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Title: BFFS Agincourt Project 2018 - WIP Francesco
Post by: fsbarile on October 03, 2017, 02:35:04 AM

Azincourt, the sunrise. The english army is deploying and Jacques d'Heilly is shows to the french princes their movements. He doesn't know that at the end of the day he will be dead.
Just to get confident with the figures I started the back side of Jacques d'Heilly. Still a lot of work to do ,above all on armour, but I' d like to show you my progress in order to have your suggestions about it. As you can see I choose a "dramatic" paint thinking at sunrise time. Only acrylics up to now. 
Cheers
Francesco

Title: Re: BFFS Agincourt Project 2018 - WIP Francesco
Post by: Hannibal on October 03, 2017, 02:56:07 AM
Good start Francesco !  I love it!
My suggestions:
1) Would be better to sharpen the spike of the pike with fine sand paper to confirm these weapons are dangerous, simple to do.
2) With these quiet simple coat of arms and the heavy engraving, also to 'almost' totally remove the coat of arms on the front side to keep a trace and paint as free hands as I learned  a few years ago that colours were not added and sewed ver the background colour, but in the tissue; this seems too strongly visible here for this figure.
3) Question: are you planning to add oil painting as you seem to suggest: an acrylic undercoat?  I am curious for myself
Good idea to start with the back side to experiment ...
Note: considering my age and later start in figure painting (5 years ago) and health alert this year (bypass), I am only painting one selected side of my flats, in order to double my painting capacity in diversification ! (but this is a personal decision)
 
Title: Re: BFFS Agincourt Project 2018 - WIP Francesco
Post by: fsbarile on October 03, 2017, 03:48:14 AM
Thank so much Michel for your suggestions, really appreciated.  About oils I think to use them above all on armour since I can control better the translations between max light and max shadow. Hope you will continue to help me in this work.
Francesco 
Title: Re: BFFS Agincourt Project 2018 - WIP Francesco
Post by: fsbarile on October 16, 2017, 08:26:10 AM
some little steps ahead
Francesco

Title: Re: BFFS Agincourt Project 2018 - WIP Francesco
Post by: Nicholas Ball on October 16, 2017, 11:19:41 AM
Very nice Francesco.  :)
Title: Re: BFFS Agincourt Project 2018 - WIP Francesco
Post by: Mike G on November 18, 2017, 07:50:17 AM
Finally, progress!
Title: Re: BFFS Agincourt Project 2018 - WIP Francesco
Post by: Hannibal on November 18, 2017, 10:05:30 AM
Good start Mike!  One of my characters is the same (left) !!
(Why would'nt you open a separate WIP post to let francesco finish his own?)
Title: Re: BFFS Agincourt Project 2018 - WIP Francesco
Post by: Mike G on November 18, 2017, 10:25:21 AM
Good question. I’ll post the finished pictures to a different post
Title: Re: BFFS Agincourt Project 2018 - WIP Francesco
Post by: fsbarile on November 20, 2017, 04:27:10 AM
The painting work up to now . Hope you enjoy them .
Francesco

Title: Re: BFFS Agincourt Project 2018 - WIP Francesco
Post by: Jean_Paul on November 20, 2017, 02:57:10 PM
 8) Nice ...
Title: Re: BFFS Agincourt Project 2018 - WIP Francesco
Post by: fsbarile on December 08, 2017, 12:12:16 PM
some more work on both figures
Cheers
Francesco
Title: Re: BFFS Agincourt Project 2018 - WIP Francesco
Post by: Ed Humphreys on December 08, 2017, 02:26:02 PM
I am not taking part in this project, but I did buy the set in Kulmbach, and have just mounted them in a diorama
Title: Re: BFFS Agincourt Project 2018 - WIP Francesco
Post by: Jean_Paul on December 08, 2017, 03:32:10 PM
Good job  8)
Title: Re: BFFS Agincourt Project 2018 - WIP Francesco
Post by: Mike G on December 08, 2017, 07:33:35 PM
That looks terrific Ed. Is it going into a picture frame?
Title: Re: BFFS Agincourt Project 2018 - WIP Francesco
Post by: Ed Humphreys on December 09, 2017, 03:11:41 AM
That's the final step, but I'll wait a few days in case I spot a problem, then put it behind glass in a frame.