2nd Regt. Velites Of The Guard Officer

Completed

Here are the finished images of my 54mm Velites of the Guard Officer. Base has been finished in a faux marble effect using acrylics. The veining was done by painting over the base-coat with Amsterdam acrylic retarder and then applying the vein colour onto the wet surface. This technique allows for some diffusion of the paint for a more realistic marble effect.

2nd Regt. Velites of the Guard Officer

Working on the golds

More work today, this time on the golds. Once again I have used the Scale 75 acrylics metallics for this blended with some Vallejo. Starting with a dark mix base-coat of Vallejo Black, Leather Brown, Yellow Ochre and some Scale 75 Elven Gold I have gradually applied highlights by adding first more Elven Gold and Yellow Ochre and then incorporating some Scale 75 Citrine Alchemy to mix to highlight further.

2nd Regt. Velites of the Guard Officer

Continuing with the face in oils and moving onto the uniform.

Having just finished a project for a magazine article I've found the time to get back to this figure. As with the Crimean Grenadier bust I've opted to over-paint the acrylics with oils. The face and bearskin were the first to receive this treatment.

Oil mix used for the flesh consisted of Titanium White; Yellow Ochre; Cadmium Red; Naples Yellow; Burnt Sienna; Raw Umber; Viridian Green; Mars Black; Purple Madder.

Moving on to the uniform I pre-painted the white using the Scale 75 Black and White paint set working from dark to light using Petroleum Grey, Brown Grey, Rainy Grey, Thar Brown, Mojave White and White. This was then over-painted in oil using mixes that mirrored the 6 different acrylics. Oils used to achieve these colours were Titanium White; Yellow Ochre; Raw Umber; Burnt Umber; Mars Black; Purple Madder.  

The red is again Scale 75 acrylics over-painted with the following oil colours: Alazarin Crimson; Cadmium Red; Titanium White; Mars Black.

2nd Regt. Velites of the Guard Officer

54mm Romeo Models Velites of the Guard Officer 1814-15

My next 54mm project this lovely little figure sculpted by Maurizio Bruno for Romeo Models.

I will be using acrylics for this.

Here's the boxart.

Once assembled I have used the Scale 75 Black and White paint set to airbrush a basecoat leaving a pre-shade/highlight to work on.

Face has been painted first after wrapping the body in protective clingfilm. Painted exclusively using the Scale 75 Flesh paint set.

Officer Guards Camel Regiment Sudan Campaign 1885

My latest 54mm

Just showing the finished work on this one as I painted it fairly quickly over a few long sessions at the bench. This is a great sculpt from one of my favourite sculptors/modellers - Raul Garcia Latorre. It's a white metal casting, I missed out on the initial run of resin casts when it was first released but it really makes no difference when it's painted, resin just tends to look sharper in it's bare form as it's normally matt whereas the white metal reflects the light.

I used mainly Scale 75 acrylics this time as I have a few new sets that I was keen to try after using their brilliant metallic range. So the flesh was all done using their flesh set, leather work with their wood and leather set (obviously) and the breeches with o combination of colours from both the black and white set and the leather/wood set with the addition of some Vallejo buff. The jacket is Jo Sonja's French Blue straight from the tube and highlighted using Scale 75 pale flesh and shaded with a combination of JS Paynes Grey and Scale 75 purple.

Probably the biggest consideration when approaching the painting of this figure was the breeches which are made of corduroy. I decided to simulate the texture starting with a dark base and progressively working in lighter stripes focusing on the natural highlight areas. To try and avoid the look of pin-stripe trousers I have made the stripes slightly wider on the right leg where the material is more flared out as well as subtle widening of some highlights on the creases to try and simulate the cord texture.

Really enjoyable figure to paint, you can't beat a Latorre sculpt.