discussion Tamiya 1/16 Luftwaffe Ace

[Guest]

Richard - I wish I hadn't done that article!

Ralph - I'm hoping that one day I'll get the first one right.

Second head:

View attachment 345347View attachment 345348

Infinitely better I think. I find these Reedees heads very difficult to paint, but a bit of persistence usually results in something that looks reasonably human. I like the fact that this one is looking slightly skyward, something that happened by pure accident.

 

[Guest]

Very nicely painted face Peter :smiling3:.

 

[Steve Jones]

I appreciate your desire to improve and push your own boundaries. However there are others of a lesser talent who would pay good money for your rejects. Could be a way of generating extra money for this ever more expensive hobby.

 

[Guest]

Ralph - Thanks, I'm much happier with this one.

Steve - The reality is very different from what you see on the screen; my camera's kind to my work. Also, they've either rejected because they're either poorly painted or bad sculpts.

 

[Guest]

View attachment 345425

Just counted them - there are 141 in there. Why can't I ever find one suitable for the job in hand?

P.S. Just found another fifteen.

 

[SteveH]

View attachment 345425

Morning Peter

Madame La Guillotine would be very envious LOL

He looks very executive for a Luftwaffe pilot, very clean cut and smart.

Today should be a wild palette of colour with the life preserver after all the field grey

Hopefully a good day for your painting, still grey and miserable here!

My day off today, perhaps building rather than photography?

regards

Steve H

 

[Guest]

Steve - I've also got separate bags full of hands, legs, arms, boots and headgear - a real cannibal butcher's shop.

The life jacket will be Vallejo Buff, which is quite a thin colour and takes a few coats to get opaque, but should be OK.

Sunshine and showers here, and cold. Ideal painting weather.

 

[Guest]

The life jacket is done:

View attachment 345517View attachment 345518

 

[scottie3158]

Peter,
That life jacket is the nuts.

 

[Guest]

Thanks Scottie. I always used to avoid subjects with life jackets because of the yellow - Vallejo Buff is the answer.

 

[Mickc1440]

More great work Peter, I thought the first head looked good but can definitely agree with you choosing this one instead.

 

[Guest]

Thanks Mick. I just couldn't live with the first head.

 

[SteveH]

Morning Peter

The life jacket is superb, whites and lights are just so good when right but so easy to over cook,

Perfect receipe Peter.

Awful day yesterday, finished with a knee injection!

Looks like more of the same today and for the next few days too and work tomorrow!

Saturday working every 5 weeks come round so quickly!

Fathers day this weekend, perhaps the one day in the year when you might just get to do what you would like?

Ha, not a chance!

Have a good day with the uniform

Regards


Steve H

 

[Guest]

Morning Steve

Sorry to hear about the knee - does damp weather affect it? Bit crook myself with a virus on top of hayfever/sinus trouble, hence slower painting. Working on Saturday is a bind. I once took a job managing a shop in Covent Garden only to realise later that I'd been contracted to work six days a week - end of social life till I got out.

I'm quite pleased with the life jacket. When I first painted a version of this I spent a very long time building up layer after layer of bright yellow, only to have it criticised as the wrong colour, which it was. More caution this time.

 

[Guest]

The life jacket looks the part Peter :smiling3:.

 

[Jim R]

Hi Peter
Head 2 looks great as does the jacket. In Red Dwarf Kryton was always on about his spare head collection - perhaps he got the idea from you!!
Jim

 

[Guest]

Ralph - Glad you approve.

Jim - I can see the advantages of having a personal spare head collection.

Uniform done:

View attachment 345720View attachment 345721

 

[Guest]

Very nice Peter :smiling3:.

 

[Guest]

Cheers Ralph - he's getting there.

 

[Guest]

Just the boots and extras to do now:

View attachment 345778

Not sure if I'll use the binoculars. The cap will be held in his hands behind his back, and I've made a bandolier of flare cartridges to wrap around his right boot. I've also given him a Dragon flare pistol holster which I've made a couple of corrections to. I will perhaps tuck the map somewhere about his person.