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.

The perfect sculpture!

On Sunday the 26Th of July our daughter was born! We are very happy and proud to finally hold her in our arms. Of Course we hadn't much sleep the last days but this will get better. Mother and daughter are doing great!
Noa weights 3200 gram and is 49 cm long, a beauty!!

As you expect I didn't had time to do modelling these days but when everything is settled down I will continue of course.

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.

Finished the face

The progress on this figure is a bit slowed down due to the other projects I'm currently working on. But I found a bit of time and here is a little update.
I wasn't satisfied about the color of the eyes so I have redone them.
Also did a bit more blending on the cheeks and a bit toning of the hair.
And I worked on the breast plate of the figure, it still needs a bit more deep shadow. At the moment I'm painting the pattern on the jacket but I'm not very satisfied how it looks. So maybe I'm going to change it.

Here some photos.

Marcel.

Update Templar Knight

I went a week on vacation and took this figure and a few bottles of paint with me. And started painting the white surecoat. This time I was aiming for a bit different color than I had done in the other figures before. For the base a mixture of white, green and brown were used. Highlights done with more off-white and shadows with more brown and black. Most of the blending is done on the front of the figure, the back still needs some additional blending. Next steps will be finishing the white surcoat, face and chainmail.

Marcel.

Starting with the details

The last days I had some time to sculpt a bit more on this figure. So I lengthen the backside of the jacket a little because it was a bit on the short side. And I started adding details on the front and backside of the figure. I wanted to try out different putties so the details were done using duro and milliput. The next steps will be adding more details and adding the belts to the figure.

Marcel.