EYES
FLESH 1
FLESH 2
FLESH 3
FLESH 5
FLESH 4
AKHENATON
Steve Saleh has sculpted another very fine model in
Akhenaton, based on the superb Jesse McGibney
artwork. I hadn’t seen the picture when I started work on
him, and was working from just the written description,
which led to a several small mistakes on my part! But it
was great to have the artwork to work from later on, as
often I find with not-strictly historical models I am left
wondering, just what colours do I use? Not that I’m
saying Akhenaton wouldn’t look great in a purple lounge
suit, but I went with the official illustration in, In Her
Majesty’s Name.
EYES & FLESH
Akhenaton, has a wonderful face. With the great cheek
bones and stern brow you would expect in any self-
respecting crazed megalomaniac bent on world
domination! I wanted the Egyptians to have a noticeably
different tone their skin and planned my painting
accordingly.
The eyes are nicely realised too, so it really just a matter
of painting what detail there is, well almost (this was my
initial mistake; I painted his eyes white with brown
pupils!). His eyes are of course yellow with black irises. I
used the mistake of painting them white first to my
advantage and left the white as an undercoat for the
yellow, which isn’t the strongest of pigments and needs
something to bolster it up a bit. I then dotted the irises in
black over the brown mistakes, and no one will ever
know…
Also he does have a lot of eye makeup, for which you
there is no real answer but to paint it like the picture in
the book, or now copy what I have done here. I didn’t
paint it on at this stage, because I was still debating
whether to paint the eye make at all. I always find this
kind of detail tricky, as it is more like proper artwork, and
difficult to correct the final result if you make a mistake.
Akhenaton, based on the superb Jesse McGibney
artwork. I hadn’t seen the picture when I started work on
him, and was working from just the written description,
which led to a several small mistakes on my part! But it
was great to have the artwork to work from later on, as
often I find with not-strictly historical models I am left
wondering, just what colours do I use? Not that I’m
saying Akhenaton wouldn’t look great in a purple lounge
suit, but I went with the official illustration in, In Her
Majesty’s Name.
EYES & FLESH
Akhenaton, has a wonderful face. With the great cheek
bones and stern brow you would expect in any self-
respecting crazed megalomaniac bent on world
domination! I wanted the Egyptians to have a noticeably
different tone their skin and planned my painting
accordingly.
The eyes are nicely realised too, so it really just a matter
of painting what detail there is, well almost (this was my
initial mistake; I painted his eyes white with brown
pupils!). His eyes are of course yellow with black irises. I
used the mistake of painting them white first to my
advantage and left the white as an undercoat for the
yellow, which isn’t the strongest of pigments and needs
something to bolster it up a bit. I then dotted the irises in
black over the brown mistakes, and no one will ever
know…
Also he does have a lot of eye makeup, for which you
there is no real answer but to paint it like the picture in
the book, or now copy what I have done here. I didn’t
paint it on at this stage, because I was still debating
whether to paint the eye make at all. I always find this
kind of detail tricky, as it is more like proper artwork, and
difficult to correct the final result if you make a mistake.
EYES
1.
His whites are AP-WP1102 - Matt White,
then AP-WP1107 - Daemonic Yellow
2.
The irises are AP-WP1101 - Matt Black
FLESH
1.
AP-WP1124 - Oak Brown
plus AP-WP1122 - Fur Brown
2.
plus AP-WP1122 - Fur Brown
3.
pure AP-WP1122 - Fur Brown
4.
pure AP-WP1127 - Tanned Flesh
5.
AP-WP1127 - Tanned Flesh
plus AP-WP1102 - Matt White