discussion Langy's 'The Mekon', 1/16 scale figure by Mooncrest models.

[stillp]

Sorry to hear that Chris.
Pete

 

[Allen Dewire]

Terrible to hear Chris. My sincere condolences to you and the family Sir. Please take care...

Allen

 

[Valeron]

Sorry to hear your terrible news Chris.

 

[Tim Marlow]

Sorry to hear this Chris. Take all the time you need. Modelling is very unimportant compared to family.

 

[The Smythe Meister]

Gonna be a bit of a delay on this, as my father passed away last night after week in hospital, so my head isn't really in the game in the minute,

but I will get back to it as I'm gonna finish this 'In memoriam' to him as he got me into Dan Dare all the way back in the early eighties...

back soon

Oh no,So sorry to hear this Chris!
Obviously our thoughts are with you mate, not much more I can say.
..... see you when you feel right to come back

 

[PaulinKendal]

So sorry to hear this, Chris. Look after yourself.

 

[Mark1]

Sad news, my condolences mate.

 

[Ian M]

My sincere condolences Chris. My thoughts are with you and your family.

 

[JayCee]

My condolences to you and your family. Take all the time you need we aren't going anywhere !
John.

 

[boatman]

condolences Chris from jen an i

chrisb

 

[Ernie]

Very sorry to hear of this, my condolences to you and your family.

 

[Tworrs]

May I add my condolences as well Chris.

 

[langy71]

Thanks for the nice words and thoughts guys,
It's still 'raw' but practical arrangements are helping to 'settle' things in my head..(funny thing is though, I realised yesterday I hadn't eaten anything for three days...)

Needed a bit of time yesterday to 'switch off' from things, so I thought I'd have a crack at The Mekon's outfit..
gonna try to come up with a way of post shading the lilac to create some depth in the folds of the fabric, maybe a light coat of slightly darker lilac... I'm not too sure if this would work thought...(maybe i should have pre shaded it a bit.).. or maybe I could dry brush the edges with white.... any thoughts ?

 

[Tim Marlow]

Hi Chris
One way is to follow this image…

As you can see, the shadows have blue added to them and the highlights are more red. You should be able to do that using your base lilac colour and adding the relevant colours. Remember shadows occur on the underside of creases away from the light, and highlights occur on the faces of the creases pointing directly at the light. You can’t really use washes at this scale, it will just look wrong.

 

[langy71]

Thanks Tim

 

[boatman]

THE Mekon is lookin good chris an jen an i hope you feel better
chrisb an jen

 

[PaulinKendal]

Spot on advice from @Tim Marlow, of course. One other thing to consider is that, where the crease points directly up to the light source then it's the very deepest part of the crease that reflects the light, like this:

 

[langy71]

Well, In between 'Legal stuff' today I had an attempt at shading the lilac,

trust me it's more pronounced in 'real' life...(the inside of the sleeve shows it best) but it'll do for now.





colour enhanced to pick out the details,

 

[langy71]

Well guys,
Dad has carried out his 'final journey', and now the reality of 'normal life' begins to settle back into things..just one final thing to deal with 'the scattering of his ashes' in his home town of Scarborough...

So I managed to have some down time and made more progress with this build.. Got him assembled and he's literally finished, just a couple of things to deal with, so over the next couple of days I'll calling this build complete and he'll take up his rightful place in our living room...



The sleeve repair came out better than I expected..

 

[The Smythe Meister]

AWESOME....
Absolutely love him Chris,great stuff