Party tricks.....
Just wanted to point that I modified the header. I never get to use properly the pages, because I didn't find out how. Everytime I tried to publish a new storry, it was posted on the first page, no matter what I did.
So now I put a button there which will redirect you to my image gallery on Photobucket.
Let me know if it doesn't work properly.
Thank's !
vineri, 19 decembrie 2014
joi, 11 decembrie 2014
Second part of the Bunch
The japanese pilots are from a Tamiya 1/32 fighter plane. I don't know which one because the plane is not mine. I just did the pilots and let my friend to have his way with the makanichs.
This is not the first atempt with this kind of figures as you can see here http://s976.photobucket.com/user/CalinUngureanu/library/Modern%20Warfare%20figures?sort=6&page=1 . I belive that all serious kit producers understood that in this era, of well detailed figurines, to continue to put in their boxes some chunks of plastic is a bad advertising.
The sculpture is meant to fulfill airplane modelers demands. That means the pilots had to have all buckles and buttons in place, the harness measured in scale and position of the one seated in cockpit matching the chair and the control stick. Unfortunately, my cockpit figure came without his goggles.
Now, for the collors. My opinion is that the highly stretched wartime economy of the empire couldn't provide an exact standard of materials and models. I read somewhere that even bolts in wartime Japan were a matter of approximation. I'm sure this was an exageration, but I guess in that period it was hard everywhere.
So I choose to have some variation from one figure to the other - color of boots, model of leather helmet, life vests etc. I added patches just to break the monotony of the uniforms. I'm not sure if they existed or if there been any rules for that. I assumed patches were used at elite or special units.
Special mention - The cockpit figure is seated on my WWI american gas lighter "grandpa' Zippo".
East meets West it's a 1/35 set from the new producer (at least for me) Riich.
Although the sculpture details are not mindblowing, the postures are indeed. I never get the challenge to make embraced figures with different uniforms until now. The image on the box makes you dream about what you can do. When you start working you'll discover that carefully planning of construction and painting is of most importance. To ad to that, you may want to represent different shades of skin. In my mind, when I saw the scene, the guy assaulted by the soviet tanker's rivers of joy is an american italian. So it had to have chestnut hair and mediteranean skin. Ivan was to be paler, and somewhat pink-ysher in his cheeks.
For Natasha charmed by Telly Savalas, I used the same tone of skin as for Hruschev (maybe they were related). I don't get to work with women so often (don't get me wrong, I'm ok). Let's say it was a bit awkward to hold her and get my paintbrush under her skirt. Especially with those pink cheeks.
If I would be a fan of this scale, I'd like a diorama with those figures more than other ones shooting and pointing to the enemy.
for the dust on the boots I used pastel powder, but keep it to a minimum - after all those was propaganda moments.
The Italian Infantry at El Alamein wrecked my nerves ! They are not bad, but not so good to worth time to follow al those intricate gear belts that start from waist in the front and ends in neverland. They are from several corps of armies (paratrooper, infantry, bersaglieri) so that they all wear different tunics, pants and boots. I recived them together with a set of AUTHENTIC colors (I will not say the name) which was suited maybe for circus outfits. The "green tella" being grey-ish than the "grey-green", the "marrone" almost red and "tella tuta carista" an insignia blue. I doubted this was made to be camouflaged in the dessert.
Faces vary in quality from the paratrooper that has the luck that his hemiplegic face is halfcovered by the helmet, to the guy running with the machinegun that has an original italian 3 day beard.
Black cock feathers will be always difficult to represent in stiff plastic, but it's a huge leap from a former set from ItaAerei.
The officer with the binoculars it's tributary to the stiffness of ancient molds and his face with a small and mean mouth made him hated from the very beginning. Adding sandals with socks and a very small Beretta gun.....
Next year I will cope with another bunch of Modern Soviet Paratroopers from Afganistan, Israelian paratroopers, Koreean tank crew and whoo knows what else.
But until then I will start (at least) a plane or two for my soul.
You can see more pictures of my work here - http://s976.photobucket.com/user/CalinUngureanu/library/?sort=6&page=1
Happy holidays !
This is not the first atempt with this kind of figures as you can see here http://s976.photobucket.com/user/CalinUngureanu/library/Modern%20Warfare%20figures?sort=6&page=1 . I belive that all serious kit producers understood that in this era, of well detailed figurines, to continue to put in their boxes some chunks of plastic is a bad advertising.
The sculpture is meant to fulfill airplane modelers demands. That means the pilots had to have all buckles and buttons in place, the harness measured in scale and position of the one seated in cockpit matching the chair and the control stick. Unfortunately, my cockpit figure came without his goggles.
Now, for the collors. My opinion is that the highly stretched wartime economy of the empire couldn't provide an exact standard of materials and models. I read somewhere that even bolts in wartime Japan were a matter of approximation. I'm sure this was an exageration, but I guess in that period it was hard everywhere.
So I choose to have some variation from one figure to the other - color of boots, model of leather helmet, life vests etc. I added patches just to break the monotony of the uniforms. I'm not sure if they existed or if there been any rules for that. I assumed patches were used at elite or special units.
Special mention - The cockpit figure is seated on my WWI american gas lighter "grandpa' Zippo".
East meets West it's a 1/35 set from the new producer (at least for me) Riich.
Although the sculpture details are not mindblowing, the postures are indeed. I never get the challenge to make embraced figures with different uniforms until now. The image on the box makes you dream about what you can do. When you start working you'll discover that carefully planning of construction and painting is of most importance. To ad to that, you may want to represent different shades of skin. In my mind, when I saw the scene, the guy assaulted by the soviet tanker's rivers of joy is an american italian. So it had to have chestnut hair and mediteranean skin. Ivan was to be paler, and somewhat pink-ysher in his cheeks.
For Natasha charmed by Telly Savalas, I used the same tone of skin as for Hruschev (maybe they were related). I don't get to work with women so often (don't get me wrong, I'm ok). Let's say it was a bit awkward to hold her and get my paintbrush under her skirt. Especially with those pink cheeks.
If I would be a fan of this scale, I'd like a diorama with those figures more than other ones shooting and pointing to the enemy.
for the dust on the boots I used pastel powder, but keep it to a minimum - after all those was propaganda moments.
The Italian Infantry at El Alamein wrecked my nerves ! They are not bad, but not so good to worth time to follow al those intricate gear belts that start from waist in the front and ends in neverland. They are from several corps of armies (paratrooper, infantry, bersaglieri) so that they all wear different tunics, pants and boots. I recived them together with a set of AUTHENTIC colors (I will not say the name) which was suited maybe for circus outfits. The "green tella" being grey-ish than the "grey-green", the "marrone" almost red and "tella tuta carista" an insignia blue. I doubted this was made to be camouflaged in the dessert.
Faces vary in quality from the paratrooper that has the luck that his hemiplegic face is halfcovered by the helmet, to the guy running with the machinegun that has an original italian 3 day beard.
Black cock feathers will be always difficult to represent in stiff plastic, but it's a huge leap from a former set from ItaAerei.
The officer with the binoculars it's tributary to the stiffness of ancient molds and his face with a small and mean mouth made him hated from the very beginning. Adding sandals with socks and a very small Beretta gun.....
Next year I will cope with another bunch of Modern Soviet Paratroopers from Afganistan, Israelian paratroopers, Koreean tank crew and whoo knows what else.
But until then I will start (at least) a plane or two for my soul.
You can see more pictures of my work here - http://s976.photobucket.com/user/CalinUngureanu/library/?sort=6&page=1
Happy holidays !
miercuri, 10 decembrie 2014
The 35ers bunch
After a few months of hard working I get to finish a few more 1/35 figures.
I will try to describe them in the following rows. If you have specific questions please feel free to ask.
I tried to keep shadows and especially lights to a minimum, to keep the colors of the equipment as true as possible and to avoid round soft demarcations between light and shadow. It's my choice.
I will start with the Italian mountain trooper from Hornet.
It's a metalic (white metal) fugurine very well rendered, in an appealing posture.
When I open the package I found out there was missing the shotgun barrel. It was quite a challenge to replace it from very fine hypodermic needle and an adjacent rod segment for the cleaning rod. I couldn't find the feather from the cap either. This one was made from plastic bits.
I painted it with acrylics as a base color and modulate the shadows and lights with oil colors.
Also from Hornet, but this time from resin, the war time carabinieri, sports a cloth cover for it's particular headgear. The wellknown emblem was black in wartime as a measure of low visibility.
One can notice that he has under the back pack a camouflaged cover in the characteristic Italian pattern and colors.
The sculpture was very good and it was a pleasure to work at it. Too bad that the time had to be divided to cover the whole amount of figures.
It was also paint in the old technique of acrylics and oils.
The Italian SS trooper was from Jaguar I belive. It didn't impressed me so much. The face has a funny look. But not all the people are the same.
The producer gives 2 head options, one with helmet and the other one with a cap which look german. As you can see I chose the helmet. So I get to paint the flag on one side and this is cool.
The sculpture is good but a bit crude, with rather big details.
I liked the posture which is not too beligerant.
It took me quite a wile to cope with the cammo and also to gibe some shadow and light on this stuffed design.
The set made by Miniart - Stalin and his staff was a pleasure to work with. I don't know how they do it but the sculpture is as good as for the resin figures. And belive me that is not easy or cheap. I had it with plastic figure sets from great companies that are a pain to paint.
Stalin is portrayed quite well. The sculptor has been able to render the expression of his face. That mysterious smile that can meant that you will be dead in the next hour or that he likes you.
The artist even made him the shorter left arm. That was a well kept secret.
I choose a modest appearance for him letting the effect to be attained by it's name and reputation. I represented him in the final stages of the war when he started to have white hairs.
Well Stalin was guarded by a whole apparatus of protection which members was themselves controlled and monitorised.
The head of the guard corp was general Nikolai Vlasik, from the same village as Stalin said to be somehow related with the dictator.
Viaceslav Molotov it's known to my country as the one that was the hand that took us the territories of Basarabia and Bucovina from the north-east of Romania.
In fact Stalin was prepared to go at the meeting himself but finding out that the fuerer (Hitler) will send von Ribbentrop at the ceremony, send instead Molotov.
To this figure I made a small conversion, puting the hat in his hand. By this I wanted to show his allegiance to the dictator and make a use for this nice hat.
Lavrenti Beria - Head of the secret services and known to be a human beast.
Too bad I didn't had the time to make him round glasses as he wear.
And finally, Nikita Hruschev, then a political and propaganda responsible, later to become president of CCCP.
For this one I used a much lighter tone of skin that was very hard to cope with because it was glossy. But the final effect was worth it, the blonde almost white short hair being suite on that light tone skin.
I will end here my presentation and continue with the rest of the figures in a second article.
I will try to describe them in the following rows. If you have specific questions please feel free to ask.
I tried to keep shadows and especially lights to a minimum, to keep the colors of the equipment as true as possible and to avoid round soft demarcations between light and shadow. It's my choice.
I will start with the Italian mountain trooper from Hornet.
It's a metalic (white metal) fugurine very well rendered, in an appealing posture.
When I open the package I found out there was missing the shotgun barrel. It was quite a challenge to replace it from very fine hypodermic needle and an adjacent rod segment for the cleaning rod. I couldn't find the feather from the cap either. This one was made from plastic bits.
I painted it with acrylics as a base color and modulate the shadows and lights with oil colors.
Also from Hornet, but this time from resin, the war time carabinieri, sports a cloth cover for it's particular headgear. The wellknown emblem was black in wartime as a measure of low visibility.
One can notice that he has under the back pack a camouflaged cover in the characteristic Italian pattern and colors.
The sculpture was very good and it was a pleasure to work at it. Too bad that the time had to be divided to cover the whole amount of figures.
It was also paint in the old technique of acrylics and oils.
The Italian SS trooper was from Jaguar I belive. It didn't impressed me so much. The face has a funny look. But not all the people are the same.
The producer gives 2 head options, one with helmet and the other one with a cap which look german. As you can see I chose the helmet. So I get to paint the flag on one side and this is cool.
The sculpture is good but a bit crude, with rather big details.
I liked the posture which is not too beligerant.
It took me quite a wile to cope with the cammo and also to gibe some shadow and light on this stuffed design.
The set made by Miniart - Stalin and his staff was a pleasure to work with. I don't know how they do it but the sculpture is as good as for the resin figures. And belive me that is not easy or cheap. I had it with plastic figure sets from great companies that are a pain to paint.
Stalin is portrayed quite well. The sculptor has been able to render the expression of his face. That mysterious smile that can meant that you will be dead in the next hour or that he likes you.
The artist even made him the shorter left arm. That was a well kept secret.
I choose a modest appearance for him letting the effect to be attained by it's name and reputation. I represented him in the final stages of the war when he started to have white hairs.
Well Stalin was guarded by a whole apparatus of protection which members was themselves controlled and monitorised.
The head of the guard corp was general Nikolai Vlasik, from the same village as Stalin said to be somehow related with the dictator.
Viaceslav Molotov it's known to my country as the one that was the hand that took us the territories of Basarabia and Bucovina from the north-east of Romania.
In fact Stalin was prepared to go at the meeting himself but finding out that the fuerer (Hitler) will send von Ribbentrop at the ceremony, send instead Molotov.
To this figure I made a small conversion, puting the hat in his hand. By this I wanted to show his allegiance to the dictator and make a use for this nice hat.
Lavrenti Beria - Head of the secret services and known to be a human beast.
Too bad I didn't had the time to make him round glasses as he wear.
And finally, Nikita Hruschev, then a political and propaganda responsible, later to become president of CCCP.
For this one I used a much lighter tone of skin that was very hard to cope with because it was glossy. But the final effect was worth it, the blonde almost white short hair being suite on that light tone skin.
I will end here my presentation and continue with the rest of the figures in a second article.
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