From here to Infinity
Breaking up the routine...hopefully
Painting SciFi and these miniatures in particular I wanted to change from my common ways of putting paint on plastic or metal figures. Now what does that mean in detail? When painting historical miniatures and uniformes I always tend to have the colors very „real“ and not going all in when ist comes to highlighting and brighten up the colors I use. Instead I try to work out the shadows to give contrast to the figure. Washes in earthy tones are my trusty tool here to achieve what I‘m looking for in the end.
Ok then, what am I planning to change then with the Infinity miniatures? Just some ideas:
– Using black and wolf grey as colors to prime the figures of the two different factions (black=Yu Jing / wolf grey=PanO)
– adding a zenithal highlight
– building up the light color tones from bottom to top (aka dark to (very) light)
– going very (high)light in the end
– using different colored washes (if needed) not only Soft Tone / Strong Tone
– edge highlighting
If I could apply these changes to my usual painting routine – or at least 2 or 3 of these – I feel it would elevate my skills and paining overall…at least that is what I hope….
Ok then, first things first. Here‘s a picture of the ready primed figures, waiting to be colorised.
The one lesson learned here already: Maybe zenithal highlights should better be done with an airbrush rather than a spraycan. The white, which is intended to do the zenithal may be too dominant and not subtle enough…
Welcome to Infinity! Just starting to get into it myself so looking forward to watching your journey. Good luck using the new techniques and expanding your skills as well!
Thank you @bali, really looking forward to this one. The Kaldstrom Set seems to be a perfect jump off point. And this whole SciFi thing really is something totally new to me. But I have to say I like the lore and background story of Infinity a lot, this helps me very much in staying on track and wanting to complete this project.