Okay they are superb
bootiphul jerb
La-Z-Boy
How long do these take?
I don't want to know.
Zardoz wrote:
I don't want to know.
But I do. Use a stopwatch next time
I started work on that Dread aboot 3 years ago.
Also, in my head they're never quite finished.
Very nice! A small suggestion on the Termies, if I may - a little edge highlighting would properly make the red pop, I think.
*starts again*
Zardoz wrote:
Also, in my head they're never quite finished.
Black in the piping at the back of their knees and any other joints, and just run a light drybrush of leadbelcher over them to pick up the ridge.
I wish I wasn't completely clueless aboot photo graphising things.
An old one I finished mid last year: Mr Iaxion Hale
An old one I finished mid last year: Mr Iaxion Hale
That's great. I love his shiny heed.
I looked at photos of Zardoz for that.
Dimrill wrote:
Zardoz wrote:
Also, in my head they're never quite finished.
Black in the piping at the back of their knees and any other joints, and just run a light drybrush of leadbelcher over them to pick up the ridge.
You know, some of them have dark back knees... I keep thinking I've gone round them all but then find batch jobs I haven't done on some. I swear to Pob someone keeps adding purity seals to them.
Also, in the Grimdark, Terminators sure love a bit of bling!
The thing that started my current Orkiness focus: the old Gorkamorka Head Honcho rebel grot.
Dimrill wrote:
I wish I wasn't completely clueless aboot photo graphising things.
I just do this and try and use natural light (anything but flash). Gives your camera/phone a good white balance too.
Have you took those into work?
Proper shots of my Mega Dread
Dimrill wrote:
The thing that started my current Orkiness focus: the old Gorkamorka Head Honcho rebel grot.
Oooh yeah! I feel the need...
Dimrill wrote:
Have you took those into work?
Yes.
FROM HOME! LOL
Dimrill wrote:
Proper shots of my Mega Dread
Maxiature
Mr Chonks wrote:
Dimrill wrote:
Proper shots of my Mega Dread
Maxiature
Nah that'd be my still being built Warlord. It's two and a half foot tall.
That Ork Mecha id HEYUWGE!
Dimrill wrote:
An old one I finished mid last year: Mr Iaxion Hale
Sorry, got missed in the flurry! What a lovely, lovely man.
Really like the marble effect you've done there, Dimmers.
Zardoz wrote:
Really like the marble effect you've done there, Dimmers.
Amazingly easy to do too.
Undercoat black, mix a milk thin cream coloured paint of your choice andslosh it around. Pooled areas will come out lighter, thinner blue. Then I used some weathering powder to add patches of orange and a thin brown to add veins.
Same process used on these normal Custodes I've had 70% done for months:
I'd just like to say I'm proper in awe of the skill and patience on display here. I get stressed out slapping white emulsion on a hallway wall, I can't imagine the control all of these take. Bloody excellent work everyone!
I feel the same, I look at this stuff and think I'd like to give it a go, and it looks reasonably possible from the photos. Then if you pick up a mini and actually see the size of it, I have no idea how a lot of this stuff is even possible.
I'm getting old, my close up vision isn't as good as it used to be, no way i'd be able to focus enough on what I was trying to paint.
I'm getting old, my close up vision isn't as good as it used to be, no way i'd be able to focus enough on what I was trying to paint.
Trooper wrote:
I feel the same, I look at this stuff and think I'd like to give it a go, and it looks reasonably possible from the photos. Then if you pick up a mini and actually see the size of it, I have no idea how a lot of this stuff is even possible.
I'm getting old, my close up vision isn't as good as it used to be, no way i'd be able to focus enough on what I was trying to paint.
I'm getting old, my close up vision isn't as good as it used to be, no way i'd be able to focus enough on what I was trying to paint.
You'd be surprised how large they feel once you start. It was only after going to Warhammer World and seeing the displays that made me go "huh, these are small". It's odd. Do it!
It’s certainly more relaxing and fun than painting your living room.
Dimrill wrote:
You'd be surprised how large they feel once you start.
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Some old hammer 40k-
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luvloi. I've always liked the commissar models. I've got the rebel one from Blackstone to paint up on a cork here. More orky at the mo though.
I like the new sculpts but the old metal minis have so much character.
Trooper wrote:
Then if you pick up a mini and actually see the size of it, I have no idea how a lot of this stuff is even possible.
That poor brush!
I have to hold my phone 2ft away from my face to even read the damn thing these days, I don't think a tiny brush will help me 
Trooper wrote:
I have to hold my phone 2ft away from my face to even read the damn thing these days, I don't think a tiny brush will help me
New glasses?
Mr Chonks wrote:
Trooper wrote:
I have to hold my phone 2ft away from my face to even read the damn thing these days, I don't think a tiny brush will help me
New glasses?
I'm into bifocal/varifocal world now I guess, as i'm short sighted. Or swapping glasses, which I imagine is what it will end up coming to.
MrChris wrote:
That poor brush!
Drive it like you stole it!
Trooper wrote:
Mr Chonks wrote:
Trooper wrote:
I have to hold my phone 2ft away from my face to even read the damn thing these days, I don't think a tiny brush will help me
New glasses?
I'm into bifocal/varifocal world now I guess, as i'm short sighted. Or swapping glasses, which I imagine is what it will end up coming to.
Big miniatures.
Just had my delivery of new brushes so if every thing goes tits up I can still carry on paintin.
Zardoz wrote:
Trooper wrote:
Mr Chonks wrote:
Trooper wrote:
I have to hold my phone 2ft away from my face to even read the damn thing these days, I don't think a tiny brush will help me
New glasses?
I'm into bifocal/varifocal world now I guess, as i'm short sighted. Or swapping glasses, which I imagine is what it will end up coming to.
Big miniatures.
Maxiatures
He now has a fellow fascist friend-
Will have to try to take better photos - there is much more gradation in the highlighting on the black areas than shows up ....
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Will have to try to take better photos - there is much more gradation in the highlighting on the black areas than shows up ....
Tidy work, Kissyfur. Are these from a while back that you’ve dug out or recently done?
The chap with the power sword was one I did a while ago, but I painted his mate in the last couple of days. I fancied a break from terrain building, and what with all this being at home I have been digging out old miniatures to paint... I’ve got quite a lot - I should probably either do the old space hulk set or the rest of the imperial assault minis..!
Yeah this pandemic has been a massive boon for all the nerdly persuits. There’s a possibility I could clear my pile of shame!