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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Keith Robinson" data-source="post: 4777468" data-attributes="member: 21330">Thanks for the positive feedback, guys <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  I'm certainly glad if this thread motivates a few people to pick up their paint brushes and have a go themselves, as it was pogre's and kris' threads that partly inspired me.  That and the crappy paint jobs of the recent ddm stuff they've been putting out!I've now turned my attention to my Paizo goblins <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Heh - thanks, but really, take it from me that I'm not.  Several years back I painted up some orcs and a dragon and then just stopped when my son was born.  I sold off all my metal minis, none of which I'd gotten around to painting (otherthan the aforementioned orcs and dragon), and replaced them with the plastic ddm line.  Recently, however, I started to find the ddm quality dropping off, so I started to touch up a figure here and there and even repainted a couple.  I guess in total I repainted maybe a dozen and touched up maybe a dozen more.  Prior to the balrog, that really is pretty much the sum of my experience painting minis.Don't get me wrong, I'm generally happy with the final outcome, as I just want a decent tabletop standard, but I'm still learning many of the basic techniques - in particular, I find doing washes and highlights very difficult, and am still unsure how make effective looking leather, paint drow-black flesh, make hair look realistic, etc.  But I'm learning, even though I don't paint much, and I'm enjoying it.  And for those reasons, I was very happy with the way the balrog turned out <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Thanks again.</blockquote>

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