Tsarevich Alexei (1 Viewer)

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Hi All,

I bought a Russian casting of the above at a reasonable price and started to look for reference pics to help in the painting. There are no pics of a Cossack carrying Alexei dressed in a sailor uniform.

 

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This was the casting. The right foot appears shorter. I decided to cut off both boots and reinsert wire to balance the height. However, the foreshortened photo doesn't appear to show this clearly. I've decided to paint the Russian coat in red to contrast against the white sailor suit.

 

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The faces are being painted in oils. I am trying to contrast the skin tones - pale sickly boy versus swarthy Cossack.

 

[Napoleon1er]

The faces are coming along quite well! Do you know who made the figure?

 

[blaster]

Hello Sandor,

This is the company:-
http://tin-soldiers.org/54mm-miniat...turies/cossack-with-the-tsarevich-alexei.html



Rgds Victor

 

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Some minor progress.

 

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Starting to move on this piece. Almost done except for sailor collar and some gilt paint.

 

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Finished on this piece.

 

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While waiting for putty to harden, paint to dry etc, I was flipping over some of my old threads and decided to retake final pics for some of them. Some of these pieces looked better after the oils had dried nicely or I had added a thin layer of dullcote to matt the surfaces. Anyway, enjoy!

 

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Painted the eyes and the knuckles.

 

[Obee]

Victor,

I've also painted one of these figures for a local collector who wanted them all in gloss...



Show with Rasputin, Lenin and a ballerina.

John