PBI GB- Neil's 1-35 Commonwealth Infantry, Far East WWII

[Airborne01]

Lovely result Neil, thanks for participating and 'hitting the nail on the head' with your contribution!
Steve

[Tim Marlow]

Interesting. Looks good Neil, excellent work on the water. Just for interest, I use sculptamold for basing my little blokes. I mix mine with powder paint to tint it, and use PVA glue as well as water when mixing to ensure it stands up to handling when set. Dries pretty much rock hard and is very robust. Also keeps for ages in an airtight tub if I make too much, and can be reactivated with water if it gets too dry. Personally I think it’s great for base work 👍

[Neil Merryweather]

Lovely result Neil, thanks for participating and 'hitting the nail on the head' with your contribution!
Steve

Many thanks Steve, it was fun.
And I neglected to thank you, sir, for suggesting a figure-based GB, a field that 's rather under-represented on this forum at the moment🤔😕

[Neil Merryweather]

Interesting. Looks good Neil, excellent work on the water. Just for interest, I use sculptamold for basing my little blokes. I mix mine with powder paint to tint it, and use PVA glue as well as water when mixing to ensure it stands up to handling when set. Dries pretty much rock hard and is very robust. Also keeps for ages in an airtight tub if I make too much, and can be reactivated with water if it gets too dry. Personally I think it’s great for base work 👍

Thanks Tim, nice to hear from you.
I hadn't thought of trying to re-activate Sculptamold- that's an experiment for the future, especially as I usually only make one m base at a time...
Do you mix the powder paint in dry? And do you find the mix maintains it's colour when dry, or do you have to over-egg it like I do to get the colour you want?

[Neil Merryweather]

Superb work Neil, that truly is a fantastic result.

oops I missed you out, Joe-apologies.
I'm glad you like him

[Jim R]

That's a great result. A very unusual subject beautifully painted and presented.

[Airborne01]

Many thanks Steve, it was fun.
And I neglected to thank you, sir, for suggesting a figure-based GB, a field that 's rather under-represented on this forum at the moment🤔😕

I think every genre gets its day Neil, but, as you say it does appear to be under-represented at present; I think, with your success on this character other modellers may be tempted to dip their toe s into the pond (pardon the pun!)
Steve

[Tim Marlow]

Thanks Tim, nice to hear from you.
I hadn't thought of trying to re-activate Sculptamold- that's an experiment for the future, especially as I usually only make one m base at a time...
Do you mix the powder paint in dry? And do you find the mix maintains it's colour when dry, or do you have to over-egg it like I do to get the colour you want?

I make a dry mix of powder paint and sculptamould, then add the water and glue….sometimes add sand as well, depending on the texture I want. I find you do need to slightly over egg it, but it’s no hardship to tint it when dry using dilute acrylic. I use raw umber (quite red, not the brown burnt umber) and sap green powder paint. About 1:1 paint to about 1:10 sculptamould gives a nice mud colour with a hint of green.

[scottie3158]

Neil that is a cracking result mate

[PaulinKendal]

Just realised I'd not commented on this, Neil - it's really very, very good indeed!

I think your approach to doing the water is great. Water is virtually never flat, yet it is usually represented as flat-with-ripples. I love the way you've built it right up - it really looks like a lively, bubbling stream. (And I'd love to know more about your UHU bubbles technique...)

As for the figure itself, that's a lovely job, too. The face is so critical with figures, and his look of quiet resignation you've captured is just perfect.

You mention getting on a roll with the painting when it's going well. That state of flow is what we're all looking for, I guess. But I must admit I sometimes find myself fretting that I'm racing through a figure 'too fast', as if a slower approach would mean I'm getting my money's-worth out of an expensive piece of resin!

Doesn't slow me down usually, if I'm honest!