Figures done! (Patreon)

My friends, these have to be the most difficult figures I've ever painted! It's not that the sculpts are bad or anything, these are Alpine figures, after all, but I just find US soldiers difficult. I noticed this even when I was painting that single paratrooper for the watermill diorama. The more gear, pouches, backpacks and whatnot the figure has, the more time it takes you to paint everything.

Also, the black and white preshading technique doesn't work so well on lighter colors, so their jackets needed a lot of extra work. But in the end, well, I don't see them as my best figures, but I'm very proud of them!

I won't lie when I say that painting these was truly back-breaking work because although I finished them yesterday, my back still hurts :D I'd say painting them took somewhere between 30-40 hours total. I spent the last 3 and a half days on them, pretty much non-stop. Maybe I'm just an extremely slow painter, but I'm damn glad that they're done!

You'll find some progress shots in the gallery so you can see how they came to life.