Painting ModelU Figures - St. Michael's Hill Model Railway Ep. 64
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- Опубликовано: 27 июл 2024
- This week on St. Michael’s Hill I’m trying my hand at painting some figures from Model U that I picked up earlier in the year at the Alexandra Palace show. This certainly not a ‘how to’ guide but just having a look at how I go about painting them.
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This brings back suppressed 40-year old memories of painting HUNDREDS of Airfix HO/OO soldiers- WW1, WW2, Napoleonic, and American Civil War, for wargaming and dioramas. Oh, the tedium. 😁 I just recently bought a pack of Preiser unpainted figures to custom make some friends and colleagues from my trips to Germany. I do not relish the work ahead. 🤣 Nice job, and the bit with your figure on the bridge filming was extremely cool and perfect.
Haha - I can't imagine painting that many. I saw in one of your 2 parts all those war gaming figures that you painted! They looked amazing. Painting figures up to look like your friends and colleagues is an awesome idea!!
@@stmichaelshill7421 It's going to be difficult, the nerve damage and arthritis in my fingers makes it hard to do small stuff. Even my wargaming figurines became hard to do when I finally stopped making them. You can tell the stuff I did in my 30s and early 40s versus the stuff I did in my late 40s. It was good, and fun to play, though.
A very useful tutorial [edit] “demonstration of results” Thanks for sharing; they look great. 👍
Haha, as I said in the video, it's not really a tutorial and there are certainly LOTS of better ones out there! But thank you very much!
St Michael's Hill Hi! Have edited my grammar! Best wishes. Bob
Awesome stuff! With my recent purchase of ModelU figures im keen to paint them. Really nice models they are. Always love seeing how other people go about painting their models as you can always learn something new. Plus I like to see an artist at work. You have done a really nice job at painting these and they look great. Most enjoyable to watch. Clint
Thanks Clint. I saw that you had some, that was part of what made me actually dig them out and get painting! They're great, and the detail really comes through once they've been primed! I'm off to watch your latest video that's been in my Watch Later list for a day or so!
Great job Richard!!! They look awesome! Cheers Onno.
Thanks Onno! I'm pretty pleased with how they've come out
I’ve just subscribed. I think your content is excellent and you seem like a top bloke😀 The figures look super as well👍🏻 Cheers from Holland, Joachim
Thanks very much Joachim! Great to have you on board - hopefully you'll enjoy the future videos. Look forward to chatting with you in the comments!
Well painted, they look fantastic. The colours are so realistic, washes and such bring out great detail and lowlights. Nice stuff Richard.
Thanks Alex! The washes really do bring out the detail. I think that's the bit I'm happiest with. I still think I need work on the basic colouring. But I'll get there, lots of practice required - but the new layout will need lots of people!
@@stmichaelshill7421 I'll try and channel my former warhammer painting days when I come to figures.
These look great Richard, I’ll certainly be paying ModelU a visit when at Warley. I find the biggest difficulty in painting figures is finding the motivation to do them, slow laborious work that has to be done over a couple of evenings to let the previous colour fully dry. Nice tutorial and it’s given me a kick up the backside to do some more figure painting myself. Paul
Cheers Paul. Their figures are great, I keep thinking there is something us RUclipsrs could do with all the scans of each other. If I had to pay for people to populate my layout, it might as well be mini versions of the people that I have met or watch on here. When I went to see Garry from Cheekytek, I knew he had done it and I was half thinking of getting another me made to give as a little gift. Then decided that seemed so egotistical I thought better of it. But I would have loved a mini Garry for mine!
Great job, very good in my opinion, nice one...cheers, Chris
Thanks Chris! I certainly wouldn't be able to do this in N!!!
Very nice! Your little people came out good. I enjoyed your video. Great work👍
Thanks very much! I'm pleased with how they came out and the response that I've been getting from them.
St Michael's Hill you should be pleased. Job well done 👍
Hi I'm not one of those heroes who break something down behind the computer screen, but I want to give you some tips on figure painting, I don't know how I can send you some photos of the results that I get with figure painting, and how far you want to go.
The canvas, or the figures them self, you can't go wrong with Modelu, very big range, these are real people scanned in, and 3D printed, but comes with a prise, specially if you need a crowd.
But there are also others, like the white metal casted victorian and Edwardian figures from AC Stadden, these are sculpted and are top quality, but they are era related and maybe not the thing you want.
But on a budget figures from Dapol are a golden oldie.
The base cote or primer, try to start from a black underground, reason for this, is that the darkest shadows lies in deepest fold, and when you build up layers, that will play into your advantage.
The first parts you start to paint is how you would put close on, so skin first, shirt, jacket and finely tool or suitcase etc..
A trick finding the deepest shadows, hold your figure under a lamp, and the ligtest to the deepest shadows reveal them self
Paints to use, I often see people working with enamel paint, oil paint etc, if you don't care about your health, go ahead, but something tells me that for the most of us health comes first, so leave all these toxic products from your work bench, and work with water based paints and acryl inks.
If you have to do a lot of figures, that often bring the extra dimension to your layout, it's worth while to invest in proper figure paints.
For base coats and washes I use common art materials, aryl black spray can and acrylic inks, don't use common inks, they must be acrylic inks, the color intensity is 10x better.
The paint itself, I've invested in the Andrea color paints specially made for figures.
Each color comes in a set, and consists out of 6 shades, a base, dark shades and light shades.
you first build up from the base to the darkest shade and than to the lightest shades.
These paints are not cheap but last you a life time, I've been using my sets for more than 15 years now, these paints stay good and last you for a few hundred figures.
For super detailing you can used watercolor pencils, these look like your normal color pencil, but when the color is made wet, it's paint.
The advantage is that you can use them dry, wash them out with a wet brush, made wet according the moisture smeer them to water paint.
These are sold as art product from Derwent or specially for modeling from AK, prices wise there is no difference, buying a set is advisable, but you can buy all pencils separate.
Also pigment dust can be used, let say you have a steam engine crew, to imitate the coal dust, this stuf is perfect.
Perhaps this might give you an other inside to painting figure, good luck with you project…
Thanks for the detailed comment. I genuinely do appreciate it as I have lots of the modelU figures that I need to paint fairly soon. If you want to send more details and images my email address is stmichaelshilltrains@gmail.com
Hi. I found this video interesting as I'm considering purchasing Modelu figures to paint myself but I'm unsure as to what make and which colours. I was hoping for a list in the description. You make a nice job of bringing these figures to life.
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I'm not really one for using specific colours I'm afraid. These were just mixed from standard craft acrylics for the most part. I think that some of the skin tones were "flesh" from the Range's selection. Sorry I can't be much more help.
@@stmichaelshill7421 Thanks for your reply. I guess it's trial and error to see what works. I've subscribed 👍
Is there a page where you list your paints, brushes and thinners?
Hi Stephen. Not really I'm afraid. I use a bit of everything, I don't tend to get too stuck to a particular colour shade or brand on anything other than rolling stock colours. I think these were all just acrylics that I mixed up. Sorry I can't be more help.
Hi Richard- Thanks for the video I like the ModelU figures and at GETS I was very tempted to have a scan done but I bottled it !! But I did fancy getting a mini me to ride the footplate !! I also like the Hardy hobbies figures too . Just need the confidence to paint them , I did get the Bachmann pre painted ones as a cop out. I will have a go and did you use Acrylics ? Cheers Kev
Hi Kev! I felt like a bit of a muppet doing the scan, but it's well worth it I think! If you're going to Warley try and get it done. Early in the morning is probably best! I did use acrylics.
Hi Richard- I am not going to Warley but might be going to Peterborough so tempted ……….. And also thanks for the heads up re the paints used. Cheers Kev
Your work is awesome! Dont under rate your work
Thanks Chaz! I appreciate the kind words. I'm always looking to improve, but I will try and see the positives in what I do too!
Hi Richard you done a great job painted them figures do like the one of you who done it for you?
I love the one of me - it's so good! Claudia works directly with Model U. If you get a scan at a show, you can ask that they paint it, and Claudia will do it. Only costs about £3 more. It's amazing.
Nice video
Cheers Nathan! Hope you're well.
Yes thank you
Is that a red class 47
Yeah - in Rail Express Systems livery.