Hey
Lets paint some figures..Noop I haven´t lost it complete but I had this bust for years and never got it painted. Now´s the time, I guess there is ten years since I painted any figure so this could be VERY fun.


remember this, It´s Mike Good's bust from the good old days when the kits included figure bust. I´m talking about the Dragon boxes.

So for a starter I´ve just airbrushed a coat off flat Humbrol white all over it.This primer is just to get the bust is the same colour, do mine was cleaned up with some Mr Muscel owencleaner, yep on Humbrols Mr Muscel works well to clean off the mistakes.

Here he´s in pirmer





I will let the paint completely over the night, next will be the basecolours.

seeya

Larsa

Lars, i'll be watching this close . I haven't done any figure's yet . Looking forward to seeing this done step by step .

Cool.
I got one of those busts as well, Hans Goerth, came with a Fokker D.VIII kit (which I still haven't finished). The bust I haven't touched yet.

How are you going to display the finished bust?
My sample of Goerth came with a resin base looking like those fancy wooden ones usually sold separately, but it's somewhat warped so I guess I'll get one of them fancy wooden bases for him when I get around painting it.

Hi Terri
This is just fron the fun, If it turns out nice, perhaps I´ll paint more figures in the future.So I´ll do the mistakes and you can have all the fun

Hi Eetu
Will see how this turns out. Either way it could bee displayed on a wooden plinth, about 2 inch high. It´s easyer too get some eyecontact with the figure if the display is higher.If so I´ll get one from Andrea or Moduni in Germany.
otherwise it will end up in a jar of Mr Muscles

seyaaa

Larsa Q

Looks like a pretty good bust figure.

Hi Lars
I painted that bust about 18 months ago its a real cracker.
If I can be of help with references etc let me know as I think I still have some info on the shoulder boards.
I really must get the Dr.I built to display along side him.

Cheers

Chris

Hi Chris
Thats hust the help I need. I´ve lost the instruction from Dragon years ago, but who can tell iff they got it right??
Shoulder boards and the small stuff is great if you can help me with..
Cheers

Larsa Q

Hi
Here is what I’m going to need a couple off nights, Good paintbrushes in different sizes, some paint off course and hey I'm a Humbrolman, so all colours will be Humbrol okey.
The medium for thinning out the paint is a similar stuff to White spirit, a bit off kitchen foil for mixing paint on and finally some matches to stir up the paint.



Hey Eetu, you can see the woodenbase I will use if this works out in the pics.

First step is just getting some new base colours on the bust. I painted this on purpose a little to thin, this way it’s easier to just put a second coat after so all details not get buried in paint. So it will look a little weird in the first step, but who knows if it’s getting better later.

Starting with the faces and skin. I used Humbrol 61(flesh), 110 (wood) and 62 (leather). I mixed just little 110 and 62 into the 61 just to get a nice base ton for the skin






Cheers
Larsa Q

Looking good!

Cheers
Christer

Hi
The basecolour are now painted twice, so let start with the face. That’s the must difficult thing. I started with the eyes. I used white 34 and wood 110 to paint a wedge in the corners off the eyes. Then I’ll painted a black circle 33 mixed with wood 110 in the middle off the eyeball, this circle covered 80 % off the eyes. The Iris was painted Hu104 blue and last the pupil was pointed in with a toothpick. Yes that the right tool for the job. When all this is dry I will brush some clear varnish off the eyes to simulate the moisture.


Starting up the face I mixed up the base colour I’ll use before and just added some WW1purple 107 to it. The Humbrol 107 is not around anymore, but I got some tin left. Any wine red will do anyway, but if you are interested you can mix the 107 from scarlet 60, blue 25 and grey 64.
This mix will give me a darker shade off the basecolour and is used fro the shadows. This was applied around the eyes, ears and neck. When all this have dried up I can brush on the next tone of shadow







The red band around the cap is painted with red 66 mixed leather 62

Seeya

Larsa Q

Looking realyy good Lars , do you have a closer shot of the eye's ?

The bust is coming along quite nicely! I am not surprised to find you are an acomplished figure painter as well as a great model builder!
RAGIII

Painting looks good. To my eyes, he seems to look old. Might be the photography or lack of hair. (What color was his hair?) Maybe I am just not seeing it clearly. But it really does look good. Great shading

Hi folks
I brushed on some more paints on this one this morning, so pics will come asp. The colour of the hair I guess, is light coloured sand/yellow, almost blond. Never seen good pics off Manfred´s backside.

Cheers
Larsa Q

There are some things we all can be grateful for.

Yep Not a pretty side

Larsa

Hi
The face is almost finished off, just some small stuff to add, working for the moment on the hair. The whole faces will have a satin varnish,when tha satin comes on hopefully everything will pop alive( I hope).






Cheers
Larsa

Lars , looks great . What shades of paint did you use for the blending and highlights ?

Hi Terri
Never rush things around,I did and see what mess..I just forgot to paste in that text.
The base colour
Humbrol 61(flesh)
110 (wood)
62 (leather)
107 (WW1 Purple)


Shadings are done with the same colours as for the basecolors. Just mix two or three darker shades from the basecolors. Adding little more 110 Wood, 62 leather and 107 WW1 Purple.

The highlights are done with pure 61Flesh, except for the nose tip witch have little flat white added to the 61 flesh. The lips are painted with the same mix just more 107 added to the base colour. When you mix the different tones of shades you just have to get it just a little bit darker in steps.
If you’re in to this I’ll just recommend Mr Bill Horans book Military modelling masterclass.

Cheers
Larsa

Hi
Almost at the end off this”play around” figure. The faces have got the final satin varnish so the Baron “gets alive”. The eyes got that’s glare from tiny gloss varnish. Then on to the uniform.
The basecolor for the uniform is 27 slate grey mixed with tiny 110 wood and 33 black. First step was to paint all clothing’s is this basecolour. Next thing was the shadow and wrinkles. A darker shade off basecolour was used (just added more black/wood), When the first shades was dry another even darker tone off the basecolor was mixed and added on the first shadows.
Finally some highlighting was added to the shoulders and cap. This was mixed from the same original basecolour and little 94 pale yellow was added, to get the basecolour just a little lighter.

Last thing is the medals to paint, still have no clue about the schoulderboards SO HELP ME OUT PLEASE.
The gold paint I'm using is a powder from Dekorima, using the medium/tincture from a brand new Humbrolgold tin get a nice and rich gold, every bottom off each button was shaded with tiny 62 leather mixed in to the gold.

The Bust is glued to a 2,5” homemade wooden base, the last thing is to fix the name to the base.
”The Baron”..

Conclusion off this project is that this is a fun hobby again. Year ago I painted figures mostly, but got bored out off them, but now maybe the time to restart thing. I'm thinking if I paint a couple more off these the technique will come back more and more

Lars Q

Thank for looking.

Hi
manfred is finished . All bits are painted and this little trip off fun is all over for this time.Here´s the final pics for you.








Larsa Q

Gongratulations, it turned out very nice!
Skintones are always tricky, especially on larger-scale figures, but you pulled it off great.

WOW what a fantistic job done . I total forgot about this and was thinking about if the bust was finished . And it is . Sorry that I didn't reply sooner Lars .

Lars,

I enjoyed watching the CLOSE-UP progress of this. I'm not much good with figures but am going to be doing two for my SE5 and Abbie builds so have really enjoyed watching the layering that you did. Beautiful job, Thanks.

Regards
Steve

Larsa,
WOW! Quite nicely done!!
RAGIII