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weetyskemian44 wrote:Your camera is at least as good as mine. But all that really says is that we should both get new cameras - mines like 6 years old now! I hate replacing something until it is good and proper broke though.

Darn straight Weety, if it works, it ain't broke. This camera is an awesome little one, I just don't think very detailed close shots are its strong point. That does not make it a bad camera at all.

Wehrkind wrote:Wow Eldrad looks great! I don't think I have ever seen him fully painted before; usually he is "Lord Eldrad of the Douche-world Eldar" in some primer grey tourney list

I hear you on sinus infections too. I had two this year, and after 7 or so years of not getting them (used to have 4-5 a year till college due to allergies) they put me down pretty well. Sounded like I had been smoking for 79 years at 6 packs a day and then ran a few miles. Felt about like it too :(

Oh dude, I can't even imagine how bad it would be if allergies were involved too :( Mine is very random and doesn't seem to be triggered by anything, I just get an infection out of the blue once a year or so. Have you heard of Neti pots? They are brilliant for keeping your head nice and clear. I use one once a week when needed and despite how hilarious it looks, it feels absolutely looooovely.

I want to apologise to any readers for my massive lack of updates, things have been a bit crazy in my home life. The last month has had all our free time spent travelling back and forth from home to Galway for interviews with a new company. The awesome news I had been hoping for arrived and my partner got a really great position with them, so we have handed in our notices and are in the middle of working off our last month while also trying to find a house in Galway and then get everything moved from Cork, all of which has to have be done before early August!

This means little painting time which is leaving me feeling awful, but it will all be over within a month and I will have all day to work on painting properly while at home, and not just my weekends. So thats a massive light at the end of the tunnel! I want to take the time to publically apologise again to the people who's mini's I have, I promise I will make the delays up to you guys any way I can.

good luck with the move

Its always worth the wait to see your painted minis Iffy

Move was done yesterday, and I am now in our new house in Galway! (with a pc balanced on a tiny kitchen desk). Living room is being finished today, then starting on unpacking and sorting out my painting room for tomorow.

Updates should be starting again as soon as my desk is sorted out! Hopefully this little pay as you go internet dongle will manage the job until our broadband is added.

Congratulations Ifalna! Glad you're getting settled. Be nice to have your contributions back on dakka.

Good to hear from you Iffy, bet you cant wait to have a whole painting room to yourself.

Welcome back, you were missed, your updates as well!

SL

Good to see that we can look forward to more updates, Ifalna!

Oh, and I have tried to use the Neti Pot before. I nearly drowned myself.

_Tim?

I knew there was something missing in my life lately, but I couldn't quite put my finger on it... Turns out there was an Ifalna shaped hole!
Glad to hear you will be back soon! At least then I can paint vicariously through you during my own move

Like a long lost, lamented boomerang, she's back!

Feels great to sit down and paint again Still waiting on my chair to be delivered though, so my back is currently in a shape resembling an & from hunching over on a cruddy kitchen chair!

First completed mini is all done bar a tiny bit of base work, still unpacking so had to use a pretty crappy background, sorry! I have a stock of nice paper I usually use hidden in a box somewhere.



Some gobbos are WIP and should be finished by tomorow, looking forward to updating a whole lot more often! Current frustration is trying to find somewhere to set up a proper light box but over half my painting room is currently boxes and packaging waiting to be taken down to the dump, so lighting may be dodgy for the next couple of updates.

Looks greaty Iffy... love the blade and the work on the banners. The bright highlights on the dark armor work nicely too.

That's a great Yriel paintjob! I was going for much the same with the highlights on the leather, but I like the smoother look of yours compared to the sharper (read- crappier/dirtier) highlights I put on my Inquisitor X-men model... I'm guessing blended?

Very nice though- if it's a commission, it'll make a fine centerpiece!

-Remi

Ifalna, those gems are awesome looking, any tips on getting the gems to look like that?

Very, very pretty. Also, awesome use of kitchen towel!

I love him, Iffy. Very well played.

Really awesome you moved and now get to do what you've always wanted! One day I hope to get what I've always wanted -- a winning lotto ticket.

Lovely work, I really like the colour of the cloak. Glad you're settling in and are back on dakka.

Glad to see your back into your painting now Iffy.

The way you've done that sword is excellent I love it. The cloak is really nice as well any chance we can have a shot of the rear!

Gitsplitta wrote:Looks greaty Iffy... love the blade and the work on the banners. The bright highlights on the dark armor work nicely too.

Cheers Gits! The blade is letting itself down a bit in the photo, its a bit more colourful. I think the white background is causing it to look a bit washed out :( If our PC desks arrive today I can clear out whats left in my painting room and get a spot set up for a proper photo area at last! Heres hoping.

HF Izanagi wrote:That's a great Yriel paintjob! I was going for much the same with the highlights on the leather, but I like the smoother look of yours compared to the sharper (read- crappier/dirtier) highlights I put on my Inquisitor X-men model... I'm guessing blended?

Its basically thin lines of midnight blue brought up to nearly white through layering, I dont think I could blend lines very well if they had to be that thin, though I guess it would be easy to clean up with some black afterwards

I chose a point or two on each layer of armor where I wanted the brightness to lead up to and tried to stick with that idea, like his cheek and chin on the helmet, top of knees, fingers etc. It didn't take as long as I thought but having a brush with a really good point helps to say the least!

Alfndrate wrote:Ifalna, those gems are awesome looking, any tips on getting the gems to look like that?

I use the most common gem technique I think, the concave semi circle shapes of colour leading towards the bottom, but I like to start off with at least 60% of the gem in colour and only under half of it left black. Black shine gems can look absolutely stunning but I find fuller coloured ones to be a bit quicker as they can be a little messier. Decide where you want your light source to be and work from there. Shines coming from the same angle on all the gems really helps them work together nicer. I like to water down the colours more and more the closer I get to the final shade, the tiny final orange highlights were more of a wash than anything, but it helps them look blended

inmygravenimage wrote:Very, very pretty. Also, awesome use of kitchen towel!

Haha, at least it didin't have a floral pattern!

Lt. Coldfire wrote:I love him, Iffy. Very well played.

Really awesome you moved and now get to do what you've always wanted! One day I hope to get what I've always wanted -- a winning lotto ticket.

Thrilled you like him Coldfire, hes got enough hints of Turqoise to fit in nicely with everyone else, and the red sash and gems help finish that off

monkeytroll wrote:Lovely work, I really like the colour of the cloak. Glad you're settling in and are back on dakka.

I'm very glad too! I don't like dissapearing for a while, it's unproffesional and unfair on people who have given me work. We should be here for at least a year though, so unless my house explodes it shouldn't happen again for some time

GiraffeX wrote:
The way you've done that sword is excellent I love it. The cloak is really nice as well any chance we can have a shot of the rear!

I have a WIP shot of him from the back where the cloak is finished, but nothing else haha. I will get full circle shots of him today if my delivery arrives so I can finish unpacking the painting room.



Thats basically what it looks like from the back, though the area around the spear has been finished now.

Now that guy is funky!!

The cloak looks really nice from the back as well. Its a really nice turquoise you have there, you've given it lots of depth it looks fantastic.

Flatpack everything decided to finally arrive yesterday hence the no show, sorry! All desks up and seats made, pcs moved and painting room now clear of the whirlwind of debris it had collected.

Success!

Huzzah! Ikea instant apartment... GO! *assemble*

Briancj wrote:Huzzah! Ikea instant apartment... GO! *assemble*

Haha, more like "Ikea instant apartment except why are there no drawer tracks for this €300 euro desk and how come these handles are the wrong shape to actually fit onto the second one and also wow that Alan Key actually snapped while being used"

The cats are now using the empty drawer slots as beds, so I guess it all worked out in the end? Hah. Sorry for the delay on these pics, I actually finished them sooner but I have gone through hundreds of shots that were coming out severely over saturated despite using the same camera settings as normal. Still have no idea why, but these ones finally turned out. Prepare for many Gobbos.

All should be zoomable













Back to painting now, updates soon

Thats the London looters!!!

Miss Dee wrote:Thats the London looters!!!

LOL.

Miss Dee wrote:Thats the London looters!!!

Oh my god, I need to make some tiny flat screen tv's for them to be carrying.

If they really are the London Lootaz all your photos of them need to be grainy CCTV style footage from now on

Those are great Iffy! Feel free to add all the boosted electronics you want! Itll mark them in time and history.

If any had correctly positioned hands I would so have to make them some Fimo loot

Dark angel Ezekiel is well on his way to being finished, he has a very impressive banner that is causing me a bit of angst but should be done soon Painting him has emphasized that I need to find some pipecleaners to properly clean out the airbrush. Solutions arent clearing the nozzles as well as I had hoped.