Miniature painting

[Dhi]

Vampire Allister from the Kingdom Death Halloween grab bag is finished. That's 4/4 survivors done, 3/5 Disciples of the Witch, but back to square one on the Flower Witch centerpiece.  :-(

[Dhi]

Pinup Twilight Order Knight is finished!

[Dhi]

Kingdom Death Dark Elf Variant is finished. My goodness this drow is curvy!

All told I finished 80 pieces in 2017. This was enough to obliterate one Roubloff brush, which now looks like turkey foot grass. Thank you for your service, Roubloff #1.

[Arkaniel]

Done a lot of work on my legio Custodes this week for the upcoming Horus heresy tournament.

[TheLaughingOne]

... Damn. Those be fancy..

[Arkaniel]

They are hopefully going to win a tournament for me. Haha.

2500 points of age of darkness legio custodes

[Dhi]

Nice smooth gold, I love it.

[greenknight]

Nice smooth gold, I love it.

They look like something out of a gloriously kitschy Flash Gordon homage! ;) :P

[Beorning]

Vampire Allister from the Kingdom Death Halloween grab bag is finished.

Kingdom Death Dark Elf Variant is finished. My goodness this drow is curvy!

Photos or it doesn't count  ;D  ;D  ;D

BTW. I managed to assemble that dreaded Druze hacker I screwed up a month ago... Again, thank you for suggestions, Dhi :)

[Dhi]

Awesome! I'm glad you could salvage her.

Until we get some warmer weather here, pictures would be terrible. Worse than usual. The way I paint leaves a gloss finish that doesn't photograph well until hit with dullcote.

[Beorning]

I see.

I don't have anything new to show, either - right now, I'm focusing on assembling the minis, not painting them. I want to actually start playing Infinity, it won't happen if I insist on painting each mini after assemblage ;)

[Beorning]

Aaaaand... I actually went against what I wrote this morning and tried painting something new for Infinity (the female Hunzakut).

The results are... frustrating. Everything was going fine until I got to painting the face. The face... came out disastrous. I tried painting some basic eyes and the mini ended looking like a rotting zombie  >:( Crap! These faces are the bane of me.

Photos coming up after I base the mini...

[Arkaniel]

Aaaaand... I actually went against what I wrote this morning and tried painting something new for Infinity (the female Hunzakut).

The results are... frustrating. Everything was going fine until I got to painting the face. The face... came out disastrous. I tried painting some basic eyes and the mini ended looking like a rotting zombie  >:( Crap! These faces are the bane of me.

Photos coming up after I base the mini...

I always give my marines helmets when I can, because I’m terrible at the faces, too!

[Pockets]

In the (in)famous words of Kenny Boucher, paint them glowing like superheroes or skip over them entirely because no matter how good you are it always looks crappy.

I hold to that. I rarely do more than paint white in an area established by the sculpt. Otherwise I leave it unpainted and say 'his/her eyes are closed at the moment'.

[eBadger]

I've tried to do eyes a few times, but found that anything less than great ones just detract from the model, and they're a detail that's really not very impactful during actual play rather than zoomed in photos.  I stick to shadows and highlights. 

[Dhi]

We had a quite nice day of 40, so I got that dullcote on.

Disciple of the Witch #??


Vampire Allister:


Hildegard von Kronigsmark


Pinup Twilight Order Knight:


Dark Elf Variant:

[eBadger]

Those drow skin tones are fantastic!

[Dhi]

Thank you!

From darkest to lightest, those colors are

RMS Dusky Skin Shadow + 1/2 drop violet ink
RMS Dusky Skin Shadow + VMC English Uniform + 1/3 drop violet ink
RMS Dusky Skin + VMC English Uniform + 1/3 drop violet ink
RMS Dusky Skin Highlight + VMC English Uniform + 1/3 drop violet ink
VMC Deck Tan + VMC English Uniform + 1/4 drop violet ink

[Beorning]

Very nice, as usual, Dhi :)

I especially like the glowing staff of the Disciple. Very nice colours!

[Beorning]

Alright, here's the promised Hunzakut:






I'm not satisfied with her - mostly because I really ruined her face. But, oh well - she should look fine on the tabletop...

(BTW. Do you guys see the photos in this post? I'm not sure if they are coming through...)

[eBadger]

No pics  :-(

[TheLaughingOne]

Tried c&p ing the links, but looks like site doesnt allow hotlinks.

Might wanna start up imgur account for pic sharing,

[Beorning]

Okay, I put the images on Imgur (I hope it's free?).






So... here's the Hunzakut. As I said, not that good effort...

[Dhi]

I've just finished something I'm not satisfied with either, so I know the feeling. It's better than bare metal, right?

[eBadger]

I hate the feeling of things not turning out as good as I imagined them.  Hard to tell from the lighting and pic quality, but looks like maybe thin your paints a bit more and use some washes?