Fighting the Gray Tide (Miniature Painting)

MGibster · Mar 20, 2026

Just a cute, little bunny.

MGibster · Mar 29, 2026

Texture Trainer from Monument Hobbies. Trying to paint some texture in the pants with brush strokes. Gotta make sure the paint is thinned properly making smooth, thin strokes possible.

Aellic Mornbringer · Mar 29, 2026

el-remmen said:
I have been building up my collection of elementals and elemental creatures for my adaptation of ToEE that is actually about, you know, EE. And here are are couple of earth elementals.

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Where did you get these elemental minis?

el-remmen · Mar 29, 2026

Aellic Mornbringer said:
Where did you get these elemental minis?

Where I get the majority of my minis these days: Etsy. I believe this was a store called Goose Minis.

el-remmen · Mar 29, 2026

Here are all my elementals. Some are from when I first started painting minis and others are more recent.

MGibster · Monday at 12:31 AM

The leather is a 4:1 mix of Vallejo Wood Grain and Orange Brown. If you’re just pairing a large number of minis, you might be perfectly happy with this one application.

The second photo just has some straight Orange Brown stippled on to give it some depth.

Since it’s a single model, I worked on the leather a bit more. I drew lines of a whitish yellow and then black to show wear and tear. I followed that up with a wash of Vallejo Smoke. Once dry, I used Citadel Nuln Oil in some of the recesses.

MGibster · Tuesday at 4:17 AM

I’m pretty happy with this. I still need to work on my flesh colors.

Simon The Hunter · Tuesday at 10:25 AM

Just a layer of barbarian flesh and then a flesh wash, but I really like how his face has come out... I'm leaving it as is, not even going to think about doing anything with the eyes!

MGibster · 2026-04-05T05:35:23+0100

It’s dinosaur time. This is a Reaper Mini Thunderfoot Behemoth and it was only $16.

Simon The Hunter · 2026-04-05T12:01:58+0100

Remember the guy with the nice face a few posts above? Well he got old fast, I'm on to a new shiny...

3d printed this dino guy (75mm scale), took a good 7.5 hours just for body and then some for the arms and base and am TRYING to paint him half decent... this is what I have so far...

Q: What colour should I paint the "fabric" that is around his shoulders, tail and dangly bit at the front (a dino sporran?)? Also, should I go for a gold for the armour, I was thinking of trying to do a dark jade colour... thoughts?