Painted Figures by George Hatzopoulos

1/48 Creations (part 3)

2009-01-22T01:04:00.000-08:00

As this is my first post for 2009 I wish you all a happy new year, my latest sculpt is a Panzer Officer in Winter Uniform and I hope you like it.

The figure will be available from YS Masterpieces in mid February.

Now I can’t wait to paint him for the box art.

Cheers George

1/48 Creations (part 2)

2008-07-19T05:39:00.000-07:00

The second bunch of figures are a continuation of the first one, 2 more Fallshirmjagers with what I call a “Cretan Ambulance” this way a small vignette can be made, due to be released like the first ones by YS Msterpieces.

Cheers

George

1/48 Creations

2008-06-30T00:21:00.000-07:00

It has been a long time since my last post, it was around that time when a friend of mine asked me if I could sculpt for him figures in 1/48 scale, I wasn’t sure if I could do it because I had made some attempts of sculpting 28mm figures for my own but they were all left unfinished. A few days ago the first two sculpts where released by his company YS Masterpieces with a few more for future releases and on my workbench. Things are starting slow mostly because I m not the most experienced sculptor in the world and the 1/48 scale is one of the hardest (especially with the standards set so high by Mr. Meier) but I feel that we are having a good start…
Unfortunately due to a problem I lost most of my photos of the first two figures but what was saved are now in the new gallery of 1/48 Creations

Cheers

George

2007-11-15T04:45:00.000-08:00

Here are the latest photos, things are moving slowly on this one since I m mostly trying to finish my first sculpting commission.

A Closer look on his face

Cheers

George

A small preview of the next figures

2007-11-09T08:34:00.000-08:00

This is the next pirate, half finished at the moment…

And some conversions I have made on my next Fow platoon in order to create a FJ Sky troopers Platoon Leningrad winter 1942

Anne Bonny is on ebay

2007-11-06T08:47:00.000-08:00

Just to let you know that Anne Bonny is on eBay now
Here is the link:

Anne Bonny by GHpainting

Blackbeard's first shipmate Anne Bonny

2007-11-01T00:24:00.000-07:00

The travel on the High Seas continue with Blackbeard’s first shipmate Anne Bonny
More photos at “the Pirates” gallery

Cheers
George

New Album FOW Germans.

2007-10-30T03:30:00.000-07:00

It has been a wile since my last post, in the mean time I was able to visit Strategicon Club in Athens and to my surprise I watched a FOW game. When I came back I started searching under the piles of metal and found some 15mm Battlefront Figures and started painting them. The result was a 1943 Pzgrenadier platoon.
Hope you’ll enjoy the photos on the New Album

The BLACKBEARD

2007-09-04T02:48:00.000-07:00

When I learned that a new Warhammer Ancient Battles Supplement is coming up, this time for Pirates, I thought that it was time to start painting some.
My First Figure is from the Foundry range, Captain Edward Teach better known as BLACKBEARD, and as you can see in my WIP album the rest of his Pals are to follow. My goal is to collect Pirate figures from the following companies Wargames Foundry, Brigade Games, Black Scorpion, Artizan Designs, Crusader Miniatures and Musketeer Miniatures.

A New project Pirates!!!

2007-08-28T09:23:00.000-07:00

Since I received the first three Pirates Blisters on last Thursday I couldn’t help my self I had to start painting them I tried not to for three days but yesterday I started cleaning them up and undercoated them so here a new additional project in my WIP Album

Work in Progress album

2007-08-23T07:42:00.000-07:00

I have created a new album where I will upload pictures of WIP for the new and future projects.
Currently I m working on two single figure projects, the first is Richard the Lionhart and the other Slaine and in the WIP album you will find pictures of what I have done so fur.

Cheers

George

Fallshirmjager Squad Finished

2007-08-19T02:34:00.000-07:00

I finally found the time to finish and publish the photos of the finished Fallschirmjager Squad so I have created a new Gallery for them hopefully in the future I will be able to add more Fallschirmjager squads from other WWII theatres where the Fallschrimjagers had fought.
I hope you’ll enjoy them.

Cheers
George

WIP Fallschrimjager Squad Part Four

2007-07-21T01:36:00.000-07:00

This time I have painted the remaining trousers, bandoliers, knee protection and bread bag in Luftwaffe blue grey, the gasmask bag in a more greenish light olive grey, the belts and Y straps in light red brown leather and the canteen felt cover in red brown the uncovered helmets and everything that should be painted in Field Grey I also have tried to take photos with more light in order to better see the LW Splinter Camouflage.
It has been two weeks since I’ve started this unit and I think that it starts to look like Ronald’s Volstad illustrations of German Fallschrimjagers at Crete from witch I has inspired, don’t you think?

The colors I have used for the Lw Splinter cammo are all Vallejo Model Colors

Field Color
a) German Field Grey
b) Khaki
c) Ivory

Brown Pattern
a) German Cam. Black Brown
b) Flat Brown
c) Desert Yellow

Green Pattern
a) German Cam Dark Green
b) Dessert Yellow

Cheers

George

WIP Fallschrimjager Squad Part Three

2007-07-14T07:46:00.000-07:00

Well I think these are the pictures you all expected to see so was I. The Jump Smokes in the Luftwaffe Splinter Camouflage are finally finished…

Cheers

George

WIP 28mm Fallschrimjager Squad Part Two

2007-07-12T05:32:00.000-07:00

The next stage was to paint some of the jump smokes and Helmet camouflage cover in the light olive grey color the rest will be painted in the Luftwaffe “Splinter B” camouflage.

WIP 28mm Fallschrimjager Squad Part Two

2007-07-12T01:07:00.000-07:00

WIP Fallschrimjager Squad from Crete to Leningrad

2007-07-10T21:51:00.000-07:00

As I had finished the three Generals I was looking for a new project of a unit this time. I had started painting a unit of Cretan archers because I wanted something simple but painting just flesh and black was to simple so as I was searching my boxes of metal I found out that I had some Foundry’s German Fallschrimjagers, enough to create a squad, and a far more interesting subject don’t you agree? So a new project started on Friday and this is what I have done so far, I have finished all the flesh and the grey green trousers, some hands were left to be painted with black gloves.

100 days War French Army

2007-06-30T08:07:00.000-07:00

Today I’ve finally finished the three Generals of Division for the twins so there is a new Gallery at my photo album 100 days War French Army, hope you enjoy it.
As always comment are welcomed

Cheers George

I am the LAW!!!

2007-06-25T08:50:00.001-07:00

I have just finished one of my favoured comic heroes JUDGE DREDD, I wanted to participate with him on the SD forum 10th painting competition but I didn’t manage to have him ready on time so here he is.

My new Group

2007-06-10T09:01:00.000-07:00

In order to expand the limitations of this blog I have created a yahoo group for those wishing to discuss about painting and collecting minis and updated news of my work. Check the links

Painting Prince Jerome Bonaparte for the battle of Waterloo

2007-06-09T05:47:00.000-07:00

In order to celebrate my blogg I thought what a better way than a tutorial so here is a tutorial of how I painted for display Jerome Bonaparte of Perry Miniatures.

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After having cleared the figure from any mould lines and washed it with an old toothbrush and warm soapy water I mounted it on a “cavalry stand” I primed it with mat black (Humbrol’s Mat 33) in two thin coats.
A small suggestion at this point: let the paint in the tin settle and use only the thick part mixed with white spirit at a ratio of 30%/70% paint to white spirit, this will give you a perfect mat result.
(I would like to thank Mr Kevin Dallimore for searing this advise with us among others. As you will discover as I move on, my approach on the mater isn’t far from his after all I learned painting figures by studying his work from pictures in Wargames Illustrated)

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The first thing I paint on the figure is the face this is the most important part because I believe that this is the first we look on others (most of us at least) so I start painting the eyes with White with a touch of Basic Flesh. I use GW white for this as it has good coverage and opacity in small amounts. Painting correct eyes is one of the hardest parts in miniature painting and only thought try and error, most of the times, can be achieved if you are not satisfied you can always try to correct with a little black

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The next to paint are the iris here painted with Chocolate Brown.
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Been satisfied with the eyes now I can move on painting the face.
Usually in the past I would use Foundry’s Flesh with the addition of WF Spearshaft A but for this figure I wanted something different so I mixed my own paints.
For the deepest shadow (DS) I mixed Mahogany Sand and Orange Brown (approximately 60/40%) with a touch of English Uniform.
For the middle tone (MT) I mixed Beige Red and Orange Brown (approximately 60/40%) with a touch of English Uniform.
And for my furthest highlight (FH) I used Basic Flesh.
Having prepared my three basic tones I started by applying the first one DS in two or three layers to most of the face leaving a very five black line around the eyes and a line for the mouth.
I use what most painters call “layering” starting from the deepest shadow in order to achieve this correctly you have to keep your paint fairly thinned and try to avoid “building up” and all those things are better described by Mr. Fuentes here:
http://www.ttfxmedia.com/vallejo/cgi-bin/_modelis.asp?p1=ing&p2=modelcolortecnicas
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While the first tone was drying I prepared the second one mixing DS with MT at a ratio of approximately 50/50% and applied it covering most of the previous tone except from the places where the deepest shadow occur as you can see on the picture above.

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The third tone was my middle tone

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For the first highlight I mixed MD and Basic Flesh at a ratio of approximately 70/30% and applied it to the most prominent parts of the face

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For the second highlight I added more Basic Flesh to the previous tone so the ratio became approximately 30/70% MD to Basic Flesh

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The third and final highlight was pure Basic Flesh applied to just really high points of the face.
At this point I realized that one iris was bigger than the other so I fixed it

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In order to paint the lower lip I added a little Scarlet to my MT (this mixture would later be used as “glaze”) and applied it, this was highlighted by adding some Basic Flesh.
As I mentioned before I created a glaze by adding just a touch of the colour into water and applied it on the shadows of the cheek bones and finally another glaze this time of black paint was used in order to paint the “five o clock” shadow.
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The paints I have used are
VMC 846 Mahogany Sand
VMC 981 Orange Brown
VMC 804 Beige Red
VMC 872 Chocolate Brown
GW White

GW Black

thank you for now

George