Han ANH repaint

[feroze13]

Jabba WIP
Picked up a Jabba for a song, and immediately got to work in trying paint it to be (hopefully) screen accurate. Looking at the movie and pics, there's a lot more orange on his massive mug, and loads more green on his gut and body. Here's the reference, the original SS and the beginning of the repaint.

Original, with only gloss added

Gloss off, acrylic on

 

[Dorgmal Snow]

lovely paint job Feroze, I am just trying to paint up an Obi now !!

 

[feroze13]

Mate your Obi looks great!!

 

[Crimsonbob]

Jubbly job

 

[Artoo]

Brilliant work, simply love it. It's hard to tell from the pics, but might I suggest adding a little bit of depth to the hair. The face paint is so beautiful with all the variation of flesh tones, but the hair looks a little flat to me. Again, maybe it's the pics?

 

[feroze13]

Here's a better pic of hair in daylight, its particularly sunny today.
Han was the first, and so suffered from a lot on the job learning.

Jabba's corpulent mass is coming along.

Blocking in colour before detailing his folds of fatty girth

on un unrelated note, just got my hands on a speeder, and dressed up Rotj Luke in Leia's kit, before kicking her to the curb. Even though Luke's outfit is tan camo, it doesn't look too bad.

Now all he needs is two Scouts alongside to recreate this scene.
I am determined to make it happen. Nothing but fleabay will stop me.

 

[Artoo]

Great photo shop pic. Did you put wire in Luke's poncho? Great effect.

 

[feroze13]

Yeah, its a very primitive wire gag, no frills, taped on.
The painting was pre-getting the bike, its not a photo-chop, its a painting. more here
https://www.sideshowcollectors.com/forums/showthread.php?t=73803

 

[Chakaman]

Pretty cool stuff. That Jabba is looking great so far!

 

[feroze13]

Thanks Chakaman.

 

[CaptnRex]

Cool paint job, Jabba looks great and the Han is an excellent improvement.

 

[feroze13]

Cheers mate! very kind of you to say so.
We're just winging it, and hoping for the best!

 

[Qrest Fourstar]

I still think the biggest problem with this figure is that the iris' are too small. It seems as though every repaint has given him better ones.

 

[carson]

it looks really good

 

[feroze13]

Thanks Carson!

 

[ChibiSchmoo]

Hey, feroze! If you haven't done this already - you might want to unroll that poncho on the back of the speeder, it should be Luke's correct one. Mine was on the Leia bike, at least.

Nice work on Jabba, BTW!

on un unrelated note, just got my hands on a speeder, and dressed up Rotj Luke in Leia's kit, before kicking her to the curb. Even though Luke's outfit is tan camo, it doesn't look too bad.

 

[feroze13]

you are totally right!
that bugged the crap out of me! Awesome!
thanks ChibiSchmoo!

 

[Red Metal]

I really like the Han - the tone and shading look spot on.

 

[JustinLuck]

1 of these m8

I have tried using pens like these before for pupils, but the ink never dries properly and can still wipe off hours later. Anyone else experience this?

 

[feroze13]

Yeah, I've had bad experiences with ink, never as permanent as you'd want it to be, the only failsafe way to go is to imitate the pro's by using a small brush, with acrylic, and then sealing.