Angus Tura Posted June 28, 2021 Share Posted June 28, 2021 Hello. I didn't post here before. I hope you'll think this is a figure and not a diorama. I painted a few flats in my teens and have always really liked them. I got some very fine ones which I started in the "Kit you built as a kid GB" last year but I thought they were too tricky to do them justice. I thought I'd have another go in the current, "anything but injection GB" but have left that too late. So, I'm going to do this here which I hope can be OK. This will be pretty occasional while painting some other stuff. This is Saint Hubertus who had a vision of the cross between the antlers of a deer, which many of you will know from your Jägermeister bottle. The casting is from Berliner Zinnfiguren and Hubertus and his dog are about 80mm while the horse and stag are about 25mm. The perspective is a bit wonky, as flats can be. I'm keen to try painting volumes on to the figure, and so I'm not too troubled about the perspective. I do want to do something about his eye, whose shape is going to be a bit tricky as it stands. Photographs in the BZ catalogue show him with a curl at both ends of his moustache, but I think it will be easier to take off the curl on the left, than to add one on the right. I'll try to do something with his monobrow also. Unusually, the base and the figure have been cast separately and then soldered (?) together. That has made some marks on the front which I'll also try to sort: Thanks for looking. Any comments, and especially help, gratefully received. Alan 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angus Tura Posted July 4, 2021 Author Share Posted July 4, 2021 Hi. A little update. I've fixed up Hubertus' eye and trimmed his moustache. In cleaning up the casting I've got more and more concerned about his left foot: I should get out more. You can see this above. I can't see how to paint it without it looking ridiculous. I do love my samsung phone pen. I've been using it to think about this change: That is, to foreshorten his ankle and foot. I didn't want to do much to this before starting to paint, however. Also, if I move his foot I'm going to have to restore the grass where it has been. The whole piece would also need to have something added there, which would be yet more fettling pre-paint. So, I'm still just thinking about it. Alan 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angus Tura Posted August 31, 2021 Author Share Posted August 31, 2021 'Evening. So, I thought about it and thought that foot was going to bother me for the rest of time. I've amputated it with a 15 blade and rebuilt with Magic-sculp. St.Hubertus is in the business here of being redeemed from his sin of too much hunting. I looked up the "flower of redemption" on-line and apparently it's the crocus. This was a relief! Had it been the chrysanthemum I probably wouldn't have attempted this. I've sculpted some crocuses with Magic-sculp and painted on the petals and some extra stalks with Mr.Surfacer 1000. They're based on a watercolour found by Googling "Crocuses". Another thing I didn't like in the casting is the ray of light coming from the cross to Hubertus' head. I thought it looked as if carved from wood and thought this would not make painting any easier. I've re-etched it. I had my heart in my mouth starting his but it was very easy with dymo-tape, needle in pin-vice and no.11 blade. So here he is ready to paint. Other work done has been clean-up and filling in the centres of leaves and buttons. This last sounds like a terrible faff, but with a little smear of epoxy putty and a toothpick swiped over, was very easy. I've used Mr.Surfacer also to fill multiple pockmarks on his trousers especially. I notice one on his tunic that needs a bit more sanding. His sash needs a bit more too. I've painted the grass back on where his foot was and scraped a little space out to sign, hopelessly imagining that this will ever get finished! The R symmetrical to that is for Rieger who was both Editor and Engraver, I think. See you later, Alan 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdrianMF Posted September 3, 2021 Share Posted September 3, 2021 Lovely work! Regards, Adrian 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matti64 Posted September 4, 2021 Share Posted September 4, 2021 Thank you for posting this project. Its a window into a world that I'd heard of but had never seen into. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Escaflowne Posted September 19, 2021 Share Posted September 19, 2021 (edited) Interesting project, scene and story, thanks to share Edited September 19, 2021 by Escaflowne 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angus Tura Posted October 23, 2021 Author Share Posted October 23, 2021 Hi. An update. The horse is going to be a dun. So, it needs its legs/feet black and it needs some markings on its face. The blue saddle cloth is going to be a similar colour to the crocuses. The deer was going to be a red deer but when I came to think about painting more colours on his coat, looking at pictures of red deer, I see that he isn't red deer shape. So, he's going to become a fallow deer. I thought I would just paint him as such. However a chum of mine who goes stalking has irritatingly pointed out to me that fallow deer antlers are palmate: they've got flat bits. That'll need a bit of work before painting. I'm also going to change the angle of the cross bar of the cross. His nibs' face has been painted twice. I used the same palette as for round figures, being raw umber, burnt sienna, naples yellow and white. I was not very happy with it till my sternest critic, the dread Mrs.Tura, pointed out to me that he looked like Donald Trump! Bright orange! So, that came off and I've mixed the burnt sienna 50:50 with raw sienna, and it looks better. The taking off of the Trumpian face has unfortunately mucked up his iris which I had painted before the flesh colour. His face and hands need a bit more light and shade, and finger nails. Alan 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpha Juliet Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 Never seen this being done before. Did you do the casting as well? It's going to be great when it's finished! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angus Tura Posted November 18, 2021 Author Share Posted November 18, 2021 Hi. On 10/26/2021 at 5:27 PM, Alpha Juliet said: Never seen this being done before. Did you do the casting as well? It's going to be great when it's finished! AJ, thanks. I didn't cast it. It's a commercial flat bought from Berliner Zinnfiguren. I've changed it a little but its predominantly, "As bought". The latest was to change the antlers to antlers suitable to a fallow deer. Here is the original, and with the cross changed. The antlers have been cut-back to be a frame for the flat bits. The metal has been roughed up to key some putty better: Here it is with the cross fixed with epoxy glue and the antlers built up with Magic-sculp on some kitchen film. In shaping these some of the putty came off the metal antlers but that was easy enough to put back with Zap superglue and accelerator. I coated the rest of it with the same to fix it better which seems to have worked. I've smoothed it out with wet and dry and Mr.Metal Primer and Mr.Surfacer 1500 and I'm pretty pleased with it. I've put a couple of tines projecting forwards over its forehead. These are magic-sculp too: Thanks for looking. Alan 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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