German Machine gunner 1/16 Tamiya

[spud]

i found this guy in my pile tonight when i went rumaging he was alrady primered so i layed sown some black to get the highlights.

i must state now that im Rubbish at Painting figs but after all if i dont show i cant be told if its any good ;D






if anyone is wondering how this is done Hold the fig upside down and paint at a 45 degree is will be my first time trying this on a lage scale fig so we will see what happens

[TRM]

Count me in spud!!! Looks like a fun one!!!!

[bigjohn]

yeap, i'll be watching!

[spud]

i seem to be missing the helmet and gun... need to look in the spars box tomorrow. either way ill still be painting him

[spud]

ty guys, i did find the missing bits on one of my shelfs and it is a cool fig indeed

[spud]

ok well ive added the top color but i may have went a tad too heavy ...

[spud]

lol i wont be going that far i yaight i shot the paint a bit heavy but looking at the pics he looks fine

[spud]

LOL that what the black was for and then go over it with teh base color and the highligh and shaddow showd fall into place, somtines it works..

As for doing all the shaddow and highlights im not that good at figs thats why i do them this way

[armorguy]

I follow this Fritzie for sure, color looks spot on !

[406 Silverado]

I'm in too Spud. Nice start so far bud

[AndyArgent.]

Great tech for shadows and hignlights. Might have to have a go at that.

[spud]

thanks guys will get back on him over the week end.. <- did i just say that...

[Paul P.]

Hi Spud

Sry mate just caught up with this, a great figure and my sort of scale aswell, looking forward to seeing this come together

Paul

[itsonlyakit]

Have the same kit in my unbuilt stash, will be watching. Good photos, keep them coming.

[spud]

Paul an it thanks guys

[Return_To_Kit_Form]

Gday Spud, I just pulled this same kit out of the stash and started cleanup and assembly. Sorry but I am going to have to blatantly steal the upside down shadow technique.

Have you done any more on this?

Cheers,

Brett

[Leon]

Count me in Spud,that is a cool looking figure.

[bbd468]

Spud! What happened to this guy, he skip town on ya? Would love to see this one get some bench time soon.

[wbill76]

Looking good so far Spud, nice shading trick with the upside-down-45-degree-angle approach. Now if only I had a third hand to make that kind of manipulation possible on a tank build!

[dupes]

Oooooh, very interesting. I have a couple of the 1/16 Tamiya figs (but not this one, unfortunately) that I'd love to get painted up.

Like the look of the shading technique - but I'm not quite visualizing it in my head. 45 degree angle in relation to what with the airbrush?

[Return_To_Kit_Form]

Hopefully Spud will chime in on this, but I imagine you would paint at a 45 degree dow angle, 360 degrees around.

If you had the extra bench time we could have a 1/16th figurw duel Dupes. :-)

Cheers,

Brett

[Steve Zuleski]

Here I am, late for supper again Spud, great start, standing by for more!

Cheers, Ski.