Afrika Tigers crew

[wouter]

Hi chaps!

Today I made a start with paintwork on the Afrika Tigers crew.
First figure up was the modified gunner.

Like Spud, I bought the DVD by Olivèr Kovacs and it's amazing, it really can help lift someones skill. Though I'm not nearly at the level of mister Kovacs or other great figure painters, I feel it goes in the right direction.

Took me a whole day and still not finished

Mind though, photo's don't have the best lighting this time (only one daylight bulb in stead of my usual four)




left eye (our right) is ok, right one (our left) might need some more work...or maybe not...macro setting is mostly not how we see it ey

Let me know what you think fellas

Cheers

[spud]

Awesome job so far wouts really tidy, i wouldn't worry about the eyes so much as you know you can barley see what is wrong

Dicky as you know its far easier to learn by seeing than reading about it.

As the saying goes Do as i Do

[deafpanzer]

Ferk me! Spud got the DVD and now you have it. I can't wait to buy the DVD but I am married and my wife recently gave me restraining order not to order more stuff for a while. GRRR!

Figure looks great! No kidding... it takes more than just a day to do one figure now. Is it from Alpine or Dragon?

[martyncrowther]

Nice work wouter, how about adding a wash using heavily thinned burnt umber? It adds a great shadow!

Martyn

[spud]

Lol Andy if that happened me she would be on the first boot out the door

[armorguy]

There goes my Antwerp mate painting figures !!! And how good this desert fella looks already ! Sharp detail on the medals and stuff so typical for German warriors, and majesticly painted my friend !

[bullardino]

Very nice

Looks like that DVD is more addictive than drugs

The uniform is great, what colour did you use for it?

Not to mention all the details that make it stand out

[wouter]

Many thanks dudes!!!! The DVD indeed comes in handy, as Spud mentioned, it's easier to do when you see someone doing it.

I think my painting of the clothing is quite satisfactory, but the faces I find much harder to get right. Still, it's ok when looking at it at a 'normal' distance

It's quite hard for me to catch the highlights and shadows on photo though, the figures have much more contrast when looking at them in reality.

Andy, yup, the loader figure is one of the early Alpine DAK figures, but I replaced his head with a hornet one. The commander figure got the head of the former one.

James, yeah, thanks mate, further weathering will follow when I put some decals in place. A pinwash sure is planned, together with some dusting ^^

Luigi, glad you like the color: it's Vallejo Panzer Aces 70.336 'Afrika Korps Tank Crew'...for the highlights (I used four or five) I mixed it with Sunny Skin Tone, for the shadows (also four) I mixed it with German Camo Black Green

The commander had a different color to create more variety: 70.340 'Afrika Korps Tank Crew Highlight' mixed with the same colors

Commander is finished pretty much btw...only thing I don't like is the wiring for the headphones, I couldn't make it look 'real' and couldn't connect it with the plug on the guys chest...





Cheers

[TRM]

Beuatifully done Sir Wouts!!

[bullardino]

Awesome job on the commander, Wouts

[Tojo72]

That's real nice work on those figures

[spud]

Very nice wouts

[multicam]

Looking good wouts.

[bbd468]

Nicely done brother Wouts!

Gary

[deafpanzer]

Stunning! You hit spot on for the eyes... always hate that part. LOL