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Miniatures Adventure => Future Wars => Topic started by: Andrew Rae on 10 March 2017, 10:45:26 PM
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First painting I've done for a few months and the first faces I've done for a very, very long time. Still have an all consuming fear of highlighting and can't do a fine highlight to save my life. Had fun though, and I wish I could paint everything orange, green and brown.
(http://statuesquegallery.co.uk/statuesquescifi/starport/Able7s.jpg)
(http://statuesquegallery.co.uk/statuesquescifi/starport/Able8s.jpg)
(http://statuesquegallery.co.uk/statuesquescifi/starport/Able1s.jpg)
(http://statuesquegallery.co.uk/statuesquescifi/starport/Able4s.jpg)
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Great figures, and love the pjs too...especially the orange.
:)
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I think the are of a very high quality and the highlighting is pretty damn good.
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Beautiful!
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Wish I could paint that badly ;) The colours look great on them.
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Great work. Love the color choice and the faces look good.
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Yeah, as has been said, the colour choices are great! :-*
Any chance of some colour recipes? Especially for the metal and orange. Ta much!
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When I first saw these two I thought to myself ' I bet they'll paint up nice' and boy was I right! Great job!
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Magnificent. Just placed the order. Now I'll just have to find a suitable spacesuit colour that won't end up in plagiarism. lol
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What about a light grey with orange shoulder and knee pads, and a thin orange(or blue) stripe running up sides? Nothing says sci fi better than grey and orange(apparently!) ;)
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What about a light grey with orange shoulder and knee pads, and a thin orange(or blue) stripe running up sides? Nothing says sci fi better than grey and orange(apparently!) ;)
They'll go to my Strontium Dog side project. Greens and yellows and oranges are already in abundance there, so maybe some restraint might be in order, as you say. Possibly grey with a bluish tint.
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Thanks all! :)
Any chance of some colour recipes? Especially for the metal and orange. Ta much!
The orange is the old GW Foundation Macharius Orange. Lovely paint, covers really well and thins beautifully for feathering. I really hope the current Jokaero Orange is as nice.
So it was a Macharius Orange basecoat, wash of Army Painter Strong Tone, layered with thinned Macharius, deepen shading with Strong Tone only in recesses (thinning with Lamian Medium helps), repeat as necessary, tidy up again with Macharius then a bit of a highlight/glaze with a Macharius/ tiny bit of yellow mix.
The silver metal is Stormhost Silver basecoat shaded with multiple passes of Lamian Medium thinned AP Strong Tone then AP Dark Tone - not washed on but painted into the recesses and where else I wanted it. Not hitting the raised surfaces means you don't have to highlight again with the silver, though a tidy up can help too. You've got to be careful as if you apply a second coat too soon, the AP Tones can lift and clot. Which is annoying as hell. Tide marks can be a problem too, but thinning with medium seems to minimise this. It's the same way I painted the armour (and the orange shield) on my Chaos Warriors (http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=92255.msg1146114#msg1146114). I really need to experiment with a Lamian Medium thinned brown to replace the AP Tones to see if the lifting and clotting issue can be avoided.
The leather is a basecoat of AP Leather Brown with a bit of black added, washed with AP Dark Tone, then highlighted through AP Leather Brown to AP Monster Brown.
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Andrew, I know the others are being very kind, and I'm sure you appreciate it, but I quite understand your anguish on the painting. PLEASE, save yourself further angst, and send them directly to me.
Once again, it's the least I can do.
:-*
Doug
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Great paint job!!
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Fantastic painting, beautiful handling of the oranges.
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OK: just wow :o Very difficult color incredibly realistically painted!
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Thanks for the info Andrew. I REALLY need to get me some of that dark tone and medium tone Army painter stuff. I'm still using GW Nuln Oil and Agrathax(correct spelling?) Earthshade.
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I think you could do the same thing with the GW washes. I only use the AP washes because that's what I replaced my old batch of GW washes with. Dropper bottles seemed easier. Never tried the new GW washes but I quite like the gloss versions, though they're a different result.
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Beautiful paint job :-* Thanks for the explanation of your technique
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Wow, impressive painting. I'm not sure I have seen anything painted by you before. Excellent work on some great figures, they're on my 'to get' list.
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Lovely pjs, really bring out the best in the figs. The orange is beautifully done.
Re the army painter washes. Tread carefully, shake the hell out of the bottles and don't thin with water. Numerous times I've had them dry chalky white where they've pooled in the deepect recesses. Very frustrating.
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Those are just stunning.