Wow! Never thought that this would take me so much time! This is my first ever try in greyscale , or to try painting something in the dark and thank you to give me that opportunity :) This guy took me a bit more than the normal colouring and the blending and layering was a bit tricky!
So, here we have another Airfix 1:32 scale figure, from " British Paratroopers" set.
The Sniper!
I've painted this figure using the original colours ,as I would do with the normal figure but mixing all of them with heavy amounts of dark or light grey( sometimes black or white). I wanted to give the feeling of light from above by the moonlight. So a small idea of the original colour should be visible.
I don't know if that is well depicted in pictures. Hope you like him :)
So , I believe this will take me out of the Chamber Of Darkness and I score 30 points for it.
'Till next time
Keep Up The Brushes!!
Very effective George, nice idea to mix in the original colours
ReplyDeleteThank you Simon! I'm happy if this visible.
DeleteLovely effect!
ReplyDeleteBest Iain
Thanks lain!
DeleteThis is my favourite grayscale figure so far - graying the original colours works really well.
ReplyDeleteThank you my friend! I'm glad for that!
DeleteWow, that figure takes me back!
ReplyDeleteHaha..deep in to our childhood battle scenes! I have lost many of them while playing and hiding them in the most unbelievable places :)
DeleteReally effective figure, love the effect.
ReplyDeleteMany thanks Peter!
DeleteThat looks amazing. Well done.
ReplyDeleteThank you Stuart!
DeleteThat's some very clever painting here!
ReplyDeleteThank you sir :)
DeleteThat is absolutely superb - well done indeed!
ReplyDeleteThank you sir!
DeleteWithout doubt the best I have ever seen that figure painted, top job 👍
ReplyDeleteRegards KenR
Many thanks Ken! Glad you like him so much!!
DeleteThat looks great, but I'm not sure about realism... I'm not expert about lights or greyscale (yet to enter that Chamber), but I would think that those areas, which are in the shadow (like under arms or knees) should be very dark and not any color there. But I might be wrong. :)
ReplyDeleteI understand what you mean, but if I should follow realism 100% , the result would be a totally dark figure with only the upper parts painted grey-white tones.But there is the artistic part also.
DeleteLet's assume that it is a full moon night and so the dark is not so deep :)
Cheers
George.