Comments: Softcover, 52 pages, color photos
ISSN: 2241-1054
Price: $20
Publisher: Mr. Black Publications
From the publisher: We decided to celebrate our 20th edition in the Figure Modeling series by featuring only World War I and World War II themes, our two most popular periods, with 11 different articles written by four well-known artists that feature tips and techniques for miniature figures, busts, and vignettes. Chosen subjects are illustrated with step-by-step photos and explanatory texts.
Sergey Popovichenko presents a 180mm bust sculpted by Young B. Song and produced by Young Miniatures, painting with oils and acrylics to depict a British infantryman at the Battle of the Somme in 1916. Eight pages with 58 step-by-step photos reveal painting, weathering, and how to add life to this resin bust.
Mike Butler presents another eight-page feature capturing a moment in history using a 54mm five-figure set by The Fusilier. The sculpting by Steve Warrilow depicts ANZACs on Chunuk Bair, Gallipoli Campaign, August 1915. Mike used original soil from the ground there!
A three-page feature by Stelios Neofytidis brings to life a 75mm German Stormtrooper sculpted by Andrew Cairns and produced in resin by AC Models.
Mr. Black Studio teams up to model the WWI flying ace Eduard-Maria Joseph Ritter von Schleich, known as the “Black Knight of Germany,” using a 54mm figure designed by American miniaturist Mike Good and produced by Model Cellar. Get the necessary mixing recipes for creating a natural-looking leather flying coat with Vallejo acrylics and artist’s oils.
Stelios strikes again with an article about the WWI Canadian flying ace, Billy Bishop, another figure sculpted by Mike Good and produced by Model Cellar. Painting dark-tone leathers is key to the project.
In a seven-page feature with 45 step-by-step photos, Toshihiro Sano presents a guide to painting Young Miniatures’ 180mm bust of a WWII German U-boat commander using Tamiya enamels.
Following is a two-figure scene, Barbarossa, set in the first days of the German invasion of the Soviet Union. Mr. Black Studio collaborates to explains how to make minor conversions of commercial figure kits to produce a simple but unique vignette.
With his winter scene based on the 1944 Ardennes campaign, Toshihiro Sano uses an Alpine Miniatures 1/35 scale U.S. infantry officer to explain his color-mixing recipes.
For his two-figure Third Battle of Kharkov, Stelios used an Alpine and a Sovereign 2000 figure, changing the heads to produce personalities totally different from the original kits! Tips and techniques help create the ideal WWII winter scene.
Somewhere in Stalingrad is the title of yet another winter vignette by Mr. Black Studio. Warriors’ three-figure kit is out of production, but the same techniques can apply to similar figures.
Toshihiro Sanos impresses with his 120mm German officer bust. Originally an Alpine Miniatures work sculpted by Mike Good, it was converted by Taesung Harmms. Using Tamiya enamels, Toshihiro demonstrates his award-winning form.
FSM says: Excellent step-by-step for painting faces in particular and scale figures overall.