Tuesday 9 December 2014

From GillesW - Unity through paint! (20 Points)

Firstly as last year, I chose to pay the entry fee.

I went to my lead pile and took the assassin from the Lead Adventure range and a base from Micro Art Studio with an idea in mind reworking his face to have a plain mask to fake the logo of the Vth challenge.

I hope it will give the feeling I searched.


An Anti hero hiding in the shadows of the underground.


A back view of him returning in the shadows.


The first time I tried a blue grey and black style any comment will be appreciated.

Be seeing you.

Gilles "thefrenchjester"

From Curt:
Ahh, wonderful work Gilles! I love how his mask shines out from the greyscale background - an excellent effect. And the face, did you sculpt that yourself? It turned out brilliantly. Thank you so much for the wonderful figure. 

21 comments:

  1. Excellent work Gilles, and the "V" mask is a nice touch :)

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  2. a certain spookiness about it, nicely done.

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  3. Excellent! Your use of the limited colour palette has worked well and really fits the identity of the miniature. A lovely touch, reworking the face to resemble the Challenge's logo.

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  4. Great work - I like how the color palette works

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  5. Great work! The black & white style works really well

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  6. Great job on this. I think you captured the style and executed the mask especially we'll. Truly the mascot of the challenge.

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    1. That should have said: Oh well done, that's superb!

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  8. great job, very good stylization.

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  9. Great greyscale work. Really nice!

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  10. The greyscale is perfect for the figure. You did a splendid job on the mask as well.

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  11. Excellent work and a political comment as well. )

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  12. An other convert to the monochrome side? Excellent paintjob and great idea with that mask.

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  13. This year is going to be a tough one.
    Good luck to all.
    Super start

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  14. Hi all,

    thanks a lot for your comments, I wasn't sure that the work I done could appear on the pics.
    Hi Curt,
    the figure had a tissue hiding his face and a small mask pending from his torso (I cut it off and reworked the lead of the face with a cutter, then I painted it .
    I took some pics during the work to put a step by step on my blog after. coming soon.....
    Best regards
    GillesW " the unmasked jester ;-)"

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  15. Super work mate, the face is wonderful!

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  16. Very effective. Good work. Cheers

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  17. what a finish, looks great with that mask, the freehand is so very crisp

    Ian

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  18. Excellent idea to paint this fellow greyscale. And perfectly executed it is!

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  19. Great work on the mask, both in terms of the conversion and how your palette works to really make it pop.

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  20. This figures fits well the challenge of this year! Great paintwork, like the greyscale with the white mask!

    Greetings
    Peter

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