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Other Stuff => The Lead Painters' League => Season 5 => Topic started by: Captain Blood on March 13, 2011, 12:01:04 AM
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Brilliant work on those plaids! :-*
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There is a lot of nakedness in these civillian rounds! :D
@Remgain: Einstein takes a walk in the country to clear his mind?! Good one! ;)
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The clothing is awesome! :o
Love the vegetable garden by the way. Wouldn't mind seeing some more pictures of it ;)
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"censored" (Prof)
Oh yes, while I remember, a quick word on etiquette for both participants and observers.
We all want LPL entries and matches to stimulate comment and discussion, so it’s perfectly fine to comment on live matches. That's half the fun. But please try to keep comments constructive and don’t blatantly ‘boost’ (or attempt to torpedo) one or other entry.
So by all means comment ‘I really like what you’ve done there’. But please don’t go down the road of: ‘Well entry A is so manifestly superior to entry B, that I cannot understand why so many people are voting for entry B’.
That kind of thing will be edited by the Moderators.
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no negativity intended, merely a poor choice of words I'm afraid ...
New try:
Although I like the fleshtones on the chicks the overall painting and composition of the country walk wins it for me!
Don't slap me prof .... I'll behave .... I promise
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As if that scarecrow didn't have enough to contend with!
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The flesh tones on the naked chicks isn't really that great and the sculpts all look aneorexic.
But the fabric patterns on the Walk in the Country figures are AWESOME!
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Oh the details, the details, the details :-* :o Plaid, Argyl, scenery... :-*
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That Einstein is brilliant
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Generally I'm in favor of naked ladies in preference to all other things... in this case I think I'll make a rare exception. The design work on the clothing (Einstein's sweater!!!) is jaw-droppingly good!
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Despite a well documented love of naked women and their little metal representatives I have to give it to 'A walk in the country'
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Thank you for your kind words, boys! :)
@Muskie: lovely (pun intended ;)) minis. My best wishing of good luck for your following entries! :)
@Raz: here're some more pictures of the garden.
http://s235.photobucket.com/albums/ee36/remgain/MUSKETEERS/#!cpZZ1QQtppZZ20
Ciao
Marco
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The clothing is awesome! :o
Yeah, I love those naked chicks too!
Ba-dump-tsss!
Seriously, very nice work on both entries but that garden is fantastic in itself, and even better with those models in it, amazing entry!
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I think I could have done a better job photographing my entry, but I just wanted to get them done and get officially entered. When they're done competing I'll post some more pictures on my blog (http://musksminiatures.wordpress.com/). I'm not really in it to win it, I just want to compete.
Some people obviously are trying harder than others, but hey, it's all fair in love, war, and online miniature painting competitions. I had trouble finding models I owned that would get the bonus points... ;-)
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Extraordinarily good
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Try to get as close as you can for the shot.
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Try to get as close as you can for the shot.
Are we talking camera work or another type of shooting at naked ladies Ray? :D
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Question who makes the ladies if i can ask???????
great paint on both love them..
Tony
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Are we talking camera work or another type of shooting at naked ladies Ray? :D
I'll leave that to your imagination... ;)
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Who makes the figs in the "walk" entry?
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Question who makes the ladies if i can ask???????
great paint on both love them..
Tony
That I did look up. I got them in 1996. They are stamped 1995 Ral Partha and the sculpter's name: Dennis Mize. That's all I know (http://musksminiatures.wordpress.com/2011/02/25/painting-naked-chicks/), there are more of them in the set, which I got thrown in with a trade for some GW figs. ;-)
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The ladies need better lighting - I always shoot outdoors on the back porch if I can; overcast days are perfect as the shadows are softer. Failing that, two bright (100+ watt) bulbs as close to the subjects as you can manage, ideally daylight-balanced bulbs just to make colour correction less of a chore after you bring the image over to your computer.
The country walkers are amazing, although the gardner might be a bit ticked they're walking all over the plants!
Remgain, how was the garden made? It's the most convincing scale garden I think I've ever seen while still being usable in a game!
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@6milPhil: the minis are, form left to right, Einstein (Pulp Figures Scientific Masterminds), elder and nurse (Pulp Figures Scientific Masterminds), country gentleman (Pulp Figures Stalward Companions), Rufus the bulldog (Pulp Figures Rugged Heroes), Miss Marble (Artizan Thrilling Tales PLP062), young lady (Pulp Figures Gumshoes). Hope this helps!!
@Wirelizard: the garden was built on a piece of MDF. All the raises in the ground (grooves and fields boundaries) were built by hot glue stripes. The fence was built with naval models wooden dowels. Than everything was covered with diluted white glue and sand and painted dark brown, drybrushed ocra etcetc. The vegetables are model railway flock (the rough sawdust one). Pumpkins and beehives are modeled with milliput, as well as the scarecrow. Don't hesitate if you have any more questions!!
:)
Ciao
Marco
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Yes, I have a question, is the background photo photoshopped in? It looks really good and I considered doing it as well (but didn't obviously), very nice either way 8)
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great painting
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@Pil. yes, it was photoshopped. I take the picture against a black background and then added the landscape.
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The effect is very nice, thanks for your explanation!
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While it's hard to say no to naked chicks - that argyle and tartan is just too stunning!
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While normally, I'd be partial to naked chicks, the paint job on the "Walk in the Country" is phenomenal!
Ted
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Is that Snookie there second from left? That particular sculpt is always disturbing - I have it too. It's not a dwarf but is it child or ...
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I don't know what a Snooki is, I couldn't even figure out that was directed at me... I didn't do a very good job of photographing my minis especially the first one. Looking at the competition he has his models tighter together which allows them to be larger. Something to think about for next time I photograph a team. I already painted and photographed my second team.
My third team is still at the primer stage. The 'naked chicks' were a bit of a mystery there was a bunch of them, I just took the better sculpts even though scale was a bit wonky. I painted them all with different skin tones to represent different ethnicities. I'm not sure that all comes across in the one photo but c'est la vie. I took some more photos a day or two later, they'll appear online eventually in the mean time, I need to get some sleep.
Still don't know how I'm doing, I didn't vote... It'll be a surprise to me, but I hope I get some easier competition eventually, there are a lot tough competitors, I don't think I've chose the best models to showcase my style, I never paint fleshtones... It's all for fun, I just made them up. I usually paint demons, space marines, or orks. ;-) I went totally against type for round 2, too.
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@Muskie,
be sure that it was a total surprise for me as well.
As you can see the majority of the comments appreciates the detail of painting I did on the dresses (absolutely no pun intended).
From the point of view of the painting style, I'm quite sure that we are on the same level, and maybe you're better. Painting flesh is very difficult, and you did it very well indeed.
I'm very interested in seeing your next entries, and I'm totally sure that they'll perform very well!
:)
And, yes, try to take the pictures closer to the minis, otherwise the detail would be lost, and the minis themselves would be lost in the background.
Ciao,
Marco
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From the point of view of the painting style, I'm quite sure that we are on the same level, and maybe you're better.
@Muskie
I just saw your blog.
Your painting style is much better than mine. Ditto.
Marco
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@Muskie
I just saw your blog.
Your painting style is much better than mine. Ditto.
Marco
I wouldn't be so sure, I never paint patterned cloth or flesh much, but I think you (or I) can paint anything if we set our minds to it and use sensible techniques. A lot of the times now I'm trying to paint faster or at least more efficiently. For the ladies, I just tried to get their flesh tones all different, otherwise it would have been a more boring entry.
I have more ideas than I have time and energy to complete, so just five models to complete an idea is nice, but also one more than I like to paint at a time. I think four 28mm figs is my optimal but the naked women were 25mm scale supposedly, they are certainly wee, like three strokes to highlight the face sometimes...
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( o )Y( o )... I know I should vote for this, I mean, boobs! Both entries are very fine, but my vote goes to the gentlemen and ladies in the countryside.
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( o )Y( o )... I know I should vote for this, I mean, boobs! Both entries are very fine, but my vote goes to the gentlemen and ladies in the countryside.
Me too! I never usually vote against naked women, must be getting old :'(