Celt finished

After some intensive painting weeks and the last night working until two o'clock I finished this figure.

The ground work gave me some troubles and frustration in the end because of the absence of an airbrush. But I managed more or less. The eyes of the figure were corrected another time because I wasn't satisfied with the look. The design on the shield took quiet some hours but I'm satisfied with the result. I'm happy that it's finished. I learned a lot and hope to make some improvements with my next figure. Now it's time to continue with my other projects, back to sculpting and painting.

Cheers,

Marcel.

Starting the shield

During the last two days I made a start with the most difficult and time consuming part. The Celtic pattern on the shield. As shield color a I choose for a dark green color. The highlights and shadows were added and after that I painted the yellow pattern on the shield with a yellow/brown color. The next step is defining more the pattern and correct the mistakes. 

I also did some more work on the figure. I added shadows to the helmet, painted the collar and did a bit more work on the hair. Furthermore most of the blend work for the trousers is also done. Now I have to finish the skin part and continue with the sword and axe. Here some pictures of the figure.

Cheers,

Marcel.

Painting the trousers

Here another update on the Celt. After Euro I started painting again. I'm still not finished blending the upper body of the figure but to do something different I started blocking in the highlights and shadows of the trousers. Now I have to blend everything nicely together what always is the most time consuming. The highlights are done with brown yellow and the shadows with cobalt blue and black. Here some pictures of the current status.

Cheers,
Marcel.

More paintwork done

The last days I managed to get some more work done on the Celt. I did some corrections to the eyes and face and did some more blending on the upper torso. Still a bit of more work to do here. I also started painting his hair and moustache but I'm not completely satisfied with the final color. For the trousers I wanted something colorful and my wife came up with this base color. The next steps are adding the highlights and shadows. For the shield a green color was decided and some Celtic symbols will appear on the front. Hopefully I can show it in the next update.

Cheers,
Marcel.

Painting the Celt

I finished sculpting the Celt and I'm now busy getting the paintwork done. As always something has to happen and also this time. The figure fell on the table and the hand with axe broke off. So I had to remodel the hand and wrist and finshed the last details. After this the figure was primed and I started painting the face. First I applied two layers of brown sand and then I started applying the highlights and shadows. The next step was blending all the layers. The same has been done for the upper body but here I still have to do a lot of blending. Here are some pictures of the current status.

Cheers,
Marcel.

Sculpting Celt almost done

The last two weeks I spend most of my model time on this figure. Because I wanted to get it finished. Except from sculpting a few details it practically done. I still have to sculpt the thumb on the right hand, the straps for the sword, a pigtail, and do some little corrections here and there. When finished sculpting The figure will be primed and painted. I can´t wait to pickup the brushes again.

Cheers,

Marcel.

Some necessary corrections

I had to made some corrections to this figure so there isn't much progress lately. The legs of the figure ended up a few millimeter too long so it was looking a bit out of proportion compared to the upper body part. So  a few millimeter from the feed were removed and the basic shape for the shoes and lower part of the legs were re sculpted. Now I can finish the folds on the trousers and remodel the shoes. I also made a start with the hand and added the shield, axe and sword to the figure.

Cheers,

Marcel.

Celt

Here another figure I started a while ago. I wanted to see if I could sculpt the human body and a half naked Celt warrior was a perfect subject for this. First a wire frame was created and then the body was build up using Magic Sculp. The pose I took from an Osprey issue but isn't very original because most available figures have a raised hand. But instead of the usual sword I'm going for a axe in his raised hand and a shield in the other. A spare head was used with some adjustments. The upper body is more or less finished, the trousers still need a lot of work.

Cheers,

Marcel.