discussion I hate figures (no matter what scale)

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I for instance look best about 8pm at this time of the year......The available light changes the way we look enormously. With regard to Ian M's comments about weird colours, take a look at some old masters work and you'll soon see that they used bizarre colour mixes that we don't even notice!

I know what you mean. I tend to look best at about 3am with the lights switched off.

Its funny you say that about the masters. Was it Monet whose work over time got more and more red as his eyes gradually started to let him down. He paints what he sees and didnt realise that his eyes, as they got weaker, saw more and more red (Or is it less and less of another colour)

 

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Ray, who called you a git??? I will have them barred lol A tutorial would be very well received and not only by me. Figure painting is many peoples Achilles heel in modelling and although there has to be differences between 1:16 scale and 1:48 scale, I do believe that if the basic principles are understood, producing good figures with any model will help bring them alive.

Cheers Kelly, not good enough though I am afraid. I have coated the figure, after disassembling it, in Model Strip so I will be getting it back to bare plastic for another go. I still have the pictures to remind me how it was.

I have also started on the 1:10 scale Paratrooper that I have. Not as good a kit as Tamiya, a bit flashy here and there but it does have two heads and they a tad bigger and are differently shaped, than the 1:16 scale German Field Commander so I will get a bit more practice in on this as well.

As for looking in the mirror, I do agree with what you are saying. As an ex photographer, I do appreciate the way light can alter the appearance of anything and faces in particular. I have to admit though that I look best at midnight in a power cut............

 

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^^some serious laughing going on here! I've just seen Ray's tutorial and will follow that next time I do a figure as I haven't done one for 15+ years......

Penny, following your Monet observations, I see more magenta (pinkish red) through my right eye and more yellow through my left, sadly I'm only a lowly graphic designer and not a master artist so I have to live with it!

 

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This has got me thinking. I wonder how many of us actually have colour issues with your eyes? I know nothing about eye problems like this but of course, unless someone pointed it out to you, you wouldn't know would you. Add to that the fact that all our monitors are either uncalibrated or not calibrated the same so we see each others pictures in totally different shades than they do on their own monitors. Given that, we could paint them any colour and say that it looks right on my computer lol

 

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This has got me thinking. I wonder how many of us actually have colour issues with your eyes? I know nothing about eye problems like this but of course, unless someone pointed it out to you, you wouldn't know would you. Add to that the fact that all our monitors are either uncalibrated or not calibrated the same so we see each others pictures in totally different shades than they do on their own monitors. Given that, we could paint them any colour and say that it looks right on my computer lol

That explains why everyone thinks my work is good

 

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Ya not too big to get a slap Penny lol, your work is great....