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A grot as the Doctor .... that will be funny

Updates Unable to get pics up as my little brother was visiting, so heres some completed mini's from the meantime.

All nice and big, click for huuuge.

Ezekiel to tabletop-



A very fun to paint tabletop Maugan Ra-




And an Orc Warboss as a speed paint practice-





I also had a really great experience with GW customer service, I opened my lillith booster only to find her entire upper arm was miscast and I had no way to sculpt a new one. I contacted them and they are being awesome and sending me out a new finecast one instead of just a metal arm. Hopefully its not miscast too, hah!

The speed-paint test looks really good. Are you undercoating in white now?

Aye I am using white primarily unless the scheme is going to be predominantly dark. It took a fair amount of getting used to but I am really starting to like working with it as a primer.

Those look great for a bunch of table top / speed painting minis Iffy, impressive!

I wonder what Maugen Ra would have looked like (and not too much more work) if you'd reversed the scheme on his shiruken cannon.. i.e. red with black edging? He looks wonderfully dark and foreboding but I just wonder if you haven't lost a bit too much of the drama by "loosing" his weapon in the scheme. Counter-changing keeps the theme while retaining the distinction of the weapon... which is very nasty.

Just a thought.

Ifalna wrote:Aye I am using white primarily unless the scheme is going to be predominantly dark. It took a fair amount of getting used to but I am really starting to like working with it as a primer.

Never really used white much, don't like the consistency I get with a brush and too cheap/lazy to go buy a spray can! Will have to give it a go some time

I really like the speed test Orc. It's easy on the eyes and the small areas of color draw in the viewer. The rest of the model is simple, aesthetic, and suprisingly soothing.

Odd to be soothed by an Orc.

Gitsplitta wrote:
I wonder what Maugen Ra would have looked like (and not too much more work) if you'd reversed the scheme on his shiruken cannon.. i.e. red with black edging? He looks wonderfully dark and foreboding but I just wonder if you haven't lost a bit too much of the drama by "loosing" his weapon in the scheme. Counter-changing keeps the theme while retaining the distinction of the weapon... which is very nasty.

Thats a really interesting idea actually. I don't think I would be able to get the same kind of effect going from red to black as shading the black would be really awkward, but I could build up the shading on the red instead. I'm actually going to test that out on a mini and see how it goes, it could make a really effective but fast armor scheme for Dark Eldar or whatnot. Thanks Gits!

Hatticus wrote:Never really used white much, don't like the consistency I get with a brush and too cheap/lazy to go buy a spray can! Will have to give it a go some time

You should definitely try it out! I always started from Black, even when painting extremely light or pastel models. Looking back, I was completely mad and I only did it because I was in my comfort zone using a black primer even when it was hindering me.

My HE stuff -

and


were both brought up from black, and when I look back and think how much time I could have saved using white, I facepalm :( You should try and get your hands on some cheap stuff from a hardware store, I'm pigeonholed with gamesworkshop as I live in the middle of the country and can't order online as An Post won't deliver "liquids", but I hear basic primers from hardware stores work well too and are super cheap. Painting white itself is a lot easier now that there is a pale grey foundation colour you can mix into it for lower layers Makes laying it down oh so much easier.

JB wrote:
I really like the speed test Orc. It's easy on the eyes and the small areas of color draw in the viewer. The rest of the model is simple, aesthetic, and suprisingly soothing.

He was great fun! Spending time on a mini that does not have a massive amount of detail is always interesting as you have to kind of paint on the detailing yourself, and I always find doing that pretty educational

Today will have a finished personal mini (if I can find where I stored my cork for his base) and some warp spiders either well into WIP or finished, Ill post them up before bed time. Really need to start actually posting on Dakka again instead of just posting in my own thread, it feels kind of rude of me.

Wow Iffy the white on Ezekiel is stunningly white, please could you share what paints/how you get to that brightness its lovely.

Not too sure on Maugan Ra's weapon being the same colour as him, it kind of gets lost in the mini.

The Orc Warboss is really cool how long did it take you?

GiraffeX wrote:Wow Iffy the white on Ezekiel is stunningly white, please could you share what paints/how you get to that brightness its lovely.

Not too sure on Maugan Ra's weapon being the same colour as him, it kind of gets lost in the mini.

The Orc Warboss is really cool how long did it take you?

Maugan is getting some mixed responses, I like it because it being uniform makes him look almost camouflaged, but I really do get where people are coming from saying the weapon looks a bit lost :( It's down to Coldfire, if he wants it repained it won't be a problem

The white is pretty easy but does take a while, if I ever find a way to get whites white without them taking 10 layers I will be thrilled hah! Its astronomicon grey as a base then mixed layer by layer up to white. Make sure to keep the final few layers very watery to get a smooth satin finish.

The Warboss was about 3.5 hours which is very quick for me, but I learned a fair bit with him including a new recipe to make reds really pop

Finished up my personal piece for today, hoping he will Ebay so I can buy some nice treats this week.



The banner really, really annoyed me, mostly because its just a terrible banner thats actually quite empty and without enough texture to shade it. I was really tempted to cut it off as I personally think its a bit much on this figure but its joined at a few places and not just the backpack, so I had to leave it on ¬_¬

For such an easy to get and relatively cheap figure this is a really nice one. I love the detail on it and the face is really nicely sculpted. I don't think I painted him up as any specific chapter, he's blue but not mega ultramarine blue and I went with basic " I am an important dude" colours for him with a vibrant red and metals. I think I am addicted to blue swords. Starting to really enjoy working with GIMP too, nice results and easy enough to use considering it is free!

Excellent stuff in here, really like it!

Somehow, I'd never visited this blog until now! Just made it through the first dozen pages, enjoying seeing the progression in methods as you try different things on the commissions

Thanks for the tips on the white, After I've gone through my Khorne stuff I'm going to find something I can practice this on.

The Captain looks really nice, I'm sure he will sell.

Nice WHQ Elf Ranger (happy memories) and good work as always. very impressed with your speed painted orc, it's very neatly done.

Reecius wrote:Excellent stuff in here, really like it!

Thanks a ton!

RiTides wrote:Somehow, I'd never visited this blog until now! Just made it through the first dozen pages, enjoying seeing the progression in methods as you try different things on the commissions

Hah, welcome This is my blog. There are many like it, but this one is mine.

GiraffeX wrote:Thanks for the tips on the white, After I've gone through my Khorne stuff I'm going to find something I can practice this on.

The Captain looks really nice, I'm sure he will sell.

Let me know when you get some done so I can have a look. And yes, hopefully he does!

Flashman wrote:Nice WHQ Elf Ranger (happy memories) and good work as always. very impressed with your speed painted orc, it's very neatly done.

Thanks very much. I really love that model, I'm not sure where I got him but I know I had him a rather long time before actually painting him. He was the first mini I spent a fair amount of time on, I remember reading Dakka for hours beforehand going over tutorials to use.

Here is the new and updated Muagan with a Coldfire seal of approval!

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I think I am finally starting to get GOOD WITH COMPUTER and able to perform basic image tweaks, I got rid of the very irritating orange colour caste my camera insists on throwing on reds and this is a much better idea of his real colour in hand. While I had a soft spot for the full matched weapon, I admit this one is very eyecatching.

Yeah I prefer that version of the weapon, stands out a lot more.

Nicely done Iffy. I thought you said you didn't think you could reverse the colors??

I think I was looking into it a bit too much When I was thinking reverse the colours, I was thinking Red with a Black fade highlight as the reverse of his red highlighting, and that would be a nightmare.

So I just reversed the highlight "sizes" instead, so he is mostly black with red highlights, and the gun is mostly red with black recesses. Durr D:

Wow. Muagan is AMAZING! I can hardly peel my eyes away.

Cheers Bunnygurl, I ran him through some hue filters and got some really nice ideas to use in the future.

I only just realised how useful hue alterations are for coming up with interesting new ideas :O



Getting a fluorescent purple will be hard though, I use a Vallejo fluro orange/blood red mix for final highlights on red, not sure how to go about the same thing for purple. Will be fun to try it either way.

Verry interesting.... never thought of using a computer graphics program for that kind of experimentation.

What did I tell you about pink?!

ITS A DELIGHTFUL MANLY PURPLE D:

And aye Gits, it's really handy for coming up with ideas. I'm using GIMPS hue alteration for it and getting some good ideas to use in the future Should try it out, GIMPS free afterall, even if it has a very worrying name.



Haha ok Im done, back to painting May have updates tonight.

GIMP is really powerful for something that's free. Well worth a go if you need something for more than cropping photos.

Nice work on Maugan Ra. He does look much better with the red more prominent on the shuriken cannon. I can't help but feel his head is getting a bit lost in there too though. Could you increase the amount of red around the facial area and fade it to black at the back of the helmet?

That is a pretty cool program though

The yellow Maugan Ra looks cool!

Nice and colourful. Gimp is so powerful that unfortunately it took up to much space on my hard drive - great program though.

Love what you do with these eldar

Clearly, we need to give Weety a larger hard drive.

No doubt.

That Maugan is lovely, really eye-catching, much more so with the re-done dakka. Err, cannon.

Like the look of the purple and blue ones too. Maybe you should paint up a Warhol Maugan set