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sundancer 4 years, 6 months ago.
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Done with my work contract and now done with my commission work. Time for sleep.
This wolf will be getting snow basing later
Cloaker texturing on the back with a dark grey base, two coats Nuln Oil and then a light drybrush.
A hook horror using Goliath beetle caraoace inspiration. It’ll be better yo drop into bone pile dungeon areas as an ambush predator.
A lloyd shot ftw… she’s au natural. I actually was surprised by the Reaper Bones sculpt as it seemed a bit flimsy when I first was handed it. I added a washer for weight and greenstuff to fill out the blank space after adhering it. The Army Painter Battlefield Field Grass really did a number with the PVA to pull it all together.
Something for @dignity courtesy of Lloth and Nolzur’s Marvelous Miniatures (no need for @warzan input on the creepy factor)
@horati0nosebl0wer very nice work, how do you go about snow basing over a dark base?
@crazyredcoat If you don’t fancy full NMM I quite like the half step of mixing some steel/chrome into the light grey highlights on NMM as you get back the glint in the light.
Managed to get the airbrush to keep running, even if the compressor didn’t like the heat, and got some priming and varnishing done.
I love being able to print minis at home.
No, I know I’ve not painted all the others I’ve printed. And I’m still only half-way through a gang of eight cyberpunk “dudes” that I promised I’d have finished by now. But seriously – if you could, why wouldn’t you?
I’m re-printing the “Hesus” mini from this month’s Titan Forge after he came out disappointingly small from their default settings. There’s a couple of cyberpunk “babes” to complete my latest foray into tabletop skirmish. I found a really nice-looking Medusa model that doesn’t go with anything but will be great practice with contrast and shades on all the snakes. And to fill up the build plate (never let a four-hour print go to waste by leaving areas empty) I threw on a David-Tenant-lookalike-Dr-Who and a dalek (my wife likes Doctor Who).
So while that lot is printing, I’m bundling up some big parcels to send out this afternoon and hope to get a few hours painting in this evening….
@crazyredcoat It’s by no means needed. I just sometimes find if there’s only one or two small details that are metal they can be a bit stark in contrast. It’s not NMM but it kind of mimics the same highlight placement, if it’s done well which I don’t always do.
The Death Company’s metal is a classic metal, wash, higlight metals. The reiver’s blade is a bad example, the fanatic’s ball and chain are better.
The firefly’s MG barrel is just grey a few dots of gunmetal and a black and sepia mix wash. The taurox’s guns are a few layer of mixing between dark grey and chrome.
Oh, and the sherman and death company are satin varnished, the rest are matted.
@horati0nosebl0wer I try to not do the same thing to much in one go and make the batches be something a few hours work makes obvious progress. I didn’t do all the arrmour in one go, I got the main tank force done first. I’ll get the carriers and artillery done next. I need to keep seeing progress so I break it down into jobs I can do in a single sitting, last night got all the tracks/metal, rubber and uniform based on the carriers and stuarts so it looks like I’ve got more done than if a day only got the tracks done on half of all the tanks, artillery and carriers at once.
A long, long time ago, in a galaxy not so far away, I bought one of these magnifying headbands. At the time I thought it was a great idea. When it arrived, I excitedly put it on, whacked on the highest magnification lens in the box and tried painting a mini. It was horrible!
Firstly, I just felt a right berk. That big, heavy lamp on the front was just ridiculous. And I had to hold my minis right up against my face and go almost cross-eyed to see anything in focus. Had it been a roaring success, I might have been able to overlook the dorkiness of it. But it wasn’t. So I couldn’t.
Anyway, earlier this evening, Mrs Blinky asked me to go down to the workshop so she could partake in some in-front-of-the-telly exercise, without me chipping in with hilarious commentary from the sidelines. But it was too cold (I turned the heating off weeks ago and refuse to turn it on just for an hour or so) so I remained resolute in staying in the house.
I remembered my dorky headband and we came to a pact – she would dance about in front of the telly and I would STFU and stay in the kitchen on the condition that I could try out my magnifying glasses again without her either taking a photo or laughing at my ridiculously oversized Maz-eyes.
On that basis, I thought I’d try them out again. Instead of the x 3.5 magnifying lens, I thought I’d start small and went for x2. Man, what a difference! They are amazing. Painting eyes and faces? I’m not going to say it’s a doddle, but it’s about a million times easier than squinting and hoping for the best. At just x2 magnification, the focal distance is about 12″ (at x3.5 it’s nearer 3-4″) which is a nice comfortable distance for painting details.
I thought I needed to use 000 or even 5/0 brushes to paint facial details and eyes. It turns out not – you just need to be able to see! I’ve been loving using my Pro Arte Rennaisance sized-2 brush(es) for most things lately (it’s about the size of the old orange-tipped GW “standard” brush). With my Maz-eyes, I can even use it to paint eyes on 28mm minis!
I love it. And that LED? It’s brilliant. Absolutely amazing for illuminating faces and getting rid of every trace of a shadow, without changing the colour tone of the paint. With such a big stupid box flopping about on my forehead, I know I can run it for hours on 3xAAA batteries and not worry about them running out or the LEDs getting dimmer.
Now I’ve just got to convince Mrs Blinky to do more dancing about in front of the telly, so I can get some more time to myself with my big dorky headband.
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