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Miniatures Adventure => Gothic Horror => Topic started by: Captain Blood on 28 February 2020, 05:44:29 PM
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Thought I would corral all my Highgate Miniatures vampires into one thread... :)
These ones just finished... This is the second pack of Fledglings, plus 'the ingenue' (mwuhahaha) from the 'Vampire Queens' pack.
I can honestly say these are some of the finest figures (in both senses of the word) that I've ever had the pleasure of painting. Simply incredible sculpting by Matthew Bickley.
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/44/577-280220171720-442061181.jpeg)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/44/577-280220171720-442081240.jpeg)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/44/577-280220171720-4420723.jpeg)
Here come the girls...
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/44/577-280220171720-442091243.jpeg)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/44/577-280220171720-442102161.jpeg)
I love these two... Paddy McGinty, Irish vampire, and a sea captain - the master of the ill-fated Demeter, perchance?
(Although I also think he'd make a great Michael Henchard, the Mayor of Casterbridge... If anyone in Hardy was going to come back as a vampire... 'That I be not bury'd in consecrated ground... ' Brrrr. Best will and testament in literature).
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/44/577-280220171831.jpeg)
And these were the ones already completed...
Vampire Lords...
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/41/577-081019104954-41271222.jpeg)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/41/577-081019104954-41272536.jpeg)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/41/577-081019104954-412731281.jpeg)
Character studies...
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/41/577-081019105434-412772022.jpeg)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/41/577-081019105434-41278816.jpeg)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/41/577-081019105434-412791138.jpeg)
Fledglings 1
The football is my own addition :D
(The blonde fledgling in blue at the top of the page nearly got one too... They could have had a match).
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/41/577-081019104954-412741267.jpeg)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/41/577-081019105433-412751501.jpeg)
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/41/577-081019105433-412761161.jpeg)
Mis-en-scene...
(https://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/41/577-081019104954-412691457.jpeg)
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Splendid collection 8)
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Wonderful :-*
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Amazing blending of colours and shades :-*
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Fantastic :-*
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Simply stunning. ;D
More than enough for a FFoL Tales of Horror Coven now. ;)
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I'm liking the grimy shading and clean highlights on the fledglings as opposed to the clean shading on the vampires, nicely done.
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Beautiful :-* I've painted three of mine,glad to see in different colours to yours lol
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So...good! :-* :-* :-*
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Beautiful work on some really nice models. :-*
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Stunning work. Saving those pics to the inspiration folder when I come to paint mine.
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Nicely done!!!
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Stunning work. Saving those pics to the inspiration folder when I come to paint mine.
No stripes on the trousers though! It’s just plain wrong! lol
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I was thinking tartan trews :D
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I was thinking tartan trews :D
Tartan is fine, look forward to seeing them :) lol
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BLIMEY Richard :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o
You’ve outdone yourself this time these are bloody fantastic 8) 8) 8)
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Sparkling gems, all of them. What's your receipt fro undead skin? I like the greenish tint.
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Shiny stuff!
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Great work, Richard. Remember our talk last year on the way to Gatwick. Hope you will do the rest.
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wonderful figures and painting.
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Would you stop that! I am trying not to buy any more figures at the moment!
-Michael
P.S. Love 'em. Verrrrry creepy.
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These are great!
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Awesome work Richard, in comparison mine look a bit dead lol
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Awesome work Richard, in comparison mine look a bit dead lol
lol
Sparkling gems, all of them. What's your receipt fro undead skin? I like the greenish tint.
Actually it’s just Vallejo ‘Dark Flesh’ (which isn’t that dark at all, it’s quite yellowy) with increasing amounts of ‘Pale Sand’ mixed in for the highlights. With a very very thin oil wash of burnt umber between times.
For the Vampire Lords, I did mix in a tiny amount of ‘Russian Uniform’ too, to give them a very slightly greeny tinge :)
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lol
Actually it’s just Vallejo ‘Dark Flesh’ (which isn’t that dark at all, it’s quite yellowy) with increasing amounts of ‘Pale Sand’ mixed in for the highlights. With a very very thin oil wash of burnt umber between times.
For the Vampire Lords, I did mix in a tiny amount of ‘Russian Uniform’ too, to give them a very slightly greeny tinge :)
Oil wash? You must take your time painting...
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Nope, not at all. I have recently got into oil washes as a result of using them on my WW2 AFVs. They are WAAAAy better than ink washes like GW and Army Painter. You can mix whatever shade you want. And the trick is, you need a pin prick of oil paint in a generous droplet or three of white spirit. If you use it very very thinned down like this, it dries almost as quickly as an acrylic wash, and dries flat matt too. But the finish is (for my money) much better. It has the added advantage, that if you wish, within the first hour or two you can reanimate it with another drop of white spirit, and move it around. After that it dries properly and is fixed. But it’s not like using neat (or slightly thinned) oil paint where it takes days for the paint to go off. It’s basically a white spirit wash with a tiny bit of tincture in it. It evaporates and dries to the touch within a couple of minutes. It’s flow properties are far superior to ink washes though...
Maybe I’ll do a tutorial ;)
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Nope, not at all. I have recently got into oil washes as a result of using them on my WW2 AFVs. They are WAAAAy better than ink washes like GW and Army Painter. You can mix whatever shade you want. And the trick is, you need a pin prick of oil paint in a generous droplet or three of white spirit. If you use it very very thinned down like this, it dries almost as quickly as an acrylic wash, and dries flat matt too. But the finish is (for my money) much better. It has the added advantage, that if you wish, within the first hour or two you can reanimate it with another drop of white spirit, and move it around. After that it dries properly and is fixed. But it’s not like using neat (or slightly thinned) oil paint where it takes days for the paint to go off. It’s basically a white spirit wash with a tiny bit of tincture in it. It evaporates and dries to the touch within a couple of minutes. It’s flow properties are far superior to ink washes though...
Maybe I’ll do a tutorial ;)
Ha, yadda ya know, there are still things to learn in the world of miniature painting. I've done oil washed plenty on vehicles but I probably used a higher oil paint content, wherefore I am used to them having to dry and set for at least a day.
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Nope, not at all. I have recently got into oil washes as a result of using them on my WW2 AFVs. They are WAAAAy better than ink washes like GW and Army Painter. You can mix whatever shade you want. And the trick is, you need a pin prick of oil paint in a generous droplet or three of white spirit. If you use it very very thinned down like this, it dries almost as quickly as an acrylic wash, and dries flat matt too. But the finish is (for my money) much better. It has the added advantage, that if you wish, within the first hour or two you can reanimate it with another drop of white spirit, and move it around. After that it dries properly and is fixed. But it’s not like using neat (or slightly thinned) oil paint where it takes days for the paint to go off. It’s basically a white spirit wash with a tiny bit of tincture in it. It evaporates and dries to the touch within a couple of minutes. It’s flow properties are far superior to ink washes though...
Maybe I’ll do a tutorial ;)
that would be great.
love the sound of it - and ever on the track of washes that 'really' work, but not sure I want to get back into the odoriferous area of oils etc ... brings back sort of happy memories of doing the 'Gilder' thing on horses tho ... :)
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Yeah. I tried the Gilder thing on Hinchliffe horses too, circa 1980 (I was a very young child :D) I don’t think they ever dried properly. The oil paint was still sticky in the crevices about 3 months later lol
But I think I’ve mastered it now ;)
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Stunning work on a great range of figures.
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Brilliant collection of figures. It's already been said about the standard of painting, so I'll just agree. :)
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What always strikes me Richard is your use of colour, you must have perfect colour vision( or a very accommodating wife) :)
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Well it’s definitely not the latter ;) lol
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Well it’s definitely not the latter ;) lol
Mine is pretty good, as a colour vision impaired ;D ,I need all the help I can get ;)
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Really lovely paintjobs Richard :-*
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Thanks Matt :)
They may even see some action tomorrow evening!
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Captain Blood, anything you paint is pure gold (if you know what I mean). Amazing work as always
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Yeah. I tried the Gilder thing on Hinchliffe horses too, circa 1980 (I was a very young child :D) I don’t think they ever dried properly. The oil paint was still sticky in the crevices about 3 months later lol
But I think I’ve mastered it now ;)
:) yes that's how I remember it.
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Great work Cap’n.
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Nope, not at all. I have recently got into oil washes as a result of using them on my WW2 AFVs. They are WAAAAy better than ink washes like GW and Army Painter. You can mix whatever shade you want. And the trick is, you need a pin prick of oil paint in a generous droplet or three of white spirit. If you use it very very thinned down like this, it dries almost as quickly as an acrylic wash, and dries flat matt too. But the finish is (for my money) much better. It has the added advantage, that if you wish, within the first hour or two you can reanimate it with another drop of white spirit, and move it around. After that it dries properly and is fixed. But it’s not like using neat (or slightly thinned) oil paint where it takes days for the paint to go off. It’s basically a white spirit wash with a tiny bit of tincture in it. It evaporates and dries to the touch within a couple of minutes. It’s flow properties are far superior to ink washes though...
Maybe I’ll do a tutorial ;)
Did you ever do a tutorial?
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my goodness, something to be reminded how brilliant both the figures and painting are in this thread.
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my goodness, something to be reminded how brilliant both the figures and painting are in this thread.
Aww. Thank you. They are such lovely figures, and I do still have a few of them left to paint. Unfortunately everything has been subordinated to the painting of ECW and Wars of The Roses over the last 2 or 3 years. I really do need to get back to some other stuff. So much to do, so little time ;D
Did you ever do a tutorial?
Erm, not really, no. Not for these.
But I've covered the oil wash technique to some extent in my ECW painting guide, which you can download from my Bloody Miniatures website, here:
https://www.bloodyminiatures.co.uk/s-projects-basic
:)