So, this is where I've got to so far, I'm painting it section by section, so most the way through the left led so far. As its my first commision I'm only charging £1 since I have to start somewhere :p

Nice start - £1 seems a bit low. I'd suggest getting whoever it is to pay what he thinks it's worth.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^Listen to this guy.
£1 is ridiculous mate,even if you are just a kid starting out.

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Left leg finished

Today's progress:

Second leg mostly done, blue added to the foot of the other leg too since I though the black needed breaking up a bit. I also neatened up the grey Drybrush by going back over with a layer in black apart from not he edges.

Ok, so I think I'll charge £10 for this painting then, contrary to my previous post, the client likes it so far even more than he's hoped!

He's also asked me to do ten fire warrior. At this standard of painting how much do you think Would be reasonable to charge?


Oh, and here's where I'm up to:

Progress is slow, but I'm getting there so I though I'd update to show the painting on the pelvis and body.

This paintjob is incredibly smooth, yet striking.

I think the average rule of thumb is that whatever the model costs, you double that, plus add a bit extra.

I was quoted about £250 for Mephiston, painted to a high standard, and 10 assault marines. The lowest quote I've had, from an extremely good indy painter I know was £190, so yeh, £10 for a Riptide is ridiculously cheap aha

That looks awesome so far, I will be watching this thread for more.

PS I have a dollar what can I get?

@ stanman
You can't get anything with a dollar unfortunately :p , this is only so cheap since its for my friend and my first commission. But if you'd like a more sensible commission, PM me

Subscribed!

Main Torso Complete

Head finished + somewhere pics just cause.

I was wondering, why is the riptide head so tiny? Any fluff or logic behind it?


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EDIT: Forgive me - I've neglected the eye, it's late so that's for tomorrow. Also the white of the head doesn't really match up to how it actually looks...

Eyes - problem is unless held in daylight or in well lit conditions, the eyes just look black... Any suggestions guys?

Today's Progress: Gun Almost Complete

this is REALLY good. some of the best blending i've seen in a while

Gun done after more hours than I care to count :p

Today's and yesterday's progress - slow indeed

Dude you have done a proper job on this riptide.The charge should be at least fifty quid imo.

I really liked the patterning you did on the legs, perhaps do more of it on the upper body? Other than that, it's looking great.

First off, I must say I love the choice of colours. Fantastic painting for your first commission. I have always had a soft spot for the 'little blue buggers (aka Tau)' but I honestly can't stand GW anymore and don't want to give them any of my money. But I still do like looking at their models and stuff, and the riptide is a rather nice model.


The only small thing I would suggest to you is that if you are planning on doing commission work for other people is to take a little more time on assembly, I noticed that one the shoulder joints it doesn't line up properly and there are some small mold lines and nubs from where it was clipped from the sprue . On the head there is a pin mark (that round circle, I believe that is a pin mark where the sprue is pushed out of the mold after casting.). I haven't used GW's liquid GS but some quick pudding would fix that up in no time and make it look all the better. Just remember paint does not hid mistakes it exposes flaws ( I learned that one the hard way also ).

Filling in the gaps and stuff will go a LONG way in showing potential customers that you are serious about your work and will ensure they will be getting a top notch product. The better your reputation the 'moar hard cash' you can make. I can't wait to see this badboy finished....hummm might be time to start looking for second hand Tau stuff....

Yeah you're probably right that I should use liquid green stuff in future.

And P_Grey I decided to do some freehand on the arm:

Definitely should have charged more then 1 pound XD .. love the paint scheme look forward to seeing it finished

I should definitely clear up the money thing cause everyone a saying it!!
I painted a few things for friends before for free (it was just models to paint that i didnt have to buy ) but I came to the idea that if you're good at something never do it for free, so I started changing some money but only a very small amount on this occasion just so that once I do a proper external commission I have at least one commission under my belt to show.

I recommend orangeing up the eyes. the head of the riptide is small so that it doesn't get shot

The small head thing makes sense then I suppose - thanks!

I'll see what I can do for "orangeing up" the eyes after I've painted the rest.

Today's Progress: Left Engine

Haven't had that much time to paint recently but here's the shield
Half done:

i like how the colors fade into each other gently. very cool!

Base done (only bit specified by client) and the eyes are a bit brighter now with a thin coat of blood letter glaze, thanks largeblastmarker (y)

Excitingly close to finishing

did you masacre a computerchip? or is that just some sick conversion work

Alas it's not conversion work, it all came from this old broken Nokia. But being Nokia they really don't surrender easily :p


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Edit: By the time I'd used a vice, screwdriver and chisel to get it apart half the battered look of the circuits was done.

I love the paint work, you've done a brilliant job, definitively worth more than £1. Though I did the same thing when i started commission work, under charged a lot, but I agree with what Flashman said about asking the client what their willing to spend. But your right we all have to start somewhere.

I wish you luck and look forward to seeing your next commission.

*thumbsup*

Prepare to be VERY busy charging so little for such great work!


I love the color sheme!

Nice color combo, 10pound is a steal.

Finished:


http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/528639.page#5647174

Next commission is a cadre fireblade

Almost done, just the base to go, and converting a right arm for him.

Finished:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/530662.page

Started my small unit of fire warriors today, not a commission this time, although I liked the scheme for the previous lot so I'm carrying t over too my own tau

Still painting in pieces out of habit, the heads being the first parts completed

Finished my Nurgle army - it was my first army, so there's quite a gap between the quality at the start to now as its a mix of old and recent.

Holy....freakin'.....waffles......you're amazing....LOVE your work!

Fire warrior test model for rest of unit - I like it, but as its a test model C&C would be appreciated


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Me being pedantic, even though I stopped painting for tonight, I had to neaten up that orange on the weapons and sort our that slightly off small shoulder pad.

Good to see an update. i recommend using a matt spray. it makes paint so nice and smooth. also transition area highlights are not a bad idea.

I will use a matte spray in the finished model. Transitional areas highlights would take longer than I have time for at the moment unfortunately. Here the legs for the remainder I the unit.


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The highlights on the black didn't come out too well in the photos.

Well it's been a while since I've updated this, it's been for a mix of more gaming, not remembering to photograph models at time of completion and also since most of hat I've painted recently has gone into an army painting competition so it's been in store for a week; also ive been painting hobbit stuff that i thought i wouldn't include here with all the 40k - it's in my alert though still if anyone wants to see a few of those speed paints of mine. Just as an update here's my work on a Herald of Nurgle for my army, that dodgy horn was just a test, I have already completed the model but won't be able to get pics up for about a week, also next week I shall upload pics of my Firewarriors squad plus an eldar farseer converted to a tau ethereal. Here's the start on the Nurgle lord / herald.

Anyone interested in buying the Nurgle Lord once finished (don't worry it's neater than now on the armour than in the WIP pic), PM me then ill send some completed pics and details etc. and we can come to a price that will be very reasonable.
Also, want anything painted - particularly Nurgle being my forte (but can still do any other minis) - PM me and we can discuss if you're interested.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/543377.page#5902072

Finished Nurgle lord original pics in link above.

Hey guys, long time since an update I know - A levels are waaaay to time consuming, but I'm fitting in some more painting now I hope. Anyway, here's the start I made on Nurgle Lord No. 2.


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Feedback really appreciated as this will be entered in a store competition this month.

Here an update then, now I've done the nmm, does gold work on this scheme? I'm not sure..

It does, though I can see it being confused for bone.

If it were bone, I wouldn't mind - but I was aiming for gold - I managed to get a little more contrast on the gold since that last pic, made it look more metallic I hope. Whilst I was darkening I went a darkened other areas like around the intestines, which I think the model needed.
Also done a start on the armour, I hope I can have that almost done at least by the end of the day.

I think I'll enter this in UK golden daemon at the end of the month, hope it manages to get a finalist pin :p

Armour done, axe next to do.
What sort of base is still undecided, snow, swamp, rusty stuff? Any suggestions?

Well the models done except for small corrections, just the base now, I wanted to do a sort of swamp effect but since GW discontinued water effects and Golden Daemon is GW products only I'm a bit stuck.

Standing on a pile of daemons?

Well, the Nurgle lord got a finalist pin


Now I've started and almost finished a very quick paint job on this eldar model, should be on eBay by next week.

Commission for a friend WIP: It had the slight annoying ridge on the face going through the eye, it was pretty tricky to remove so its partially still there, i think it didnt buffet the face's appearance too much, although i did have to attempt that eye around 6 times...

Finished tau dude: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/557511.page#6143409


Now to do a conversion, i call it a puss thirster, nurgle style bloodthirster

Well, i've made a start, the skin still needs glazing purples and reds, especially to make the face pop more from the neck / shoulder flesh so i'll make the behind bit of flesh darker. Also weapons still need doing. I hope to finish this before the local painting competition next Saturday.

Progress

That DP looks great. I like the way you have done his skin. Good luck getting him done on time.

Reconverted, what d'you think? . (Wing and banner yet to be attached)

finished: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/560716.page#6203549

I run a school warhammer club and the kids did a conversion competition from a box of spare parts - winner got to keep their model and have it painted. So here's the WIP:

Are those tau legs? interesting.

Yep they're tau, interesting indeed...

I'm now working on a wraithguard

Wraithguard still going and started a captain.

Blending took ages but worth it I think

It looks really good, Olim! Sicarius's power armor looks great too

Gonna be using this OOP GUO for a beast of nurgle, I'm speed painting him, so far about half am hour.

Here's the GUO finished, and now I start commissions, first Commision is for "Scottish guardsmen" and this is the start I've made.

Is he mostly built from Victoria Miniatures? Where's the melta gun from?

It's all victoria miniatures, the melta gun is a fusion gun also from victoria miniatures.

Progress made, I should have five done by this weekend.

Everyone i have shown is impressed. I really cant wait to show these off! So far so good!

Cheers

Progress!

Finished the guardsmen: http://thediceodyssey.blogspot.co.nz/2013/12/the-scottish-guardsmen.html?m=1

That was a clean bright project so I did something to contrast as much as possible, and did a speed painted nurgle plague toad

Now starting a gandalf project (not Commision) and this is one I'll take my time on.


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More plague toad pictures: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/570327.pag

Hi olim! I really like your painting alot! Ive been watching your posts and always you're pushing your skills and producing great stuff. Just reaching out!
Cheers mate!

BB

Hi Bebop, your stuff is great too, in your gallery I'd seen a lot of it before not realising it was yours. I could learn a few things from your painting style I reckon

It might not look that different but a lot of work has gone into it so far with glazing and highlighting the main cloak. One but I really don't like is on the arm, I wouldn't be so critical if it wasn't that this is going to be a competition entry. Maybe I need to glaze over the whole area, or darken the edges of the shadow, I just really don't want to mess up what I've done so far.

I think you need less shading since the wrinkles on the arm are not nearly as deep as below the waist. There shouldn't be a line of that darkest gray.

After reading a list about brittle finecast snapping and thinking I'm glad that never happened to me, moments later Gandalf's staff painted to look like wood broke off and became unfindable on the wooden floor. So it's a shame but bellow is as far as the model got until I find a replacement staff.

Alas, I've moved onto this conversion (he does have a face now) and I've started painting the plaguetoad.

Hoping to get this mostly done before my next Commision which will be my first go at warmachine models.

Slime bases for my next commission, more to come in August

This was the wych, i entered for my local painting competition. C&C appreciated.

That wych is really well done. I really dig her hair. How did she do in the comp?

It came tied first

Test model done for a Commision of these tox troopers by Anvil Industry.

He looks great. I haven't seen one of Anvil's tox guys painted yet.

A professional pain job on an unfortunately sculpted model. Hard to believe that's a mass produced product.

 SlaveToDorkness wrote:
A professional pain job on an unfortunately sculpted model. Hard to believe that's a mass produced product.

I love the model...

It was a hard choice between these guys and the Trench Coat ones they have done for my other army.

Whats wrong with it?

The proportions are terrible.
That gun looks nothing at all like a functioning weapon.
The helmet is the size of a bare head.
The armored torso is the same size as the clothed lower body.
Two straps on the left arm armor with no strap on the right.
Tubular arms.
Cuff on one arm ,not on the other.
Hoses going to nothing.

Mainly the gun and the cloth. The gun literally looks like some scraps of plasticard glued together.

With a week or so to practice I feel like I could do better. It'd be all well and good if it were someone's own sculpt, but to be selling it as a professionally produced model....ugh.

I agree on the gun for sure!

Proportions are truescale. I have the trench guys on me, they look more like humans than heroic does. If these guys are anything like the the one painted then it looks great in my opinion.

The robes flare, looks ok to me.

Not sure on the head, does look a bit small.

Straps annoy me now

I think its the cloth that makes them look pudgy in the arms. The straps actually dig into the puff which I thought made the puffyness look like they are just dressed warmly.

The cuff is also annoying me now.

Do the hoses simply end on the back of it? If so then yes.

Overall, I see what you mean now. But I think its ok personally. Just no longer as good as i thought.

Amazing paint job really helps though!

The hoses lead to a tank thing at the back, IMHO it's a good feature on the model.

The gun does look oddly sculpted, although, fortunately that's just a handgun that one guy holds, the other 9 troopers hold pretty decent looking guns.
In fact it's the same case with the straps, on the other 9 models they're symmetrical, I think the model I did was just meant to be a squad leader so he's a bit different not necessarily in a great way, but amongst the ten man squad, I don't think it would look to be too much of an issue.

The head size is a bit small compared to other miniatures, but scaled up to a real person, the head would still be much larger than human proportions.

A WIP tox flame trooper

Nearly done on the Flamers, their feet are weird though, making them lean forward or to the side too much, so I corrected one by painting an Orc head he could be stepping on making him more level.

Since he hasnt updated in a while, I thought i'd show off his amazing work on this project!

Beat me to it! Saves me trying to upload from my phone though, thanks!

No problem dude!

Looks great.

The red on those anvil tox troopers looks fantastic, very nice.

I agree with the poses, being a little too sideways, I guess its down to the style of the sculpter.

The troopers will be finished some time next week, there's 20 of them! Here's five done apart from arms.