101st AIRBORNE AT CARENTAN, JUNE 1944

[Medicman71]

Wow!

[Stikpusher]

Your face painting skills are simply fantastic! Are you planning to give them any remnants of the face blackening worn by most troopers on D-Day?

[SteveSki]

Thanks, Jeaton and MedMan!

Ya know, Stik, I never thought about that, quite a few did blacken up. That would take some study work to see how that would look and how to get it on there correctly. I still have a lot of work to do on these guys, but I'll mull it over.

[SteveSki]

#3, Almost Acceptable

After a day of adjusting skin tones and “feathering in” the oils I am satisfied with the results so far. This one is about 80% finished. I still need a bit more work before I set it aside to dry hard before working in some facial textures.





Time to get the last two heads up to speed and work the new techniques as a set. I may give all of them a dull coat to seal in the work so far. It’s always a dice roll when working in a new technique after getting this far, but I’m willing to take that chance.

Thanks for watching. Cheers, Ski.

P.S. Let me not forget the red tones as well. Sheesh, just caught that, lol.

[SteveSki]

Breaking the “Glasses” Ceiling

I know some us can get carried away with detail and some of us just move on, but when the detail in literally “in your face” ya kinda gotta pay attention, IMHO. The set of glasses for the young lad on the right were a royal baby rump kisser, to say the least. Now that I’ve done this at least 7-10 times, or more, I can pretty much knock out a pair in about 15mins, sheesh! This thin copper wire takes a delicate approach or the whole thing goes to pot in a heartbeat and any prior work is caput.







The lenses for these glasses were made from a plastic envelope that protected a set of decals in my stash. It was the only thing thin enough to work in this scale realistically. I did make an attempt at using liquid water from Vallejo, but boy howdy was he wearing coke bottle lenses then, woof!

Ok, both heads shown are completed for now with most of the minor details already added. My attempt at adding in facial textures met with utter failure, so I will move on saving that technical approach for a 1/10th bust. There comes a time when you have to realize it just ain’t happenin, and move on. I will set these aside for now and finish the last two heads before I detail the helmets and move on to the bodies.



Yes, Goofy has been replaced by one of Steve Reedee’s 1/16th scale heads. This is a far cry from that ridiculous head that came with the figure. In a conversation I had earlier today regarding well sculpted heads, they pretty much paint themselves. I agree completely, but somebody still has to control the brush, HA!

Thanks for watchin, more to follow shortly. Cheers, Ski.

[keavdog]

They look great. And the glasses turned out really well.

[SteveSki]

Thank you, Sir! The frustration has subsided, lol.

[LyleW]

The glasses are impressive! Colors are really striking, too! Great work.

[SteveSki]

Thanks, Lyle. them specs were a real hoot, leme tell ya.

[mostrich]

John Wayne and Harold Ramis having a smoke.
Outstanding work!