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Re: Figure painting

Postby Roy » Fri Jun 02, 2017 11:10 pm

Yes, I can understand that 1:48 might be too small. I used to build 1:35 Tamiya military figures, and wondered if the scale might be large enough, to do recognizable faces.
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Re: Figure painting

Postby chuck » Sat Jun 03, 2017 6:33 am

At that scale it's more an issue of the skill of the sculptor and mold maker. You can definitely make noticeable adjustments to the chin/cheek/eyes and they can even be subtle. Well done 1/43 figures can have pretty good facial detail but they seem large next to true 1/48 scale trains and they tend to dwarf "traditional"/O-27 equipment
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Re: Figure painting

Postby healey36 » Sun Jun 18, 2017 9:43 am

I finally got around to finishing off that 3D-printed 1/2400 Royal Sovereign-class BB:

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After:
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I look at these pics and realize how far gone the old eyes are. She needs a bit of touch-up but suitable for the game table.

An old postcard of Revenge in her wartime paint-scheme:
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Re: Figure painting

Postby rogruth » Sun Jun 18, 2017 10:23 am

Healey,
Just how long is the model? My guess it's smaller than I think it is,
Because of eye and hand problems I would never consider painting it.
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Re: Figure painting

Postby healey36 » Sun Jun 18, 2017 11:10 am

The ship alone is slightly less than two inches, Roger.

I've got some Arttista tramps and a few other 1/48-scale figures waiting to be painted but I'll probably wait a bit before starting those. I've gotten myself caught up in this wargame stuff again and I need to let that run its course. I dropped some ships off with a guy down the road from me that paints miniatures professionally...when I get that stuff back I'll probably be too depressed to continue, lol...

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Re: Figure painting

Postby healey36 » Thu Sep 14, 2017 7:13 pm

Another 3D-printed ship, this time British armored cruiser HMS Cressy in 1/2400:

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Added masts, fighting tops and spars on the foremast. Would be great if I could figure out how to do the rigging for the wireless aerial, lol...

Okay, enough of that...these Arttista tramps have bubbled to the top of the lead-pile.

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These castings look pretty crude.

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Re: Figure painting

Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Fri Sep 15, 2017 8:36 am

healey36 wrote:Okay, enough of that...these Arttista tramps have bubbled to the top of the lead-pile.

These castings look pretty crude.


Hmmm....never known Arttista figures to be that rough; raw fro the mold and not cleaned 1st before being sold?
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Re: Figure painting

Postby Tom Dempsey » Fri Sep 15, 2017 12:27 pm

They look more like Selley to me.

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Re: Figure painting

Postby healey36 » Fri Sep 15, 2017 4:26 pm

Definitely Arttista:

1328 Hobo eating soup from a can
1329 Hobo cooking weiner
1330 Hobo with harmonica

I'll clean the flash off of them and hit 'em with a shot of primer.

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Re: Figure painting

Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Sun Sep 17, 2017 10:49 am

healey36 wrote:Definitely Arttista:

1328 Hobo eating soup from a can
1329 Hobo cooking weiner
1330 Hobo with harmonica

I'll clean the flash off of them and hit 'em with a shot of primer.


Ok, he sells them as raw castings?
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Re: Figure painting

Postby healey36 » Sun Sep 17, 2017 5:43 pm

oh yeah...here's the list:

http://www.arttista.com/December16Pricelist.pdf

No fun buying them already painted!

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Re: Figure painting

Postby rogruth » Sun Sep 17, 2017 5:46 pm

healey36 wrote:oh yeah...here's the list:

http://www.arttista.com/December16Pricelist.pdf

No fun buying them already painted!

Healey

But it is also no fun if you can't see what you are painting. :(
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Re: Figure painting

Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Sun Sep 17, 2017 6:23 pm

rogruth wrote:
healey36 wrote:oh yeah...here's the list:

http://www.arttista.com/December16Pricelist.pdf

No fun buying them already painted!

Healey

But it is also no fun if you can't see what you are painting. :(


That is a problem; couple that with slightly less that 100% steady hands, and there's no fun at all.....
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Re: Figure painting

Postby rogruth » Sun Sep 17, 2017 7:10 pm

Rufus T. Firefly wrote:
rogruth wrote:
healey36 wrote:oh yeah...here's the list:

http://www.arttista.com/December16Pricelist.pdf

No fun buying them already painted!

Healey

But it is also no fun if you can't see what you are painting. :(


That is a problem; couple that with slightly less that 100% steady hands, and there's no fun at all.....

Oh yeah, the hands are almost as bad as the eyes.
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Re: Figure painting

Postby healey36 » Sun Sep 17, 2017 9:07 pm

rogruth wrote:
healey36 wrote:oh yeah...here's the list:

http://www.arttista.com/December16Pricelist.pdf

No fun buying them already painted!

Healey

But it is also no fun if you can't see what you are painting. :(

Agreed...my near-vision has gone to hell. Glasses are worthless, so I broke down and bought an Optivisor. That's very helpful, although when I photograph stuff I've painted I see all of the flaws that are invisible to me when I'm working on it. That and adopting the two-foot rule keeps me satisfied with what I can still accomplish.


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