Hi all.
Just this moment subscribed to this forum and thought now that I’d finally finished my very first project I’d try to get some feedback, just remember I’m new and go easy please!!! LOL
Well i was going to but how do you put photos on here???Hi all.
Just this moment subscribed to this forum and thought now that I’d finally finished my very first project I’d try to get some feedback, just remember I’m new and go easy please!!! LOL
someone must know how to put pics on?
Finally got it sorted
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What kind of browser are you using. I use Firefox and signed up for a free Photobucket account
Write back when you get that far… we’ll talk you thru it.
SteveM
Cheers Steve, Ok am all signed up…
Like that?
Works from where I sit… Looks good. Now load it up and fill the forums with your handywork[:)]
SteveM
appreciated Steve thanks
Very impressive Wolfie!
What is the story behind the diorama what is it about it looks really good
Thanks for your comments guys, never actually shown anything i’ve done before, just do it for a bit of fun. And I got to say Tankluver there is no story, it just grew and grew from and idea…have seen some stuff on this site from other people and fancied giving it ago and thats what it ended up as.
Nicely done! two small suggestions, first, in my own opinion the tracks/wheels should have a bit more snow maybe, depedning on where its supposed to be in the diorama. Second, I think the skin color is off by just a little bit. I have a lot of trouble with it too, and I think those figures would look even better than they do with a different skin-tone, but thats just my opinion, and maybe its just the picture. Either way, great work, I would love to see more!
I like the snow very much!
Yeah I am struggling with skin colour, anyone got any suggestions? I’m mainly using Tamiya Flat Flesh XF-15, and what do you use if doing a darked coloured skin?
nice look
Thad
Ya I’m painting figures right now, tamiya’s XF-57(buff) and different shades of browns and such, then i run over it with a watery black pastel wash, and dap/wipe off the extra on all of them (gives em nice dark/lighter areas). Highlights repeat over exposed areas with a little dab of white mixed in with the flesh color. not sure if it that’s a good way or not, first real figures that I’ve painted, some one with a little more experience could help us both out maybe 
Good looking dio. Wolfie. However, the travel lock on the tank should be laid down. It wouldn’t be up unless the travel lock was engaged. Nice job.
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Hey, again, not a big problem in anway at all, but if your looking for tiny ways to make your next one more realistic, I noticed something in the first picture of the crouching guy. It looked like he had qite a bit of snow on hm, and unless the diorama is supposed to be in an area where like artillery is hitting and covering everything in snow, I don’t think he would have that much snow on him. Great work, jsut thought I would point it out!
First, dump the Tamiya paint. When I was using it 20 years ago, the flesh was not usable by itself. I’d have to add brown to get a human looking shade to it. The current formula is not brush friendly.
Here’s a linik to my gallery at Armorama (The big diorama is not my work.) This is how I get those flesh tone:
I only do washes where I want to add shading where the effect is too fine for a brush. For this, I use artist oils with regular old thinner.
Just about everything else is Vallejo or Andrea acrylics. For basic caucasian flesh, I use beige red. I’ll add a brown to this for shadows (saddle brown, charred flesh or dark fleshtone) this is mixed in a very thin solution with tap water. I add thin applications under the jaw, above and under the eyes, on the lower cheek, inside the ears, along the side of the nose, in frown/smile lines, on either side of any neck musculature, at the edge of the hairline, and in the cleft of the chin. Adding more of the darkening color and even more water for darker shadows in the deepest recesses.
For highlights, I add light flesh or sunny skintone to the base color. Like the shadown, this is applied in very dilute layers on the highlights such as the upper cheek, the ridge of the nose, along the upper lip, the tip of the chin, the highpoint of the neck musculature, the eyebrow ridge, the tips of the ears and the jaw line. The highest points, such as the ridge of the nose gets some straight (thinned) light flesh.
At this point, I only dry brush where there is texture, such as fur or hair.
An extremely diluted base color can be applied to tie all the shades together.
For eyes, I use light flesh with a brown or blue iris. This is painted after the base color has been laid down and will be shaped by the subsequent color applications.
For much of this, I use a 20/0 Floquil brand brush.
this is for Ian, the reason he has so much snow on him is: Just before they spotted a german patrol over yonder the silly fools were having a snowball fight and it got a little out of hand, thats all.
And thanks for the flesh painting tips, i’ll keep trying to sort that one