- Paperback: 48 pages
- Publisher: Verlinden Productions Inc (January 1993)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1930607334
- ISBN-13: 978-1930607330
- Product Dimensions: 29 x 20.1 x 0.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 249 g
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The authors of this series, Francois Verlinden and Bob Letterman, have a combined experience of almost 80 years in building models. Read the first page
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The authors of this series, Francois Verlinden and Bob Letterman, have a combined experience of almost 80 years in building models. Read the first page
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3.5 out of 5 stars (4 customer reviews)
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The way to go!, Mar 26 2000
By Federico Kereki - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The System: Figure Painting (Paperback)
This is a quite excellent book on figure painting. The emphasis is on 120mm scale figures (Verlinden, of course) but you can (I did!) apply the principles to other scales, such as 1/35 or 54mm.Though you always must experiment on your own (or else you won't learn anything), the book is a great help for getting started, and I always have it nearby whenever I'm painting figures.
I guess that with this book and Sheperd Paine's (on the same topic) you won't need anything else.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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OK, but not technical enough, Mar 12 2003
By MDMike "mdmikemd" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The System: Figure Painting (Paperback)
I have been model building for over 20 years, but only last year did I start painting figures. Most of my models had no figures or were done uninspired with acrylics. I finally decided to use oils and this book helped a lot with techniques for shading and highlighting. It's shortcoming was that they just said mix a base fleshtone, and add this color or that. I would really have liked ratios such as 4 parts raw umber, 1 part yellow ochre, etc. If it wasn't for my years of experience, I might have been been upset about this. Model building is a lot of trial and error and I had the patience to persevere, but a lot of paint was lost in these experiments. I can't say this is for someone with little experience but for model builders who can see a color and know what mix they need, it shouldn't be too much of a challenge.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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The System-What's the mix?, Dec 14 2002
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The System: Figure Painting (Paperback)
The book overall was good. The only flaw is when it tells the oils to use but it doesn't tell the mix for the first step. It shows the oils layed out and has them labeld but in the text it doesn't tell what all of them are. Some you can go by the color but for the first step it just says mixture A, but it doesn't say what mixture A is. It could have used a few more step by step photos in the beginning also.
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