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Headless gang is here!
🕑 Added 2021-11-01 19:11:38 +0000 UTCMy friends, the crew uniforms are ready and the road to skin tones is clear. Or maybe not, I'll probably paint the puppy first 😁
But to be honest, despite how beautifully sculpted and detailed these Panzer Art figures are, I kinda found them more difficult to paint. Maybe there's a certain threshold for us mere mortals and some details become just too small to paint properly. Now I can see why some figures have overexaggerated details - to make them easier to paint (and actually see 😁). Nonetheless, these are the most realistic figures I've ever worked with, and I'd love to see them painted by a real professional.
In other news, I mixed and matched the uniforms without too much regard for "authentic colors", I simply tried to have some fun and be creative!
The airbrushed base coats led to some interesting results. For example, the "grey" guy has a strong shadow on his chest because he's slightly hunched over. That's something I'd never think about, so thank you, airbrush and Tamiya paints! 😁
Also, the black Panzer uniform was an airbrushing fail, so I had to save the day with a lot of brush painting. I tried building up the lights with an airbrush, but that led to an almost brown result! On the other hand, the black pants on the other crewman were sprayed with a single translucent layer over the black/white shading, resulting in a much better effect!
As I don't have Tamiya's Flat Flesh in my collection, the skin tones will be done completely by brush. Fingers crossed it won't drive me nuts!
Comments
These and your previous figures have convinced me to try the airbrush technique on my next batch of figures and rely on glazes to manage the color shifts. For me I find it pointless to obsess TOO much about the tiniest details at this scale because only so much can be viewed by the naked eye on a 2" figure. I mean a lot of us have the gear to photograph these things and view them on huge monitors in glorious 4K resolution, but is that fair to our poor eyes that are painting these things?
Get yourself some Tamiya flesh Martin, it is a great colour for highlighting panzer black uniforms if you are going to airbrush it. Keeps the warmth of the colour without bleaching it out. One for next time, maybe?
