Friday 20 January 2023

Greyscale Gangster


Angels with Filthy Souls is a highly-quotable 80 second metafilm, created for and shown within the classic Home Alone (1990). Starring Ralph Foody as Johnny and Michael Guido as Snakes, it is an homage to the gangster classic Angels with Dirty Faces (1938). There is a good Vanity Fair article about it here.

This is a free digital figure from Wargames Atlantic. The barrel is a bit delicate, but it was a fun figure to paint. I like the shirt garters! I was heavily influenced by Carmen 'Fun Painty Time' Cerra as I learned about greyscale and value painting. I was lucky to have a black and white source to refer to!





This was a technical task from the Analogue Hobbies Challenge. I started with a black undercoat, drybrushed white. I used a dark grey highlighted with a mid grey, the mid grey highlighted with a light grey, and the light grey highlighted with white. There's room for improvement with the tommy gun and maybe I could pick out the tie pattern, but that was enough for now. I'm not going to start a whole greyscale project- but it would be fun...

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  1. Wow, this is wonderful. I find it particularly difficult to achieve, as I believe my mind would be thinking 'in colour' during the whole process, but you really got this one perfect. I love it!

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    1. Copying a black and white source helps, but it wasn't as hard as I expected!

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  2. Very interesting and great job on the grey scale, I remember seeing a night raid for ECW once, that looked really impressive. Now for grey scale terrain ;-)
    Cheers
    Stu

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    1. I agree you've got to go all in for the best effect- figures and terrain.

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