3D Printed Spanish Conquistadors x 2

Started by George R Blair Jr · 54 · 3 weeks ago · 3D print, conquistadors, Spanish
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    Spiros Pendedekas said 3 weeks, 6 days ago:

    Great progress and I like the colors on that pic, my friend @gblair!

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    George R Blair Jr said 3 weeks, 6 days ago:

    Thanks, Spiros (@fiveten). I like the new colors a lot better, and I think the gray primer will work a lot better.

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    John vd Biggelaar said 3 weeks, 6 days ago:

    Colors on the pictures look really nice, George @gblair
    The gray primer will make it easier to create the shown colors .

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    Brian Mennenoh said 3 weeks, 3 days ago:

    @gblair - The image you found looks like a great color scheme for your Conquistador George. Seems very plausible to me.

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    George R Blair Jr said 3 weeks, 3 days ago:

    Hi John (@johnb) and Brian (@brithebuilder): I have been doing some reading and watching of videos on YouTube to get a game plan for painting the figure with oils. Like everything else, the only real way to figure this process out will be to jump in and do it. Practice makes perfect.

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    George R Blair Jr said 3 weeks, 1 day ago:

    I think I have finally settled on the colors for my Conquistador. Under-painting appears to be a technique that isn't used much anymore. I got the idea from a book on figure painting by Shep Paine that was decades old. The newer figure painters all seem to paint the oils directly on the primer. It would seem like a good idea to limit the number of layers of paint you have on the figure so that you don't obscure detail, so I may strip the acrylic under-painting one more time and start with just primer.

    1 attached image. Click to enlarge.

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    Spiros Pendedekas said 3 weeks, 1 day ago:

    Looks great, my friend @gblair! Good idea not to have too many layers one on top of the other.

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    George R Blair Jr said 3 weeks, 1 day ago:

    Thanks, Spiros (@fiveten). I stripped all of the acrylic paint off this afternoon. After I reprime the figure, it will be prime time for oil paints.

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    John vd Biggelaar said 3 weeks, 1 day ago:

    Those colors do look really nice, George @gblair