LAH Grenadier, the Ardennes (7)

I have the shoulders fixed from the messy highlights.

LAH Grenadier, the Ardennes (6)

Finally, I have managed to complete the figure in a whole piece. Later on I will be preparing the stand for the figure.

LAH Grenadier, the Ardennes (6)

A little more progress on the accessaries. The leathers were painted in different shades of dark color, with a few highlights to create the contrast. I will have to work on the belts around the machine gun and the gloves on the coming evening.

LAH Grenadier, the Ardennes (6)

Little promise for the day, camo was painted on both arms. I am starting to prepare the minor accessaries around and hopefully can fix the arms without blocking the way the brush should go to.

LAH Grenadier, the Ardennes (6)

Just started to work on the camo on the uniform coat. Although I am not very familiar with painting camo, I really think this figure has already been quite easy to work on, as the up and down are so obvious and visible. Different shades of camo colors were painted and I will start working on the arms later on.

LAH Grenadier, the Ardennes (5)

Just notice the color tone of the uniform was quite wrong. And I have redone it al over again, with a darker and greyer color.

LAH Grenadier, the Ardennes (4)

A little refinement on the trousers. The highlight areas look a bit more natural now.
And I also started to put on the base field color on the uniform coat as well. Just roughly adding shadows and highlights before the camo are painted and will then be further blended altogether.

LAH Grenadier, the Ardennes (3)

This time, I moved on to the body of the figure. The combat trousers are painted based on a mixed field grey, which also consisted of blue and dark leather. Different shades of shadows and highlights were painted. After works were done, I realized that this color tone has always been used for all of my oter figures. I swear I will be using different tone the very next time when I am working on the German uniform!

LAH Grenadier, the Ardennes (2)

After cleaning up for the Verlinden German tank crew, I am moving on with the Alpine one. The head is almost completed as the covered helmet was painted in camo.

LAH Grenadier, the Ardennes

If I have dated the pictures correctly, I have actually opened this figure from 23rd, March earlier this year. I have primed all the parts and put them right in front of my desk. But just that I didn't even have time and concentration to do that. And as I worked through the other German figure at the moment, I have started painting the head of it and hopefully I can also get it completed in this hot summer.

SS Pz NCO LAH Kharkov (14)

So, I guess I will just put it like this at the moment.
Having the snow being recreated with soda powder, I have the base completed, with some MIG pigments. The wooden box has been darkened and put aside.

SS Pz NCO LAH Kharkov (13)

For me, putting together a proper floor has always been a tough task for my 1;35 figures. On this build, I have finally come up with the idea of a little snow floor with some tool boxes and fuel tanks around.

With reference to the wooden box from Tamiya kits, I have built a wooden box myself. I guess I will be putting some little objects on it instead of this telephone box. But anyway I will have the boxes painted first.

SS Pz NCO LAH Kharkov (12)

OK, now it is going to be another piece that I have completed by the end of 2010. I just need the floor to get done before it is put into one of my display boxes.

SS Pz NCO LAH Kharkov (11)

Having too much bikes and cars for some weeks, I think I will have this little figure on my bench as a little break. I have got the scarf and the telescope painted. I always hesitated when thinking about the scarf, as the pattern has to be painted very accurately and carefully. But after a simple try on paper, I think I would be able to realise it on the figure.

To brighten up the figure a bit, I have this scarf in red, so as the boxart was done. I think the result look just fine on this picture but I do think I could have done this better on the real stuffs.
I will have the gloves and the boots painted next and will start preparing the floor.

SS Pz NCO LAH Kharkov (10)

Finer details have been painted on the uniform. I hope I wil; be able to start working on the scope and the scarf soon now. But there are already a few spots around where I would like to fix a little bit.....

SS Pz NCO LAH Kharkov (9)

The uniform has been painted with a mix of black, white, red and blue. Highlights and shadows were mildly painted. Finer details will be remarked.

SS Pz NCO LAH Kharkov (8)

Today, I have finalised the painting of the pants.
And then I have get the hat painted too.

SS Pz NCO LAH Kharkov (7)

Here is a quick look of what went on today. I have the back of the pants painted as well. So it just leaves some fin details around to get the pants done.

SS Pz NCO LAH Kharkov (6)

At my third attempt, I am starting to feel comfortable with the up and down of the pants.
I have washed the figure twice until I am reaching something like this.
Again, just the front upper part was painted and hopefully when I complete a round trip of the pants, I will go deeper into the fine details. At the moment, I just tried to have the shadows and highlights together first.

SS Pz NCO LAH Kharkov (5)

I have just started painting the pants for this LAH officer, but it turns out to be one of the most horrible nightmare ever since I experience painting figures....
The white is easily the most difficult color to try on one single pair of pants! I can hardly differentiate the tones of the white paint and I can just do it trial and error every time the brush touched the painting object.
I have spent a couple of hours getting started with the front upper part of the pants and it has been exhausting....
Fortunately, if it turns out that I cannot complete this in white, I will be washing away the paints and turn it into camo, since this is a resin figure! Haha~~!