Global Scale Modeller

This will be my second submission for the GB,
Conan the Barbarian.
I've been a Conan fan ever since I saw Arnold grunting his way through the first movie.
I saw this figure and I was sold.





















I'll probably start Conan here near mid to late October.

Another great entry dude, your really picking some great subjects

More Man boobs Coen?

Looks like a great figure dude.

Pegaso Models have really managed to capture the likeness of Arnie on this figure haven't they? Well, it looks like they have from the box art.

Maybe you should rename him as "Coen The Barbarian"

EpoxySniffer wrote:Pegaso Models have really managed to capture the likeness of Arnie on this figure haven't they? Well, it looks like they have from the box art.

Maybe you should rename him as "Coen The Barbarian"

Love it, all he needs then is a really bad accent like lennys arnie, mind you coen is canadian

Paul wrote:

EpoxySniffer wrote:Pegaso Models have really managed to capture the likeness of Arnie on this figure haven't they? Well, it looks like they have from the box art.

Maybe you should rename him as "Coen The Barbarian"

Love it, all he needs then is a really bad accent like lennys arnie, mind you coen is canadian

There's a challenge for your next YouTube video Coen, you have to do the entire thing in a Rastafarian accent.

WOW mate looks amazing. Love Conan to mate so looking forward to seeing you smash this out.

Another nice figure on the bench. You certainly like to keep busy!

Thanks guys.
Sorry about the late replys this weekend.
My buddy Dave the Carpenter is here helping me build my deck, and he's brought his whole family. So things aren't exactly quiet around here.
I haven't had anytime to sit in front of the computer at all.

Rastefarian?
I doubt that I could pull that off, I'm terrible with accents.
I have a hard enough time hiding my own. haha.
Coen the Barbarian. hahahahahaa!!!!
More like Coen the Ogre... maybe I'll do that for a fourth entry later. haha.
Conan here I hope to start in a couple of weeks if all goes as planned.

Coen wrote:Thanks guys.
Sorry about the late replys this weekend.
My buddy Dave the Carpenter is here helping me build my deck, and he's brought his whole family. So things aren't exactly quiet around here.
I haven't had anytime to sit in front of the computer at all.

Rastefarian?
I doubt that I could pull that off, I'm terrible with accents.
I have a hard enough time hiding my own. haha.
Coen the Barbarian. hahahahahaa!!!!
More like Coen the Ogre... maybe I'll do that for a fourth entry later. haha.
Conan here I hope to start in a couple of weeks if all goes as planned.

Terry Pratchett mentioned Cohen the Barbarian in a few of his books "Hence the term 'wholesale destruction'"

Cause retail destruction is so pedestrian and dull.
Hahaha

Mr. Conan is assembled and primed!
A few tiny touch ups and he's all set to get his skin on.
Best yet... NO TARTAN!!!

Nice, looks like a great figure

Looking forward to seeing these mate

Uhm. .....I think you made a type -o ......



I think this guy is called Cöen the barbarian and not Conan. ......

Coen the Modellbarian haha... that's a good one.

Cöen the barbarian... hahahahahah!!!!
I haven't gone to the gym since the early 90s... I was never as big as our Austrian buddy Mr. Schwarzenegger here... but I won Mr. Windsor second place two times in a row.
a couple of decades ago......

Aw a mini Coen oops sorry I ment Conan lol.




















He is looking great mate.

looks a great model of yourself the detail is fantastic and doesn't look like Arnie either another kind of build to add to a growing list.
Tom

Yardy har har har!!!

Coen the Canadian!

Nice!

HahahahaH!!!!! nice one Rob!!! hahaha

Conan... got paint!!!
The majority of him is basecoated. Next will be to start layering skin colours.

Sorry about the crappy picture quality... someone was using my camera to take pictures of kids opening presents this morning and forgot to put it back.
So I had to use the doodad.

Great start dude.

This really is a nice figure you got yourself their.

Looks great mate. Can't wait to see the skin and how you do it.

Looking good mate, is it just me that can see a clint eastwood dirty harry look in his face though lol

These are a bit clearer... I've reclaimed my camera.
Now you'll be able to see all the mistakes haha.

Mistakes hahaha that just looks better.

[Austrian English] Nao dis ar som bretty cool lookin pants and boots!

Nice work Coen


cool figure



Shane

Thanks Guys.
The challenge on Conan here will be his skin. Getting all that to work out is going to be a pain.

HamilkarBarkas wrote:[Austrian English] Nao dis ar som bretty cool lookin pants and boots!

Hahaha!!!!! Nice!!!

yer closs... gib dem to mea... nao!

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I heard you like Darth Vader and maybe Schwarzenegger too?

I think that I swallowed my own teeth cause I was laughing soo hard ahahahah!!!! .

Conan... in layers....at least 6.
6 layers of colour it took to build up his skin tone. First the base coat of Model Master Dark Skin,
That I sprayed on with the airbrush right on top of the primer.
Then a a few wicked thin coats of Model Master Skin Shadow.
Then a couple of the Model Master Highlights.
Then I mixed two layers of Vallejo Flat skin tone and burnt cad Red one thicker than the other and built that up until it all looked smooth and even.

I'll finish it off with a light thin wash of burnt umber oils to give him a bit of a tan, then I'll gloss coat him and add another wash of umber and black for the shadows. I will try to nail his high points with a the same final colour of the Vallejo skin and Cad Red. A bit of gentle thin dry brushing should do it.

I should have him finished buy the due date... I didn't think that would happen.
The Geisha won't unfortunately. I'll start building her tomorrow though. I know that I'll be long from finishing her by the time the deadline rolls around.

WOW!!!!

Those skin tones are perfect - the striations in his back muscles could be a photograph.

Gorgeous!

Stunning work

Beautiful skin tones dude, Arnie would be proud.

Massive Arnie and Conan fan, so really looking forward to this model, sucker for a good figure painting.

I know you're primarily an tank kind of guy, and looking to branch out, well sir, you have the potential to be an absolutely amazing figure painter.

Great work buddy love the skin tones, great job.

You know looking at this, that figure could have been molded from me

Paul wrote:Great work buddy love the skin tones, great job.

You know looking at this, that figure could have been molded from me

I assume you mean the 'dance' stance? lol

Drazimo wrote:

Paul wrote:Great work buddy love the skin tones, great job.

You know looking at this, that figure could have been molded from me

I assume you mean the 'dance' stance? lol

No I meant the ripped buff body

Sure thing (snicker)...
You bet...
I was thinking he was more like me....
NOT!!

But hey you're so much prettier than I am Paul


Thanks fellas... I don know about how good of a figure painter I am, I've seen some wonderful stuff done by you fellas.... It's soooo awesome.
But I am having way too much fun with these.

Ha ha

Last of my efforts for the weekend.
I've done four washes of really thin burnt umber oils to give him a tan, waited a couple of hours for that to dry.
Then I hit all the high spots on his skin with the same colour that I used to make his skin but with a drop of white.
The combination of the white and the under layer of the umber really made the shadows come alive... I don't know why.
Then I dry brushed him with about 5 layers of wicked thinned Vallejo Air Hemp. There was almost no paint on the brush, the effect that it gave blew my mind. I'd never seen it before. I was really happy with it. I decided then that I wasn't going to bugger with it any more. I'd already spent the entire day on his skin.
Then I turned to the rest of him. I touched up all the details with overspray, added some definition to a few bits with some dry brushing with Vallejo tan.
I painted his hair codpiece and boot fur then dry brushed with white, then with hemp.
Then I painted the ground work. All over burnt umber acrylic from Model Master, then I picked out the details like the floor and the dead dude with vallejo.

I need to finish his "Wheel of Pain" amulet, figure out what to do about his eyes, and give the groundwork a wash of dark earth and light dirt/sand mix.
Then I'll call him el'completo!

Wow looking good !
Coën the Canadian is turning very nice

Haha... Thanks Sebastian

Looks absolutely outstanding.

Awesome techniques mate, cracking work, although I wouldn't go around telling everyone you spent the weekend touching up Conan

I did spend an inordinate amount of time on his boobies.

Coen wrote:
I did spend an inordinate amount of time on his boobies.

OK. ............... You'd better stop talking now Coën

Dirty boy