The Longest Day Beachmaster

[Stikpusher]

I finished this one up at the beginning of this week and now have some halfway decent photos. It is a vignette by Scale Model Accessories in 1/35 resin from the movie The Longest Day of the Sword Beach Royal Navy Beachmaster, Capt. Colin Maud, played by actor Kenneth More... and his bulldog Winston.
I tried a technique using highly thinned layers on Vallejo acrylics to paint him, that was for more time consuming than I thought that it would be. It worked well on the uniform, but not as well on the flesh areas.












"the sooner that you get get off this beach, the sooner they'll stop the blasted shelling! It's very bad for the dog!"

[BlackSheep214]

Very nice, Carlos.

[Stikpusher]

Thank you Tom. I'm fairly happy with the final results, but I need to learn a better way of painting faces. One of these days...

[BlackSheep214]

I hear ya. I’m not too hot on painting figures either. I usually avoid it. Not that I don’t want to do them; I just suck at it.

[Stikpusher]

Me too... but I won't get better without working at it... I have so many figures in my stash, I need to do what I can to improve.

[BlackSheep214]

I tend to shy away from any figure kits. I still have a set from raffle I won at Syrcon couple years ago. I've been trying to get them off my hands but found no takers. I know I won't do them.

[Stikpusher]

I’m pretty sure that I won’t build all of the figures in my stash. But I will build some of them. At least most of the tank crew figures.

[Medicman71]

Awesome work Stik!!

[Stikpusher]

Thanks Mike. If I could get my faces to look like Ski’s work, he’d be awesome. I’ll call him decent.