My Recent Minis - input appreciated!

[benhamtroll]

The eyes have it

Eyes are definitely one of the hardest parts. I've tried a couple different techniques, but that one sounds interesting, and I'm pretty sure I know what you mean. I'll give it a try on the next one I do.

Speaking of which, here's another. This guy suffers more than normal from the 'glossy' problem. That, and the eyes on the mini were uneven, which gives him that 'birth defect' look.

 

[benhamtroll]

And the back.

 

[KnowTheToe]

If I remember, I will try an take some pictures of the faces of my last few figs and post them here.

 

[KnowTheToe]

As you finish an area, say the face, cloak or armor, spray the fig in one coat of flatt clear coat. It will not clog up the detail of the fig and will give maximum protection without the gloss and it will help out when you accidentally paint the wrong area. You can take fresh paint off without marring the paint underneath the clear coat. Many of my figs get 8-10 coats of dull clear coat.

Many figs have uneven eyes and I have not found a way to stop them from looking develomentally challenged. You can help by painting only the top half of one and the bottom of the other, but that depends on the fig.

 

[benhamtroll]

Another

This is an Ogre I did. I'm actually quite happy with this one, but like normal, feedback is worthwhile.

 

[benhamtroll]

Back

Here's his back side. He must be a plumber.

 

[Gizzard]

I find monsters much easier to paint that humans...

Its so true. Monsters have a built in safety net; they're supposed to have strange flesh tones and bulging eyes. Paint the Princess of Beautifultania with a skin tone thats slightly too red and she looks like a lumberjack. But give an Orc one eye twice the size of the other and he just looks his face is scrunched up in anger.

A lot of what I learned about blending flesh tones and doing eyes I learned on my WH Ork army. Green after green, blended up into yellow highlights. When it was finally time to do "real" flesh tones, I had had a lot of practice. Of course, I still started with a GW Ogre, because 1) he's huge and cool, 2) he's still a monster if things dont go quite right.

Here is The Ogre. He's a little glossier than I remembered, but you can see some of the work with the flesh tones in the face and on the arm pretty well. His chainmail is very uniform and glossy in the pic; its much dirtier in real life. I paint the silver on and then do a couple washes with different greys and blacks to get a crusty, lived-in-by-ogre sort of look to it. My photo skills are still a disaster, I've done very few photos that I think look more than 75% like the mini in question.

 

[benhamtroll]

Hobgoblin

This a Chainmail Hobgoblin I did.

 

[benhamtroll]

More Hobgoblin

Here's his backside.