Very nice camo painting here on the uniforms! The skin tones are much improved from the Pz III figure as well.
I like the burned parts of the building too.
The vehicles are too clean for my taste; I think if they were in a hard fought battle as portrayed here, they’d show some bullet splash, damage, and esp. if there’s a big heavy chain sloshing around the front of the Greyhound there’d be scratches and rust…
Great groundwork and figures though, a real nice job![:D]
…thanks for the feedback…these fig pics are A LOT BIGGER here than in real life, and I can see a lot more flaws…oh well, that’s the only way to learn…
Great figures Eric Von! The positions are very convincing and the painting is awesome! I really like the figures looking at the map! I guess liitle flaws are inevitable when you also take great close-up photos! Good work dude!
…thanks…I try to remain accurate with rank, insignia and camo patterns as best I can…
Ok well I"m impressed. Good to finally see some of your work. The figures really are outstanding.
MR your figures and dios are great, I’m really enjoying the wide collection you’ve shown so far… only that that sort of isticks out to me, with due respect, is the painting of the eyes. they look a little big for the 1/35th scale to me. thats the only crit i have of what i’ve seen of your work, not that i’m a great figure painter, but i think thats something that can be improved on.
regards,
Mike
…I agree…blown up, some of the eyes have too much white…one thing I would remind everyone of is that when viewed “normally” the figs tend to look a lot better, and that is how I paint them to be viewed, under “normal” lighting and without magnification…
…having said that, I am not making excuses as the criticism is valid…it is something I always work on; some eyes come out much better than others…
…on some of the eyes I paint I don’t even try to replicate the white portion, as in my Mk III Commander, and sometimes that looks better, just depends on the the fig…
keep the feedback coming and I’ll keep the stuff coming…
definitely, i agree if viewed from normal view it would probably be looking quite realistic. I find that the face is always the hardest to do well, the eyes especially. its hard to make it look precise yet subtle, but i think thats why we always come back for more. do let us know if u find the holy grail of face painting 
…I’m not sure it exists, but that’s what we modelers live for: the quest to get better…
Herr Oberst! You really caught us by surprise by these breakthrough! So many soldiers and we were not prepared! Intel failed us again. Great figures! Heil !!!
Just looked through your posts with pics in “armor”. Love your work fella. I wish i could get my figures to look like that, my dios would be a whole lot better.
my only comment would be a repeat of some others. That is, some of your AFV’s look a bit too clean for the environment they’re in. The build quality is superb though.
Keep the pics coming. I’m off to check what you’ve posted in dios now.
cheers
…yes, I am committed to do a little more wear and tear…Biffa gave me some good ideas with the sponge method of chipping I am going to try shortly on a new dio…
The first thing I noticed, after thinking what an awsome job that is, was how bright the barbed wire spool is. It’d probably be a bit duller and or rusty. Or if the wire were galvanised it’d be a dull silver.
It’s kick ass work, hope I can put something togeather that looks half as good!
…I agree with all of the above criticisms…
…one thing that I have always struggled with is what I call the “95% syndrome”…what I mean by that is that when I get to the 90-95% completion mark of a dio or vehicle, I tend to put it down and start something else, telling myself all the while, I’ll come back and finish up that little bit later…trouble is, that time usually never comes…
…I think that part of this “syndrome” arises from the fear of failure, or not being able to finish it up to the level of my own expectations…another part of it is that it becomes hard to know when it is done!..always, something else can be added, especially in the case of dios where literally thousands of parts come together…I don’t think I have EVER considered anything I have done 100% finished…
…okay, now I feel better…anyone else suffer from this???
…not yet found the Holy Grail, but here is a simplified version of what I do:
…I prime the flesh area with Humbrol enamel matte (#93); and then use the following oils in this order: cover w/ Burnt Sienna; cover, then wipe off w/ Raw Umber; and highlight with Yellow Ochre and White…
…uniforms almost always receive a wash of raw umber oil; it dulls down silver insignia and helps add depth and shadow…
That’s one fine piece of work you got there. Great job on the painting of the figures. The vehicles are too clean for my taste but each of us have our own preferences when it comes to weathering.
Again, great job.
…thanks, I tend to agree that the weathering is a bit light…
…one thing I tried to replicate was the frozen condition of the ground during most of the battle: there was generally not a lot of mud in the initial stages of the battle; in fact, there as not even any snow on the ground (as I have replicated w/ some artistic license)…
…thanks for the feedback…one noteworthy aspect of this dio is the schwimmwagon. It was my first attempt at putting camo on the dark yellow base using pastels. I simply ground up green and red-brown pastels and “brushed” them on with a soft brush in random splotches. I then sealed it all with dullcoat. I like the look it conveys: very subdued and faded, almost as though the colors had began to degrade from moisture, etc…(the actual camo pastes were water-based)…I haven’t tried it again, but have seen good work with this method on larger vehicles…