SCALE MODELLING MANUAL VOL.7

SCALE MODELLING MANUAL VOLUME 7

This is the seventh Modelling Manual in our relatively new series about scale modelling where our aim is to bring a lot of concentrated information about painting and general modelling techniques for all modellers at a competitive retail price.

Each manual will deal with a specific topic in detail, offering a lot of different approaches and techniques and, in most cases, written by one author. The contents will be carefully selected and presented in a way that all readers should find something new to try and to adapt to their own methods. Each book will have high quality photos and a detailed text so the reader can easily follow the progress of the assembly and painting of each theme, to help adopt new modelling techniques and different approaches.

In previous editions the length of each theme was limited due to the number of pages taken for other content, but here there are no such limitations. Each theme will be presented in a most detailed and explanatory manner so there will be no omissions or unanswered questions.

Depending on the themes and contents, real painted colour chips of hues and mixes will be added with information on how to use them. In this series we will include various modelling aspects from Historic and Fantasy, Scale Models, Dioramas, Vignettes, Figures, Busts, Techniques and History You Can Model.

In this issue we'll cover the detailed painting process of a Viking large 1/10 scale bust (with some fantasy elements) from the well-known South Korean company Nuts Planet. The master artist Ernesto Reyes Stalhuth explains in 28 pages, his painting process that includes how to use paintbrushes, the airbrush and a wet palette. Please note that he also wrote down the approximate mixing proportions for brush painting using a wet palette, and for airbrushing (exact match). All these are covered in 91 step-by-step photos.

We must thank the following: AK-Interactive (Fernando Vallejo), Andrea Miniatures (Alexandra Fernandez), Vallejo Acrylics (Alex Vallejo and Jaume Ortiz Forns), Scale75 (Jose Mendez), Kimera Kolors (Luca Marchetti and Pietro Balloni), Lifecolors (Alessandro Balbo and Rolando Iezzi), Yannis Papadopoulos and our English Text Editor Ken Jones.

Special thanks must go to Ernesto Reyes Stalhuth who provided us with all the necessary material so this book could be released as a perfect painting manual edition.

Editor / Publisher
Stelios Demiras

CONTENTS SCALE MODELLING MANUAL Vol.7

4 Preparation, Assembly and pre-shading with black and grey using the airbrush.

7 Painting Flesh Tones and the Base Colour for the hair, beard and eyebrows.

14 Painting the eyes – painting the hair and highlighting the beard begins.

15 Painting blond hair, beard and eyebrows.

18 Painting the fur.

19 Painting the shoulder armour, metals and horns.

21 Painting the chest, rivets, golden plate and waistbelt.

22 Painting the armulet and golden rings.

23 All round views of the finished bust presented in whole page photos.

BACK COVER

The artist used a combination of airbrush and paintbrush to get the most from each tool. As he used a wet palette for the brush painting, the mixing proportions are approximate. The airbrush mixing proportions are exactly matched. There are 91 detailed step-by-step photographs with explanatory captions in a total of 98 illustrations that reveal all the secrets on how the Flesh Tones were painted for blond hair, beard, eyebrows, the fur, shoulder armour, metals and horns. Following this is work on the chest, the rivets, golden plate, waistbelt, the armulet and golden rings. Seven all-round views of the finished bust are presented in whole page illustrations. The artist used a total of 52 acrylic paints (four of them inks), 41 of them come from Vallejo Acrylics various series and the complete list follows...

COMPLETE LIST OF THE PRIMERS & PAINTS YOU NEED FOR THIS BOOK

PRIMERS
MIG AMMO Grey Primer A-MIG-2002
MIG AMMO Black Primer A-MIG-2005

THINNER
Tamiya Acrylic Thinner X-20A
NOCTURNA / VALLEJO Fantasy-Pro Flesh Set
Burned Flesh 74.002
Reddish Flesh 74.003
Natural Flesh 74.006
Highlight Skin 74.008
Medium Flesh 74.005
Fairy Flesh 74.007
Base Flesh 74.004

VALLEJO MODEL COLOR
English Uniform 70.921
Refractive Green 70.890
Sunny Skin Tone 70.845
Light Flesh 70.928
Burnt Cadmium Red 70.814
Pink 70.958
Basic Skintone 70.815
Burnt Umber 70.941
Black Grey 70.862
Green Brown 70.879
Purple 70.959
Azure 70.902
Amaranth Red 70.829
Medium Grey 70.987
Oxford Blue 70.807
Medium Blue 70.963
Off White 70.820
Chocolate Brown 70.872
Orange Brown 70.981
Lemon Yellow 70.952
Ice Yellow 70.858
Buff 70.976
Basalt Grey 70.869
Silvergrey 70.883
Camouflage Medium Brown 70.826
Saddle Brown 70.940
Yellow Ochre 70.913
Brown Sand 70.876

VALLEJO MODEL AIR
Burnt Umber 71.040
Mahogany 71.036
Mud Brown 71.037

VALLEJO GAME COLOR INKS
Black Ink 72.094
Skin Wash 72.093
Green 72.089
KIMERA KOLORS
Violet PV23
Cold Yellow PY151
Carbon Black PB127
Phthalo Blue PB154
Warm Yellow PY83
Red Oxide PR130
Yellow Oxide PY42

REAPER MASTER ACRYLICS
Pure Black MSP 09037
Pure White 09039 MSP

JO SONJA'S
Burnt Umber JS007-75 PBR7

DALER ROWNEY'S
White Ink