Godfather ODIN

[OLVAR]

Hello friends, here I am again.
First, I want to show you how I paint the first time a flat figure with oil paints.
The head of Odin is primed:

[MSea]

Hi Oli it is great to have you back on line with the club. 
Looking forward to seeing your flat figure painted.

[zak]

I always look at flats and wonder how the painters achieve the 3D effect.
Nice to have you back and this will be interesting.

[Roger]

Likewise, very interested to see how this is done.

[Bigkev]

Hi Oli,
Nice to have you back!
Cheers,
Bigkev

[OLVAR]

Hello friends, I am also happy to be back.
Thank you all.

The skin is with burnt sienna 5% and turpentine 95% brushed
it will dry for a few minutes
Then, with turpentine, wipe the raised areas
( Oh man I hope the program translates correctly)

[OLVAR]

With skin color, the skin is brushed and dabbed with the other color.
The highlights are set with white

[OLVAR]

The helmet is painted black.
Then brushed in iron color.
With white, gold the highlights are set.

[OLVAR]

Now the hair.
With yellow then with brown and dark brown the shadows

[OLVAR]

The highlights with white

[OLVAR]

paint the wings with white and dark gray

[OLVAR]

Now the most important, the eyes.
With black the inside of the eye, white the eyeball
Blue and black the pupil and finally a point of light with white.
Make another eyepatch and Odin is ready for Walhalla

[zak]

Valhalla indeed, it is a great job and nice to see how it is done.

[Bigkev]

Perfect explanation Oli.
Great to see just how you achieve such a great finish, a lesson to be learnt to all of us, aeroplane, ship, and military modellers. The techniques will surely be able to be used whatever the genre.
Cheers,
Bigkev

[Roger]

Oli, you made that look easy! Great explanation thanks.

Roger