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[Painting Miniatures] Step one put paint on miniature, Step two finished
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This is the miniature painting thread!
Here's where we post pictures of our projects as well as ask and answer questions about paint, glue, airbrushes, and all that good stuff.
Most of the pictures are from 40k, Warmachine, Infinity etc but we have also had various model kits. Everyone is welcome!
Here are a selection of pics grabbed from the end of the last thread, all painted by our very own talented and sexy posters.
Here's where we post pictures of our projects as well as ask and answer questions about paint, glue, airbrushes, and all that good stuff.
Most of the pictures are from 40k, Warmachine, Infinity etc but we have also had various model kits. Everyone is welcome!
Here are a selection of pics grabbed from the end of the last thread, all painted by our very own talented and sexy posters.
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More on topic, here's a weird question: I'm going to be painting some BattleTech figs in Oosiks colors, which by fiat are the colors used in the Penny Arcade logo. Anyone have any suggestions for specific paints that'll best match those colors (orange and blue)? I don't feel like I have the right colors on hand, so I'll have to order them, so any color(s) from any product line(s) is/are acceptable. Bonus points for suggestions on highlight colors and washes!
Anyways, here's Machaon:
But seriously, can we kill @J and devour his flesh to gain his powers?
Perhaps I can interest you in my meager selection of pins?
The OP is for bads who should feel bad.
I attribute my great success to following my three step painting plan. 1) Paint on models 2) Finished 3) Profit...???
Any suggestions for going fast while keeping a good quality?
That was one of my priorities when I started painting Infinity again -- the sculpts are beautiful, but they're so tiny, detailed, and uniform in scheme (since they're conventional/uniformed militaries) that I don't usually find them satisfying to put a lot of effort into. Machaon was an exception to that as I love that sculpt, but generally I'm trying to go fast.
My rules are (1) Limit your palette. If a model has a bunch of packs and bags you'll be tempted to paint one red, another leather, and so on. Don't do that -- you spend way too much time fixing some slips, switching paints, etc. Pick three or four main colors and stick with those. (2) Have a very simple scheme for all of your colors. Three steps, max. (3) Use some kind of basecoat or undercoat that provides a "I don't have to paint this" out for nooks and crannies, undersides, and so on.
So for my Aleph, (1) is white, black (which doubles as black clothes and weapons) iron, and brown. Obviously faces are a special case. (2) The white is just Menoth Highlight over a Vallejo cream, occasionally with some light brown shading. Black is just chaos black with a coat of very dark blue over it and grey line highlights. Metal is nuln oiled then highlighted with itself. Brown gets a tan highlight. (3) Everything gets washed pink over a white undercoat. Because Aleph are weird and for some reason their bodies glow pink. For "normal" models you'd probably want your undercoat to be an off-black of some variety.
Just having a scheme where all the colors go smoothly over your your primer or undercoat color will make a huge difference. The brightness of Aleph's palette means I get to paint cream white over white which is SO EASY. And black over white is way easier than white over black, I have learned.
That's where I find most of my time lost when painting. Seeing little mistakes that take me a long time to fix, but wouldn't be seen unless the model is close up.
I'd really prefer if you didn't
Prepare your body for my mouth, J.
We're worshipping Slaanesh today, apparently.
Hey now, there's no need to kill anyone; livers regenerate after all….
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[Painting Miniatures] Apparently this is actually about cannibalism now
Perhaps I can interest you in my meager selection of pins?
So, here they are.
Legio I, Dark Angels (unmodified DV)
Legio II, [Redacted] (cut from a spare pair of SM legs)
Legio III, Emperor's Children (FW Palatine Blade + SM champion backpack + FW MK II shoulders + CSM arms/weapons)
Legio IV, Iron Warriors (FW MK II legs shoulders and packpack, IW upgrade torso, CSM arms/weapons)
Legio V, White Scars (SM bike, WoC shield, SW head and tassels, plasticard embossed shoulder emblem and force lance)
Legio VI, Space Wolves (stock wolfinator w/green stuff cape (the model (from eBay) had a CSM shoulder for some reason that needed to be covered))
The plinths are plaster, bought cast but not assembled off of eBay. I did not manage to assemble them better than I did. The plaques I made from plasticard.
I decided to have the statues in verdigris rather than bronze, since I find verdigris a really aesthetically pleasing color, and the statues are supposed to have been standing outside since the Heresy.
Technique is the same for all of them: Plinth in 2 layers of Ulthuan Grey, statue (and plaque) in 2 layers of Army Painter Bronze and 2 layers of Nihilakh Oxide, cork in VMC German Field Grey drybrushed which cheap craft light grey, and the whole thing (except cork) covered in Army Painter Soft Tone applied with a brush.
When I first assembled the Legio II statue, I couldn't help but think of this poem:
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away."
Overall, I am happy with how they turned out, but the plinths could have been better.
Painting Era #1
This era of painting was a few years ago. It's not the first model I painted -- that was some Warmachine Cygnar I did a couple years before this, but the first one in this period of painting. This was also the first one where I was actually paying attention to color (my Cygnar were just the studio scheme but palette swapped to green) but the overly-blue gun and the random purple bits suggest I still didn't understand anything about it.
Model #2. Not much better. I was pretty pleased with the shading and highlighting on the ruffled shirt.
Myrmidons! And I figured out how to paint non-cartoon black! This picture has a special secret: two of these models I painted in about 5 hours each back during the first era, one of them was painted in under half that a few weeks ago. Guess which is the newer one.
Netrods. After taking waaaay too long on these I got tired of painting and stopped.
This era started about a year ago and these were the first models I painted after coming back. Note that I've gone back to the cartoonish black, but it works way better for Malifaux than it did for Infinity so I stick with it.
I had no idea how I was going to paint dead skin when I did these so they're kind of just a mess.
Next model after the belles. Look at that goddamn whip. I still didn't know how to paint the flesh, but I was starting to feel good about my normal highlighting.
Mini-Seamus! Look at all those hats! Kind of wish I had gotten a better picture of the highlighting on the hats as it was pretty epic. This is also the first time I painted a face and wasn't immediately disappointed+confused. It turns out faces are really easy if you just pick three colors and then layer from the shade up. Before I was trying to do basecoat>shade and that doesn't work.
Dead skin that doesn't suck! I started doing two-brush blending with glazes of blue and green and and it looked good, so I pretty much stick with that going forward. The downside is that I based the whole thing off of one huge mistake: basecoating Ryn Flesh over a black undercoat. That takes forever and is awful.
Note the NMM on the swords. It's okay. I did NMM because I don't like how metallics look on Malifaux models (too bright and shiny) but it was definitely... ambitious.
Daddy Seamus. Lots of smaller bits of NMM to practice on. I'll need this practice, soon.
Yup this is when I felt bad about my decision to do NMM. I was terrified of painting that leg. It turned out pretty okay though! Nicodem is one of my favorite sculpts in a miniature game so I put a ton of effort into blending that cloak. Thus you get...
This back shot of all that blending.
I feel like this guy looks way better than I deserve. All that blue, green, and red is just messily two-brush blended over Ryn Flesh. It should look like a hot mess but instead it looks pretty okay! Also, even more NMM what was I thinking.
I don't really care for this sculpt but he's a super important piece for Nicodem so I wanted him painted, but it took forever. The coat has some weird color choices but it worked out. Also, I really like this creepy-ass face:
Sexy nurses are way overdone but I love this sculpt. This was my first attempt at totally-living not-creepy skin and it worked surprisingly well. Also, I got more practice painting that off-white which I needed for...
McMourning! I'm really proud of this paint job. It's such a simple model and it took forever to give his coat the depth I wanted it to have, but it totally worked. Also look at that crazy-ass face.
Bonus picture of his lovingly-detailed butt.
After finishing McMourning I started on another flesh golem and some other large models and burnt out a bit, so I took a break. I want to go back to them, but before I got motivated we got back into Infinity and I decided to paint some of that up! My goal this time was to get things painted much quicker
First go at the quick painting. These look almost as good as the grunts I painted in triple the time years ago, so I'm happy with them.
Under two hours each. Nothing much else to say.
And a better lit and less in-focus Machaon!
Next on the docket is a Naga, after that it'll be more character Myrmidons and some robots. My hope is that I'll stay motivated long enough to get nearly the whole army painted (I own most of the faction) including the Marut, and then maybe stick with it and get back into painting Malifaux (could be easy if Molly comes out in time). But we'll see.
I love that mini.
Great posts, I love walking through painter's pasts like that
This really is the biggest part of painting faster. If you keep finding faults and going back to fix them, you'll never speed up your painting.
Painting fast is about learning to accept that you probably won't always be happy with that you consider 'finished'.
I swear I only got them because they were 50% off and I wanted to try painting camo patterns and they're cool damnit.
*measures* 16.5 cm, or 6.some inches.
The Ludwig's guns are a mere 4 inches.