News from the Front: Holland, 18 September 1944

[Rob]

In between paint coats on HMS Anchusa, I built and painted another figure from the wonderful Bronco 1/35 War Correspondents set. See here for other figures from this set: http://intscalemodeller.com/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=2460. This chap is on a temporary base as I intend adding other figures to make this scene…

War Correspondent Alan Wood is seen typing his despatch, while Airborne troops in the background consult a map during Operation 'Market Garden', Holland, 18 September 1944.
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Alan Wood Daily Express Arnhem 1944
'If in the years to come, you meet a man who says, "I was at Arnhem", raise your hat and buy him a drink.' - Alan Wood, British war correspondent

[Lee]

Nice work Rob, love the little scene

[DC87]

Wonderful Rob, I forget about the fact people were with the troops working for the print media in this day and age of portable cameras and live streams

[Paul]

Brilliant job rob, love the sides

[fly1ngdutchm4n]

one word.. AWESOME!

[Hanger2]

Excellent work Rob, I really need to get this Bronco set.

Geoff

[HWGuderian23]

Brilliant work !

[alextheblue]

Rob, wow - I really don't know what else to say other WOW!!

I've just tried my hand at figure painting and this largely down to the work that you shown on the forum. You've really captured the essence of the photograph and you can really picture him struggling to choose the correct words. Some people just get highlights low-lights, shadowing, textures and colour blending and you Sir are most definitely one of those people.

Just one question, do you use oils for the flesh tones or acrylics?

[longlance67]

Oh wow Rob

a beautiful little mini

Bravo

Shane

[Rob]

Thank you all for such kind words.
Alex, all figures from the war correspondent set have been painted with acrylics alone. I do use oils from time to time - the French infantry man in the figure gallery and Bill Sykes in the figure group build were done with oils - but I prefer acrylics for speed and ease of clean up. That said, the joy of oils is the ease of mixing an infinite range of colours on the palette and then blending them on the figure and the long working time the slow drying paint allows.
I am about to make a start on another figure for the group build. This will be done in acrylics with airbrush and hairy stick and I hope to be able to share in some depth my thoughts on my approach to painting figures in general and the tools and paints I use.

[alextheblue]

Thanks for that Rob.

That would be awesome if you shared a how-to on figure painting - absolutely loved the Bill Sykes thread, so I'll be first in the queue to watch that!

I used to do a lot of oil painting years ago, but with a knife and canvas (don't fancy trying to paint the eye on a 1/35 figure with a palette knife! ). Just invested in some oils and once I have a bit more confidence with painting figures, I'll give it a go with the oils.

Really looking forward to that figure build!