reply #8 on: 22 November 2016, 07:07:50 AM »
Very nice brushwork on some great bear sculpts  :-* :-* More please.
LB
Got to kick at the darkness till it bleeds daylight.

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Re: Polar Exploration
« Reply #9 on: 22 November 2016, 05:58:45 PM »
That is lovely painting.  I shall use those as inspiration when I get round to painting my polar bear for Ice Station Zebra.

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Re: Polar Exploration
« Reply #10 on: 22 November 2016, 06:21:02 PM »
WOW!!!

Great painting - really well observed and realised colours and details.

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Re: Polar Exploration
« Reply #11 on: 22 November 2016, 06:27:53 PM »
Brilliant!  :-*

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Re: Polar Exploration
« Reply #12 on: 24 November 2016, 01:13:54 AM »
Very nice 'dirty white' on those. Nice minis, too, shame I didn't know about them when putting in an order with Fenris just the other day...
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Re: Polar Exploration
« Reply #13 on: 24 November 2016, 07:17:41 AM »
I echo the course about the quality of the paint jobs.  But both bears do seem to have an insubstantial contact with the ground.  If you built the snow on the bases it would be possible to fix that just by adding more snow.
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Re: Polar Exploration
« Reply #14 on: 24 November 2016, 10:46:03 AM »
HGB Paul, strictly speaking those bears are not anatomically correct as polar bears, but your painting is just superb, CONGRATULATIONS!  

And FifteensAway is right on them being "floating" over the snow... Bears are heavy animals, and should touch the ground as such.

(the Copplestone one is a "real" polar bear, BTW... I suggest you to add one of two of them to your polar family! ;) )

« Last Edit: 24 November 2016, 11:00:49 AM by dinohunterpoa »
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