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Frigo97
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How I maked them?
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April 04, 2012, 06:39:43 PM »
Good evening,
Last week I made my first painting on "Mirtliton"'s miniatures.
Honestly I'm not satisfied of my work, but I'm sure that I need to improve by mistakes.
Than I ask you to say me which are my biggest errors, so I can improve my painting-style.
Unfortunately I've only 6 colours (red,blue,yellow,black,white,gray-chainmail) than I must mix the colours, and I'm not a professionist...
So some minis are bad... in fact orc.arciers have the skin a bit blue, like a smurf... I might call them "smurf-arciers"...
Here you are my minis... Give me some advices!
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Mitch K
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Re: How I maked them?
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April 04, 2012, 08:24:53 PM »
What to say? I think you have made a very good start. Buy some more colours, and start to add them in.
There are some colour mixing guides on the internet that might help you with what to mix to get a particular shade. Get yourself a "colour wheel", which I think is a great help.
Experiment with shading and highlighting, using different coloured primers / undercoats and find what works for you.
And keep painting!
BTW - I bought examples of these figures when they were sold by Grenadier WAAAAAY back - I loved them!
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Frigo97
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Re: How I maked them?
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April 04, 2012, 09:00:16 PM »
Thank you for the comment, I'll remember what you say!
Particularly about the colours
Thank you!
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Cadet13
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Re: How I maked them?
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April 04, 2012, 09:06:46 PM »
A good start!
The best advice I can give is practice practice practice! The more you paint, the better you'll get.
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Re: How I maked them?
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April 04, 2012, 09:09:46 PM »
As they said, but a nice way to do armour is to drybrush the colour so that you have a nice black background and the mails stands out.
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Re: How I maked them?
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April 04, 2012, 11:02:24 PM »
I would recommend an inking/wash... it'll do wonders. I can never go wrong with Devlan Mud from GW on my own figures, so if you get only one, I would recommend that
Paint the base colors, cover with the Devlan Mud, then highlight with the base colors again, and then the base colors with a little bit of a light color mixed in
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MODman
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Re: How I maked them?
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April 05, 2012, 12:09:30 AM »
unfortunately what you need is a time machine, you jump forward a year and you will be miles ahead of where you are now (and you ain't too bad now to be honest)..........but only on one condition, you keep painting. paint each mini to the best of your ability, read a bit about how to do techniques but experiment yourself, try different things and build up your paint pot selection.
you will literaly look back and see your own improvement mini by mini, practice is a word i should use but that almosts suggests you can just paint how you want, well practice yes but with the thought in the back of your head that each new paint job will be better than the last, so practice yes......but keep painting and learning. time passes by without control and improvement comes with time
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zizi666
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Re: How I maked them?
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April 05, 2012, 04:56:44 AM »
I can only echo what's been said before.
And would like to add this : thin your paints. If you're using acrylics, mix some paint and a few drops of water in a small container (or even a bottle cap)
Tips and tricks are also very interesting. I'm sure you'll find many of those here on the forum.
Also, have a look here :
http://www.paintingclinic.com/MainClinic.dwt.htm
Lots of tutorials to be found.
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Cherno
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Re: How I maked them?
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April 05, 2012, 09:07:25 AM »
From looking back when I started painting in earnest, there were three things I learned:
1. Washing (I recommend GW washes or self-mades, although I never got self made washes too look anything other than muddy and grimy)
2. Drybrushing
3. Brush-on matt varnish without any other kind of varnishing.
Those are just my experiences, of course. Your models look good for the limited colors you had available, so maybe you can try and get a few more basic tones and you'll be set
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Frigo97
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Re: How I maked them?
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April 05, 2012, 12:41:34 PM »
Thank you to everyone aswered this topic,
I don't know as thank you...
This advices will help me in my beginning!
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Frigo97
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Re: How I maked them?
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April 05, 2012, 04:51:09 PM »
oh! I forgot I made a mistake in the title of the Subject: I wrote "maked" but it's correct "made"
Sorry, forgive me
Thank again
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Re: How I maked them?
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April 11, 2012, 08:18:58 PM »
1)Well done your English is much better than my Italian.
2)I agree with the other comments (keep on practicing) a VERY good figure painter was once asked how to paint an excelent figure, he said, 'paint a 1000 figures and the 1001st will be excelent'.
3)Try drybrushing (good if the figure has raised detail such as chainmail rings)
4)Try washes (good for areas of a figure that has gentle 'ups and downs' such as folds in clothes and faces)
5)Try coloured varnishes such as 'army dip' or cheaper wood stain varnishes such as 'mahogany or teak' (good for quickly detailing units & toning them in together)
6)Try different coloured acrylic gel pens (good for putting fine detail on figures & shields) use them for contrasting coloured hems of garments, stripes on trousers & patterns on shields etc. etc.
7)Always remember that you are doing this for enjoyment and so please have FUN,
All the best with your efforts.
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