R35 - My first scale model ever

[rilaxx]

I've finally got a bit of time to work on one of the figures.

I'm not sure I should post that here or if I should move this thread to figure painting ?

 

I started by doing the pant and the leather jacket. 

I've carefully glazed 2 or 3 coats and I made sure to not cover completely the zenithal under coat. 

For the pant, Base coat : Light Mud. / High lights : Light mud + Ivory / Shadow / Light mud + Black

To simulate the leather on the Jacket, I applied a base coat of Red Brown. I used wood grain to push the shadow. For the high light I did several coat of dry brush of mix of my base coat with more and more orange brown. The final coat was pure orange brown. 

I finally did a edge high light on all the pockets and sewing details with a sandish colour.

 

  

 

 

I felt  the jacket was too red, so I applied a glaze of Chocolate brown to bring back the brown colour. It also unifies all the colours.

I did pretty much the same thing on the holster and the belt but with different tone of brown to have colour variation. 

 

  

 

 

 

Unfortunately, by the time I was done with the body, I had to leave to not miss the train.

If only models where free, I wouldn't have to go work ! 😛 

 

Next objective (whenever I'm back home), the head and the other guy!

 

Edited August 16, 2022 by rilaxx

[rilaxx]

Fiouf! It took me long enough but I've finally manage to finish my boys band. 

I can now start to think about the diorama to put them on. 

 

 

 

 

[Ned]

Please keep the thread here. Your shadows and highlights in the leather jackets are just like photographs

[rilaxx]

This is promising 😛 

 

I really need to put my hand on a hot wire cutter... 

 

 

 

[Mark_C]

Superbe!

 

 

[Milan Mynar]

Nice figure painting.

[Bullbasket]

Those figures both look excellent. Nice work.

 

John.

[edjbartos]

Very good indeed, I really like the way that those figures look.  well done...

 

Ed

[rilaxx]

Thank you so much for your feedbacks!!! 

 

Now that I've finished the vehicle and the two tankers, I can work on the diorama. 

I want to make something fun with a light mood. 

 

Maybe the tank could be stuck by something unexpected ? 😛

 

I sketched out the basic position of all the characters on a piece of extruded foam. 

 

 

I realised I had to assemble the cow completely to know where it's looking at before I can move forward. 

 

It came from kit I found on eBay. It was pretty horrible to assemble. Nothing fitted together at all. I had to use a lot of putty to smooth out everything. I'll probably have more clean up to do when I'll paint this beast.

 

 

After this was done, I reduce the size of the base and to make the scene more compact. A slope un in the foreground and a hill in the background. 

 

 

I'll put a broken fence from where the cow escaped. 

Finally, I build a tree from dry wood and plastic putty, and I framed everything with balsa wood. 

 

 

To be continued....

 

 

 

 

Edited September 13, 2022 by rilaxx

[Bertie McBoatface]

The figs are fabbo! The leather jackets and holster are my favourite parts, you got that spot on in my opinion.

[Geo1966]

This is coming along really well. The tank and figures will look fantastic on the base. Keep up the great work.

 

George

[Model Mate]

Excellent work - great figure painting and what will clearly be a very good diorama. The composition is spot on

[Jack Klugman]

Excellent work, everything looks amazing