New 75mm test figure

A bit quiet on the painting front as the birthday party madness of February finishes off (two kids birthdays in one month).  Also been busy catching up on home tasks.  This weekend’s task was pulling apart and swapping bits on gas lift chairs.  Handy hint - get a big pipe wrench.

Wanting to trial a lot of new techniques on larger (54mm plus) scale figures you need to have some disposable test figures.  28mm figures are a bit small to test things out on as you have very few large areas to paint.  1/35 scale military figures aren’t bad but the cheap ones tend to be a bit poor in quality.  The better quality 1/35 scale figures cost more, hence aren’t good candidates for test figures.

While in my local art store I came across some 75mm (ish) figures for only a few dollars.  They are sold as architectural figures.  I had purchased some previously for my kids to paint.  The detail isn’t great (like the hair just being a smooth surface on the back) but the large scale helps out.  Lots of room and good simple lines.  So I picked a figure, cleaned and puttied up the ejector pin hole, undercoated and away I went.

Well hello Dapper Dan

The male figure I have has very much 1950’s feel to it (tie, waistcoat, jacket) so I went of a plain blue on the suit.  I started up a bit lighter than normal so I will have more contrast to play with.  Going to be a lot of blue shading.  The face is quite open so I’m looking forward to having a go at it.

I want to use this figure as a test of more extreme contrasting and using oil paints, most likely for washes.  Unable to help myself I have already worked out a street scene diorama for the figure too.  Classic horse/cart misalignment issue there.

Now that February is over time to get back to paint land, and not just quick and dirty paint jobs on Doom figures.