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This is looking great so far, i would comment that i think the ear piece highlights appear to be the brightest part, perhaps increasing the highlights ontop of the hat area would be a little more realistic? to show respective light intensity hitting the curved top of his hat.

my thoughts exactly.

Thanx for your comments. I think you're right, I have to learn many things about painting. I was trying to get effect of used and dirty brushed leather (colour difference between light and dark areas) and added lights to some raised areas. I will keep your advices in mind and try to apply them on next JMD pilot.

Now I feel the cap is almost finished with that goggles, shield, ear protectors and so... In next step I will paint his shirt.

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arctica wrote:This is looking great so far, i would comment that i think the ear piece highlights appear to be the brightest part, perhaps increasing the highlights ontop of the hat area would be a little more realistic? to show respective light intensity hitting the curved top of his hat.

secound that

if the light is from front of the mini end from above so rthe brightest part would be just above "I" on the hat - not on the wars . especialy that ears are lighted stright above ( so top of hat would catch more light)

great texturing on the hat, although I don't like the sculpt at all

this hat looks amazing! very realistic...

i like your work on the hat. waiting for more.
the cool things so far are:
- it's not blue
- it's not even green...
- you used many colors for the hat, which is brown - but so full of different kinds of brown to build lights and shadows.

mahon wrote:i like your work on the hat. waiting for more.
the cool things so far are:
- it's not blue
- it's not even green...
- you used many colors for the hat, which is brown - but so full of different kinds of brown to build lights and shadows.

I'm trying my new set of Rackham paints and you are right - I used lot of different colours (brown, red, orange, yellow, green, blue). But next step will be blue all over, so I think this step is the last you like

so you sey you feel some of the blue ??

Small progress on Melvin - finished t-shirt with stripes and that small amulet. Next (and last I hope )) step is his face. The bad news is that my camera is going to hell, I think. Today I took about 50 shots of Melvin and all of them bad - unsharp, weird colours ... And my neighbour is with his camera on vacation

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