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Author Topic: Re: Idle Fantasies - Orc Cultists - 12th Jan  (Read 4407 times)

Offline Dr DeAth

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Re: The Fantastic Adventures of an Idle Doodler (Update 07 Sep)
« Reply #15 on: September 13, 2017, 06:53:31 PM »
Very nice
Photos of my recent efforts are at www.littleleadmen.com and https://beaverlickfalls.blogspot.com

Offline Severian

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Re: The Fantastic Adventures of an Idle Doodler (Update 13th September)
« Reply #16 on: September 13, 2017, 07:00:35 PM »
Nice conversion - and again really impressive work on the face.

Offline Idle Doodler

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Re: The Fantastic Adventures of an Idle Doodler (Update 13th September)
« Reply #17 on: September 16, 2017, 10:43:00 AM »
Thank you! I feel they're let down by the hair framing them - I essentially just highlight it as I do the clothes, and am not particularly keen on the effect. An area to work on.

Offline Idle Doodler

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Re: The Fantastic Adventures of an Idle Doodler (Update 13th September)
« Reply #18 on: September 16, 2017, 04:27:30 PM »
A well-packed journeying halfling.


Offline DeafNala

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Re: The Fantastic Adventures of an Idle Doodler - Halfling Adventurer (16th Sep)
« Reply #19 on: September 16, 2017, 07:35:41 PM »
SPLENDID! You have some WONDERFUL creations, rich in personality. Your work with the brush & eye for colors are OUTSTANDING. VERY WELL DONE one & all!
I'd NEVER join a club that would have me as a member.  G.Marx

Offline randycarter

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Re: The Fantastic Adventures of an Idle Doodler - Halfling Adventurer (16th Sep)
« Reply #20 on: September 16, 2017, 10:30:33 PM »
I thin you've had a great improvement in very few model. Keep on grabbing your brush, you're on theright way!
If I can give you an hint: try to darken the shadows between different areas (clothes and skin, forma exemple): this gonna make the color pop a lot more.

Offline mweaver

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Re: The Fantastic Adventures of an Idle Doodler - Halfling Adventurer (16th Sep)
« Reply #21 on: September 17, 2017, 02:32:36 PM »
You have a nice bunch o'figures there, and they do seem to be expanding.  Thanks for sharing!

-Michael

Offline Duke Donald

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Re: The Fantastic Adventures of an Idle Doodler - Halfling Adventurer (16th Sep)
« Reply #22 on: September 17, 2017, 02:41:21 PM »
Nice minis!

May I ask where the "travelling companion / bachelor-in-distress" is from? I don't recognise him.

Offline Idle Doodler

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Re: The Fantastic Adventures of an Idle Doodler - Halfling Adventurer (16th Sep)
« Reply #23 on: September 17, 2017, 04:40:54 PM »
Thank you all!

randycarter - That I shall try doing.

Duke Donald - It's Jojen from Dark Sword Miniatures, grabbed from the North Star store during a sale. Most of that line are too tall for most of my collection, but Jojen scales well with 28mm.

Offline Severian

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Re: The Fantastic Adventures of an Idle Doodler - Halfling Adventurer (16th Sep)
« Reply #24 on: September 17, 2017, 08:21:27 PM »
nice work on the Halfling!

Offline Idle Doodler

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Back after a pause caused by overcommitting our evenings to various social events, here's a lonely wizard from Games Workshop:



That's a thick coating of light dust on the base of his cloak, and definitely not an overenthusiastic coating of superglue...

Offline Idle Doodler

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Re: The Fantastic Adventures of an Idle Doodler - Update 6th Oct
« Reply #26 on: October 06, 2017, 01:39:37 PM »
Another Games Workshop miniature - when they abstain from throwing a lot of detail on their miniatures, GW's products can be really good fun to paint. I enjoyed the cloaks on these last two miniatures in particular.


Offline Idle Doodler

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Re: The Fantastic Adventures of an Idle Doodler - Update 18th Oct
« Reply #27 on: October 18, 2017, 07:31:14 PM »
Another wizard! Took longer to finish this one. Having pretty much completed him, I dropped him head-first onto the paint palette, and he contrived to get flesh paint on both sides of him, covering the entirety of his face and beard and a good portion of his shoulders, rendering his feathered and furred cloak skin-coloured. I lost the heart to do it all again so soon, so put him aside.

He is, however, now done!

« Last Edit: October 19, 2017, 05:03:11 PM by Idle Doodler »

Offline randycarter

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Re: The Fantastic Adventures of an Idle Doodler - Update 18th Oct
« Reply #28 on: October 19, 2017, 09:25:08 PM »
Risks of the painter job!  ;)
I think you are keeping improving. I like the hair and beards details!

Offline Idle Doodler

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Re: The Fantastic Adventures of an Idle Doodler - Update 18th Oct
« Reply #29 on: October 20, 2017, 03:16:39 PM »
Thanks!

Dropping things onto palettes has become something of a habit, and normally an event I can shrug off. It was just the dual-sided nature of this one - the nerve of an inanimate object bouncing just perfectly upon a fairly small surface area to cover the parts of the model with the most different colours to replace!

 

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