Mister Matthews painting table....

[matthais-mouse]

Howdy everyone,
Well 2014 has been a great year for painting this years so far for me, although I have not done much on my Mordheim warband, I have managed to paint 7 miniatures over the last few months in between my other hobbies...
Here are a few of them for everyone to see and hopefully comment/criticise.
First up a High Elf lore master. This is plastic I know but I dont have many metal minis on the paint desk yet 

Second up is an Empire captain. I have been trying this new technique for weapons and my first few attempts are these miniatures and an eldar wraithlord (photos to come soon) Its quite easy once you have a practice and get over the fear of doing it wrong. but always have a paint pallet and all the paints to hand so you dont have to keep going back to it.


Hope you all like these and I shall try up date this thread as much as possible 

[Legion1963]

Mister Matthews you do fine and beautifull things with a brush. 

[matthais-mouse]

Mister Matthews you do fine and beautifull things with a brush. 

Why thank you very much  I do try my best and enjoy every bit of it too.

[Constable Bertrand]

Matt, the swords look fantastic.

Cheers
Matt

[matthais-mouse]

Matt, the swords look fantastic.

Cheers
Matt

Thank you for the kind words  Im looking at doing a tutorial of how to do these at some point as it is a great little technique to learn.

I have been busy at the last week or so both on the painting table and I have finally got myself a job, so I have had my first day there too.
Here are the pictures.

First of is hasslfrees professor beatie, i bought this as it reminded me of inspector Robert Colbeck from edward marstons books ( A GREAT series if your a mystery novel reader) So i bought and painted it up. He may even get used in games like CoC.



Next up is gamesworkshops plastic wight king. I really like this model and really enjoyed painting him up. I think he is going to have a place in my fluffy vampire counts/empire army eventually...




This next model I really like but really hate at the same time. Now the fact he has a peg leg is the part that drew me to him, however the positioning of the arms is AWFUL I cannot stress that enough, i thought that I would have been able to move the pose a bit but decided against it.



The last one is an inquisitorial henchman for my inquisitor lord's retinue. Given to me by a good friend of mine.

[warburton]

I really like the painting on the swords of the High Elf and the Empire Captain. Personally I would add a highlight or two to the faces on those models as to me they seem to get a bit lost, rather than making a focal point.

The rest of the models look great.

[matthais-mouse]

I really like the painting on the swords of the High Elf and the Empire Captain. Personally I would add a highlight or two to the faces on those models as to me they seem to get a bit lost, rather than making a focal point.

The rest of the models look great.

The trouble I have with faces is getting the highlights in the right areas. I have a few sprues of heads at the moment that I am trying techniques on using one of the old white dwarf articles to get the highlights and shading in the right places and once I have these down to a T I shall re-do the heads of those models. They do actually have 4 layers already but it is hard to tell as I use very slight changes in colours. I may have to start using more drastic colour changes 
Thanks for the criticism though 

[matthais-mouse]

Ahhh a bit more modelling.

For this update is a recent purchase that arrived earlier today. It is the Scibor miniatures sword master and I have to admit as a model it is great looking...... HOWEVER the condition it was in when it arrived was awful. There was a huge amount of flash, mould lines and even two parts were broken. I am however not using those parts for this particular example it is worth noting to all interested in purchasing Scibor items, be careful.....
Now the hammer on this has been added by myself, I wanted to use him as a warrior priest in my warhammer army/ DND character.

[matthais-mouse]

A very long time since I added anything here so here goes nothing.
I am currently working through a variety of things, five dark elf dark riders, a captain jack aubrey (bought from a fellow forum member) and also from a fellow forum member I recently finished my Battlefleet gothic fleet, more of those to come later.




As usual comments welcomed 

[Vermis]

First of is hasslfrees professor beatie, i bought this as it reminded me of inspector Robert Colbeck from edward marstons books ( A GREAT series if your a mystery novel reader) So i bought and painted it up. He may even get used in games like CoC.

I know I'm shamefully late in noticing this and replying to it, but I'm extremely gratified to see this painted up. Very nice work on that, and everything else.

[matthais-mouse]

Thank you for the kind comment  I am still hoping to transfer him to a railway platform base 

[warburton]

Nice work.

Faces are hard, though your Professor Beatie looks pretty good. There are some good diagrams in Kevin Dallimore's first book and also I found Dave Andrews' guide to painting an Empire spearman in the first How to Paint Citadel Miniatures very helpful.

My method is base coat with GW dark flesh. then paint GW Dwarf Flesh over the whole face just leaving Dark Flesh in the crevices. Then highlight forehead brows nose upper cheeks chin lips and eye lids with GW Elf Flesh. Further highlights can be done adding white to the Elf Flesh.

For female flesh start with the Dwarf Flesh then add a light flesh wash before highlighting with Elf Flesh  then further highlights adding more white until the desired result is achieved.

this method will change when I eventually run out of the old GW paints!

[matthais-mouse]

Faces are one of the tougher aspects of a model for me. Especially the eyes haha.

I shall have to have a look for the first edition of how to paint citadel miniatures to read it. I have the white dwarf that the eavy metal team did a load of how to's and they are really useful, although found that after doing the prof beatie mini.

I tend to do so many skin types its hard to keep track, with my dark elves I like to do a grey blue skin tone or very pale flesh tone.

As with you I am still running on old GW paints, even some of the screw top not clicky tops haha 

[Vermis]

I shall have to have a look for the first edition of how to paint citadel miniatures to read it. I have the white dwarf that the eavy metal team did a load of how to's and they are really useful, although found that after doing the prof beatie mini.

I hope it wasn't too painter-unfriendly regardless. (I still kick myself for not making the hands fit the wrist socket a bit better. They really could use a bit of filing down!)

[matthais-mouse]

I hope it wasn't too painter-unfriendly regardless. (I still kick myself for not making the hands fit the wrist socket a bit better. They really could use a bit of filing down!)

It did take several attempts to get the hand correct but it did get knocked off by my dog and has had a bit more glue than needed looking at it  I solved it by drilling a bit more in to the wrist when I had it on correctly the first time.

I never knew you designed/sculpted him  ( or am I reading that wrong?)