Hi Zaidi

I have the same set of figures and i think ur painting is better than mine. Perhaps i need to revisit these set of figures and repaint them again.

Those green spots, are they really that green?

sllim

Boss I wrote a reply on my humble views for these figs in the "other" forum including a botak joke.

Personally I've tried the pre shadow method when I first did figs but it didn't work so well for me. I always found the basecoat masking the preshadows. I suppose its easier for planes to do preshadowing or maybe at that time tak cukup skills.

Overall everything is coming along well. Since I'm not familiar with SS camo I can't comment much of the % area covered by the green or the shape. It does appear a bit thin especially in the 2nd pic on his right shoulder. Of course I'm sure you will overlay it with another color like in the pea pattern.

The second is I've found it very hard to have highs and shadows on uniform with camo. I've used your book's method Zaidi where after putting in the base coat I paint in the shadows and highs as though it didn't have camo. Then I applied the camo. Found it works to some extent for the shadows but not so much for the highs. I don't know whether you want to use that method or just stick with the camo only.

The 3rd. pic has a good basecoat going for the top. Painting pure black is always tricky as there is nothing more black than black for shadows. Your basecoat there should leave you enough tone to go down and up for the shadows and highs respectively. I hope the pant color in the 5th pic (4th. SS) will not be the basecoat as it is quite dark and painting a dark shadow there will be difficult.

Faces coming along well. May I suggest a very dark shade of shadow for the areas where the eyes and nose meet to give it more depth.

Boss I just noticed something additional. In the 3rd. pic (2nd SS man) the index finger holding the pistol a bit too panjang. I think its because your shading in between the fingers was a bit wide and too long. If you paint a bit of basecoat between the sleeve and the knuckles it will help to reduce the length of the fingers.

Boss maybe I can help you on the camo. Can you post a pic of which camo you're doing so maybe we can plan it together which paint to go first and how much. I enjoy camo painting as I always find it a challenge.

He cacat one is it? Funny , the figure looks different from mine. They must used a different head

sllim

Aaah...its the pea pattern. The brown one is for Autumn and the green one is the spring pattern if I'm not mistaken. Floogen has a lot of experience with the pea pattern. But since he's not around I'll try my best to help out. Before I forget Jaumme's work is excellent as always.

Okay for the Autumn pea pattern I would say the darker brown patch takes up about 60-70 % of the total area. It would be the 1st. color I will add after the basecoat. In your spring pea pattern it would be the green color.

The next color to go in again for the Autumn pattern would be the orange-brown spots ( I'll called it the 2nd. color). That will be painted over the 1st color and take up about 60 % of area the 1st color. Then another 10% will be the basecoat painted in dots. The remaining 20 % of the 1st color will be allowed to remain.

Since its a pea pattern, I would suggest that after painting an irregular shape for the 1st. color you go along the edges of the 1st. color and make dots with the same color to create the dotted effect seen at the edges of the 1st. color.

2nd. color and basecoat should also be applied in a dot fashion to create the pea pattern.

Hope that wasn't too confusing. The trick is seeing one color at one time. Look at the area covered and the pattern next. Paint in stages. Try one patch first and complete 1st., 2nd. and basecoat color before going over the entire uniform. That way you don't have to repaint everything in case anything goes wrong.

Good progress thus far Boss. Coming along well and it should look even better once the 3rd color is applied. Might be my poor eyesight but I think they maybe some flash dekat his right hand (the one withouth the gloves) at the fingers. I always have this problem of tertinggal some flash especially dekat the fingers. Drives me crazy and it always shows up in the photos just when I think I'm done.

Lim you're wronglah. The reason he has a electric pink zeltbahn is because he's going to attend a Gay Party and electric pink is the in-color. :-) :-) Yes, yes revenge, sweet revenge

Aiyaa Boss I mentioned the right hand lah. That's why I put in brackets in my post 'the one WITHOUT the gloves'. If you look at the fingertips on the right hand it has some flash on it.

For a young man mata already gone. This means it'll even be easier to bunuh you with my Hitman (jeng jeng jengjeng jengjeng).

Are you sure itu bukan zeltbahn, looks like a zeltbahn to me. Anyway electric pink is the "in" color for gay parties. :-) :-) :-)

its very true in my case that I need to take snapshots of my kits to see the imperfections. Guess the focus helps with a still shots.

its very true in my case that I need to take snapshots of my kits to see the imperfections. Guess the focus helps with a still shots.
Boss, the camo patterns looks alittle off scale lah. Smaller brush will help ?

Bukan camera flash lah Boss. Extra plastic flash. You can see it a bit on the thumb and some on the finger tips of the right hand.

Guys what do you think? Is that extra plastic at the fingertips of the right hand or is my eyes really going?