Hey hey, first “speed painting” which for me seems to be a crappy painting finished quickly…

Started in CS3, moved to PainterX for oils and such and finished back in PS.

1hr painting plus 20 seconds to write this, lots of fun!

So much for being “95%” sure of that scheme… just something not right so I did some more finger painting until I hit this one, much happier and this is the one… I guess…

Trying something a little new for me, I’ve tried combining the hand painting with an airbrush for both speed and interest in the finish. Learning much of this from the 2D artwork I’m doing but also from hitting my head on the wall, I added a very rough base with color variations and then used the airbrush to “glaze” on the main color coats in such a way as to use the base as a ground for both color, light and dark and for texture as well. I realised that my brushwork was most important in the foundation levels of the paint and that I was then mostly doing “manual airbrushing” by hand brush that is, for the final coats. Which is not efficient because we clever humans already have a nifty tool for that, the airbrush. All over a Mr. Color Mahogany base coat from a rattle can.

So a harmonious approach to the styles of Japan and the West, I’ve tried this and the results seem reasonably good.

The Horror!

The Relief!

A quick sketch around with a pencil for guidelines on the camo and then brushed on lightly with Mr. Color RLM66 Black Grey, outlined and filled in with a large brush and then smoothed over with the airbrush.

Some tidy up and preliminary highlights and shadows, still sketching out the overall color and greyscale balance. Not sure that’s the way to say it but the brightness/darkness.

My plan, mental image for this Falke is for a Factory Finished desert color that has then had a counter shade and ID band applied in the field with some form of inferior paint. Yes, a contrivance to chip and beat the heck out of it.

Almost there, some clear yellow and orange, thanks to Mike Rinaldi’s recent work for that idea, filters of Brown and Tan, enamel pin washes and then some oil fading and streaking.

The Scorch Mark. Well, that’s what that is supposed to be… Ground of lacquer paints, custom mixes of orange, wood color and “interior color”, and off-white for AFV interiors. Next acrylics sponged on, many shades of blue, oranges, yellow and white and finally oils with the same palette but blended and so on. Next some smoke effects with pigments and possibly some metallic pigments from Tamiya.

Ref pic for the scorch mark;

Letting it dry off now and working on a support base with some minimal groundwork, deadline looming!

Thanks for looking and commenting as always.

Lin.K

News News, so much News! Now in the works, a brand new tooling for a Hasegawa release of figures for Maschinen Krieger in 1/20 scale. Fantastic sculptor Mr. Heel Saito is now working on the masters.

Advance artwork now released!

Another concept sketch re-using some of my own work and adding some painted elements and my own photograph stock to depict a small Falke flight in a ground attack role.

Thanks for looking and commenting!

Lin.K

Just realised I had skipped over this part and it’s got new info and technique!

Trying something a little new for me, I’ve tried combining the hand painting with an airbrush for both speed and interest in the finish. Learning much of this from the 2D artwork I’m doing but also from hitting my head on the wall, I added a very rough base with color variations and then used the airbrush to “glaze” on the main color coats in such a way as to use the base as a ground for both color, light and dark and for texture as well. I realised that my brushwork was most important in the foundation levels of the paint and that I was then mostly doing “manual airbrushing” by hand brush that is, for the final coats. Which is not efficient because we clever humans already have a nifty tool for that, the airbrush.

So a harmonious approach to the styles of Japan and the West, I’ve tried this and the results seem reasonably good.