Reaper User Popular Post Vaitalla Posted February 19, 2019 Reaper User Popular Post Share Posted February 19, 2019 Hey there guys! I realized a lot of you might not know that I had a new web site and/or might not have seen these on Facebook so I decided to post them up here. Those at ReaperCon or who followed the competition might remember Soldier, who I'd been working on, on and off, for about two years. He's a statue that came with the Collector's Edition of the Overwatch computer game, about a foot tall (1/6th scale), and he took me about 140 hours to paint. The base statue comes black with a drybrush of bronze to make it look like a statue, but I wanted to paint him in his traditional colors from the game. All textures and weathering are purely paint--the statue is a plain sculpt (though very nice as most Blizzard stuff is). You can also jog over to my web site (paintingbig.net) and there you will find, in the blog section (scroll down past the Leman Russ ones, I'm still trying to figure out how to make it display them all separately in a sidebar), two work in progress blogs filled with photos and notes on the process I went through, almost from start to finish. If you have questions ask in thread and I'll be happy to answer. Realized I could link to the specific work-in-progress blog entries here, duh. :) Soldier:76 WIP blog episode one Soldier:76 WIP blog episode two! --Anne :) 30 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haldir Posted February 19, 2019 Share Posted February 19, 2019 Very, very nicely done. Love the leather look. Almost you reach out & feel the bumps!! I recall at Lewisville Convention Center (ie '16 or 17 RC I think) asking you about this one. He was very early in the paint stage. Again, fantastic piece well deserving of a gold medal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Reaper User Vaitalla Posted February 20, 2019 Author Reaper User Share Posted February 20, 2019 Thanks for remembering, Haldir! Yeah, I really got hung up on the neck texture and bottomed out for about six months after that. It was a texture I tried to copy from the computer modeling and it was REALLY counter-intuitive to do freehand--I'm sure if you have a 3-D paint/modeling program it's super easy! So then I started just inching back into it, and then eventually just made a hard run at finishing him because I'd promised myself I would. Totally got me re-jump-started on painting a lot again, though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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