25 years of painting fantasy miniatures. Part 1.

[Legion1963]

Hello, way back in 1987 when i was introduced to the hobby i soon found out about miniatures (at that time almost all of them in white lead) and was immediately captivated by the idea of going 3D and ....... well never looked back. Over the coming weeks i'll post some topic of my efforts in the fine art of miniature painting. I hope you'll enjoy it as much as i have done (and still am).

[thebinmann]

Some classics there

Should be interesting to see your painting and collection change over the years!

[Legion1963]

Some classics there

Should be interesting to see your painting and collection change over the years!

Most interesting......... but unfortunately there's no order in the pictures of the miniatures. The ones i've just posted are mostly very old, 15 years or more so. But the treeman i just painted about a 1,5 year ago and the evil mage (Hero Quest) is even more recent.

[DeafNala]

PRETTY NICE STUFF! You young Guys really progress rapidly. Keep up the FINE WORK!

[Legion1963]

PRETTY NICE STUFF! You young Guys really progress rapidly. Keep up the FINE WORK!

hahahaha.......those Texans..... they really are funny.

[blackstone]

Something about a photo with a gloss varnished mini that takes me back to a better time:) Love the ambul. Have that balrog too somewhere... never got round to painting it up!

[Legion1963]

Something about a photo with a gloss varnished mini that takes me back to a better time:) Love the ambul. Have that balrog too somewhere... never got round to painting it up!

Mice to hear/read that. I always felt that to give a miniature a gloss varnish, it becomes like a piece of porcelain..an art piece.

[blackstone]

Well here the truth... gloss varnish increases the tonal range between the darks and the lights. The blacks are blacker and the whites lighter and everything inbetween. That Ambul is what I'd think of as a low contast paint job... and with the gloss it just brings out the subleties.

Being of the age where I began painting figures with smelly enamels and then a gloss varnish I can fully agree they look and feel so much more precious being all shiney and that.

[Thantsants]

Lovely old lead and vintage paint jobs as well