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Miniatures Adventure => VSF Adventures => Topic started by: Heldrak on 27 April 2010, 05:24:27 PM
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I thought that people might like to see some individual shots of my Firstborn Martian Pirates:
(http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u219/Heldrak/LPLIV/LPLIV8/IMG_0023.jpg)
(http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u219/Heldrak/LPLIV/LPLIV8/IMG_0005.jpg)
(http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u219/Heldrak/LPLIV/LPLIV8/IMG_0008.jpg)
(http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u219/Heldrak/LPLIV/LPLIV8/IMG_0011.jpg)
(http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u219/Heldrak/LPLIV/LPLIV8/IMG_0014.jpg)
(http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u219/Heldrak/LPLIV/LPLIV8/IMG_0017.jpg)
(http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u219/Heldrak/LPLIV/LPLIV8/IMG_0018.jpg)
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Excellent work there Heldrak. I'll have to follow suit and post some close-ups of LPL entries myself.
I love the black skin tones that you've achieved there, mind sharing your recipe?
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They look very good! Nice shading on the figures.
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I love the black skin tones that you've achieved there, mind sharing your recipe?
I posted the recipe in this older Barsoomian thread here:
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=11089.15
But I'll repeat it here for convenience as well:
These were done primarily using the Reaper Master Series Dark Elf Skin triad, but I added a further base coat with a 50/50 mix of the Reaper Dark Elf Skin Shadow Color + Foundry Black and a final highlight of the Reaper Dark Elf Skin Highlight + a small amount of VGC (Vallejo Game Color) Wolf Grey (#72047). In the final result, they came out a little more grey than I might like, but I felt like the additional highlight/loss of "blackness" was worth it it to bring out more detail. As I mentioned before, it's always a tradeoff when painting otherworldly black skin how much darkness you want to sacrifice to show more of the features.
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Very effective black skintones. Proper black (as opposed to African black) skin is very hard to do convincingly, but your chaps are extremely lifelike :-*
Might be nice to try for some 5150 Near Future aliens I'm planning on doing.
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Makes a good recipe for the Atevi (for you fans of C. J. Cherryh's Foreigner series), or for D&D Drow... ;)
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That's what I thought when I first saw them, the skin tones would work perfectly on a drow model. Also, I agree that it's a fine balance beween staying black/dark and yet showing the appropriate level of detail. You have pulled it off masterfully.
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I've got some Fenryll resin Dark Elf figures that I've been sitting on for a long time, as well as an ancient set of Ral Partha Drow figures- You may wind up seeing them in next year's LPL... ::)
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Makes a good recipe for the Atevi (for you fans of C. J. Cherryh's Foreigner series)
That's what I was thinking of :D Something very like this:
(http://www.usedbooks.co.nz/images/Book/075640570X.jpg)
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I'm hugely fond of the Foreigner series (C. J. Cherryh's magnum opus, I think). I've got to get a pre-order in for Deceiver (#11) as soon as I can scape up some money... ;)
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Very nice, thanks
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Fantastic!