Hello CMON members,
I got to this site while I was searching for some information regarding painting figures and I'm really really impressed by the quality of the works posted on this forum!
I'm aviation modeller, working mainly WW1 subjects and my goal is to add some figures to complement my builds. I have never before painted figures and I don't have artistic background - quite the opposite, I'm biochemist so painting is definately something absolutely new for me. For my builds I exclusively use airbrush so getting back to the regular brushes was again new experience. The paints that I'm using are Valejo and where I don't have the colours I use Tamiya and Gunze acrilics which are absolutely awesome for airbrush, but really bad for brush painting.
So I got a painting DVD, read as many tutorials as I could, followed some WiP on few sites and started painting my first figures. The results are not terribad, but stil far far far away from decent, still I'm striving to get better and really like painting figures. I plan to get some Sci-Fi and steampunk ones next
Still I have to finish the ones that I started already first! Speaking of them bellow are few pictures of my recent work, and the problem I have is that I can't paint the goggles realistically and would like to receive an advice on this, how do you usually paint goggles (the aviator on the first picture)? Also have issues painting realistic leather, but I'm working on this
The figures are in 1:32 scale or 54mm if I'm not wrong, they will be sitting next to my airplanes I also painted a 1:48 WW1 british aviator and found out some old Kinder Surprise metal soldiers from my childhood and decided to practice on them, strating with what is supposed to be a hun warrior. Those metal soldiers seems to be in 1:48 scale
Any comments, reccomendations, constructive criticism or questions ar emode than welcome!
Best regards,
Sasho
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I got to this site while I was searching for some information regarding painting figures and I'm really really impressed by the quality of the works posted on this forum!
I'm aviation modeller, working mainly WW1 subjects and my goal is to add some figures to complement my builds. I have never before painted figures and I don't have artistic background - quite the opposite, I'm biochemist so painting is definately something absolutely new for me. For my builds I exclusively use airbrush so getting back to the regular brushes was again new experience. The paints that I'm using are Valejo and where I don't have the colours I use Tamiya and Gunze acrilics which are absolutely awesome for airbrush, but really bad for brush painting.
So I got a painting DVD, read as many tutorials as I could, followed some WiP on few sites and started painting my first figures. The results are not terribad, but stil far far far away from decent, still I'm striving to get better and really like painting figures. I plan to get some Sci-Fi and steampunk ones next
Still I have to finish the ones that I started already first! Speaking of them bellow are few pictures of my recent work, and the problem I have is that I can't paint the goggles realistically and would like to receive an advice on this, how do you usually paint goggles (the aviator on the first picture)? Also have issues painting realistic leather, but I'm working on this
The figures are in 1:32 scale or 54mm if I'm not wrong, they will be sitting next to my airplanes
I also painted a 1:48 WW1 british aviator and found out some old Kinder Surprise metal soldiers from my childhood and decided to practice on them, strating with what is supposed to be a hun warrior. Those metal soldiers seems to be in 1:48 scaleAny comments, reccomendations, constructive criticism or questions ar emode than welcome!
Best regards,
Sasho
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