USMC Korean War 1950

Cannot resist Young Bock Song's model sitting at the M Workshop. So, I have to put the Merkava IIID aside and get the priority started on this king of the hill in sculpture first. The model is superbly sculpted planned with over hoods and peak cap under a WWII Pacific Theatre Duck Egg camouflaged steel pot.

Greatly inspired, I washed the resin to remove any trace of silicone barrier solution with a little dishwasher and a soft toothbrush. Blown dry with air compressor and set aside for a few hours over Saturday morning. Then a coat of Mr. Resin spray can is dusted over the whole parts after the stubs are removed and sanded. Holes are drilled to insert the twisted steel wires to prep them for painting.

 The top 12 o'clock is sprayed over with flat white to accentuate the shadows to allow me easier planning of my shading and painting.

 The face is first coated with basic skin tone for 3 thin glazes. This will allow the dark shades to still show up to allow our glazes of darker shadows later.

 Flat Brown and Burnt Cadmium is used to block the darker shadows and whole face is thinly glazed over with Vermillion to unify the tones.

Beige Red is use as mid tones and a mixture of 50:50 is used to paint the intermediate areas to gradualize the transitions. Six tones and we have from Burnt Cadmium being the darkest and Basic Skin Tone to be the lightest is seen in this picture. I also painted in white in the area where the eyes will sit to later pick out the shape once the iris is done.

More highlights are added with red tones to depict the winter conditions of the 1950 Korean War.

The skin tones are further highlighted to prevent an overpowering contrast. To transition the face further to get a gradual tone.

The bust body is dusted over with a 30:70 mix of Mr. Colour 135 and 127 to build up the intermediate tones for the Khaki toned uniform of WWII USMC uniform winter garb.

The most dangerous manoeuvre is at hand. I put in the blacks in the eyeballs to form the base. Then cover 90% of the area of black with Dark Prussian Blue mixed with 80% white to form the pupil. For the iris, Dark Prussian Blue is used. The bottom edge of the top eyelid is lined with black and the bottom lid is painted over with basic skin tone to roughly edge out the outline of the eyes. Once this is set, I plan to outline the bottom lid and inner edge of the eyes with Vermilion to position the tear ducts and lower lids. Next, the brows and beard is outlined and painted. The head is now set aside to dry and cure. Enough for 3 days of work. 2 hours each.