Re: Idle Fantasies - Orc Cultists - 12th Jan

[Dr DeAth]

Very nice

[Severian]

Nice conversion - and again really impressive work on the face.

[Idle Doodler]

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.

[Idle Doodler]

A well-packed journeying halfling.

[DeafNala]

SPLENDID! You have some WONDERFUL creations, rich in personality. Your work with the brush & eye for colors are OUTSTANDING. VERY WELL DONE one & all!

[randycarter]

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.

[mweaver]

You have a nice bunch o'figures there, and they do seem to be expanding.  Thanks for sharing!

-Michael

[Duke Donald]

Nice minis!

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

[Idle Doodler]

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.

[Severian]

nice work on the Halfling!

[Idle Doodler]

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...

[Idle Doodler]

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.

[Idle Doodler]

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!

[randycarter]

Risks of the painter job! 
I think you are keeping improving. I like the hair and beards details!

[Idle Doodler]

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!