MaulFan's Customs

[Indiana Fett]

Looks great so far MaulFan...I don't have my Faramir yet, but it's en-route. Will definitely be getting a repaint done on mine. The photos I've seen of the paint apps look TERRIBLE. The costume looks fantastic though. Shame the factory head ruins it.

 

[Zoomaround]

I love this Play-by-Play. I can't wait to see how this turns out. Thanks, Maulfan, for sharing the time it takes you to not only paint Faramir but take pics and describe the process. I love this board!

 

[DarkArtist81]

looking really great so far!! You can already see the likeness coming out!!

 

[MaulFan]

Last images for the evening. I put on the second coat of paint for the outside of Faramir's hairpiece, still need to add a second to the inside. I added some dark strokes to his beard to define hairs, now I need to add a light wash over it to tone it down a little. I love how SSC paints eyes and started out going to leave them as they were, but since the eyes on my Faramir were off, I'm repainting those, but it's getting late and my eyes are getting tired, so I'm learning from captain Jack and calling it quits and not pushing too far too soon. So hear he is semi put back together in progress.

 

[Ultimate Weapon]

Already a huge improvement! Keep us posted!

 

[Captain Faramir]

Wow! I can't wait to see more!

 

[twistedfreak]

Looks great so far MF! It's cool to see that not only can you do wicked computer graphics, but you also have an artistic hand! Cool man!

 

[FlyAndFight]

Looking good, MF! Keep those pics coming.

 

[MaulFan]

Well first up, I decided to take a little break from Faramir to start captain Jack again. My first paint of him, mainly his eyes, was absolutely atrocious. Thankfully, the paint came off with a little rubbing alcohol and I was able to start again. One lesson learned while painting him the first time, I found adding flesh tone over his eye shadow made for a smooth, make-up like blend, so to that end, I started like the first time, painting white over the eyes, then I used black to shape them and fill out enough for the fading of the flesh tone into the black. The right eye needs a little more shaping, but I'm very happy with the left, and instead of being disgusted looking over at him on my desk, now I look at the eyes and I hear Jack's voice in my head, he's getting close to Johnny, the eyes are so critical, that's the one area Medi lost him, nowhere near enough white showing. Another lesson I learned from my first attempt is patience. It's been a long week and I'm a little tired, so with this success, I've put him down and I'll do the skin tone later.

Here's a recap image of the first attempt:

Here's the latest effort:

 

[MaulFan]

And, since I didn't push with Jack, I chose not to push with Faramir either, but after how Jack's eyes turned out, I wanted to get to Faramir's, and I felt very successful with his right eye, so I chose to stop and let that be and go for the left a new day so it can be just as successful.

 

[MaulFan]

Well, I did some more with Captain Jack to start out the night. I don't think this image really shows well, but in person, he's really looking like Johnny in the eyes. I started out applying the flesh tone, then I painted on his mustache and eyebrows, and finished with putting the red on his jawline on the right side, whatever that's supposed to be. Next step will be to add light brown hairs for his cheeks.

 

[MaulFan]

And now for the big update, Faramir is 98% complete. I need to tweak with one of his eyes a little bit, then put gloss on them both and I'll be done with him. I started tonight by putting a very blonde coat of paint on his hair. After looking at images it was just a little too light, so I gave it a dark wash. After that I mixed up some flesh tone and put a new coat of tone on his skin and defined his eyes more, then I worked in a wash of flesh tone over his beard to work it down to faintly appear like it was stubble, except in the goatee area where it was a little more prominet. I then mixed a shade of maroon together and blended it with my flesh tone to paint his lips, and I finished by painting the iris' of his eyes, gave them very small pupils, added a small white spec to show glare, and then put the hair back on the head, put the head on the body and snapped these images.

 

[dekadentdave]

The way it should be. Really like the hair color. What colors did you use/mix?

 

[MaulFan]

Ok, for those interested, here is a breakdown of what I used to make Faramir to go with how I made him.

I used Apple Barrel paints, which can be found at Wal-Mart's crafts section for real cheap. I chose them not for price but out of memory. When I was a kid my mother used them on her crafts and I remembered that she always needed to get gloss medium to make it shine, and since I love very matte paints I knew this brand was the way to go.

The hair was done by using:
1 coat of 20779 Caramel Candy (which wasn't thick enough and let the SSC color show through)

1 coat of 20511 Brown Oxide

2nd coat of 20779 Caramel Candy (was far too blonde)

Final coat of 20779 Caramel Candy mixing dabs of 20511 Brown Oxide in while painting to darken it up a bit.

The face was done by using:
1 coat of 20514 Flesh, which is a bit peachy, mixed with a bit of 20779 Caramel Candy to brown it down to a flesh tone

1 wash of 20779 Caramel Candy for light beard toning

1 wash of 20511 Brown Oxide for beard detailing

1 coat of white paint for the eyes

2nd coat of 20514 Flesh and 20779 Caramel Candy mixture to shape the eyes and cover up excess white while also using the shade to wash over the beard area to thin it down to a stubble look

1 coat of 20533 Crimson mixed with 20779 Caramel Candy to get a more maroon red, applied to the lips then rubbed in some of my skin tone mix into the lip color to take it from lipstick looking to natural shade

1 coat of 20580 Pewter Grey with some white mixed in for the iris'

1 dab of black for pupils

1 dab of white for light spec on the eyes

And that's my "recipe" for Faramir. It took my first attempt at Jack Sparrow to get used to painting a head this small, but once I started on Faramir, my mind was able to work the same on painting a 3D head as it would a flat piece of canvas and my techniques for that applied and worked out.

 

[figuremasterles]

Great job! And isn't it interesting that when you get the hair the right shade, it matches the trim on his leather tunic....

Cool work dude!

 

[MaulFan]

Great job! And isn't it interesting that when you get the hair the right shade, it matches the trim on his leather tunic....

Cool work dude!

Thanks Les, means a lot to hear that from. I gained an even greater respect for you and Josh and Mikey and everyone else from painting this, it took a lot of patience, work, and love for what I was doing, and how you guys can do that consistently for the multitudes of the same heads, like your Chronos, and repeat the results is mind blowing.

 

[MaulFan]

Was taking some daylight photos today and wanted to take one of Cap Jack that was more flattering to my work, threw him on the body too cuz the floating head thing is a little weird, and I think the hat really makes a difference too, I'm loving the eyes, they're exactly how I wanted them to come out, now it's the fine details to finish it off, then some dirtying of his under shirt. I'm going to look for some small beads at Wal-Mart to stand in for the buttons on his coat, the film buttons are BIG so I figure some subtle round beads would capture that effect too, or maybe HT Jack will ship soon and it'll be irrelevant.

 

[Xander]

Faramir looks worlds better! You can especially see it in the hair. SSCs kinda looked like goo on his head, but your's looks great! And I can't wait to see how Jack comes out! Lookin' great so far!

 

[Captain Faramir]

Fantastic! Now the greatness of Faramir can shine through!

So . . .

Where are your amazing photo-shopped images, dude? I can't wait to see them! I'd give anything for a signature made by you of the figure in action!

 

[Mortar Conn]

Vast improvment on Faramir's HS, MaulFan. Thanks for sharing.

Can't wait to see what some of the other painters do with this sculpt too.