Fran G. Project: "On the Bridge"

A long time ago, one of my best friends, Fran Gil, who is a master modeller for me and a great inspiration, even if he avoids totally the network, proposed me to cooperate in a couple of small scenes.

I of course accepted, but circumstances forced me to paint only in my free time, and that's not so much at all! Because of that, this second scene took me to complete it for almost 2 years. It's an insane amount of time.

This scene shows a couple of warriors on a robe bridge broken. We'll let at your imagination if Minotaur is saving or killing the other guy ;-). It was completely conversed by Fran and painted by me.

I know it does not reach my usual painting standards, but Fran is very happy with it in his showcase anyway, and also, I had some fun painting it.

Hope you like it too!

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First scene of 2016

[Es] Como sabéis hace tiempo Francisco Gil y yo llegamos a un acuerdo para realizar tres escenas en colaboración entre él y yo. La primera fue "Treasure Hunter", y también probablemente la más espectacular de todas, con idea de presentarla a Monte San Savino.

Esta es la segunda de ellas, es mucho más light y su destino es la vitrina personal de Fran. Es una escena ligera, simpática, basada en "Acero Puro" (Real Steel), la película de robots boxeadores. Fran la tenía conversionada y a medio pintar desde hace tiempo y no sacaba nunca un rato para terminarla, así que me hice cargo y desde este sábado la tiene en su vitrina cogiendo polvo, pero pintada ;D

Notese el "gag" (a Fran siempre le gusta incluir uno o dos) de que la victoria se produce por "falta de batería", que le ha quitado la pila vamos :)

Aún queda una escena por pintar, mucho más clásica y algo más espectacular, en 30mm, espero que esto sea solo el principio, porque Fran es realmente bueno haciendo escenas y tiene cosas que quiere pintar él, pero que yo espero que al final me las deje a mi porque me encantan y se que nunca las va a acabar (guiño guiño)

[En] As you know some time ago Francisco Gil end myself get an greement to do 3 scenes as coworks between us. First one was "Treasure Hunter" and maybe the most espectacular of all of them, with the idea to enter it to Monte San Savino.

This is the second one of them, is the lighter one and it's destiny is Fran's own showcase. It's a very fast scene, very funny, based on "Real Steel", the boxing robots movie. Fran had it conversed and half painted for a while and he never had some time to finish it, so i did and since that saturday he has it on his showcase gathering dust, but painted :D

Please note the "gag" (Fran likes to add one or two alwais) that the victory is due "low battery", The winner pulled out it of the looser :)

There is still one scene to paint, more classical and a bit more espectacular, in 30mm, I hope this is only the beggining because Fran is really good doing scenes and he has some things that he wants to paint himself but I hope he let's me at the end to do myself because I love them and I know he is not going to finish them never (wink wink)

Treasure Hunter

[Es] Recuerdo que cuando me mudé a Andalucía y comenzamos a realizar quedadas de los Cursed Monkeys, una de las cosas que siempre más he disfrutado y para las que he tratado de sacar tiempo siempre aparte de mi trabajo como profesional, han sido las colaboraciones. 

Todos recordáis trabajos como The Getaway (El dragón), Fujita's dinner o Caronte, que hice con Piqui, The consecration of Napoleón, que hice con Cris, mi mujer, The summoner, que hicieron Piqui y Cris o el enano minero de Piqui y Alex, entre otros. Son trabajos que siendo, algunos sencillos, otros complejos, nos han llevado un paso más allá.

En todo este tiempo siempre me había quedado la espinita de no colaborar con Fran, que es un grandisimo creador de escenas, pero que es tan detallista que nunca termina y, que además quiere pintar el mismo, por lo que siempre se escamoteaba, hasta ahora :D

No se como lo he conseguido, pero hemos llegado a un acuerdo para trabajar conjuntamente en tres escenas, por ahora, dos de ellas al modo clásico, el hace lo que le da la gana y yo lo pinto, pero esta, la de hoy, es totalmente diferente, especial, primero porque había un objetivo y se ha cumplido, y no no es un premio en un concurso.
Lo segundo porque la condición que me puso Fran es que la escena se creaba desde cero colaborando entre los dos en todos los aspectos, desde la idea, que salió de una idea inicial suya completamente diferente a la mía, y hablando y jugando con blutac y con las minis llegamos a una tercera que no es ni una ni otra ni un punto medio, sino algo que nació allí con sus propias ideas.

Ambos debíamos trabajar en el terreno, en este caso una cueva, y aunque Fran hizo toda la escultura y el montaje, la distribución y la ingeniería para darle profundidad a la cueva las hicimos a medias.

Ambos debíamos conversionar, en mi caso me toco reposicionar el brazo del minotauro y reesculpir la musculatura del hombro pecho y espalda, así como una parte del cráneo, mientras que Fran conversionó el enano completo y la cara del minotauro.

Ambos debíamos pintar, y si bien, el tiempo condicionó mucho esta parte, sobre todo por el trabajo de jornadas eternas que tiene Fran, los colores de partida, el esquema base de color, es cosa suya, aunque yo me he encargado de pintar completamente ambas figuras basándome en sus ideas y adaptandolas a mi estilo, buscando además un tributo al uso de color de Mirko Caballoni. 
Fran se encargó de pintar por completo el terreno y el buho, y yo le asesoré con la integración del mismo una vez pintado, a las figuras, con lo cual fue necesario retocar, pero siempre por su mano.

El resultado es bastante diferente a lo esperado, es un trabajo duro, largo y complejo porque somos dos personas trabajando coordinadas pero a distancia con referencias en foto únicamente, y algunas quedadas para poner cosas en común o intercambiar piezas y seguir trabajando. Pero sinceramente, es de lo más bonito que he pintado este año, y lo he disfrutado mucho.

Todos los que habéis pasado por Monte San Savino este fín de semana lo habéis podido ver en vivo, espero que os haya gustado, para los demás, unas fotos, no muy buenas esta vez, tenía prisa y las hicimos en condiciones algo improvisadas y no atiné con el balance de blancos, pero tendréis que haceros una idea entre las de proceso (espero poder explicarlo con más calma en otro post) tiradas con el móvil, y las finales.

[En] I can remember that when I moved to Andalucia and we started to go to meetings of Cursed Monkeys, one of the better things was alwais to cooperate with another one in a project and I alwais tried to keep some painting time apart my job as professional to do that.

You can remember works as The Getaway (The Dragon), Fujita's dinner or Caronte I did with Piqui, The consecration of Napoleon I did with Cris, my wife, The summoner Cris did with Piqui or the miner dwarf Piqui did with Alex, beetween some others. All of them were works that even some of them being simple, pushed us one step further

All that time something was annoying me, and was that I could never cowork with Fran, that is an amazin scene creator, but so detailed that he never ends, and anyway, he wants to paint his own scenes too, so he could alwais dodge the bullet, till now :D

I don't know how I did it, but we get an agreement to cooperate in 3 scenes, by now, 2 of them in the classical way, he does anything he wants and I paint it, but this one, today's one, it's special, totally different, firt of all because we have and objetive and no, it was not a contest award.
Second one because one of Fran's conditions was that we must create both the scene from the beggining in all the sides, from the idea, that born not from Fran's mind or mine, that were completely different, neither from the middle, it just born alone from a mindstorm playing with blutac, wood and the minis

We both must work on terrain, in this case a cave, and even if Fran did al the sculpting and assembling, composition and engineering to give the cave deepness was from both.

Both must work on conversions, so I switched the minotaurs arm and re sculpted the shoulder, chest and back muscles, and a small work on the head. Fran did the minotaurs face and all the dwarfs conversion.

We both must paint, and even timeframe was a big trouble here because Fran's work is very time consuming, color scheme was of his mind because I had to paint both minaitures with his ideas as he hasn't time to work on them. I adapted his ideas to my style and we wanted to try to do some kind of tribute to Mirko Caballoni's use of color.
Fran painted completely alone the base and the owl, and I suggested him how to integrate the miniatures once painted so he had to make corrections, but alwais from his brush.

We reached a scene far away from the original idea, a hard work, long and complex mostly because we were 2 persons working on the distance only with phone's pictures as reference and some meeting to share work and exchange pieces to keep working, but honestly it maybe the more beautiful thing I did this year and I was very happy doing it.

All of you that were at Monte San Savino this weekend could saw it in live, hope you liked it, to the others, some pictures, not so good this time as I was very hurry and we took them in some makeshift conditions and I couldn't fix the white balance propertly, you should imagin beetween final ones and wip ones (that I hope to explain better in another post)