3rd Painting Competition Winner

[Benno]

And the winner of the third Painting Competition is...

Run by adamparsons!





Congratulations!



The other contestants in the competition were:

Michel - Medieval Wardogs
Phalanx - Hanibal crosses the alps
Konrad - Persian Nobleman
Susofrick - Two Roman officers
Chen - WW2 Italian Infantry
kaktus - Moscow Strelets 5th Reg.
Peter - Scots Greys


Thanks for joining!

[T. Dürrschmidt]

Dear Adam,

congratulations for this dramatic scene.

And bye bye golden brush....see you again later

[Peter]

Congrats Adam Yesterday, I knew it was your work. I was looking for the painting horse tutorial and couldn't find it. Then I looked back at "Run" and then I knew it. There are only two people on this forum who paints this way; Benno and you.
Also congrats to Konrad, a very good runner up

Greetings Peter

[T. Dürrschmidt]

Yes, I forgot. Sorry! Congratulations Konrad for a very good work and a respectable 2nd rank.

Best regards from Bavaria

Thomas

[Maurice]

Congrats to both winner and runner up

[chen]

Echo everyone else: congratulations!

Adam I knew it's your work even earlier than Peter did. I'm always loving your painting style and here I particularly like the way you do highlight for those black fur on the pellisse.

[Konrad]

Congratulate you Adam.
A very nice work!
The figures you have selected,
the arrangement,
everything very vividly and dramatically.
It seems to me that you have used photo software to change the
background?
You are a worthy winner!

[Adam]

Hi all, and thanks!
especially all the entrants for making it so much fun everytime. Peter- I think it is me who trys to paint like Benno, as when I started painting again a few years ago I based most my new stuff on his work- I still have some catching up to do to beat those Nassau infantry of his!

Here are a few more pics and a little explanation of what I used. The Hussar is a Russian Zvezda one- a quick snip later and the zvezda french artillery head sits atop a new body. The horse is from the same set except I cut away the russian shabraque and carves a new sheepskin one, using a hot pin to sculpt the sheep fur effect into the plastic. The running infatry man is actually an italeri rifle - third figure on the second row here

I cut away his gun, carved him proper belts, cut and moved his arms and heated and re-bent his legs and then gave him a proper redcoat paint job. It is obviously inspired by the french cavalry charge at Albuera. th eterrain get damaged during the making by a spill, so I sadly had to drybrush it to try and fix it, so it was a little spoiled but I am still generally fairly pleased.

The pictures were taken during a particularly wet and rainy few weeks over here where I could not get decent pics outside and was making a mess of inside so here are a few I took the other day.

Thanks again

[ModernKiwi]

Well done Adam, very nice work. And I really like your nobleman Konrad.

[Martin]

Hi Adam,
Congratulations first !!

You made a real dramatical piece of art here.!!

[ColeF]

Great job.

[Benno]

I still have some catching up to do to beat those Nassau infantry of his!

Ahum... they're not nearly as good as your figs on these pictures.

[dutchboyinohio]

Very nice job and congratulations to both the winner and runner-up. Adam, do you think you could get us some close-ups of the faces? It's probably difficult as both figures are sort of facing down, but I'd love to get a better look at how you painted them.

[dykio]

Wonderful job Adam, and i really love the brightness of your colors. Did you basecolor them white or black ?

Later Dykio

[Susofrick]

Oops! Missed this one. Never take vacation! At least not away from the forum. Congratulations Adam. Hard choice between the entrys, and you won. And I won't put a link to Cliff Richard!

[Siegfried]

Congrats Adam, a bloody nice piece of work it is!