Some more pictures

On the timeline forum I found a link with photos from Project Girona 1809-2009 made by Fernando Ruiz. There are a lot of photos of all the figures that are exhibited. Well worth visiting.
Here is the link:Photos Girona by Fernando Ruiz

Here are few of these photos with some more entries for Project Girona.
The figure from Jesus Gamarra from a different angle from were you can see the beautiful painted floor.

The figure is sculpted and painted by Joan Masferer

The figure was sculpted by master A.Iotti and painted by J.Masferrer. A beautiful piece!

Another entry but I have no idea who are the sculptor and painter.

This figure was painted by J.Gamarra and is also the boxart. The sculpture is from M.Saez.

This figure is painted by F.Ayala.

This entry is apparently still not there but I found it on the cusachs blog. It's sculpted by Andrea Iotti and painted by Hernandez.

Cheers,
Marcel.

Exposition Girona 1809-2009

After I finished the two pieces for project Girona I didn't do much modelling these weeks. I went with the family on some holidays and recovered from the lack of sleep and stress. The figures were brought to the exposition about 200th anniversary of the war against Napoleon. And now my figures are standing between the others figures of master sculptors and painters. Not all the pieces did arrive yet but I took some pictures of the ones that were there. I was very happy to see my figures standing there, although they are not the top quality as others there. But creating original figures was something I always wanted to achieve. This are my first two, still a lot to learn but it was a great experience. Time to make some more figures. Here are the photos:

A stock figure of Art-Girona moddeled by M.Saez and painted by J.Masferrer, J.Pelegrin and F.Ruiz who did also some coversion on his figure.


The figure was sculpted and painted by Lydie Queyroi. A beautiful figure!


Another masterpiece sculpted by J.Avila painting by L.Esteban


This beautiful figure was sculpted and painted by master J.Gamarra.


Here a picture from my husar de San Narciso.


And the second figure from me on the right. The same figure on the left is sculpted by R.Garcia Latorre and painted by Joan Masferrer.

This figure was sculpted and painted by G.Giordana


Here the second creation of Jesus Gamarra.


This is also a stock figure from Art-Girona painted by J.Gamarra and F.Ayala who did also some conversion work.


And the last one of the serie which was sculpted and painted by master R.Navarro.

I made some more pictures but they are on my other camera.

Cheers,
Marcel.

Husar de San Narciso finished

And the second figure for project Girona is also finished. I resculpted the flag in one that is hanging. And also changed the type of stones of the wall. The paintjob was done in record time for me of three weeks. I still wanted to change some small changes but there was simple no time left and the two figures are on the way to the exposition. Well here are the pictures of the figure placed on the basework.

Cheers,
Marcel.

Dragoon finished

Finally the dragoon is finished. I added the sword and painted the socks and some details that were missing. I also added some dust on the boots and other parts of the figure like the elbows. The wood and stones of the basework also recieved some paint and now he is ready to go to the exposition.

Cheers,
Marcel.

Figure almost finished

The figure is almost finished now. Yesterday evening I increased the contrast on the white because I was feeling there was a not enough contrast. I also painted the boots and the rest of the laces. Now it's time to glue the figure together and mount it on its base. Add the last details and do some touch ups on the paintwork were the parts are glued together. And the last thing to paint is the flag. Not much time left so this has to go fast. Hopefully I won't break anything during mounting or damage the paintwork. Wouldn't be the first time. I keep my fingers crossed. Here are the pictures of the painted figure.

Cheers,
Marcel.

Update on the Hussar

The last two weeks I spend almost every available hour on painting the figure painting until late in the evening. When it's finished I'm going to sleep for a week. By now I finished the face and are almost done with the white jacket and brown trousers. Now I have to paint the boots the blue collar and his sword and glue the piece together. Yesterday I also spend some time in painting the base work. Still a lot of work to do but I keep my fingers crossed hopping to finish it in time.

Cheers,
Marcel.

Husar face almost done!

I primed the figure and started painting the face first as I usual do. First I added all the rough highlights and shadows and afterwards these were blended together. The colors I used for the face are brown sand, basic skin tone, burnt cad. red and some brown rose, red and black. Still some work has to be done on the ears and hair. And some little beard grown on the chin has to be added. Here are the two first pictures of the face.
After this I will work on the white shirt. This is always a difficult color to get right. But hopefully I can find some time to paint and I don't run into to many problems and show some new progress pictures soon.

Cheers,
Marcel.

Husar de San Narciso 1809

Here are the pictures of the second sculpture for Project Girona which is finally finished. It's the Husar de San Narciso 1809. For this one only a pair of legs, sword and a head was used.
The rest was sculpted from Magic Sculp and Duro.
The braid work was a lot of work with all the small details but it was fun to do. I tried out some different sculpting tools and I learned a lot from this figure which I will use for my next sculptures.

Now I have to hurry with the painting because there are only a few weeks left.
So this will be my fastest paint job ever!

Cheers,
Marcel.

Almost done!

The last weeks I didn't had a lot of time to model but I found some hours to spend on the figure. The painting is almost done now only have to do the lower part of the legs with boots some detail work and the sword. After that some weathering of the boots and painting of the base work. Here are some pictures of the front and back of the figure. I hope to find some time to finish it soon.

Cheers,
Marcel.

Dragoon painting update

The face and the bearskin are almost finished now, only some minor corrections are needed. Furthermore I have painted the green basecolor on the jacket and roughly the highlights and shadows. Also the red and yellow colored parts are painted. Now I'm in the process of blending the highlights and shadows, adding some small folds here and there and do the outlining. This is always time consuming but worth the effort in the end. Here are some pictures of the front and back.

Cheers,
Marcel.

Starting to paint the Dragoon

I started with the paintjob on the Dragoon and this is a picture of a very early stage. Most blending work was done on the face, this time I used besides my usual mixtures some additional filters of some red and pinkish colors. Still have to do some corrections on the skin and eyes. And I have to paint the hair, lips and ears. The rest of the colors are just basecoated with some highlights except of the bearskin. The next steps are to finish the face and adding shadows of the other colors and start blending them.

Cheers,
Marcel.

First sculpture finished

It's already a long time I didn't update my blog because a chronically lack of time. Our second child is expected very soon so everything needs to be ready.
I have finished the first sculpture. Everyday I'm discovering more and more flaws and it's far from perfect. But I'm still improving and hopefully one day create something good. For this one I used a lot of parts from different models which caused in the end some troubles in the position of the figure. The body and hat are from art-girona figures and the face is a spare from pegaso. Still have to add the sword but this will be done in the end. The figure is now primed and I started painting the face and hat.
Here is the a picture from the sculpture, it's a bit out of focus. But don't have a better one available right now.

Cheers,
Marcel.

Project Girona 1809-2009

The last weeks there isn't much progress on the figures I was already working on. This is because I'm working also on this project Girona 1809-2009. And this requires more and more modelling time.

This year is the 200th anniversary of the war against Napoleon. Therefore several events are organized this year including this project were a figure has to be sculpting and painted following one of the thirty drawings about the Napoleonic wars made by french modeller Michael Saez. More information can be found on the El Baluard website. (only in Spanish or Catalan).

I chose two figures, the first is a French Brigadier from the 24 regiment dragoons 1809. This will be mainly a conversion of an existing Art-Girona figure were some sculpting work has to be done on changing the positions of the arms and legs.


The second figure I will do is the Husar of San Narciso 1808. Here a pare of spare legs and a spare head are used were the rest of the figure will be scratch build.

Both figures are still in the constructing phase and more or less 60% finished. This is taking up a lot of the time because I'm still learning to sculpt want to produce something decent. I hope to finish them before the end of the month were after the painting process will start. I will not show any in-progress photo's. A step by step will be probably released together with the work of the other modellers in a book or on a DVD by El Baluard. So back to the workbench.

Cheers,
Marcel.