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http://pokeminiatures.blogspot.com/2009/11/hopefully-some-progress.html

Today I blogged about my progress as a painter with a comparison shot of an old
Cygnar Long Gunner I painted three years with a Long Gunner I finished last month.



Anyway, post here or on your own blog about this. How has your paint process changed
over time?

Wow, that´s quite a difference man! I wish I had more of my old models here, but most of them are packed away in a different country....

I could do some comparison shots of Marines, Imperial Fists from now, and from seven years ago. But mostly, the difference is in the basing, and in small things like the eyes...

my technique has changed dramatically over the past few year when i was 10 i basically said "i want it purple and gold!" and painted 1 half purple and 1 half gold. but now i am at the age of 13 my modelling and painting as improved dramaticall and i now use more than 2 colors! i have just learned the ways of using washes though and i am quite pleased with the difference that it makes.

Xanthos: Would still be neat to put them side by side.

Fiestamonkey: I wish I had started the hobby at 10. Then I wouldn't be
figuring things out as I am at 31!

thing is though if you start it when youre ten you have to keep it a secret for 8 years or else be picked on by peers but i carry on regardless! although it is fun to show minis to friends and turn them over to the "dark side" as in get them into the hobby.

Some people are lucky and their peers partake as well.

yes how i envy thee people with gamer friends.

Not exactly the same model, but definitely a comparison of skill, IMHO. This is me about a year ago:



And this is me two months ago:




Same army, same basic color scheme (turquoise and gray), advances in photography skill notwithstanding, I think there's a huge difference in detail and blending. I started painting 20 years ago and learned a lot of basic tricks at that time from my art teacher in junior high, but it wasn't until I really took the time to think through a model's paint scheme that I was able to apply what I had learned.

Sweet comparison.

Things can change a ton in a year if you apply it.

Must have a route around to find some old models, and get my new models finnished, takes so long!

Really nice eldar thingy there! I'd love to smash it to pieces! lol

What would a Dark Lance do to it?

Fiestamonkey wrote:thing is though if you start it when youre ten you have to keep it a secret for 8 years or else be picked on by peers but i carry on regardless! although it is fun to show minis to friends and turn them over to the "dark side" as in get them into the hobby.

Actually I find it's quite the opposite. Warhammer is perfectly acceptable when you're 13, far less-so when you're over twenty. The older you get, the less acceptable it is

The first pic is my OG army when I was getting back into the hobby after a 14 year absence. I find that I vary my skill level easily now depending on what I want to accomplish...display or table top army.

2004


2008

From 2000-2001, drybrush = fast.


But I was also doing stuff like this in 02


Character model 06


Trying something different at the end of 08. All washes on mithril silver.


Did these up earlier in the year.

The green night guy is amazing!

Like the washes over the mithril also!

jgemrich: You got subtle!

WG: Heh, you work so fast I'm surprised you're not breaking out entire
armies for comparison.