10-31-2011, 03:36 AM
Amazing work, as always! That is a lot of detail painting. Good job!
M. Demetrius Abicio
(David Wills)
Saepe veritas est dura.
(David Wills)
Saepe veritas est dura.
helmet transformation
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10-31-2011, 03:36 AM
Amazing work, as always! That is a lot of detail painting. Good job!
M. Demetrius Abicio
(David Wills) Saepe veritas est dura.
10-31-2011, 04:05 AM
Thanks David!
My main fear was to get the "net" correct, and i didn't really have a plan on how to do it. There are a number of ways to do a checker on a bowl, for instance, i could make each square of the same size, starting from the top, and see where that would bring me, or i could do the two sides separately etc. Instead i started buy doing the horizontal lines parallel to the ridge, and doing both sides together, so i could maintain a symetrical look. Then i did the vertical line, and here again i could choose between two ways to do that, i preferred bringing them to a point on the top. The rest wasn't so difficult but time consuming, since i even needed to pass two hands of the black squares, for instance. I'm not too patient with such things and i didn't pay so much attention to details, but i did leave a thin border of unpainted bronze around each white square. You can't see it in the photos but it does create a nice efect when you move the helmet in the light, and it makes a still shiny helmet. Khaire Giannis
Giannis K. Hoplite
a.k.a.:Giannis Kadoglou a.k.a.:Thorax
10-31-2011, 08:51 PM
Some paintings i based mine off of.
Note that one of them has the little circles in the brighter colour squares. [attachment=2009]A9903030503.jpg[/attachment] [attachment=2010]ac.jpg[/attachment] [attachment=2011]c.jpg[/attachment] [attachment=2012]dc001002w1.jpg[/attachment] Khairete Giannis
Giannis K. Hoplite
a.k.a.:Giannis Kadoglou a.k.a.:Thorax
10-31-2011, 09:14 PM
That's looking pretty nice! Well done.
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Jvrjenivs Peregrinvs Magnvs / FEBRVARIVS A.K.A. Jurjen Draaisma CORBVLO and Fectio ALA I BATAVORUM
10-31-2011, 10:58 PM
That looks great Giannis!
just a comment on the Deepeeka's I've seen, you early helmet looks like heavy plate in comparison to the paper thin one i saw! Great work on both helmet!! mile:
Visne partem mei capere? Comminus agamus! * Me semper rogo, Quid faceret Iulius Caesar? * Confidence is a good thing! Overconfidence is too much of a good thing.
[b]Legio XIIII GMV. (Q. Magivs)RMRS Remember Atuatuca! Vengence will be ours! Titus Flavius Germanus Batavian Coh I Byron Angel
10-31-2011, 11:12 PM
Looking good.
John Conyard
York A member of Comitatus Late Roman Reconstruction Group <a class="postlink" href="http://www.comitatus.net">http://www.comitatus.net <a class="postlink" href="http://www.historicalinterpretations.net">http://www.historicalinterpretations.net <a class="postlink" href="http://lateantiquearchaeology.wordpress.com">http://lateantiquearchaeology.wordpress.com
10-31-2011, 11:23 PM
Thanks guys, you give me courage, my mother saw the newly painted helmet on display and asked me what is this?
-I painted my helmet -which helmet is this? -MY helmet (note the emphasis when you own a MI helmet) -YOUR GOOD HELMET???!!! so i was a bit in doubt :-D Khairete Giannis
Giannis K. Hoplite
a.k.a.:Giannis Kadoglou a.k.a.:Thorax
10-31-2011, 11:41 PM
Yeah, it was pretty brave of you for sure, but the results payed off!! :lol:
Visne partem mei capere? Comminus agamus! * Me semper rogo, Quid faceret Iulius Caesar? * Confidence is a good thing! Overconfidence is too much of a good thing.
[b]Legio XIIII GMV. (Q. Magivs)RMRS Remember Atuatuca! Vengence will be ours! Titus Flavius Germanus Batavian Coh I Byron Angel
11-01-2011, 06:51 AM
Quote:YOUR GOOD HELMET???!!!:lol: I like your mum, Giannis. Wish mine knew as much about my armour.
Robert Vermaat
MODERATOR FECTIO Late Romans THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST (Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
11-01-2011, 08:03 PM
Well,do you display your armour in her own house, on the big tabe among her good crystal vases and the family photos? Then even she would know something about it :-D
I have to admit though that after her first shock she approved the painting! :-) To me,it gave a new interest, kind of as if i bought a new helmet.
Giannis K. Hoplite
a.k.a.:Giannis Kadoglou a.k.a.:Thorax |
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