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« Reply #50 on: July 20, 2011, 03:54:33 AM » |
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I'm waiting for the bikini edition.
You know, squatting on a beach ball, licking a Zoom ice lolly..
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« Reply #51 on: July 21, 2011, 10:41:15 AM » |
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This thread is already getting pretty OT so I'll throw in my $1.50 worth  I get tired of the whining about Ma.K figures on this forum "we need this, we need that - it's too girlie" ... go look through the galleries here and see how many completed figures there are - hardly any, nearly zilch. With all the BW/Hasegawa/original Nitto figures/Tamiya pit crew out there we are spoiled for choice but who is actually painting them? Oh sure people are buying them, but who's putting them in their builds (no need to answer those questions they are rhetorical)? Why would BW give a shit what we think when there are probably less than 5 of his figs finished by our supposed 1000 members (myself included)? He dd create a male pilot figure and so far, months later, not a single painted one in the gallery - that's a real incentive to do more  . Get creative - if you think a figure is too "girlie" modify it. I don't buy BW figures because I don't believe my painting skills justify a $50 figure - the Hase figures on the other hand work out around $7 a piece, are easy to modify, readily available and superbly detailed. (These are just my thoughts - I'm not targeting anyone and not meaning to cause offence - I also believe everyone is entitled to their opinion about the figures and I'm not trying to stifle discussion ) I use em I just havent had time to work on stuff lately. I've got tons of the BW figs and somt tamiya pit crews that need to be done. |
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« Reply #52 on: July 21, 2011, 07:15:07 PM » |
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Make & Think Like Kow; he made what he wanted because it wasn't available to buy.
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« Reply #54 on: July 23, 2011, 11:21:56 PM » |
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her hair, just amazing!  |
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« Reply #55 on: July 24, 2011, 02:53:28 AM » |
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"Kow has posted up one of these figures on his website ... absolutely superb figure painting skills! http://homepage3.nifty.com/kow/wonder2011summer01.html" I think painting of this figure is okay for a modeller but not great for a figure modeller. Just my thoughts. Gans |
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« Reply #56 on: July 24, 2011, 08:42:00 AM » |
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There is quality and warmth to this figure that I see in very few peoples work. Most figures that are considered "great" are done be it with skill but are cold and don't have character. For painting her up in a "not so, but so" detailed manner I imagine not easy. It takes some skill to achieve that organic but structured look as well as doing it consistently. I consider his work on a whole, so for me if this figure were painted in a hyper-realistic style, it wouldn't be so good. |
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"It's like the first grade, Jerry...nobody likes a crybaby."- Gordon Gekko
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« Reply #57 on: July 24, 2011, 02:04:14 PM » |
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I think it's great, it not the usual painting that you can see in expo or modeling book but i like it.
Kow use a clear primer, the skin color is the resin color, very cleaver.
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« Reply #58 on: July 24, 2011, 02:43:01 PM » |
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I think it's great, it not the usual painting that you can see in expo or modeling book but i like it.
Kow use a clear primer, the skin color is the resin color, very cleaver.
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« Reply #59 on: July 24, 2011, 03:00:04 PM » |
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You're right, Cyril, this is clever, but I'd go as far to say that the BW figures are now casted in this flesh coloured resin for exactly that purpose ! I guess Kow has suggested this to BW ... of course this is just my personal assumption, I'm not in a know of anything, but this question (how to achieve a really realistic flesh tone) has bothered me too for quite a while now !
If you all look at your own skin (use the inside of your hands as a good example) you will notice that your skin colour is not a solid flesh colour, but it is rather translucent, with the lighter parts of it tending towards a pale yellow while those in the "shadow" are more of a flesh or even rosé tint.
Now I guess that Kow (being one of the few true artists) has noticed this long ago and develloped his own solution which imho works pretty well ! And to his style of painting figures : again, he's an artist, and as an artist, my guess is that he focuses on the face and the overall appearence as JSAN noted correctly, and while agree that in certain areas like the clothing or the boots, the figure could probably use some improvement (from a figure painter's point of view), I think the way Kow handled the flesh parts and in particular the female face is second to none !
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« Reply #60 on: July 25, 2011, 03:53:00 AM » |
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Some miniature painters use very light flesh tone as a base color, almost white, and after use transparent colors or ink, it's time consuming but it's possible to achieve a very realistic flesh.
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« Reply #61 on: September 26, 2011, 03:46:07 PM » |
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I got mine from HLJ today. It's very pretty. I don't know if i will have the heart to open it up and build it! |
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« Reply #62 on: September 26, 2011, 05:44:40 PM » |
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The thing I like about Kow's style of painting is that it's HIS style. The net is full of figures painted all pretty much the same, by people trying to achieve the same style which means, to me, they all start blending together and become very boring.
I like seeing a model painted in a way that isn't the same-old-same-old that lots of the other so called big name figure painters do.
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