Zeds. Help!

[jp762]

I have slowed down my painting from 45 min per mini to hours per mini.
Still getting this result.
HELP!
Tips and tutorials demanded, sorry, appreciated.

[Commander Vyper]

Nice look, but I'd try to go for batch painting, heavy use of washes/glazes on a variety of skin tones to give you depth and shade. Remember you'll have serious numbers on the table, so you can skimp detail if you can't speed paint. Also personally, loose the pupils and go milky white with washes on the eyes, they're dead remember.

[stone-cold-lead]

Like with the IG, these look great as is but if you wanted to add a few extra layers of highlights it might give you that little extra oomf you're after.

[apeekaboo]

I like them, except for the woman, child and the torso dude whom all look too flat. This is easily fixed with more highlighting/shading and some dirty washes.

[Commander Vyper]

Like with the IG, these look great as is but if you wanted to add a few extra layers of highlights it might give you that little extra oomf you're after.

I think the whole point is he wants to save time not increase time. Basecoat's are too think and I think that's what's killing them in my opinion, thinned paints and dirty washes and you should speed up no end.

[stone-cold-lead]

I think the whole point is he wants to save time not increase time. Basecoat's are too think and I think that's what's killing them in my opinion, thinned paints and dirty washes and you should speed up no end.

Ah, I thought he was saying he'd spent more time working on these but was still ending up with his tabletop standard. Now I'm confused.

[DowVooVoo]

Close eyes, count to three, open eyes look. They are GREAT! don't worry.

[stone-cold-lead]

Close eyes, count to three, open eyes look. They are GREAT! don't worry.

That's actually good advice.

[CptJake]

I like them.   Maybe more shading on some of the big flesh areas, but honestly, those will look good on the table as is.

Jake

[Argonor]

I think the Commander is right - the minis look somewhat 'toyish', which probably comes from a too heavy/thick basecoat. Or a bad primer. Details seem drowned in paint.

Now, these are metal models, and some of them very nice ones, so I understand that jp wants them to 'look the part'. For that, thin your paints, use at least four layers for skin (deep shades between fingers and the likes, shade, base colour, and final highlights for knuckles and brows and the likes - anyway always make sure that your final highlight has enough contrast to the previous layer

For speedpainting a substantial horde, I would recommend going for blocking out the colours, giving the entire mini a shading wash - maybe followed by various coloured washes for variation (as said above), and then drybrush on a 'highlight' of the original blocked out colours (works best for speed when batch-painting).

But try different techniques and see what suits you best