You are so right there is no need to get stressed or mad doing this hobby. It's suppose to be about having fun and relaxing. Some people take it way to serious. The figure looks great. You did an awesome job.

@HalidonDioramas

4 жыл бұрын

Joshua Shikles Thanks Joshua, much appreciated I’m glad you enjoyed it 👍👍👍

I praise your last statement of the video. It is NOT intended to be stressful hobby, and if people are making it stressful, just remove them from your presence lol

@j-man6001

2 жыл бұрын

But very helpful, thank you!

@HalidonDioramas

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks J-Man, much appreciated 👍

Love your attitude to this painting, nothing better than a slice of humour. Great video mate .John

@HalidonDioramas

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, much appreciated, i think if you cant have fun with your hobby it can't be much of a hobby at all. I still want to do the best that I can but i am not going to top myself if i stuff something up 😀😀😀

@tomatoes3

3 жыл бұрын

@@HalidonDioramas Spot on, too many get wrapped up in it, as you say is a hobby. John.

Nicely done Glen i always look forward to your uploads keep them coming my friend

@HalidonDioramas

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Greg, much appreciated mate, I hope you are doing well and all is on track 👍

Greetings from Darwin mate! Love your tutorials, have picked up heaps of great tips! Keep up the great work mate! Well done!

@HalidonDioramas

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you, much appreciated mate, I'm glad you enjoyed it. I love Darwin, it's a great place 👍👍👍

One of the best figure painting vids I have seen. Thanks for sharing. I learnt a lot.

@HalidonDioramas

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you Steve, very kind of you to say so, I'm glad you enjoyed it! 👍👍👍

These figures bring back a lot of modeling memories :)

@HalidonDioramas

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, the old classics are fun to revisit, brought back many good memories for me as i built and painted it all 👍👍👍

@pedrojusto

3 жыл бұрын

From flak 37 Tamiya

Cracking video - really enjoyed it, thanks.

@HalidonDioramas

4 жыл бұрын

Andrew Shaw Hi Andrew, thanks mate, much appreciated 👍👍👍

I'm about to paint the same soldiers as pictured.I have quite a few to paint in standard ,winter and African corps. Thank you so much for this video. I have all the paints you state and can't wait to start.

@HalidonDioramas

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Roy, they are fun to paint and the detail on the Tamiya figures isn't too bad for their age, have fun mate 👍

Fairly new to all this and the tutorial was very helpful. Many thanks.

@HalidonDioramas

Жыл бұрын

Thanks John glad you got something out of it mate 👍

Nice. Thank you for this! Nice work broseph.

@HalidonDioramas

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Rick, much appreciated 👍

Great video, thanks. Just starting out on 1/35 figures so a really useful resource

@HalidonDioramas

2 жыл бұрын

Yhanks Jon, glad to help! 👍👍👍

Those eyes of the ammunition holder looks like Marty Feldman

@HalidonDioramas

3 жыл бұрын

LOL, that's gold, I just had a look back at it and you are right, he has some serious eye issues 👍👍👍

@steffenrosmus1864

3 жыл бұрын

@@HalidonDioramas to much Canadian Club and 4 Roses during painting ? 😉😂

He turned out nice Glen thanks for the tutorial marra ! Regards Gav.

@HalidonDioramas

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you Gav, cheers mate 👍

Thanks for the tips , very helpful.

@HalidonDioramas

3 жыл бұрын

You are very welcome, thank you for watching 👍

Love the way you explain your method, and attitude very helpful for a beginner. Regards Declan london.

@HalidonDioramas

Жыл бұрын

Awesome, thank you!

Good morning flower, great job mamba, love it, really great how to. Hope your all OK and staying safe

@HalidonDioramas

4 жыл бұрын

Good morning nobbie, i thought i might catch you waking up, hopefully you have pants on this time :) All good here, isolating, pretending to work from home and lots of time at the bench 😋😋😋

@MottysMilitaryModels

4 жыл бұрын

@@HalidonDioramas now come on you know I wear no pants when talking to you. But it's because you asked me not to. Lol xxxx

Great video and very fine job.

@HalidonDioramas

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Kim 👍

Thank you for this example of painting figures . Thank you for also showing me how to use Vallego paints. I had a feeling that it needed to be thinned which you did with the wet pallet . Now all I have to do is make a wet pallet. Thank you again.

@HalidonDioramas

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Gary, you are so welcome, I'm glad you got something out of it mate 👍

Great video 👍 thanks again.

@HalidonDioramas

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Matt, I am glad you enjoyed it 👍

Thank you for this Brother

@HalidonDioramas

Жыл бұрын

My pleasure

👍👊 Painting figures is really hard.

Have been taking my time with my figures, also finally found the type of sponge/cloth you use in your wet pallette. I had to throw my previous container out. The sponge glued to the bottom just didn't work without almost flooding the container. The other issue was I had some paint bleed into it from the parchment paper and after a couple of days of not painting the sponge seemed to be growing mold from the paint. I scrapped that one and made a new one and what a difference!

@HalidonDioramas

2 жыл бұрын

Nice, there's nothing worse than mould in your wet pallet 😀 Glad you got it sorted out.

I remember this set from Tamiya from the mid 1970s!

You do fine work

@HalidonDioramas

4 жыл бұрын

Paul Lemieux Thank you Paul 😄

" There's a really prominent corodid artery"....aka a huge seam line...lol. I'm painting these figures at the moment, I like your process and your figures look great!

@HalidonDioramas

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, he is in big danger of having a stroke i think :) Thanks for the feedback Len

I done mine in the afria korps version that was a really nice kit to be honest still have it on the shelf hooked up to the boggies with a guy sitting in the seat etc loved the brass shells that came with it! Just done the AFV club pak 40 last week to go with my panzer 1 dio Africa korps, I love the olive brown for the belts n straps never tried mohogany before. Would you believe my hobby shop had 10/0 and 5/0 paint brushes in so got a set! I can hardly see the tips of the brushes with my own eyes and I have good eyes got them for painting eyes on my figures never thought they went as small! Just had triple 0s before

@HalidonDioramas

4 жыл бұрын

Cheers, thanks mate 👍

Cool 👍

@HalidonDioramas

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks CW 👍

Good morning, what color did you use for the primer? And what color did you use for the pants?

Was the figure Primed first? thank you for sharing.

Bestia!!!!

@HalidonDioramas

Жыл бұрын

🦍

thanks for the tips.... just started with figure painting... cant get rid of the cartoon eyes, haha... is usually start with the final color in thin layers right after primer, but i see that you start with a different color as a sort of pre shading... i will try that next time...

@HalidonDioramas

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Jeffrey, yes, eyes are tough, its just lots of practice and patience i still have a fair way to go before I could say I am completely happy with my attempts.

Just to say Glen as I forgot to mention it I am currently doing the Tamiya Paladin which has a lot of stowage, one of the reasons I was attracted to it. Thanks

@HalidonDioramas

4 жыл бұрын

Very cool!

Nice. Personally I would have went lighter on the trousers and a little more gray on the tunic. But I love it.

@HalidonDioramas

11 ай бұрын

Thanks Richard, it’s tricky filming as the lighting can make a difference and I even get differences from one camera to another, and none of the pictures ever look exactly the same as it does in person, but I appreciate the feedback mate 👍

CC ist the most importand ingredient for scale modelling. I like the way you paint with acrylics but i still paint faces with oils. Because when you messed up whipe is away with a cotton stick an white spirit, but the drying time is quit nasty. Maybe i should do more with acrylics. First i saw the eyes my thought was, the hunchback of Notre Dame joined the german army…..just kiddin. I like the result and the figure would look great on a diorama. A++ and thumbs up

@HalidonDioramas

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks De Lan, cant start a project without a good supply of CC in the fridge 😋 I would do oils on larger scales, but a combination of lazy and impatience usually means i stick to the acrylics at 1/35, but you are correct oils are way more forgiving 👍

It all comes down to the proper amount of hydration

@HalidonDioramas

3 жыл бұрын

Hence my comittment to regular consumption of whisky 👍

Bung Eye.. every figure needs one lol.. 40 minutes of rooting around.. too true. Good looking figures mate, easy to follow technique. Too easy

@HalidonDioramas

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Tony, sadly most of my day consists of rooting arround not getting stuff done 😀

An excellent paint job! But one minor nitpick...does the helmet decal seem a bit out of scale? As in too large?

@HalidonDioramas

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Barbosa, much appreciated. Yes you are spot on, the helmet decal is the one of the old Tamiya ones and it seems a bit too big, but i wanted the splash of colour visible so decided I could live with it 😋😋😋

@BarbosaUral

4 жыл бұрын

@@HalidonDioramas Oh, I understand your reasoning to use it. But as I was watching, it just seemed a bit to large and had to ask. And I do enjoy watching your vids!

Great job on this old figure! But, one thing i can really recommend is leaving the helmet off until you finish painting the head/face. It makes it so much easier.

@HalidonDioramas

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Odonny, much appreciated. Yes you are 100% correct, I was just being lazy by not painting the helmets seperately and sticking on later 😋

Superb job and very inspirational. +1 Sub. How did you get the wire into his foot?

@HalidonDioramas

3 жыл бұрын

Hi Bob, thanks for the sub! I drill a hole through the base of the foot up into the leg and then use a touch of super glue on the wire to hold it all in place.

@bobz1736

3 жыл бұрын

@@HalidonDioramas - thank you sir 🙏

Maybe it's just me but it always seems these figures have noses that are disproportionately large. I don't see that with the resin ones as much. Maybe it's the older casts? Anyway, enough musings for one day. Thanks for the tutorial, Halidon.

@HalidonDioramas

4 жыл бұрын

Lol, I hadn’t noticed that, but now I have a look at them and I think you are on to something 👃👃👃

Perfect. But I always think the same: 1. We use an airbrush for the first painting, in order to preserve the details. 2. Then we add 6 layers of pencil painting, including barnish... Anyway, adding a layer of Canadian Club improves the final result. With or without paintbrush. ... ;)

@HalidonDioramas

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Manuel, i tend to stick to the same process for figures, it's reliable if nothing else, as for the Canadians, they are an absolute necessity for the creative process to flow smoothly 😋😋😋

Great video i learned alot ito have problems painting hands and faces must be an age thing

@HalidonDioramas

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Dave, Very true! and the older i get the harder it becomes 🤓🤓🤓

How do determine what color to add to the Main Color shading And High Light s

@HalidonDioramas

3 жыл бұрын

I am afraid i dont apply much science to it, i might just mix some white in the main colour or i might find a complementary lighter similar colour, it depends on what i have available at the time, if i want it darker then i use black instead of white.

I remember this kit from back in the day I for some reason thought a Kübelwagen would tow a flak 88 dont know why maybe just bored but showed my dad when I done it and he laughed and said son why is a Kübelwagen towing a flak 88 and I said what do you mean and he said the Kübelwagen would fall apart and what did you even attach that canon to on your Kübelwagen

@HalidonDioramas

3 жыл бұрын

Yes it would be an impressive jeep that could tow the 88 😀

Just do your right eye white with a scar through it.

I have started watching these posts across most of the model makers and there appears to be a common theme; that despite making them look extremely realistic they all seem to have ‘shine’ which of course is wrong..is there a problem in achieving a Matt finish on uniforms etc?

@HalidonDioramas

3 жыл бұрын

I think it is probably more a matter of the lighting than a genuine shine, when i look at the figures i have painted in person all of which get a final dull coat as a matter of course they are very flat, espicially under natural light, but under lights for filming they can gt a bit of a gleam on them. I think colour balancing and quality of camera can also have an impact on how they come across on film i imagine.

@elderberry2255

3 жыл бұрын

@@HalidonDioramas Thanks for the explanation...I understand your dilemma but having watched some DAK posts he seems to have achieved the balance. Your models are great but that sheen is just taking off the edge..

There is an error. The eagle on the arm was carried by the SS. If the model recreates an SS soldier, the national colors (black, white, and red) cannot be placed on the helmet. In addition, that decal is placed on the right side and not on the left, on the left side was the shield with the eagle. Everything else is correct. Best regards. Hay un error. El águila en el brazo fue llevado por las SS. Si el modelo recrea a un soldado SS, los colores nacionales (negro, blanco y rojo) no se pueden colocar en el casco. Además, esa calcomanía se coloca en el lado derecho y no en el izquierdo, en el lado izquierdo estaba el escudo con el águila. Todo lo demás es correcto. Un cordial saludo.

@HalidonDioramas

4 жыл бұрын

Yes they are SS figures, depicting a member of the 17th Panzer Grenadier Division, they were supported by a number of other troops forming a composite group which was a mix of SS and Heer. Our man must have picked up the wrong helmet I guess, as for the insignia being on the wrong side you are totally correct, but if was on the other side no one would see it and I wanted the splash of colour.

@jlamene

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much for your clarification. A cordial greeting.

How do you stick the wire to the boot, heat it?

@HalidonDioramas

3 жыл бұрын

I just drill a small hole into the foot the same size as the wire and if it’s a snug fit that’s it, if it’s a bit lose I use some super glue 👍

Really great "how to" vid. I think a lot of armour guys who can build/paint some of the most awesome looking tanks (etc) shy away from doing figures because they're worried they'll end up looking like mutants. This is what prevented me from doing figures for a long time, but have gradually come around to making them. I still don't make enough to say that I do a good job, but I think I'm good enough so that the eyes both look in the same direction, which I think is about the only part of a figure you need to get 'right'. Anyway, great vid thanks for sharing.

@HalidonDioramas

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks cygnusx, much appreciated mate, yes, the eyes are hard, even harder when my real eyes seem not to want to focus at that range 🤓🤓🤓

My dog chewed my loader when I left them out after priming... 😥 true story.

@HalidonDioramas

3 жыл бұрын

Dogs are responsible for many things like that, i regularly trotted out the my dog excuse throught school years 😜

Do not paint the eyes. Look at pictures of people, who are photographed from a distance. Because that is how we look at scale figures. Do you actually see the eyes? Do you see the white and the pupil? No. First, the white of an eye is not white, certainly not when seen from a distance, when the eye is in the shadow. Second, the iris is only about 12 mm in diameter. In scale 1/35 that is 0.34mm. And one third to one half of that is covered by the eyelids. That puts the white even more in the shadow. Do not paint what you KNOW (and most modelers know it wrong, anyway). Paint what you see, as if you are looking at the real thing, from a distance. If you can't see it from a distance, don't paint it on a model. It really is that simple. And more realistic. When modelers paint eyes like you do, it always looks as if those guys have a terrible disease or deformation, or something....! ;-)

@HalidonDioramas

4 жыл бұрын

But how would they see without eyes 🙄

@telescopereplicator

4 жыл бұрын

@@HalidonDioramas ...... it's a solid piece of plastic.......... ;-)

Hello Glen, hope you don't mind me calling you by your first name. I have recently returned to modelling after an absence of 50 years to help with anxiety and I was just in time before the virus locked us down to acquire many kits and paints etc. I have recently made contact with Steve Motram who has been an enormous help mainly with confidence and advice, however I have become bogged down on my first kit through various reasons the first my trepidation of airbrushing which after several poor attempts with cheap tools I've invested after discussing with Steve, in a Harder & Steenbeck Infinity which has allowed me to progress a bit. But here's the latest block and I need to get by or else I'm worried I might turn away and not return regardless of the investment. I am really struggling with the painting and washing of stowage. I know to some it may be a minor point but I just can't get it right and there doesn't seem to be anything out there as a good guide to how best to do it. I know from subscribing to your channel that you are a wonderful painter and was wondering if you could perhaps do a definitive posting on the painting and weathering of stowage...….please. Neil K

@HalidonDioramas

4 жыл бұрын

Hi Neil, no worries about the name, i usually get called much much worse 😜 First things first, associating with Motty is a bad habit to form, he will fill your head with fantasy about the greatness of English Cricket and teach you how to mispronounce the word "book" 😋 Second thing, the hobby is fun, and in my book you really can't do anything wrong especially if you are happy with the end result. I do heaps of things "wrong" but i like the results so i don't care, it is liberating if you can get into that space and just have fun, don't give up, just keep gluing shit together until you are happy! I am about to start on a 1/35 scale Pershing Tank & diorama, and there will be stowage in that so if you can hang on for a while i will make a special effort to cover how i do the stowage in particular. Thanks for watching and take care mate 👍👍👍

Yes eyes are a pain in the ass!!!!!!

@HalidonDioramas

2 жыл бұрын

Especially when your actual eyes are crap 😃

Is this enamel paint?

@HalidonDioramas

3 жыл бұрын

No dude, i mostly use acrylic paint and sometimes oils

@tankman1814

3 жыл бұрын

@@HalidonDioramasOk, I'm just starting to paint model figures.

@tankman1814

3 жыл бұрын

@@HalidonDioramas Thanks to!

Sound like you need a lesson in what constitutes funk music!

I thought German leather was black

@HalidonDioramas

5 ай бұрын

who knew

Hate that name Dio haha I get embarrassed just hearing it from the UK lads here

@HalidonDioramas

3 жыл бұрын

Does it mean something different to what i think it means? 😀

I don't know why I watch videos like this... My models and figures look like shit compared to yours.

@HalidonDioramas

3 жыл бұрын

Hi toecutter, dont worry mate it's literally just time and practice, the more you do the better you will get, and remember there will always be someone who does it better than you, there are heaps of people that i enjoy watching that are way better than me, but i learn from them and it helps to keep me focused 👍👍👍