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Aya Minus! Thanks for the tip. I understand what youre saying...the difficulty for me is the size and the overall lack of any dynamic topography to highlight or shde. shes got "girl" arms so im tentative to overdo the shadows and lose the highlight. I took your advice but only ssubtly and added some stippling to give the shirt a little neotech texture...do i need to push the blck further? heres todays progress...im really liking her but i need to slow down now and focus on specific spots. the back pack, the boot..still..other side of gun...face....more clean up. but its really coming together! im nerding over the hair...stoked on it Also guys, im experimenting alot with photos from my iphone so some of them may seem irregular..these photos were shot far back then scaled down. so they are very big i guess because they appear blurrier than normal here, but then zooming in on the gallery equalizes the res.. Im trying to figure out why this is happening, but i think it comes down to the fact that after a certain point, the iphone is not conducive to high quality high res photos of minis.






cheers all

Lovely... just lovely.

You really are on a different level to most of us, mind you so am I, just in the other direction.

I know the affect you are going for and to do it on this scale is incredible, amazing sir. (*bows)

Alright you guys!! Enough bitching from bebop! I bit the bullet and bought a digital camera. Still working it out and trying to optomize photos. I already see a clear difference. They are much much much crisper when you zoom, retaining is res, as if you move the mini closer to you, as opposed to blowing up a lower res image, I dunno, I'm not a photo tech but that's the best way to describe it. Colors are truer and blend smoother, however my little tiny errors are ALSO visible hehe...so it's even more exposing. ANywho!!!...the second Aguacill is for the most part done...YA!! I like her!!! And TINY ugh....almost like to the point where it's not even fun, I'm like painting a metal clip that's like a micro meter big. It's ridiculous...but rewarding. I really do wish though that these models were bigger scale...that'd be really funnnnn.....because I love these sculpts so much. It's hard to paint GW stuff at the moment from a design standpoint....anyways....here's ole' blue hair...still figuring out the cam and also as usual the pic is big for the embed so zooming in corrects that...cheers

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and for good fun a group shot in deployment of the two so far painted up...

Amazing. Looks fantastic as always, camera has made a difference.

Looks good Bebop !
The grey is much better now, it looks more "finished" than before.

Nice model and nice paintjob.

Looking great. Really like those group shots.

EDC

Oh yeah... money well spent bebop. Figures look beautiful!

@ Cam and Gits...Thanks fellas very much!! I'm glad you guys think so re: the camera...i bought a 200$ camera, not top shelf, but enough money that I hope to makes a difference!!

@EDC thanks man, definitely looking forward to actually PLAYING with them >_<

@Minus Thanks my man. The sleeves should be interpreted as black but I failed to deliver that strongly didn't I? Any tips? I'm really trying to emulate that infinity style and I'm still tinkering...

I started work on the bigger fella...dunno what it's called yet, gotta look up those rules....lol....but I've got some red down, not by any means finished I have to push the contrast of dark to light really strong here so I've got not much more than a mid tone and a test of highlighting on the knee...also the metals are somewhat painted on the legs but still same goes for contrast so both white and black have a lot of painting to go....super early wip pics....





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I have thoughts...... but if i left a note I'd probably get banned :-(

but the models you're doing sure are nicely done, you've got that infinity cartoon style down pretty well with enough fine painting details and techniques to make them super impressive to look at, especially considering the size you have to work with, I haven't painted any of them yet but could imagine a lot of the problem would be the limbs being so much thinner your scope for blending diminishes a lot?

heya damo! ya dude...you pretty much hit the nail on the head with it. The models are so small and well detailed that they demand you approach the application of paint in an entirely different way...Her arms are stupid tiny, but man, that guy who paints em up gets that black in such an interesting way. And its smooth...im wondering if im letting too much of the zenithal show through and instead lay down a hard totally flat coat and go up and down from there, thats certainly the longer approach...i dunno >_<...you should paint some of these man, i need some inspiration and red harvest and ckig are pretty much the only guys painting infinity around here. plus the game is SO cool....its crazy its not more popular...

Also updated wip for the night...

Mate, I'd love to try my hand at some of these guys one day if for nothing more than a fun experiment! :-) I think you're right about the mid tone and shading up and then down to get your shadows for that effect, yes, it does take longer but the end result will hopefully give you the purpose to continue!

I'd also like to know more about the way you approached that mantis warrior for Gits' comp? I think I'm seeing how and what you did but some method and hints would be wonderful if you've time for a PM or just whack 'er up in here?

and as is normal, I really love what you paint! i'm not just saying that either because you seem to like my stuff, but while I paint to a pretty standard level across the board you seem to be pushing higher and higher each time, and you know what? I can pin point the exact time you leveled up into awesome territory :-) remember before you went awol and you were painting that Sea Ogre and you pulled a oyster shell effect out of your backside? yeah? that was when you became a new painter mate, I still think of that damn model lol!

That sea ogre was genius !

Nice work on Ms Blue-hair. Looks great, and I especially like how you did the hair.

Good start on robo-guy. :nod;

Heya Damo, imma send you a pm re: the mantis warrior. We can get in to it better there. (( on a side note, if anyone wants to form up a painting focus group here on dakka, I think it'd be nice to take some of the guys who're trying to push forward and wanna discuss their projects more in depth...league of extraordinary riveters kinda but with painting) ... As far as the ogre....you mean this guy?

Ugh sad i never finished but as you can see I broke his mace and then I forgot the exact skin mix so I kinda just lost interest...:(

Also, I've made some more progress on the mobile brigada trooper and note to Damo, the process here is somewhat the same as the mantis warrior, just with different colors...ill pm you as I said...





Enjoying taking my time with this one.....thoughts and comments always appreciated. Happy painting everyone.

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I'd be interested bebop... might not be good enough to contribute much, but I'd love to listen in on the discussion.

By all means Gits!! Your painting is lovely, and anyways, if it were to come to fruition, it would an inclusive thing, all styles and levels welcome, simply with a focus on fine painting.

Thanks bebop, i'd for sure be in on a tips, tricks and tutes thread with no bias, that way everyone can put forward their own ways of painting things and we can pick up those techniques that we feel most comfortable with along the way :-) for instance some might be wanting to know how you do your Infinity models and others may be more interested in how I paint so fast and I might see how someone else approaches cloth or bone for example, it would be a good thing i reckon!

Also, if you lost interest in that Ogre, just pop it in the mail to me and I'll finish him off for you ;-)

Gitsplitta wrote:I'd be interested bebop... might not be good enough to contribute much, but I'd love to listen in on the discussion.

This ^

nerdfest09 wrote:Thanks bebop, i'd for sure be in on a tips, tricks and tutes thread with no bias, that way everyone can put forward their own ways of painting things and we can pick up those techniques that we feel most comfortable with along the way :-) for instance some might be wanting to know how you do your Infinity models and others may be more interested in how I paint so fast and I might see how someone else approaches cloth or bone for example, it would be a good thing i reckon!

Also, if you lost interest in that Ogre, just pop it in the mail to me and I'll finish him off for you ;-)

Also this, some real blow by blow tutes in the zenithal styles would be very welcome from me , I dislike the pure black primer approach to most tutes.

If you don't mind lowly scum like me hanging around, I would be up for it, Think it needs to be your baby Bebop, but would be amazing to get some of you greats around the table and sharing. Like I say be nice to hang i the background and feed off you all.

I'm always up for learning more and talking shop.

Good progress on the brigada trooper too.

Cool, so much interest! Well, my only thoughts are what's to set it apart from just looking at the tutorial section or the showcase or whatever. I think it would be cool to have a name and a badge...is there a way to make private threads so only those in the group can see it? What's your thoughts on that?? Also could host painting competitions like the guardsmen comp, which was epic. Cam I still LOVE your scheme, with the orca...gotta do one like that one of these days....

Any who, some more progress and its really starting to make sense here...I like how he's coming along. I wasn't sure at first about the metals parts, but now I really like it...he's coming along and there's a lot of pics to show it...candy apple red...

 bebopdrums2424 wrote:
Alright you guys!!

Spoiler:

Enough bitching from bebop! I bit the bullet and bought a digital camera. Still working it out and trying to optomize photos. I already see a clear difference. They are much much much crisper when you zoom, retaining is res, as if you move the mini closer to you, as opposed to blowing up a lower res image, I dunno, I'm not a photo tech but that's the best way to describe it. Colors are truer and blend smoother, however my little tiny errors are ALSO visible hehe...so it's even more exposing. ANywho!!!...the second Aguacill is for the most part done...YA!! I like her!!! And TINY ugh....almost like to the point where it's not even fun, I'm like painting a metal clip that's like a micro meter big. It's ridiculous...but rewarding. I really do wish though that these models were bigger scale...that'd be really funnnnn.....because I love these sculpts so much. It's hard to paint GW stuff at the moment from a design standpoint....anyways....here's ole' blue hair...still figuring out the cam and also as usual the pic is big for the embed so zooming in corrects that...cheers

BB



and for good fun a group shot in deployment of the two so far painted up...

Great job!, At certain angles it looks like she is going " Smell my fingers!"

That red is magnificent!

I don't think there's a way to make a private thread on dakka. Facebook yes... but not here at home-sweet-home.

Not "smell my fingers", but rather, "pull my fingers". Nomads are filthy and disgusting. So of course they fart. A lot.

Excellent painting. Interesting WIPs of the MB too. Painting in sections like that.

Beautiful looking stuff as usual! Lovely reds.

i like the little flowers

Thanks everyone for the kind words and the interest on the painting blog. I created a thread on the pm blogs here so go there if you are interested.
Today I've made good progress on the mobile brigada as well as solldifying some techniques I've been practicing I feel like it's getting better. There were a few set backs, as the new Turqouise I bought is really rather thin so when I turned figure on its side, some of it washed out of the crevices! Really annoyed about that but you live and learn and it's not bumming me out compared to how pleased I am with the red armor. I'm a few steps behind now on metal bits arms and legs and such matters but I'll get there. I'll probably do the whole metal part in full when I replace my palette sheet. Any ways here's pics...

Nice vibrant red you have going there.

|Damn, yeah - that is a VERY nice red.