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Post by Steve Ski on Sept 8, 2018 10:29:29 GMT -6
Thx Gents. It's relaxing, just like sniffin paint and gluin them fingers together.  |
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Post by Steve Ski on Oct 10, 2018 20:13:38 GMT -6
Almost ready to power up the bunker, but here's the last major project for the summer, now that we are almost in winter, lol.
Needless to say the Mrs. is pretty happy with her garden pergola. I'll add fencing along both sides of the gasrden to close it out properly, but for now, we are done. Next up, firewood. Ya, a bit late, but better late than never, HA!
Cheers, Ski. |
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Post by BUCKY on Oct 10, 2018 21:51:59 GMT -6
That is absolutely impressive!!
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Post by Steve Ski on Oct 11, 2018 10:45:37 GMT -6
Thx Bucky. I'm just glad it's finally done.
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Post by BUCKY on Oct 11, 2018 11:16:06 GMT -6
I may borrow that idea for my yard!! LoL
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Post by Steve Ski on Oct 11, 2018 20:03:15 GMT -6
I may borrow that idea for my yard!! LoL Wood magazine issue #226, July 2014. Excellent well thought out plans, easy to follow. And, yur wife will love ya for it! |
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Post by JED on Oct 12, 2018 10:40:33 GMT -6
Very impressive but I can't see any sentry/look out positions either side of the gate!!😬
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Post by Steve Ski on Oct 12, 2018 20:09:05 GMT -6
Very impressive but I can't see any sentry/look out positions either side of the gate!!😬 No need for sentry duty. Got wild running dogs, claymores, and huge motion activated spot lights. The moles and groundhogs don't stand a chance, HA! |
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Post by JED on Oct 12, 2018 21:28:04 GMT -6
Very impressive but I can't see any sentry/look out positions either side of the gate!!😬 No need for sentry duty. Got wild running dogs, claymores, and huge motion activated spot lights. The moles and groundhogs don't stand a chance, HA! 😂😂😂😂 |
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Post by JCON on Oct 12, 2018 22:04:32 GMT -6
Beautiful work as usual Ski!!! |
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Post by Steve Ski on Oct 13, 2018 20:21:53 GMT -6
Thx Joe!
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Post by BUCKY on Oct 14, 2018 11:39:24 GMT -6
Very impressive but I can't see any sentry/look out positions either side of the gate!!😬 No need for sentry duty. Got wild running dogs, claymores, and huge motion activated spot lights. The moles and groundhogs don't stand a chance, HA! Ya left out the wire activated machine guns!!! LOL How wide is the gate opening? |
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Post by Steve Ski on Oct 15, 2018 10:40:55 GMT -6
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Post by BUCKY on Oct 15, 2018 11:40:20 GMT -6
Thanks for the info, Steve. We all kitbash and modify/customize, anyway, so the instructions are just somebody else's suggestion!! LOL
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Post by JCON on Oct 15, 2018 13:40:35 GMT -6
Isn't that the truth Bucky!!! |
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Post by Dukemaddog on Oct 15, 2018 15:46:53 GMT -6
Remarkable work Ski! What a beautiful fence arrangement. Makes me wish I had a yard to put something like that in.
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Post by Steve Ski on Oct 31, 2018 14:22:30 GMT -6
Ok Gents, the bunker has been cranked up to full power and we are in business once again, it's been a long summer.
In this section of the blog I'll be covering Alpine's 1/16th scale German U-Boat Watch Officer, kit #16036. Now, yall may remember I've already done this figure for Track-link, exclusive build. Well, I paid for this Watch Officer to go with Alpine's 1/16th scale German U-Boat Captain, kit # 16021, which I did not pay for. So, the Watch Officer in this blog and the Captain will appear in the final pics for this particular blog, the Gun Deck. Basically, since I paid for it, I post as I please, right? Right! The Captain will "not" be a feature in this blog except for the final pics. Clear as mud, I know, HA!
Here we have the motley crew all together.
Now, what you did not see, unless you visited my blog on TL, was the method used to paint the face specifically. I ran across a young lady's work on YT showing how she blends oils and starts from a basic grey background and produces some incredible work. So much so that I've used it to paint the Captain's face exclusively, with better than expected results. That partial head painted you see on the right was painted as a test run for this method. The pretty young lady's name is Daria Callie. She's very well known in the portrait community and she has several videos you can use to perfect your techniques. I had to go through the videos once again to get back into the swing of things, so to speak, after a long summer season.
A frontal view showing the flesh tones blended without a base tone. The pics are a bit glossy, but oils will dull after a few days. There's still plenty to work over on this head, but for right now, he's looking pretty good for starters. I painted this head in just over four hours, that's a first! I plan to nail this method down hard, it works too well to just let it get rusty in the ol cabesa.
The eyes will be worked a bit more, plus blending more tones/values into the surrounding upper cheek and below the eyes, etc.
After a few days I will go over the beard to get it dialed in. The lips will be worked a bit more too. As you can see, the gloss from the oils makes it difficult to really see all the detail, but they will become more apparent after the Dull Coat.
At any rate, it's been one heck of a long summer and I'm glad to be back in the bunker. The only thing stopping me now is plowing snow, and that ain't so bad, HA!
Thanks for watching, more to follow soon. Cheers, Ski.
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Post by JCON on Oct 31, 2018 15:24:23 GMT -6
Welcome back to the bunker fella!!! Good to see ya painting again!!! Ruck on bro!!! |
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Post by Steve Ski on Oct 31, 2018 18:43:22 GMT -6
Thx Ma Brotha. A good scrum every now and again is a good thing!
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Post by BUCKY on Oct 31, 2018 22:27:49 GMT -6
Nice work ya got there, bro!
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