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Miniatures Adventure => Colonial Adventures => Topic started by: Lowtardog on March 31, 2014, 01:02:10 PM
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Now painting my first small Hapu of maori and looking for ideas for painting/drwaing on the tattoos, I dont have the skill with a brush and have seen where people have used a pencil? but thought perhpas an artists felt pen may work. Any tips or ideas out there?
cheers
Karl
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Now painting my first small Hapu of maori and looking for ideas for painting/drwaing on the tattoos, I dont have the skill with a brush and have seen where people have used a pencil? but thought perhpas an artists felt pen may work. Any tips or ideas out there?
cheers
Karl
A very fine brush will work better than any pen IMHO Karl.
Also, just go for the general shape of the tatoo's- they tended to follow the contours of the body/face so just go for it but don't over do it.
Darrell.
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Cheer Darrell, I am going to give it a go with both, I think you are probbaly right but my skill is limited so the pen will be a fall back option :D
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Cheer Darrell, I am going to give it a go with both, I think you are probbaly right but my skill is limited so the pen will be a fall back option :D
I once tried a Staedler 0.05 pen on some mini's and it made a bit of a mess of them, believe it or not you will be used to using a brush on the contours of a mini and I really do think that if you get a very fine brush with enough of a nib you will find it easier. Just don't overload the book with pigment and study Andrew Taylor's south Americans for three years and you're laughing lol.
Darrell.
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Being a kiwi I look forward to seeing the results! What about a skewer dipped in water down paint? (Not speaking from experience though)
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Being a kiwi I look forward to seeing the results! What about a skewer dipped in water down paint? (Not speaking from experience though)
Skewer? Do you mean a Maori tat stick?? ??? ??? ???
Darrell.
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I once tried a Staedler 0.05 pen on some mini's and it made a bit of a mess of them, believe it or not you will be used to using a brush on the contours of a mini and I really do think that if you get a very fine brush with enough of a nib you will find it easier. Just don't overload the book with pigment and study Andrew Taylor's south Americans for three years and you're laughing lol.
Darrell.
I see your point on the pen as it will be more directional. Wiating on the pens to come in the post ;D my practice piece will be one of the female Maori as that should be easiest around mouth and lips but give a good feel for how it will pan out.
My only plan is that I cant even get eyes right (they all end up looking like marti feldman - and as I get older sure the figures are getting smaller ;))
I think bar making a pa I should have my mARIOR AT AROUND 70 FIGURES NOW, 3 UNITS OF REGULARS (emp) PLUS A COMMAND TEAM, A NAVAL SECTION, 12 MILITIA, 10 SETTLER TYPES, 2 ROCKET TEAMS, ONE OF WHICH WILL BE MANNED BY ROYAL MARINES (FROM pERRY cARLIST RANGE) AND 20 1ST cORPS Rifle men to add a bit of a campaign feel to a supporting unit. Interestingly with Despard I was reading the account that they charged the Pa with full kit!!!!
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Decide on rules yet? I'm tempted by those sweet Empress minis to start a period I know nothing about!
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3 on the table at the moment
M&T and This very Ground, both French Indain wars rules and almost translate directly across bar rules for rockets and shotguns
Smooth and Rifled, downloaded and should work for smaller skirmish games methinks they have lists for Maori wars so good to go :D ;D
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did not someone sell warpaint decals for celts?
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did not someone sell warpaint decals for celts?
You are right Hasslefree do but they are more for bigger fantasy figures e.g. covering bodies, the maori is mainly on the face and not sure they would work to be honest
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I don't know - I can't imagine how You want to reproduce real Moko with even the finest brush...
I think these could work very well
(http://www.hfminis.co.uk/img_cms/product_images/HFTAT001BL.jpg)(http://www.hfminis.co.uk/img_cms/product_images/HFTAT002BL.jpg)
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Skewer? Do you mean a Maori tat stick?? ??? ??? ???
Darrell.
:) No, just a skewer that you would push through meat to make a shish-kebab, or even a tooth pick.
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:) No, just a skewer that you would push through meat to make a shish-kebab, or even a tooth pick.
Probably too big in both cases I would think.... :)
Darrell.
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I don't know - I can't imagine how You want to reproduce real Moko with even the finest brush...
I think these could work very well
(http://www.hfminis.co.uk/img_cms/product_images/HFTAT001BL.jpg)(http://www.hfminis.co.uk/img_cms/product_images/HFTAT002BL.jpg)
I did have a look at these, they wont work for around the face which is the main issue, also if being geeky they are modern tribal tattos not traditional so wouldnt really reflect the Maori tatoo which tended to follow the hard lines of the face :)
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I did have a look at these, they wont work for around the face which is the main issue, also if being geeky they are modern tribal tattos not traditional so wouldnt really reflect the Maori tatoo which tended to follow the hard lines of the face :)
I agree, they simply are too modern and not at all how the Maori adorned themselves.
Darrell.
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I initially tried using a pencil, but wasn't happy with the result. So in the end I chickened out and didn't paint the moko at all - you don't really notice them at this scale anyway.
(http://arteis.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/maori_taua_2_0814.jpg)
(http://arteis.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/maori_big-men.jpg)
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I had a big fail with the pens so have chickened out too, first 12 done now so will getsome photos up :)
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I found it really difficult to do facial tattoos on the Empress minis as the facial details were very fine and sharp with limited flat spaces....I did around 3-5 with facial tattoos but felt it took away from the overall look of the mini and did not look as realistic as I wanted....also I was attemping to layer them with 3 levels of colour. It was extremely difficult to replicate the complexity of the tattoos on such a small area to work with.
Below is an example of one of the better ones.
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_zwBLPFl_oc/U0uiEo_8L4I/AAAAAAAABdw/dYcT7mdUnHA/s1600/tattoo.jpg)
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I found it really difficult to do facial tattoos on the Empress minis as the facial details were very fine and sharp with limited flat spaces....I did around 3-5 with facial tattoos but felt it took away from the overall look of the mini and did not look as realistic as I wanted....also I was attemping to layer them with 3 levels of colour. It was extremely difficult to replicate the complexity of the tattoos on such a small area to work with.
Below is an example of one of the better ones.
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_zwBLPFl_oc/U0uiEo_8L4I/AAAAAAAABdw/dYcT7mdUnHA/s1600/tattoo.jpg)