wounded Roman legionaries and rescuers

[Phersu]

I painted the last two new figures I made and recently shown in the WIP section.

The figures details...


A front view on a small provisory base...


And 4 other perspective views...

[daikaigan]

BRAVO!!!! Leonardo.
greetings Massimo

[Peter]

Looks great Leo!

[Alex]

Bravissimo , my friend !!!!

[Ben90]

Very nice! I love the way you´ve painted the skin. How did you achieve this realistic look?

[Phersu]

Thank you my friends!

Very nice! I love the way you´ve painted the skin. How did you achieve this realistic look?

Very simply... with a couple of re-enactors and photoshop!
LOL I'm just jocking!

I can cope with brushes and paints but I'm rather a sculptor than a painter, not an expert painter for sure... anyway I think the good effect is mostly given from the washes...
I don't know really, I painted in the same way as always, using Citadel colors and washes (apart some bits of another different brown acrilic somewhere) but this time it looks much better than usual, I can only think two possible reasons...
The first, I quickly painted just two figures in one time, instead than many figures in several hours or even days... and this perhaps didn't left enough time to dry completely the acrilics, which somehow slightly blended at every new layer, allowing a better shading.
Second, perhaps the light under the sort of greenhouse I use was particularly right to take the photo too, actually looking the figures in my hand the skin seem a bit too pale to me.
However I must modestly admit that I'm quite satisfied of the shading effect which came out, much better than the last Gauls figures which I just painted few days before.


Concerning how...
after the normal black undercoat I drybrushed most everywhere, with metallic acrilic on the armors, and white anywhere else, to obtain a sort rough basic greyscale of shading... which is very helpful to see clearly all the figures details and paint more precisely too.

Then I uniformly painted all the skin parts, of which we are particularly talking about, with this acrilic called "Dwarf flash" (such funny names Cital colors! ) using it dense and covering but not too thick... so that the shaded undercoat underneath come out almost slightly visible once dryed.

Following some lighter shadings and highlighs, adding increasing bits of white and yellow acrilic to the base flash color... drybrushed on the top and protruding highlights, or painted very liquid just to leave slight shades on the large flat rounded surfaces of legs and arms.

Finally, after few tiny dark touches to shade the eyes, and some fingers lines too, a wash... still with Citadel washes...
As suggested from a friend, on the skin I used this brownish "griphone sepia" ink...
First on the shaded parts I used it thicker and/or even darked with a bit of "black BADAB" wash (even funnier this, knowing the funny Citadel team I guess the final "B" stands for a ß and is supposed to be read as a German scharfes! )
Immediately afterwards I gave the washes on the of the figures, using normally diluted wash, and washing it off away with some strokes of brush (dry or a bit moist) on the top lighter parts.

That's all... Sometimes I add some tiny touches and lines of dark wash in some places to enhance some shadow lines, and/or similar tiny bits of highlights... but this time it seemed to me there was no need.

[Beano Boy]

Very Nice Work. BB

[Ben90]

Thank you for your answer! It may be the wash that made the skin look a bit shiny which looks great!

[Phersu]

Thank you for your answer! It may be the wash that made the skin look a bit shiny which looks great!

yes, I think so.
These washes work quite good, I was a bit disappointed when Citadel replaced the old inks with these new washes, but now I must admit they work fine, or even better once learned to dilute them properly and brushing with those little tricks.

Perhaps the old inks tended to enhance better the small details, but they were shinier than the actual washes, probably too much... the flash wash especially was so shiny that sometimes had to be diluted with water or even adding bits of matt paint, but was excellent to give a sweaty or even wet skin effect, same of a couple of colours for the wet cloth effect they gave.
Once finished those old ink tanks I will have to find new similar inks, or learn to supply using some shiny coates...

[Xantippos]

They look full of life .

[Phersu]

Thanks again!!!
Despite being always on the rush (and permanently late ) I keep going ahead with my Roman legionaries project...
and here are the test casting of another 3 figures just painted!

[MABO]

Your Romans are looking very when painted, congrats for your work!

[Salaberry]

Very nice work indeed!
The poses look awesome, and the paintjob is up to par with the sculpting.
Please keep posting more!!

Salaberry

[Phersu]

Thanks again my friends!
Here are other three test castings figures, painted and assembled!

[Peter]

Great work Leo!

[Wheeling Turn]

Nice vignettes. Looks like a must have to me.

[Phersu]

Thanks again my friends!

Here are the last couple of painted figures.




The complete set...



And the back of the figures...



And now it's time to go on with the next work, and slow down to rest a bit too for a while...

[Phersu]

And at long last the minidiorama is ready too...
Not a great scenery, I know... just a base to show the complete set.

[Konrad]

Absolutly stunning!!
Great figs and great pics!

[Donald Duck]

Great job!