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i give up

Me too. Have fun at Golden Daemon, kid.

Actually you don't need to look for a model that is hard to paint, you can pick any model and make it hard.

You just make sure that it is a model that you want to paint, and then you just have to train, build up your skills and try until you make it.

And for the record, NMM, stands for Non Metallic Metal, and it the technique used to pain Metals without using metal colors.

//Edge

This is the strangest thread I've read on Dakka in months.

OP - look at what other people do that you like, copy it, steal it, bite it, take it, try it, emulate it as best as you can. Everyone that ever won an award for anything spent a long time doing it badly before they did it well. There's no way you can read about how to do this stuff and these simple questions are nuts: you have to sit down with the brushes and paints and just keep practicing.

And to hell with Golden Demon, paint for yourself, paint to make yourself proud and to your level of satisfaction.

How do you end threads?

PM a mod and ask them to lock it for you, I guess? I've never wanted one of my threads closed before...

Just ignore it and it goes away. The Internet's grand like that. Or ask a mod to do it.

Ok

I actually think it looks pretty good. Is that quick shade or a wash or something? It's not GD standard but still it looks like a pretty effective method of quickly painting a model.

Oh, for sure. Without the strange purple paint on its arm and some better details on the face, it'd be great for gaming. But that's not what the OP wanted it to be...

I posted a bucket load of links for you from cmon, you can go there to find more... take the time to read those links and follow the steps...... feel free to ask me for help, i'm only 16 but i'm not a half bad painter, and a manic kit basher so i do know some stuff.

Skinnattittar wrote:
So, if you want to win a Golden Demon, you'd better buy a good set of knee pads and start practicing with bananas.

One of my favorite pieces of advice on Dakka...now how do I get it into conversation with my wife?

This thread is win! I've never known someone on the internet having to be taught how to use Google.

L. Wrex

Hey, there is a series of dvd's that you might be interested in to help you with your painting. They cover all levels of skill and might work out well for you.

Good look at the Golden Daemon, and keep aiming high.

Well, going against everything said, I'd say with a lot of practice, you'd make it somewhere in GD. Youngbloods 2009

http://demonwinner.free.fr/australia/2009/golden_demon_winner.php?categorie=12

I think it would be safe to say I could paint at that level.

I'd say with a lot of practice, you'd make it somewhere in GD.

Thanx, I think half the people here should, there work is so amazing!

usually the people that enter minis to GD start almost a year before the contest.

planning,paint scetches,talk about it with others on the internets(or friends).

this is where you should start.

remove all the mould lines and paint the mini before assembling(makes it much easier and if you ruin something you can easily swap it without taking apart the mini)

and here you can see most of the gd minis:

http://demonwinner.free.fr/

Well I normally assemble the whole or half the min so than i can play with it!

You dont need to play something thats being painted for a competition

Also, quick bit of advice here but i believe youngbloods has a base size limit on models.
I think its 20mm-25mm (round or square)

The daemon base is a 60mm.


Anyway, this guide is now your bible.
Found it not too long ago, and since then its been on my screen all the time.
It will help from everything from basics to highly advanced tips and tricks.

Just have a read of it and try some of it out.

http://www.coolminiornot.com/umpg/CMON%20Ultimate%20Miniature%20Painting%20Guide%20Demo.pdf

Ktulhut wrote:1 - Use google to find out some names
2 - google those names
3 - click on the webpages that many of them will have made for themselves
4 - ????
5 - profit!

Fixed it for ya. You need to include the ?'s whenever you make a list.

Ed_Bodger wrote:

Skinnattittar wrote:
So, if you want to win a Golden Demon, you'd better buy a good set of knee pads and start practicing with bananas.

One of my favorite pieces of advice on Dakka...now how do I get it into conversation with my wife?

That one's easy... get yourself some kneepads and get to practicing on some mango slices....



That being said, here's one for the OP-

You seem to be young, and filled with all kinds of pee and vinegar, and that's all well and good, but you have to channel it. I realize that our generations have been brought up in an age of instant gratification, but this isn't something that people get good at overnight. It takes time, effort, and a keen willingness to do your homework and just start compiling information from as many sources as you possibly can. It almost takes looking at the world through a different set of eyes. Before you even begin your gourney, go out, walk around, and look at things. look at the way shadows play with color on houses, cars, anything, really. Look at the colors and textures of the world around you, and then start researching painting techniques. Practice them until you have a grasp of how they work, what each of them gives you as an end result, how you can get these simple techniques to interact with eachother, and then go out and look at the world around you again. Instead of just observing this time, speculate. Figure out how you would recreate it in your own style, through your own eyes.

Once you've done this, do it again, and again, and again. Experiment and explore the technical aspects of what you want to achieve, and always be your own worst critic. Once you've done this, built this base of knowledge and skill for yourself, then you speculate, you develop, you put all the hundreds of hours you've spent researching, the thousands of hours you've spent with a brush in your hand and paint on your fingers, and you distill it, you concentrate down the labor of love that you've made a major part of your life into a single model, and you spend more time on that model than you had on any piece prior to this culminating work, making sure that every piece of it, every last brushstroke is leading you ever closer to your own vision of what that model should be.

Then, you will be ready. You may not win, but you'll have come a long way from where you are now.

Then again, I don't paint too exceedingly well, but my artistic passion lies with the cullinary arts... nevertheless, the approach is the same, we just use different tools, and I can eat my work when I'm done with it.

Look OP, a lot has been repeated countless times in this thread and you keep asking the same questions. Stop reading and open your ears. No more advice because everything you need to learn has been shown to you on how to learn it. Read through your thread again several times. Jot down notes and go from their. If you have to ask how to use google then go to your local gaming store and ask advice from the best paiunter there. Beyond that gl because I think you will need it.

Accidental troll? Well I guess there is a first for everything....

OP is quite the genius.

۞ Jack ۞ wrote:You dont need to play something thats being painted for a competition

I play with the models I won Golden Demon with

eledamris wrote:

۞ Jack ۞ wrote:You dont need to play something thats being painted for a competition

I play with the models I won Golden Demon with

Showoff.

A lot of negativity here. If the kid wants to go to GD then I say go for it. Sure, you wont win but part of the fun is giving it a go. Plus, while there you can compare your work with others and ask questions.

For a detailed look into what it takes to WIN a GD, go here.... http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/index.php?showtopic=105449

Remember, some GD entries work on their mini's for MONTHS. Sometimes a whole year.

Read the thread I posted. Or skim through it.

That was one successful troll.

Lycaeus Wrex wrote:This thread is win! I've never known someone on the internet having to be taught how to use Google.

L. Wrex

You mean like this?

Dronze wrote:

Ed_Bodger wrote:

Skinnattittar wrote:
So, if you want to win a Golden Demon, you'd better buy a good set of knee pads and start practicing with bananas.

One of my favorite pieces of advice on Dakka...now how do I get it into conversation with my wife?

That one's easy... get yourself some kneepads and get to practicing on some mango slices....

Best reply ever.

That one's easy... get yourself some kneepads and get to practicing on some mango slices....

Who doesn't like delicious mango?