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Ciao a tutti,

I just finished this very ambitious project (for my skills!!), an Italian tanker with an Italian L6 tank turret during the Russian campaign.

Ambitious because this is my second tank (well a part of it this time) I've ever done; also been able to place the turret with the figure in the minimum space possible and being able to tell a story was another great challenge, last but not least, paint this 1/35 miniature with the tiny details is painful sometimes!

The figure is from Alpine range and was given to me my the owner of the company himself as a gift, I've helped him out with some information about the uniform and he kindly sent me few figures from his range.

The figure is great, incredible details, perfect casting, if I have to find a problem is related toth the double socks, which I had to modify as you can't really tell they actually are double socks from the sculpture and box art, also, the jacket should have more buttons, but this may have been a bespoke jacket, not unseen for officials alike.

The turret and the fuel tank are from Model Victoria, quite expensive bits, but amazing quality and details as well.

The wood box is from Plusmodel and all the tools are plastic kit from a company called Diopark, very nice and you can find all sort of tools.

As for the paint I used my usual technique for the figure, just made an experiment for the leather coat, basically I painted the worn parts with a really light colour, using ochre, Naples yellow even white, when all dried I did paint over glazes of burnt sienna and raw umber.

Talking about the ground work and tank I did apply the technique used by the great modellers, like Mig, Adam Wilder, Mike Rinaldi and all the other great guys that are out there.

To make things easy, I did apply a winter camouflage, this has been the cherry on the cake!

Overall has been great, I loved every bit of this project and I'll try to work on more figure/ tanks project in the future.

I hope you like it, please let me know what you think.

Grazie.

Giovanni

Ciao a tutti,

I've just finished to paint this little tiny, tiny figure from hasslefree miniatures.

This has been a huge challenge for me, given the microscopic dimension.

Is all painted in oils, I've tried to use a different palette for the skintones, I hope you like it.

Ciao

Giovanni

Cari tutti,

I'm happy to share with you the email that Maman Hélène has sent to all of us.

Thanks you all for what you have done.

E' con grande piacere che vi giro la lettera appena ricevuta da Maman Hélène, dedicata a tutti voi.

Ancora grazie di cuore.

Giovanni

"Un grand merci pour votre don de 4.066,-Euros en faveur de nos filles que Frère Giorgio va nous transmettre.

Nous sommes très touchés par votre geste et nous vous remercions profondément.

Vous êtes plusieurs à nous accompagner et à nous appuyer dans le travail qui se fait parmi nos enfants. Nous sommes très encouragés par votre  participation. Nous nous sentons ainsi entourés par notre Dieu au travers de chacun de vous.

Avec tous nos remerciements, nous vous prions d’agréer nos meilleures salutations.

POUR L’ASBL « BANA YA KIVUVU »
Hélène ALEMUSUEY UNSINDAL"

Ciao a tutti,

I couldn't stop painting, I had to finish this bust.

Has been a real challenge and I've tried several different techniques, overall I'm really pleased with it.

This is a present for my brother who loves photography and Steve McCurry.

Hey Steve, if you read this post, I'll be happy to give you the figure if you let my brother join one of your workshop in return!! ;-)

Anyway, let me know what you think.

Ciao

Giovanni

Ciao a tutti,

I'm still painting this little beauty.

Not an easy task, and is getting more and more challenging, but I like it.

Anyway, I've touched up the skin tone, eyes and I've started the red.

I've used only 4 colours for it, and avoid any orange tone.

Also I wanted to give more of a dramatic tone to the whole figure therefore I used quite a bit of contrast.

Hope you like it, and as usual, please let me know.

Ciao

Giovanni

Ciao a tutti,

I've started to paint this bust sculpted by Romain Van den Bogaert.

He has taken the inspiration from Sharbat Gula the famous Afghan girl photographed by Steve McCurry for National Geographic.

The sculpture is not a perfect portrait of the girl, but is close, I've manage to made few modifications, like hairs, the red cloth an the nose.


Not an easy piece to paint, so far only the face has been painted, and I've not finished yet, few touch ups need to be done.

Paint is still fresh hence the glossy on the lips and the difficulty of taking pictures...

For this reason I've taken a couple of shots with different light and camera settings.


As usual, let me have your comments.


Ciao


Giovanni

Ciao a tutti,

Has been a while since I've posted something on my blog, but work, holidays and a long travel have led me away from modelling.

During the past months I've sculpted a figure (stay tuned) and I've painted this figure for a friend, is from La Meridian miniatures and has been sculpted by Pizzichemi.

The cast was good really few bubbles holes and cast seems, the mine handle a little bit to fragile, but an easy replacement with a bit of copper wire.

I've to thank my friend Alberto Cazzavillan for his help in finding the right documentation, thanks so much Alberto!!!


So guys, let me know what you think!

Ciao

Giovanni

Cari tutti,

É con estremo orgoglio che vi comunico la conclusione della raccolta di beneficenza associata “a passione per la vita/passion for life” www.p4l.it.
Abbiamo distribuito tutti e 100 i soldatini e raccolto la ragguardevole cifra di 4066 euro che saranno consegnati in questi giorni.
Volevo esprimere a tutti voi il mio più profondo riconoscimento per la generosità e la sensibilità che avete dimostrato, soprattutto in questo momento non facile per l’economia che in maniera più o meno importante tocca tutti noi.
Spero di poter ripetere quest’iniziativa e sono certo che potrò contare nuovamente sul vostro enorme cuore.
Grazie mille di nuovo.
Un abbraccio
Giovanni

Dear all,

I’m really delighted to announce the conclusion of the fund raising “passion for life/passione per la vita” www.p4l.it.
We have raised 4066 euro giving away the 100 available figures plus the painted master.
I would like to thank you from the bottom of my heart for your generosity and your kindness, especially in this particular period where the economic situation is effecting everyone.
I hope we can replicate this initiative for the years to came, and I’m sure I will be able to count on your generosity.
Thanks again.
Giovanni