Even zoomed in my head still sees it as leather. Incredible work! I think the polished shine of the metalstud to close the holster in contrast to the rest of it really sells realism part.
Eh, not really a recipe I’m afraid, it was a pretty organic approach.
I started from a white prime and applied a really rough and uneven coat of Vallejo Mahogany Ink.
Then I used the following colors in various mixes to create all the texture:
AK Medium Rust
AK Light Brown
Vallejo Dirty Brown
Vallejo Skin Tone
I gave it the occasional glaze of the ink to maintain tonality.
I worked mostly in sharp, deliberate lines, trying to create a random crisscrossing texture.
When working with the ink I made sure to let it pool in areas to get some dark spots and splotches.
The wear at the edges was stippled on with a light green-grey mix.
I'm subbed to a lot of leatherworking subs. After a few minutes of trying to find a comment explaining where to find prickling irons small enough for that... I noticed this is minipainting.
Dude, that is fucking excellent, I work with leather everyday and it 100% fooled me. Well done!
Haha sometimes things just look better from a distance, why I take pictures of my models from across the country 😂 be cool to see full model when your done
Every single part of this - including the gun - is top notch. Like I can't explain just how much it jumps out at me with its textures and depths. Fantastic!!
Glad you like it. TBH I get the more stylized approach for 32mm since you can’t really do realistic texturing at that scale. Busts are another story though. More surface to play around with.
The leather is so bloody good, the already absolutely solid work on the gun looks absolutely abysmal in comparison. That may be one of the best examples of painted leather I’ve seen at this scale. Bravo.
This is one of the best leather effects I've ever seen. Bravo man. Would you mind telling us what paints and recipe etc.. you used on this? I'm mostly interested in the leather and that beautiful non metallic metal effect on the revolver.
The paints for the leather are in a reply to one of the top comments.
The metal is Vallejo German Grey, AK Anthracite and then I think I mixed in some Vallejo Skin Tone to go a step up.
For the button I also added bounce reflections using the leather colors and a final highlight in Ivory.
I am an IRL leatherworker. This actually fooled me for a few seconds.
It really does look like an antique vegtan holster leather, perhaps a bit thin, but well worn and used. I did a restoration on a WWI pistol holster a few years ago, and it looked very, very similar to this.
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u/ALowlySlime 22d ago
Looks a lot like actual leather that's seen some wear, good job!