Great work with the figures for not being a figure painter, the camo pattern is very difficult but finally put in place, the skin of both guys looks natural, you are in the way, Rick!!!
it is amazing the dedication you give to each project the fact of looking for all of them in the skins with photo shop is something that would never have occurred to me congratulations
Hey Bryan...thanks. The color sampling was essential to me for me to figure out the skin tones - at least without a lot of trial and error. Thanks for following and your continued encouragement.
I'll tell you what, I have been looking at the photos of these figures and I assumed you had just sourced some nice ones from a company I had never come across because I agree, trying to find modern era African figures (in any scale really) is quite difficult or expensive. I love the Bravo 6 figures and I'd seen the two you used before and I never would have guessed so I think you nailed the conversion and painting 100%! Love the photoshop color swatch tip too. Always interesting seeing the real color vs. the color our mind "knows" it is. I do this a lot with 2D oil and gouache painting but never thought to really use it a lot in scale modeling. I want to do something where highlights in the "sun" are warm and "shadows" are cool colors someday... See you next week!
You made a good point. There are very few figures available of black soldiers, hence we don't often see well-painted blacks in our hobby. Yours look great! Brilliant idea sampling the colors in Photoshop.
LOVE the idea of selecting colors from Photoshop. Seems a great way to grab specific colors for some of the more complicated subjects. Wouldn't have thought gray of being a good highlight but, it works great. Looks like you nailed the camo as well. I may try to incorporate the same technique for future builds.
Great job as usual ,in future tutorials could you provide brush sizes you are using for some they can pick it visually but I'm not ones of them lol. Have a great day ✌Canada✌
Hi James. For sure, I'll try to remember the brushes. As for these figures, most of the work is done using #1 or #2 rounds, either Davinci 7 or 502 Abteilung. Occasionally, such as the eyes, I will use #0 round. Thanks for watching.
Incredible work! Your vids are so cathartic...... The only comment is..."I am color blind and it sucks".... Been building armor for years....just can't do figures..... Peace!
Wow Rick, needless to say those guys look incredible!😧 Clever how you used photoshop to gauge the colour palette, really paid off. And the camo clothing no doubt painstakingly slow, looks cool…… Definitely a great edition to the finished dio. Smart video, well done! 👌
May I ask you how you set up your camera focus for recording this? Automatic or manual? I struggle to keep the focus where I need it or in manual, keep my hands where they should be.🤔
Hi, of course you can ask...happy to help. The camera is on Auto. What I have learned to do, and it is still not perfect, is to set the model in place and then set the focus point. The camera will then follow and refocus automatically within reason, but it still often looses focus or focuses on something different if there is a lot of movement. The trick is to try and keep the subject stationary during the shot as best as possible. It makes for a bit of tougher modeling, but helps to keep the images clearer. Please feel free to contact me directly if you have further questions.
@@RickLawlerPropaganda thanks a lot for that🙏 nice to hear that the good guys like you fight the same battle with the focus😁 well, I guess I have to find a position that is comfortable and working for the camera. It really makes the painting more stressful when you constantly hearing the focus working😁 but seems like I have to get through this until I find a good position. Thanks a lot for your offer, I will do if I have more questions 🙏
Great job, I think you need to give yourself more credit They look fantastic I too struggle with figures This may be a silly question but may I ask how one gets the transitions between the base, highlights, and shadows to be so seamless When I try doing it it just looks like a bunch of different colors next to each other Even using AK gen 3 specific skin tones
Thanks, Petr. I think that the trick in achieving those smooth transitions is finding the medium color between the highlight and shadow colors, and then application of the zone with highly thinned paints. Build up the transition slowly. That's the idea anyway, but that doesn't mean that I have the technique yet. Cheers.
Hi, I'm using a Nikon D5600 for video and still photos. I have a video on the channel whereby I describe my photo set-up, including the camera. Thanks.
Very nice job on the figures. I think you are way too harsh on yourself. They look very good. One thing you can use for smoothing epoxy like Magic Sculpt, is dapening a brush with Lacq thinner after you have done wrinkels etc. It smoothens better than water.
Thanks for the encouragement....and thank you very much for the tip on using the lacquer thinner for smoothing!!! I'll give that a try next time for sure.
I hope not to hear any more “I’m not a figure painter.” I think you did a fantastic job on your figures especially the skin tones and had no idea you could turn Photo Shop into a color palette. Painting black skin is like painting an all black subject like a SR-71 where shadows and highlights are a big challenge. Don’t be your own harshest critic. There is no need!
They look great. One thing. They need to be a little dusty. Especially boots knees and butt. Kneeling and sitting down gets you all kinds of dusty. I've been there. Lol
RICK! That color palette sampling in Photoshop was genius.
Thanks!
Great work with the figures for not being a figure painter, the camo pattern is very difficult but finally put in place, the skin of both guys looks natural, you are in the way, Rick!!!
Thanks a lot!
AS usual Rick, you're in a league of your own. Every time i see your work, not only are you humble but its inspiring as well
Thanks, again.
it is amazing the dedication you give to each project the fact of looking for all of them in the skins with photo shop is something that would never have occurred to me congratulations
Thank you! I'm glad that you find these videos helpful.
Excellent work man! Those skin tones turned out really well for a first time crack at it. 👌🏻
Thanks a ton!
👌
Like the Photoshop color sampling for the skin and uniforms and the Apoxy Sculpt for sea s and hair. Those figures look amazing.
Hey Bryan...thanks. The color sampling was essential to me for me to figure out the skin tones - at least without a lot of trial and error. Thanks for following and your continued encouragement.
Superb work on the buildings and very educational, thank you...
Glad you enjoyed it
Fantastic figures! Inspiring!
Glad you like them!
Well done, Rick! Nice skin tones effect.
Thank you kindly!
I'll tell you what, I have been looking at the photos of these figures and I assumed you had just sourced some nice ones from a company I had never come across because I agree, trying to find modern era African figures (in any scale really) is quite difficult or expensive. I love the Bravo 6 figures and I'd seen the two you used before and I never would have guessed so I think you nailed the conversion and painting 100%! Love the photoshop color swatch tip too. Always interesting seeing the real color vs. the color our mind "knows" it is. I do this a lot with 2D oil and gouache painting but never thought to really use it a lot in scale modeling. I want to do something where highlights in the "sun" are warm and "shadows" are cool colors someday... See you next week!
Thanks, Chris. I hope that you are all doing well.
@@RickLawlerPropaganda thanks Rick!
Now I am waiting for the next episode 😆
Soon!!! Thanks for watching.
Figures look ace,I rarely paint figures, way beyond my skill levels 😁👌
Thanks, Tim.
You made a good point. There are very few figures available of black soldiers, hence we don't often see well-painted blacks in our hobby. Yours look great! Brilliant idea sampling the colors in Photoshop.
Thank you. Hopefully the selection of black figure examples expands, as it would open so many important options in modeling.
LOVE the idea of selecting colors from Photoshop. Seems a great way to grab specific colors for some of the more complicated subjects. Wouldn't have thought gray of being a good highlight but, it works great.
Looks like you nailed the camo as well. I may try to incorporate the same technique for future builds.
Glad it was helpful!
Great done. Rare to see that colour of skin on figures, You resolved it great! Looks very good! All the best for You! ;)
Thank you very much!
Painting those figures was brilliant 👏
Thank you so much 😀
Impressive work on the camo and skin tones...Cracking job!
Thank you! Cheers!
They look fantastic. Love the Photoshopping for colours...I'm gonna use that for my Fury figures. Thanks Rick 👍🏽👊🏽
Very welcome. Good luck with your figs.
I have a photo of one of these soldiers wearing his helmet on backwards! Great ideas here.
Thanks, Dan
Great work mate, as usual
Thank you! Cheers!
Figures… My kryptonite as well! Good job so far Rick
Thanks, Glenn. Some make it look so easy....if only!!
Nice work Rick! You are getting better with each one! Keep up the great work!
Thanks 👍
Really nice channel, like your videos and book a lot
Thank you very much!
Great job as usual ,in future tutorials could you provide brush sizes you are using for some they can pick it visually but I'm not ones of them lol. Have a great day ✌Canada✌
Hi James. For sure, I'll try to remember the brushes. As for these figures, most of the work is done using #1 or #2 rounds, either Davinci 7 or 502 Abteilung. Occasionally, such as the eyes, I will use #0 round. Thanks for watching.
Incredible work! Your vids are so cathartic...... The only comment is..."I am color blind and it sucks".... Been building armor for years....just can't do figures..... Peace!
Sorry about the Color Blindness...that would make it more difficult for sure.
Wow Rick, needless to say those guys look incredible!😧
Clever how you used photoshop to gauge the colour palette, really paid off. And the camo clothing no doubt painstakingly slow, looks cool…… Definitely a great edition to the finished dio. Smart video, well done! 👌
Glad you enjoyed it. Thank you.
Real good job , thinking of getting those AK paints myself....I take it they brush paint OK with a wet pallet ?
John, the Gen 3 paints are for excellent brush painting, the wet palette provides longer working times. Thanks for watching.
May I ask you how you set up your camera focus for recording this? Automatic or manual? I struggle to keep the focus where I need it or in manual, keep my hands where they should be.🤔
Hi, of course you can ask...happy to help. The camera is on Auto. What I have learned to do, and it is still not perfect, is to set the model in place and then set the focus point. The camera will then follow and refocus automatically within reason, but it still often looses focus or focuses on something different if there is a lot of movement. The trick is to try and keep the subject stationary during the shot as best as possible. It makes for a bit of tougher modeling, but helps to keep the images clearer. Please feel free to contact me directly if you have further questions.
@@RickLawlerPropaganda thanks a lot for that🙏 nice to hear that the good guys like you fight the same battle with the focus😁 well, I guess I have to find a position that is comfortable and working for the camera. It really makes the painting more stressful when you constantly hearing the focus working😁 but seems like I have to get through this until I find a good position. Thanks a lot for your offer, I will do if I have more questions 🙏
Great job, I think you need to give yourself more credit
They look fantastic
I too struggle with figures
This may be a silly question but may I ask how one gets the transitions between the base, highlights, and shadows to be so seamless
When I try doing it it just looks like a bunch of different colors next to each other
Even using AK gen 3 specific skin tones
Thanks, Petr. I think that the trick in achieving those smooth transitions is finding the medium color between the highlight and shadow colors, and then application of the zone with highly thinned paints. Build up the transition slowly. That's the idea anyway, but that doesn't mean that I have the technique yet. Cheers.
Great job. what kind of camera do you use?
Hi, I'm using a Nikon D5600 for video and still photos. I have a video on the channel whereby I describe my photo set-up, including the camera. Thanks.
What is he using to keep the paint wet?
I am using a wet palette to keep the paints wet.
Very nice job on the figures. I think you are way too harsh on yourself. They look very good. One thing you can use for smoothing epoxy like Magic Sculpt, is dapening a brush with Lacq thinner after you have done wrinkels etc. It smoothens better than water.
Thanks for the encouragement....and thank you very much for the tip on using the lacquer thinner for smoothing!!! I'll give that a try next time for sure.
@@RickLawlerPropaganda My pleasure. I got the advice from Calvin Tan so I am more than happy to pass it on 👍🏻
I hope not to hear any more “I’m not a figure painter.” I think you did a fantastic job on your figures especially the skin tones and had no idea you could turn Photo Shop into a color palette. Painting black skin is like painting an all black subject like a SR-71 where shadows and highlights are a big challenge. Don’t be your own harshest critic. There is no need!
Thanks, Lawerence. Yes, I can be my hardest...and I'm sure that you share the same. I really appreciate your perspective and support.
They look great. One thing. They need to be a little dusty. Especially boots knees and butt. Kneeling and sitting down gets you all kinds of dusty. I've been there. Lol
Good point! Thanks.