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WW1 Aircraft Modeling => WW1 Aviation Figures => Topic started by: Flip Hendrickx on November 17, 2014, 07:23:07 AM

Title: Wing cockpit RFC pilot
Post by: Flip Hendrickx on November 17, 2014, 07:23:07 AM
Hi all,

Last week in Telford, I've picked up several Wing cockpit figurines.
And I couldn't resist starting work on one of them of course :-)

This is the RFC pilot, sculpted by Benoit Cauchies.
This figurine is a pure joy to paint!
I'm using Life Color acrylics.

The head is done, now on to the rest of the body :-)

(http://users.telenet.be/solar/RFCPilot1.jpg)

(http://users.telenet.be/solar/RFCpilot2.jpg)

grtz

Flip
Title: Re: Wing cockpit RFC pilot
Post by: Des on November 17, 2014, 07:33:30 AM
Beautifully done Flip, the painting on the face is extremely well done, looking forward to seeing the rest of the figure painted.

Des.
Title: Re: Wing cockpit RFC pilot
Post by: stefanbuss on November 20, 2014, 07:30:47 PM
Flip,

this is again very imressive painting of leather. Did you use the same approach that you explained for us on your leather seats?

Stefan
Title: Re: Wing cockpit RFC pilot
Post by: RAGIII on November 20, 2014, 07:58:46 PM
That is a beautiful start to painting this figure! The face looks outstanding as does the flying helmet!
RAGIII
Title: Re: Wing cockpit RFC pilot
Post by: jknaus on November 21, 2014, 01:10:20 AM
That is a fantastic face. My biggest issue with painting figures is the skin tones. Beautiful work.
James
Title: Re: Wing cockpit RFC pilot
Post by: Flip Hendrickx on November 21, 2014, 01:29:53 AM
Thx guys!
@Stefan: yes indeed. I've used the same techniques for the leather cap.
@James:
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My biggest issue with painting figures is the skin tones.
Do you mean you find it difficult to select the right tones?  Life color sells a skin color set, that contains 6 skin tones (base color, lights & shadows)

Grtz

Flip
Title: Re: Wing cockpit RFC pilot
Post by: Des on November 21, 2014, 07:03:34 AM
Thanks for the tip on the Life Colour skin tone set, this sounds like the right place to start.

Des.
Title: Re: Wing cockpit RFC pilot
Post by: WarrenD on November 21, 2014, 09:43:24 AM
As others have mentioned, that's a beautiful job you've done so far on the figure Flip.

Could one of y'all direct me to a thread where Flip explains how he does leather seats?

Thanks!

Warren
Title: Re: Wing cockpit RFC pilot
Post by: RAGIII on November 21, 2014, 10:32:06 AM
As others have mentioned, that's a beautiful job you've done so far on the figure Flip.

Could one of y'all direct me to a thread where Flip explains how he does leather seats?

Thanks!

Warren

Here you go Warren:

http://forum.ww1aircraftmodels.com/index.php?topic=4367.0

RAGIII
Title: Re: Wing cockpit RFC pilot
Post by: WarrenD on November 21, 2014, 10:46:13 AM
Thanks!

Warren