This week's progress.

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Managed to accomplish some refinements to the pattern on the shoulder sleeve throughout this week. Progress is slow but at least it's going somewhere :P

Calvin

More intermittent painting this week

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More definition to the palm pattern on the front left shoulder and sleeve.

Calvin

The "Palm-Tree" pattern Smock

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Snail-paced progress on the "Palm Tree" pattern smock for the past week. Despite my fourth outing with this intricate pattern, I'm nonetheless attempting a refreshed approach by employing primary and secondary colors to concoct my palette; which in tandem to the summer theme, be eventually dominated by saturated warm colors.
Bearing the hallmarks of my "Impressionist phase", notice that the shadows for the smock are rendered with varying warm tones of violet instead of cold shades of dark brown. I'm also in the process of purging pure black from my palette as well; opting for alternative dark colors such as Deep Purple and Maroon.

That's all for now til the weekend arrives.


Calvin

SS-Obersturmführer, Das Reich, Russia 1941

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Over the past fortnight, I laid some garnishing touches to the groundwork with some shrubs before sealing everything with a mist of grey primer.

I proceeded to undercoat the figure with a dark maroon base before assigning the respective base colors. The sculpt of the smock was kept minimally clean so as not to pose to much conflict as I paint the elaborate Palm Tree with Clumps Pattern. I've only managed so far on the rendering of the face during the past week and hopefully I can squeeze in more bench time in the coming weeks.

Calvin

SS- Obersturmführer, Das Reich, Russia 1941

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After numerous distractions and interruptions, I've finally added the final details and christened it onto the groundwork. Here's hoping to move on to the painting this weekend.

cheers,

Calvin

SS- Obersturmführer, Das Reich, Russia 1941

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Here's another quick update on the sculpt. Thanks for all the constructive comments and as you can see some alterations were made. I decided to spread the digits of the left hand for a more natural appearance as the original cupped hand felt rather contrived. Also I had to lengthen the barrel of the Luger as it was almost a scale inch too short. The belt buckle and stick grenade were castings made by Taesung Harmms from my originals. I'm pretty much happy at this point with the overall look of the figure and I do hope to proceed to creating the groundwork as soon as the refinements are in place.

Also completed is a scratch-built 1/16 scale M-16A1 rifle built whilst waiting for my castings to arrive back from Taesung. I almost forgot how painful it was to scratch-build firearms. And yes, there are plans to use it with a figure ;)

Calvin

SS- Obersturmführer, Das Reich, Russia 1941

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Today has provided me with another fruitful progress to the 1/32 sculpt. Sorry to disappoint but there are no plans for this to be a commercial sculpt as this is long overdue single figure commission for a collector I promised a long while back.
Another WW2 German nonetheless; I wanted to depict haugthiness of an SS officer embolden by the successes of Blitzkrieg and the opening stages of Operation Barbarossa.
The clay is still soft at this moment and I reckon I will commence the first round of baking(with the heat gun) when most of the primary folds and surface details are established.
I'm still having some issues with the posing of the hand holding the artillery Luger and judging from the pics I feel that it needs to be slightly angled medially. Apart from that, everything seems to A-ok for now.

cheers,

Calvin