USMC, Battle of Fallujah, Iraq 2004 Ver.2

After much tedious effort, I am glad to call a finish on this bust which I did for a painting demo at Volks, Tokyo last August.  I only managed to cover the painting of the face and partially the Woodland camouflage within the 2 hours-odd demonstration. The remainder of the bust was completed back home.

It was 10 years ago that I first painted this bust from Young Miniatures and it has truly been a refreshing experience to render the MARPAT digital camouflage.

Below is the breakdown of the Vallejo colours used to render the MARPAT camouflage pattern.

Cheers,

Calvin

USMC, Battle of Fallujah, Iraq 2004 Ver.2

A little more progress over this week with only the action doll stuffed in the back pouch left to complete for this practice exercise.

Cheers,

Calvin

USMC, Battle of Fallujah, Iraq 2004 Ver.2

Some progress over the week with the desert MARPAT camouflage. 

Cheers,

Calvin

Painting Demonstration at Volks Akihabara, Tokyo.

Here are some snapshots from my two-hour long painting demonstration using Vallejo Acrylics at Volks, Akihabara in Tokyo on 19 August. Special thanks to the wonderful fellows at Model-Art magazine for organizing this event.

Akihabara Radio Kaikan

The demonstration booth at Volks.

The modest outcome of a two-hour demonstration...

...and a little more work done back home in Singapore.

Cheers,

Calvin

US Marine, Fallujah, Iraq 2004

Once again I'm very privileged to provide a sneak preview of Young Miniature's upcoming 1/9 scale bust. Not an easy assignment I must admit but nonetheless very rewarding due to the quality of the sculpt by Young Bok.
I did felt that the colors for the desert MARPAT pixel camouflage were quite elusive due to the varied lighting conditions from my photographic references. They seem to be either appear grayish or yellowish brown in tones. After some color trials, I decided to cut a tone somewhere in between the Grey and yellow/brown zones. For those keen folks out there, within the next coming weeks or so I'll try to provide an illustrated painting chart to assist those with similar projects.

Finally, thank you for your enthusiastic support and inquiring emails. Please understand that this is a particularly busy time for me and I do have another two more future Alpine Miniatures releases that need my immediate attention ( more of that to follow). Hence, your patience with me is greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

Calvin