Adrian's Sniper GB: The Last Stand, Berlin 1945

[Guest]

Update so far:

I have masked off the wooden frame of the base to prevent getting paint and glue where I don't want. Next, I proceeded to construct the floor of the house. Honestly I did not believe the PVA glue would hold the wood, but it did (luckily!). Painted a part of the house as I forgot that I wanted to prime it! Wallpaper in place upstairs and I installed a gutter from the roof down to the ground. Thats all for now!

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[Guest]

That's looking good so far Adrian!!

Polux

[spanner570]

Shaping up nicely Adrian, Glad to see you have staggered the floor board joints (sorry, I've got my joiners hat on again!)

The whole job looks really well, nice one...

Ron

[Guest]

Keep it up Adrian, looking good.

John

[Guest]

Excuse my long absence in updating this thread. At last I have made some decent progress!

First, I primed the base using Mr Surfacer 1000 straight from the can, before painting up the bricks. They were first brushed with a coat of Tamiya red, before being drybrushed with beige and yellowish orange. I have also weathered the wallpaper downstairs.

Finally got cracking on the sniper figure. Face (not shown) was painted with XF-15 Flat Flesh before the uniform was painted in Green-Grey (XF-60:2 XF-8:1). Then I darkened the base colour and filled in the shadows in the uniform. The belt and botts were painted in Dark Grey. Then came the detail painting. This is my first figure so Im pretty chuffed with the results. I still have to do toning on the face and complete the pants. Thats all for now! Thanks for staying tuned.

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[Guest]

Looking good Adrian,

Keep up the good work & this will be a stunning dio.

John.

[spanner570]

You have every right to be chuffed Adrian, that's a very nice bit of figure painting.

The street corner is taking shape nicely too......It all looks well, nice one.

Cheers,

Ron

[Guest]

Hi Adrian!!

I love that street corner!!! Looking good so far!!!

I think looks interesting!

Polux

[Guest]

A lot has changed since my last update.

I painted part of the ruin, windows, the walkway and the lamppost. Pretty easy stuff. Figure 90% complete. Just a wash to go on the face.

Thanks for staying tuned!!

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[spanner570]

Excellent stuff Adrian, well painted and coming along very nicely....

Cheers,

Ron

[Guest]

Thanks Ron.

Sorry for not being very regular in my updates. I have been kept busy by the cobblestone street, which was made with split beans and then painted greyish-pink. I then lightened this colour with a little Buff, before drybrushing the street with that colour. To complete the street, a dark brown wash was applied in the recesses.

I have also painted the floor of the building with wood brown, then drybrushing it with desert yellow before a final wash of the darkened base colour.

I was not very happy with the ruin (brick sizes were inconsistent, very unrealistic damage, etc). Thus I removed the whole thing, and will redo it, hopefully by next weekend. Thats why in the pics you can see the aftermath of "UP"!

I have also re-done the concrete kerbs around the footpath, and made them a different colour from the path itself.

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[Guest]

Starting to look good Adrian, keep the pic's coming.

John

[Guest]

split beans is a good idea, looks quite good, well done, i will remember that one and might even try it myself

[Ian M]

Split beans, cool it looks very good. I might just knick that idea some time.

Ian M

[Guest]

hi adrian. fantastic stuff now mate. the figure is looking great and the buildings well came together. ohh, and as mentioned in your last post to me.. i'm not actually going to use the german cycle guy, i only wanted one of their bikes, lol.