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Miniatures Adventure => Fantasy Adventures => Topic started by: Mrdee on March 21, 2011, 12:19:38 AM
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Painting this little beauty for a painting comp on another forum and thought I would share the WIP with you guys see what you thought
this is my 5th attempt at NMM and I think I am starting to get the hang of it
(http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z79/Mrdee1969/2010_01020014.jpg)
wont bore you will millions of pictures until she is finished.
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WOW, that is just gorgeous. Her skin is so smooth and the NMM is perfect, come to think of it the gems are pretty freakn' awesome too.
Great stuff and 'bore' us all you like
Damien
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wont bore you will millions of pictures until she is finished.
Feel free to "bore" us all you want...that mini is turning out BEAUTIFULLY! Keep up the FINE WORK!
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:o
Is it just me, or did you match the colours of that chinese box by accident?
Seriously, check the picture. The thread colours and teh colours of her 'outfit'...
Spot on dude!
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Beautiful :-*
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@ Damien
Thanks mate, I am particlarly happy with the skin, its one of my favourite things to paint, more so when I paint ladies.
@ DeafNala
Thanks pal. Having beautiful models to paint is half the battle, also its so nice to paint something non-GW again for a change.
@ Col A B
Thanks mate, strangely that chinese box contains my stress balls I was rotating whilst watching the football yesterday :D and yes mate total accident. Also thanks for the comment about the face when I sent you the earlier picture, I wasn't happy with it just needed that nudge to man up and repaint the whole thing.
@ ryoden
Cheers dude.
I have a couple more of the Kingdom Death stuff on the way namely the White Speaker who has even less clothing
http://www.kingdomdeath.com/#294094/White-Speaker (http://www.kingdomdeath.com/#294094/White-Speaker)
As you can see she comes with the staff and cloak seperate which I reckon I should leave off and just have her as a half naked preistess type, does it for me.
Also the Preacher pin-up
http://shop.kingdomdeath.com/product/preacher-pinup (http://shop.kingdomdeath.com/product/preacher-pinup)
Which apart from being another sexy model is now sold out.....went on sale late Friday afternoon lasted a weekend :o Mind you it is nice so not that surprising it is nice.
Man I have been single for far too long.....
Damien
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Wow that mini is beautiful, great work!
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Wow that mini is beautiful, great work!
cheers pal....I love painting boobs nearly as good as the real thing AND I don't get a restraining order when I touch the ones on the model
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I think I'm in love with that lady. Wow, I mean WOW!
Wonderful paintjob. I never understood how NMM works so everybody who does is automatically raised to a level beyond my humble human existence...
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Very nice, Damien! Really looking forward to see the finished paintjob!
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I am particlarly happy with the skin, its one of my favourite things to paint, more so when I paint ladies.
The skin treatment on this model is particularly fine. Care to share some tips and techniques...?
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Lovely stuff - some tips would be great as I'm wanting to raise the bar on my flesh tones also! :D
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I know it's been said a few times already, but the skin tones are done very, very, well. Nice warm tones with very smooth transitions. Please share you colors!
Gem work is top notch as well.
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I think I'm in love with that lady. Wow, I mean WOW!
Wonderful paintjob. I never understood how NMM works so everybody who does is automatically raised to a level beyond my humble human existence...
shes mine get ya own :P Thanks matey
Very nice, Damien! Really looking forward to see the finished paintjob!
Thanks mate, will be finished tomorrow
@ Heldrak, Thantsants and VoodoInk
Thanks guys, I will write up something tomorrow for you, I am massively tired now
nearly finished, totally redid the cloak was far too bright to the point of being overpowering.
just a couple minor bits like the pommel gem I added today.
(http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z79/Mrdee1969/2010_01030002.jpg)
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That's crazy! ;D I think I'll stop painting now. lol
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She just keeps getting more lovely...WONDERFULLY DONE!
That's crazy! ;D I think I'll stop painting now. lol
You're supposed to be inspired to achieve more...get with the program. ;)
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@ des loup
Like DeafNala said mate, it is supposed to inspire, well that and I seek a little objective feedback on my part, I tend to look at my models subjectively usually from a overly negative standpoint but then that also helps me push myself to improve, so a little unbiased feedback always does wonders.
@ DeafNala
Thanks mate. I really enjoying this model it is a pleasure to paint and I reckon this model might just beat my personal best on Cool Mini Or Not of 8.1 for Urban Legend Sophie, we will have to see what the painting "elite" think of it. I am however a little sceptical of that site at times, a table top quality squad of dark eldar scored the same as 2 of my Golden Demon final round reaching entries, go figure ::)
As promised for Heldrak, Thantsants and VoodoInk here is a run down of the skin process. Take what you want from it but I will try to explain it as though you have never picked up a paint brush in your life, but I know that is not the case.
For a start I paint every skin differently, even more so between male and female skin the latter being a lot softer and a gentle transition between shade and highlight. I use different combos of paints depending on what end result I want. What I would say is that usually its all a matter of dark tone colour, mid tone colour and highlight colour. For this particular little sweetheart, her colours were VGC Tanned Flesh (shade/basecoat) VGC Cadm Skin (mid tone) VGC Elfic Flesh (highlight)
I undercoat grey, all the positives of white without the negatives.
Paint prep is a big thing for me. With skin I tend to start with a couple of coats of the dark tone colour at 1:1 - paint:water till I get a nice smoth and uniform finish, always make sure that you have an even coat NO patches of light or dark, this is of the utmost importance on the basecoat
I then make sure that I have all my paints for the rest of the process ready for this I mix them all at a ratio of 1:2 ratio of paint to glazing medium although it is very much dependent on the paint some are thicker and require maybe a little more glazing medium. The way I know that it is a perfect is when it goes on the brush it almost looks as though there is no paint on the brush until I do a few test strokes of the brush on my finger nail when it should be a nice smooth glaze of colour, the consistency of the paint should be that of milk. I also make sure that I have a peice of damp kitchen towel to hand to place over my pallet to ensure the paint doesn't dry out, if it does add water till it goes back to the right consistency no glazing medium too much medium and things go tits up.
I then take the basecoated model put it under a spot lamp so that I can simulate where light is coming from, at this point either take a photo for reference or if like me you are blessed with an almost photographic memory remember when the natural highlights will be, also a really handy way to work out NMM according to CMoN although tends only to work on bare metal models.
Now you are ready to start painting with skin my process is very organic I merely glaze the skin with successive highlights (or shades if I feck up) of mixes of the colours i have sat in my pallete adding more and more highlights to particular areas I want to build up. One thing I will say there are only 3 places on the entire skin of this model that i used pure elfic flesh (the highlight) and that was a glaze on the top of the breasts, the tip of the nose and the belly button rim (although not overly prone to light I wanted to make it stand out) although thats 4 if you count the breasts as seperate entities! The rest of the highlighing it all a mix of highlight and midtone colours.
Sorry if you think that I might have a special trick, sadly not, I just do it always with the mental image of how the light hit the model when under the lamp. The only real way would be to sit and watch me doing it. I am thinking of asking my good friend Luke to maybe do some sort of high speed vid I can post on my website would be easier. I enter a zen-like state when I paint and is why I paint.....it is my own form of meditation. The only real trick for me is making sure that the paints/glazes are perfect consistency everything else just falls into place after that.
One mega tip....have a hairdryer to hand or this can take a fecking long time with all the paints mixed with glazing medium.
Was that what you guys were after?
Damien
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Thanks Damien, that is very helpful.
If I understand you, you're not blending per se, but using a layered painting technique with very thin glazes. When you say 1:2 paint to glazing medium, does that mean there is no added water at all in the initial mix? Which particular glazing medium are you using? Vallejo?
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If I understand you, you're not blending per se, but using a layered painting technique with very thin glazes.
Yes mate
When you say 1:2 paint to glazing medium, does that mean there is no added water at all in the initial mix?
Yes mate no water until it starts drying out but it wont fully dry out for about 24 hours with glazing medium in i find, the damp kitchen towel is more me being adhering to a habit and doing it without thinking rather than needing to do it. Think in the 3 hours the paints for this model were out (i was doing other things whilst painting as well) i added water once and that was merely a basecoat brush worth of water, its all situational.
Which particular glazing medium are you using? Vallejo?
Yes mate. Vallejo Glaze Medium.
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As regards your grey primer, spray-on or brush on? What brand? If spray-on, what are you using to match colors when tidying up areas missed by the spray?
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I use Halfords grey metal primer spray (on plastics too) it is meant for car body work so is a nice tough base to work from.
IF i miss anything, which rarely happens.........I am the poster boy for attention to detail....would say anal but who the bloody hell wants to be the poster boy for anal, maybe George Michael lol .........I digress, I use a 50/50 mix of black and white brush on primers from reaper master series
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as always:
Oh
My
God
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as always:
Oh
My
God
Wondered how long before you raised your latin head to the wonders that are boobs :P
Thanks matey
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as others have said, it's all really impressive, but even by your standard, the flesh is amazing!
regards
jim
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Wondered how long before you raised your latin head to the wonders that are boobs :P
Thanks matey
lol lol
i was looking at that miniature 20 minutes ago, and now i see yours painted... shock.
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@ Jim
Cheers mate
@ Sang
Welcome to the Twilight Knight Zone
She is finished. Am just taking the photos.
Damien
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All finished
Have loads of pictures
(http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z79/Mrdee1969/2010_01040003.jpg)
(http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z79/Mrdee1969/2010_01040023.jpg)
(http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z79/Mrdee1969/2010_01040031.jpg)
(http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z79/Mrdee1969/2010_01040033.jpg)
(http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z79/Mrdee1969/2010_01040024.jpg)
Sorry couldn't resist this one....sad I know
(http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z79/Mrdee1969/2010_01040027.jpg)
*EDIT*
23rd March 2011
**Replaced the pictures of the old cloak with pictures of the redone one**
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WOW!
i love the miniature : is it the 54mm one?
the only remark is about the cloak: the layers are a bit fast, and i can see the layer borders... but still a GREAT piece!
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nope 28mm
Yeah and I aint that happy with the cloak will have to revisit it I think
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LOL, double shock then! lol
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JUST BEAUTIFUL...that's as close to perfection as I could imagine. It's really hard to believe that she is a mere 28mm tall. FANTASTICALLY WELL DONE!
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Great details every where you look. You must have an amazing collection.
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LOL, double shock then! lol
I was tempted by the 54mm version but I think I will leave it as its exactly the same model.
JUST BEAUTIFUL...that's as close to perfection as I could imagine. It's really hard to believe that she is a mere 28mm tall. FANTASTICALLY WELL DONE!
Cheers mate. Size comparison for you
(http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z79/Mrdee1969/2010_01040036.jpg)
Great details every where you look. You must have an amazing collection.
Thanks matey, I have enough models from 3 years of paint that I dont remember painting some.....
redone the cloak. left side of the hood I am still not massively happy with so will work on a little more tomorrow
*EDIT*
23rd march 2011
**I updated the pictures on the previous page with the redone cloak**
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The cloak looks much much better. Now for the praising, she turned out fantastic, the NMM, the gems, the red, the base and especially the skin (btw I really like the cleavage pic), just eye popping good! Also, thanks for the tutorials, I am printing them out now to read.
Keep posting, 'cause you know we can't get enough
Damien
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Cheers Damien glad you like her, hope my tutorial is of use to you mate.
I will for sure be posting more :P
You can actually see the beginnings of the next project in the back ground of the size comparison picture although you have to have ninja like observational skills to see it :) namely a Miss Isabella (the french femme fatale sans monkey) on and Parisian Street at night, planning massive object source lighting on this project, am really going to push myself to the next level, sadly I found out the deadline for the competition I was going to enter her in with the Twilight Knight is this saturday....no way am I going to get that done I haven't even started sculpting the bloody base, but I want to do it as a display piece for me so I am going to do it anyway.
Damien
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Miss Isabella (the french femme fatale sans monkey)
That's the Stdio McVey figure, yes? I quite like her but I was never crazy about the monkey- Does it come separately or did you have to do a conversion to remove it?
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Yip it is a Studio McVey model mate.
And no the monkey is not seperate but then I love marmosets so really aint a problem for me :D
should have been avec monkey, sorry my french is a tiny bit rusty lol
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Your paint work is great. The gemstones are wonderful. As is the red armor.
I really like those girls. The hips and rear are deliciously proportioned with nice round tummies. I really admired Kingdom Death minis when they came out, but I really despise mini companies that do limited edition stuff. (it's fine for conventions etc, but when almost all of your store is LTD it gets annoying) I can't have my favorite sculpts from them, so as a result I will never purchase anything from them. Sorry for the rant.
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Thanks mate.
It's ok, I have been after the Wet Nurse from them for ages now and I know your pain, I have my email client open 24/7 waiting for the email saying 2nd run is now on for that model. But they are a small company reckon as they make more and more they will start running models indefinately, they have with a couple as far as I can tell, sure more will follow. But from my point of view I love the models they are a pleasure to paint so I just try to ensure I catch them on the release day like I did with the preacher pinup and rerun of the white speaker (which have been shipped!!) :D
small negative though........I had prepped Isabella for painting she was on my desk I caught her with my headphone cord knocked her off the desk didn't realise and ran her over with my chair!! So i have had to buy another :-[
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While I don't particularly care for that miniature, you did a beautiful job on it.
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Thanks matey
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How is your next project coming along? All my painting has hit a wall due to end of school papers and getting ready for exams.
Damien
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well I have been working on a Thunderhawk Gunship in the background. and if you read about I "ran over" isabella who was next on the menu........but her replacement arrived and she is 687 of 750 so not alot more room left for mistakes :D
Also they have posted my other kingdom death models so expect them soon
AND I have started work on my warhammer monster entry for UKGD this year but I think I might keep that one secret, or maybe not, suppose it all depends if its good enough to win something :)