Officer, 16th Lancers

Here's the finished 54mm 16th Lancer figure from Elite. He's painted with oils over Reaper acrylic paints and ready for the display case.

I'll tinker a bit more with the metal shutter; I want to deepen the contrast in a couple places. I'll do that before the Atlanta show this year.

16th Lancer

Here's my latest figure; it's the 16th Lancer, 54mm figure from Elite. Cast in white metal, there's very little clean up; a couple mold lines on the inside of the leg and along the back edge of the sleeve thatwere surprisingly easy to clean up.

He's painted with oils over Reaper acrylic paints; the torso is completed and have just started on the pants and boots...

With the exception of metal button, all other gold lace is painted using a non-metallic metallic method that I adapted from Lou.

He isn't attached yet to the base; I want to get the back of the pants finished. The way he's positioned on the base close to the stone wall doesn't allow for a lot of space to paint.

The stone wall came from my spare parts bin as did the Verlinden gate; the post is craft wood painted with varying shades of sepia, burnt umber and unbleached titanium white. The stone steps are balsa foam painted with Reaper acrylics and washed with a mix of burnt umber and sepia.

U Boot Kommandant

Just finished this guy; he's the Andrea U-Boat Commander Bust. Cast in beige resin, there are a few mold lines to clean up, but nothing too extreme. He's painted with oils over acrylics using the wet on wet technique.

All the gold with the exception of the buttons and silver dolphin pin are painted in non-metallic metallics manner. I used a bit more burnt umber for the base color for the trim along the brim of the hat and for the oak leaves to show a contrast between the gilded thread of those items and the emblems on his chest and top of the hat.

I decided to go with a very pale flesh tone since I thought it would represent life under the water a bit more than my traditional rudy tone. The only thing I did differently with my flesh mix was to add a bit more titanium white than cadmium yellow to the highlight mixture and grey out the basic flesh tone a bit more than usual.

The binoculars are painted in oils and at the wear points, dabbed some grey tones for contrast.

Finished Krasinski today...tremendous figure from Le Cimier are amazing! He's painted with oils over acrylics in my usual method of wet on wet.

This is a commission piece and am hoping I can find this figure for myself...

Krasinski Update

Krasinski is just about finished...all that is left is the lace work at the collar and atop the scarlet facing, his boots, some ground work and the final metallic highlights. There are some buckles I need to address, but I'll wait to do those last since I want to make sure all the oils around them are pretty dried.

I need to touch up the lines and add the highest highlights to the white jacket, but for the most part he's about 85% complete.

I've tried to mix a combination of metallic and nonmetallic effects on this figure to give a little contrast and to make the metallic effects pop a bit more.

Karsinski

He's coming along nicely; I have finished the metal parts today, and started to work on the cartridge belt. I chose to go with a white belt vs. a silver one mostly because there's so much silver on this figure already, I wanted a bit more contrast. I've gone with a cooler tone for the belt so it would contrast against the white of the jacket.

I finished the "weave" of crimson through the sash, and will touch it up before I hand it off to the collector.

I started the white lace embroidery at the collar, turn backs and at the lapel. I haven't decided if I'll use oils or acrylics for the pattern. It's an intriguing pattern and I really have to think through how I'll pull it off free-hand at the 54mm scale...

Krasinski in progress

Here is where I am with my latest; the crimson pants and white parts of the jacket are finished. All is left is to bring out the highest highlights on both the pants and jacket. I've also finished the cartridge belt and need to outline it once I have the facings finished.

For the crimson tone of the pants I mixed alizarin crimson with a touch of viridian. I highlighted with cadmium red light and shaded with alizarin crimson and a touch of purple.

For the white part of the jacket I mixed yellow ochre, mars black and titanium white for the base color. For the shadows I mixed less of the titanium white and for the highlights, mixed titanium white and flake white.

Up next are the gloves and boots...

Here's my latest...I'm working on a tremendous figure from LeCimier; it's a 54mm of Krasinski.

He's painted in the traditional manner of oils over acrylics (he's a commission piece, and haven't gotten to the point where I am comfortable enough with painting a commission piece with the black undercoat...), and using the wet on wet technique. I've finished the pants and have the first shadows and highlights done on the fleshtones. I'll deepen the shading and apply the highest highlights later today to the face. I'm using the non-metallic metallic technique that Lou Masses developed for acrylics, but I've adapted it to oils. I'll use printers ink on a the buttons and some of them metal inserts of the scabbard, but for the most part, I prefer the effect of the non-metallic metallics.

More to follow!

Venetian Archer Part II

Here's the finished archer ready for the trip to Atlanta on Friday...

As I said earlier, this is one of the best figures from the I&E line. I highly recommend it for your gray army.

I used the Reaper range of acrylics on this figure, and am very impressed as well with the smooth finish they provide. Although he's painted with oils over a black acrylic undercoat, the bow, arrows, quiver, and scabbard were painted with oils over a red undercoat from Reaper. I'm very impressed with the Reaper acrylic paints, and have already started to purge my Andrea and Vallejo brands and replace them with Reaper paints.

Venetian Archer

I've started this I&E 75mm Venetian Archer as I am winding down on a commission piece; it's cast in white metal, and is probably the best cast I&E ever produced. Exquisite detail and attention to detail echos throughout this figure, I believe this was sculpted by Randall Patton, but I may be mistaken. Nonetheless, it's an amazing figure.

He's painted using oils over a black acrylic base; the metal helmet and breastplate are simply buffed out from the white metal casting washed with burnt umber and lamp black. I've highlighted with a touch of silver printers ink to a mix of burnt umber and sepia.

The boots have the oil base color applied, which is burnt umber and lamp black for the dark leather, and mars orange and burnt umber for the light leather at the top of the boots. The pants are painted with a mix of cinnabar green and viridian; I shaded with a touch of lamp black to the base color and highlighted using the base plus a touch of cadmium green light and cadmium yellow. The leather jerkin is painted with a mix of burnt umber and lamp black, and then shaded using lamp black and a touch of purple. Highlights are achieved with mars orange and the highest highlights are achieved with a touch of yellow ochre (thanks Bob!) to the mars orange.

He's a work in progress at this stage...