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Keep up your great work!
Group shot of most of the resin details
I may go on to blackening and working on the metal details tonight, or, I may cut a piece of foam and work on laying the floor boards and ties for the dio base.
I haven't decided yet.
For drums, I like to sponge on a rust colored acrylic. Once dry, give a dirty/dusty wash and let it settle into the nooks.
I'll have a removeable roof Robert, but, they'll never be seen this clearly again, shame.
Great thoughts on colour Bryan, and thank you. I feel the same as you, colour needs to be there but, it needs to be subtle, I try.
Thanks Ken, I'm sure you understand that when 'you get the feeling, the feeling just gets you'.
Thanks Tom, it was a fun piece.
Pick away Chris, I'm only a keystroke away.
Keep in mind, the head is only 1/8" wide and 3/16" high... The face less than that.
I wanted her to appear with her bent head down, and tilted to one side, but also
looking up, so...
I added shadows more to the inside top of her eye sockets and eyelids,
also down the right side of her nose and also darker on her top lip. Giving the
the effect her head was tilted down and to one side.
To enhance this feel/look I painted in the highlights just above her eyebrows,
the bridge of her nose and the point of her chin whilst also adding shadows to
the hair line and beneath her jaw on the neck.
This gave the effect of her head tilted down, this coupled with the highlights I
added to the top of the cheek bones just under the eyes gave a good look.
Now that I had the facial shadows and effects done I worked on the eyes. To get
her appearing to look up and sideways from beneath the now lowered eyelids I painted
the whites of her eyes narrower to appear slightly closed with the lowered lids.
I then painted her pupils closer to the top of the whites, right next to the eyelids, instead
of in the middle, this gives the effect of looking up.
I also painted the pupils slightly off center, in the opposite direction to the way her
head was turned.
Once finished with her eyes, I added shadow under her bottom lip, between her lips and
added a highlight in the middle of her lower lip to enhance the look.
This all combined gave the effect that...
her head is slightly bowed and turned away, but, she is looking up and slightly back at
the viewer through lowered eyes.
Probably more than you wanted to know, but, that was my thought process while doing the face and some of the steps I took.
This super close pic shows the flaws that I need to work on, I do think its great for my first
try.
It was a good learning experience that I'm proud of.
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Well, I didn't do crap on the actual build tonight, life got in the way. Hopefully I'll have some progress tomorrow.
As usual I'm following Brett's direction in the manual on this one so after work tonight I moved the finished details safely over to the other desk behind me and then found some foam for the base. Cut to the specified 14.5"x15.5".
I'm not sure how I'm going to do the landscape yet so I just cut the top layer to this overall size so I can move on with the structure, I'll cut it down as needed later when I decide.
Nothing else to do now but start graining and staining strip wood for the floor, and then on to the roofs...
Jerry
Ps Your work is just outstanding!!
If/When 'the modeling shows' start again in November we're all going to need to get together and buy ourselves a table full of drinks and celebrate together.
Brett, let's have a birthday calendar for everyone
Not much modelling time for the last three days, but I managed to do an hour or two each night to work on the roof panels.
Roofs still only have base boards added as I'm not sure of my final direction yet.
I do like to get all the main components to a point where I can start visualizing, putting them together and planning things out.
Nothing weathered yet or finished, just the basic levels.
Work again tomorrow so no progress, but, plenty of thinking time.
I wanted to go back to how my rigging shed looked and get that kinda feel again.
Jerry
It sure would be nice to sit down with a bunch of the guys and have a beer or two!
I know Karl, Brett and me are up for it!!
Terry