Recently completed for the 1943 GB, a u-boat crewman bust in 1/10 scale. Resin kit from Young Miniatures, completed with Vallejo acrylics. Also tried just a hint of some red ocher weathering powder on the flesh areas, but most of it ended up painted over. The binocular straps were scraped off the bust, and fashioned some with two layers of Tamiya taped over top each other and then cut to size.
regards,
Jack
You should be proud of that bust, Jack.
If I could ever come close to painting skills like yours I’d be one happy camper.
Jack, that is absolutely stunning! Really fine work, beautiful skin tones, and the scarf pattern is superb.
Thanks, Greg and Greg - lol.
regards,
Jack
Freaking excellent!
Lee
Very nicely done…love you painting. Something I hadn’t seen in the box art is that the eyes are not level. The lower lid of the bust’s right eye is level with the pupil of the left! The face looks like he’s had a stroke.
Lee - thanks for the positive feed back
ajlafleche - glad to see you approve of the painting. As a fellow figure modeller, it’s good to receive critical comments. You are right, there is a slant in the position of the eyes and to make matters worse, the lower eye (the figure’s left eye) has also been sculpted larger - more open than his right eye.
In reality, the human face is not symmetrical, and this becomes more apparent as we age. I tried fixing the problem area by making the eyes the same height. There was absolutely no room to raise it - that would involve re-sculpting. In hind sight, I suppose I could have carved the good eye lower, and built up the brow at the same time with putty. Have you ever had to do something like this, or how would you of handled said problem?
The same flaw is also apparent on the box art, but because it is painted so well, it is not spotted right away. Camera angles also could be a factor.
regards,
Jack
I’d likely have done what you did…;the best paint job possible And pose the figure to minimize the defect.