Fighting the Gray Tide (Miniature Painting)
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MGibster
Legend
It's how they hook you! GW makes some good looking minis, but they are pretty pricy.
Mad_Jack
Legend
If you have other uses for the Micron pens, it's well worth the money to spring for a full set of them. Especially if you want to do darklining around the edges of objects but don't want to have to spend a lot of time on it or don't have the precise brush control for it. They're more than decent for tabletop quality stuff.
When I started, I was doing eyes with a sharpened toothpick, lol. I used to do a lot of eyes with a Micron pen before I learned to do them better with a brush.
MGibster
Legend
As a palate cleanser, or perhaps in this case palette might be more correct, I decided to lay of the Star Wars stuff and just work on something different. This is Fishidious made by Para Bellum games who makes their miniatures out of hard plastic. What I thought was some sort of sea goblin is actually a sea gnome for the table top miniature game Conquest. After having the model for more than a year, I thought it'd be nice to paint it up in time for Halloween.
I spent the better part of Saturday painting this miniature with the goal of getting this as close to approaching a display piece as I could get. That meant breaking out my wet palette (most definitely not palate this time) and really taking my time. I started with a nice, deep purple as the base for the hat and clothes and then used two lighter shades of purple for the highlights. Cloth is generally hit or miss with me and I was very satisfied with how it turned out.
For the broom, I used a base of Zemesi Desert from Citadel Paints when inspiration hit me. Most brooms get fairly dirty because they're designed to push dust around and I wanted that to show up on the miniature. So I did a little wet blending with some dark brown, then I washed with a watered down brown contrast paint, and when that dried I put on a little more of the base color to get the final look of a well used broom. This is a somewhat whimsical pieces, so I went with the candy cane style broom handle.
The pumpkin's base coat was, you guessed it, orange. I followed that up with a pin wash, washing specific areas of a model, with some orange contrast mixed with brown. For the lower part of the pumpkin, I mixed the base orange with some blue, blended that with the base orange, and then used a highlight made by mixing the orange with a yellow.
I don't like those stupid bottles sticking out of the pumpkin and I don't know why they were sculpted in there. Perhaps there's something from the sea goblin lore I'm not familiar with? I tried to make it look like some of the bottles still had some liquid in them with moderate success. I used a light blue as the base, a light grey as a highlight, some green for the liquid areas, and ended up glazing everything with a dark, purplish blue.
The face is where I concentrated quite a bit of effort. I used a base color of light blue mixed with a light grey. From there, I applied a light purple wash to settle in the recesses, used to good old Rakarth Flesh from Citadel, and went back and forth with glazes I mixed using the Rakarth Flesh and other colors like red and light purple. I think applied a pin wash of purple to better define some shadows.
The biggest thing I did with this model was going through a lot of back and forth. When I did something to the face I didn't like, I'd go back, apply the previous color, and make another attempt to accomplish whatever it was I was trying to accomplish. I can't paint every miniature in a squad like this, but for the centerpiece of an army, this isn't too much work to get something to look decent.
I spent the better part of Saturday painting this miniature with the goal of getting this as close to approaching a display piece as I could get. That meant breaking out my wet palette (most definitely not palate this time) and really taking my time. I started with a nice, deep purple as the base for the hat and clothes and then used two lighter shades of purple for the highlights. Cloth is generally hit or miss with me and I was very satisfied with how it turned out.
For the broom, I used a base of Zemesi Desert from Citadel Paints when inspiration hit me. Most brooms get fairly dirty because they're designed to push dust around and I wanted that to show up on the miniature. So I did a little wet blending with some dark brown, then I washed with a watered down brown contrast paint, and when that dried I put on a little more of the base color to get the final look of a well used broom. This is a somewhat whimsical pieces, so I went with the candy cane style broom handle.
The pumpkin's base coat was, you guessed it, orange. I followed that up with a pin wash, washing specific areas of a model, with some orange contrast mixed with brown. For the lower part of the pumpkin, I mixed the base orange with some blue, blended that with the base orange, and then used a highlight made by mixing the orange with a yellow.
I don't like those stupid bottles sticking out of the pumpkin and I don't know why they were sculpted in there. Perhaps there's something from the sea goblin lore I'm not familiar with? I tried to make it look like some of the bottles still had some liquid in them with moderate success. I used a light blue as the base, a light grey as a highlight, some green for the liquid areas, and ended up glazing everything with a dark, purplish blue.
The face is where I concentrated quite a bit of effort. I used a base color of light blue mixed with a light grey. From there, I applied a light purple wash to settle in the recesses, used to good old Rakarth Flesh from Citadel, and went back and forth with glazes I mixed using the Rakarth Flesh and other colors like red and light purple. I think applied a pin wash of purple to better define some shadows.
The biggest thing I did with this model was going through a lot of back and forth. When I did something to the face I didn't like, I'd go back, apply the previous color, and make another attempt to accomplish whatever it was I was trying to accomplish. I can't paint every miniature in a squad like this, but for the centerpiece of an army, this isn't too much work to get something to look decent.
MGibster
Legend
A little something different before I go back to Star Wars. What I wanted to work on primarily was my glazing skills for skin. Since I was also painting leather, and what is leather if nothing else but flesh that's socially acceptable to wear, I thought I'd try glazing those as well. And then I painted some wood and glazed that too. This Reaper mini is an arm wrestling champion. I originally painted her with a light flesh tone, and to make her an orc I used a green glaze. It took four layers of glaze to make her that green.
Mrs. MGibster: What are you painting?
Me: Cake.
Mrs. MGibster: What are you painting?
Me: Cake.
