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Title: 25 years of painting fantasy miniatures. Part 1.
Post by: Legion1963 on 14 January 2013, 09:48:53 PM: Hello, way back in 1987 when i was introduced to the hobby i soon found out about miniatures (at that time almost all of them in white lead) and was immediately captivated by the idea of going 3D and ....... well never looked back. Over the coming weeks i'll post some topic of my efforts in the fine art of miniature painting. I hope you'll enjoy it as much as i have done (and still am).
Title: Re: 25 years of painting fantasy miniatures. Part 1.
Post by: thebinmann on 14 January 2013, 10:02:28 PM: Some classics there

Should be interesting to see your painting and collection change over the years!
Title: Re: 25 years of painting fantasy miniatures. Part 1.
Post by: Legion1963 on 14 January 2013, 10:30:30 PM: Quote from: thebinmann on 14 January 2013, 10:02:28 PM
Some classics there

Should be interesting to see your painting and collection change over the years!
Most interesting......... but unfortunately there's no order in the pictures of the miniatures. The ones i've just posted are mostly very old, 15 years or more so. But the treeman i just painted about a 1,5 year ago and the evil mage (Hero Quest) is even more recent.
Title: Re: 25 years of painting fantasy miniatures. Part 1.
Post by: DeafNala on 15 January 2013, 12:31:27 AM: PRETTY NICE STUFF! You young Guys really progress rapidly. Keep up the FINE WORK!
Title: Re: 25 years of painting fantasy miniatures. Part 1.
Post by: Legion1963 on 15 January 2013, 06:58:36 PM: Quote from: DeafNala on 15 January 2013, 12:31:27 AM
PRETTY NICE STUFF! You young Guys really progress rapidly. Keep up the FINE WORK!
hahahaha.......those Texans..... they really are funny.
Title: Re: 25 years of painting fantasy miniatures. Part 1.
Post by: blackstone on 15 January 2013, 08:59:34 PM: Something about a photo with a gloss varnished mini that takes me back to a better time:) Love the ambul. Have that balrog too somewhere... never got round to painting it up!
Title: Re: 25 years of painting fantasy miniatures. Part 1.
Post by: Legion1963 on 15 January 2013, 09:30:56 PM: Quote from: blackstone on 15 January 2013, 08:59:34 PM
Something about a photo with a gloss varnished mini that takes me back to a better time:) Love the ambul. Have that balrog too somewhere... never got round to painting it up!

Mice to hear/read that. I always felt that to give a miniature a gloss varnish, it becomes like a piece of porcelain..an art piece.
Title: Re: 25 years of painting fantasy miniatures. Part 1.
Post by: blackstone on 15 January 2013, 10:04:21 PM: Well here the truth... gloss varnish increases the tonal range between the darks and the lights. The blacks are blacker and the whites lighter and everything inbetween. That Ambul is what I'd think of as a low contast paint job... and with the gloss it just brings out the subleties.

Being of the age where I began painting figures with smelly enamels and then a gloss varnish I can fully agree they look and feel so much more precious being all shiney and that.
Title: Re: 25 years of painting fantasy miniatures. Part 1.
Post by: Thantsants on 15 January 2013, 11:06:23 PM: Lovely old lead and vintage paint jobs as well 8)