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The Autumn and Spring bases are looking great, jah - bit tricky to say much about the Winter one yet, as it isn't going to look finished without the snow added to it.

Nice looking bases, dude.

EDC

Sweet. Looking forward to seeing the finished figs

How did you paint the Crystals? I like their aggressive look much more than the "soft hued" crystals you always see.

(Oh, and the other bases look very good, the green base's foliage is impressive!)

Nice job on the bases.

For the ice crystals; It's a pretty nice effect, but maybe a bit too regular. From a distance, at first glance, they look like they have evenly spaced lines across them. Only on closer inspection do you see they are interlocking "spikes" (also probably more apparent in the hand).

Maybe try missing a "spike" or two, here and there, to make it more random, and loose the illusion of regular lines.

cheers, guys...
glad to hear that the bases look good, because i've never done any like this before...

@TheDraconicLord: the crystals are just a blue base, shaded with purple, and then very light blue highlights much like a standard faded crystal is painted, and then white alternating spikes...
aggressive was pretty much the idea, because the Grand Mother that i am using for Winter is quite a creepy model...

@Dr H: i'm working on Winter now, so well see how she looks on the base, with snow down, and then i may just need to switch things up a bit...
i hope you all had lovely holidays, and the year is starting out well



catching up, after a brief pause from the forums...
photobucket has been giving me fits, and i don't like the way that the Dakka gallery resizes pics to be smaller...
until i work it all out, i'll just have to live with smaller pics, which you can click on and zoom in...

those of you who follow me on Facebook (the link is on page 1, in the first post) will have seen this already...
for those who don't, here is the WIP stage of the Kingdom Death Druid...
i was asked to paint the weasel creature to look like a tabby cat...
the girl who these minis are for has a tabby, so i used pictures of her's as reference...
the other request was to give her olive green clothes...
aside from that, the scheme was mine to choose...
i hope i picked some nice Autumnal colors







thanks for looking...
i hope you like her...

cheers
jah

I like the painting. The color choices are good. nice work on the face. The mini reminds me vaguely of the druid illustration in the new 5e D&D Player's Handbook. Although that one has a Tiger for a pet, IIRC. The mini has some very weird-- disturbing weird, not interesting weird-- proportions. (hip to knee length versus knee to bottom of foot length, for example. And the sizes of each, relative to each other. And hip to waist ratio. ( Cintura de avispa, ay.)

Don't take a pause from the forums, just take a pause from the Dakka Discussions. They really are the same movie, over and over again.

gracias, Red...
always interesting to hear your take on a mini, even if i disagree
i like the strange proportions of the mini, in the context of their setting...
Kingdom Death should be weird...
the wasp waist emphasizes the wide hips nicely...


this girl was done just in time for Christmas
the lady that received it as a gift was very happy, and really enjoyed seeing her tabby cat's coloration recreated on this Druid...

i tried to ramp up the texture on this mini, especially with the beaten-up leather of the boots, and the weave of the cloth...
hopefully it adds something a bit more interesting to look at...

this was my first time painting blue eyes...
it really adds a lot more life to a mini than the standard black pupil...

shading the skin, and the rest of the colors, with P3 Coal Black has added a lot of harmony to the color scheme, while giving her a less "pink" skin tone than i usually end up with...

there was a lot of fun experimenting on this mini, not least of which was trying to capture the "feeling" of a season...
now i just need to get better pics, that show the actual colors better :(











thanks for looking...
i hope you like her...

cheers
jah

Looks awesome

love the weasel

cant wait to never take mine out of the box or paint it :/

Excellent skin tones! That mini is very roomy in the hips, as Hanabel says.

Holy gak Jah, spectacular miniature.

Jah, the world would be a very boring place if everybody agreed on everything. Important things here are that you enjoyed painting it and the recipient enjoyed the paint job. That's success.

It turned out very well, although I cannot make out the spear tip. (blurry) The use of the black for the skin gives the skin tones a quality that I associate with Necromancer minis, or vampires. Nice bit of contrast using it on a 'Priestess of Life'. Very effective I think.

I find painting braids to be a real PITA. How hard were they on this mini?

She's got your hair dude! :-) and looks wicked good!

Looks good, excellent work on the skin tones.

EDC

That is one sexy miniature with flawless skin. I really have to take a break from painting game models and practice some skin painting, I'm envious of that skin

Nice job, Jah. I like how you did the green in particular.

thanks, guys...
i am glad that everyone likes my first KD mini...
they are quite a chore to clean and prep, as well as being very delicate and stressful to work with :(

@Desubot: you cracked me up with that one...
i don't blame you, as i have grown to really dislike these so-called high-end boutique resins...
horrible casts...

@Red Harvest: i found cleaning the braids a lot worse than painting them...
the mold lines were massive...
the way that i have been painting lately, with bright dots on the high-points, actually lends itself nicely to things like the braids...
a base coat, a wash, a mid-tone (dragging the side of the tip over the raised part of the braid), and a dot does the job


here is Spring...
sadly, i didn't get any WIP pics of her, because i had no idea what i was doing with the skin until the very end...
i was totally winging it, with no real plan...
in the end, i am happy with everything but the hair...
like Malifaux's Colette, i learned a lot about what not to do with hair, but still haven't quite cracked a style that i like yet :(

this is based on the Apotheosis Pin-Up from Kingdom Death...
the model comes with some draped cloth that hangs from her arms and waist, but we decided to leave those off, since she is clearly overdressed already

I hope i captured the feeling of Spring with the very bright green bits, and pink skin...









thanks for looking...
i hope you like her...

cheers
jah

Nice work Jah.

EDC

Her make-up looks amazing. The green make-up looks so good with that hair color, you are giving me some ideas (and of course the skin is ace)

Whatever it was you did with the skin it came out very well.

Hmm, a lettuce bikini and no fur. Spring is apparently a PETA supporter.

How well does the green lipstick show in RL? I had to really zoom in on the image to notice it.

Nicely done overall. And hair... geez, it really depends on how well the sculptor did too. I painted the hair on the Bootleg Penthesilea-- which has excellent hair-- and it turned out, IMHO, fabulous. But then the hair on some of the other Infinity models, bleah, not so well sculpted at all. Spring's hair looks a bit 'ropey' -- which is sculptor's issue, not a painter's issue. You did about as well as can be expected.

thanks everyone...
glad the skin on the girls is a hit, because it is my least favorite thing to paint, and just feels like a lot of hard work...
sorry the pics are such a let down...

the make-up shows up a lot better on the mini in real life...
both on the Druidess (Autumn) with her purple eyeshadow, and on Apotheosis (Spring)...
the hair is actually really well sculpted on her, but the photos only picked up the glossiness of the final wash, making it look horrible...
in hand it looks better, and the "wet look" really goes with the shiny dots on the green vines...



here is a little sneak peek at my next project, which i am working on alongside Winter, at the moment...
The God-Emperor of Mankind!!!

i have wanted to paint this model since it was released...
when the opportunity came up, i jumped all over it
he is a big guy, in 54mm scale, but i have a feeling that he will fit just fine on the tabletop, as the supreme human...

i started off with the head, since it is the simplest part of the sculpt...
the rest of him is covered in filigree, and the eagle's feathers are detailed as hell...
i figured the most powerful human psyker should be showing his power a little, and the blue eyes will help draw the viewer to his face, rather than his shiny gold body...










thanks for looking...

cheers
jah

Theres a model?????

The mini looks amazing, the face especially is quite gorgeous but who expects less of Jah?

Excellent work on the ladies there Jah, but the Big E has my full attention at this point. The celestial knight model, I presume?

 JustaerinAtTheWall wrote:
Excellent work on the ladies there Jah, but the Big E has my full attention at this point. The celestial knight model, I presume?

It sure looks like it. It has the 2 headed eagle and everything.

Honestly, there's only one thing to say about you painting this model:

Jesus i though that was just a photo shop.

dat contrast

thanks, everyone...
yes, this is the Kabuki Studio Celestial Knight...
glad that the face is a hit


this is the first stage of the golden armor...
i began over a black undercoat of P3 Primer...
the first layer of paint is P3 Molten Bronze, followed by a heavy wash of 1-1 P3 Sanguine Base and P3 Coal Black, and then a coat of P3 Flesh Wash...




the base that we have chosen is a 60mm Scibor...



thanks for looking...

cheers
jah

hey Dakka...

taking a brief interlude from the step-by-step of the Emperor, i needed a piece to enter in the Fantasy Single category at the local convention last Sunday...
i chose the mini that i would paint at 9pm the night before the painting contest, an old school oop Marauder Miniatures Goblin Chieftain...
after 25 years of him sitting in my miniature collection, it was about time i got around to painting this cool little guy...

this is the first of what i am calling the "12 hour challenge", where i will see if i can paint a mini in one furious painting session, which is something i have always had trouble with...









i had a lot of fun painting this guy up, even if the ticking clock did start to stress me a little as the deadline to enter the contest raced closer...
at the end of the day, he took 2nd place, so that is not a bad result for a last minute entry...
the green skin, verdigris on the bronze armor, and turquoise rock have a nice harmony together...
i look forward to painting my old Dwarf Hero from Marauder soon

this guy is for sale, along with a handful of my other painted minis, in the Swap Shop, if anyone is interested...

https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/556171.page

the Tech-Priest Dominus took first place on Sunday!!!



thanks for looking...

cheers
jah

Very cool. There's always so much character in old gobbos and orcs, and you've definitely brought that out .

Wow, well done on first and second place (thought for a minute that it was the very same competition... lol).