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WOW! great stuff man! LOVE that mask, it's just sooooooooo awesome! Love the richness of the feathers!

sounds like your PS1 days where no different than mine, but thats alright, now the dad cant beat me in any game (besides NBA and Madden but I dont like those games anyway )

Holy hell! Howcome Ive never seen this thread before? Fantastic work on everything Ive seen so far.

MrMerlin wrote:The mask looks great Iffy. I like the lines on the wood.

Cheers! They are so tiny, I wanted to get in some knot detail but they are so so tiny. The mask looks quite big but at its tallest its about an inch and a half?

Urien_Rakarth wrote:WOW! great stuff man! LOVE that mask, it's just sooooooooo awesome! Love the richness of the feathers!

The feathers were so much fun, but I thiiiiink I will be skipping them for a while after this dude I am all feathered out now.

Rogue Wolves wrote:sounds like your PS1 days where no different than mine, but thats alright, now the dad cant beat me in any game (besides NBA and Madden but I dont like those games anyway )

Hehe, he's big into FPS games which I am atrocious at so he kind of has the upper hand there. But I beat him on the sheer nerdery scale.

KingCracker wrote:Holy hell! Howcome Ive never seen this thread before? Fantastic work on everything Ive seen so far.

I dont know! Maybe you did see it but were horrified and mentally repressed it. That happens to me sometimes.

So here is tonights progress anyway -



Mask all done, I went for darkening down the wood quite a lot to get across age, and dirtied up the metals. I also whipped out some black and finelined around the jaw so there is some nice shadow in there which I think it really needed.

And the body so far :



Bit more work to go on the interior skin, not quite where I want it yet and I apparently got a bloody wash stain on the right. Enraged.

Leather needs a bit more blending, highlights are too stark, then its on to his weapons and nicknacks like pouches. Bones are early WIP.

The skins may be changed, I've asked for advice on the Eavy Metal FB page cause I just cannot seem to get them to look how they do in my mind, I want them to look like really badly cured streaky skin, but it's just slipping through my fingers and I am getting frustrated :(

I think youre being a bit hard on yourself as far as the skins go. I, for one, think they look really good.
Also.... I would never had noticed the stain unless you mentioned it xD

The skins look fine to me, and I don't even see the stain, so there you go

This blog definitely got me back into painting, I've read all 90 pages, awesome and inspiring work as always Ifalna!

I think the skin looks really, realy good! How'd you do it? Anyway, if you rather want it too look like a weather-beaten hide, mix some bright and medium browns into the green and paint brighter stripes all over him, following the muscles. So far he looks smooth and clean.

Also, how'd you paint the cloth between his legs?

MrMerlin wrote:I think the skin looks really, realy good! How'd you do it? Anyway, if you rather want it too look like a weather-beaten hide, mix some bright and medium browns into the green and paint brighter stripes all over him, following the muscles. So far he looks smooth and clean.

Also, how'd you paint the cloth between his legs?

I would also love to know how you got the skin and cloth looking so good. I wish I could get even close to that. BTW I was in Ireland for the weekend and surprisingly enough it was quite sunny so I am hoping you are enjoying it.

Very nice. love the richness of the mask. Should really compliment the green skin.

Bacms wrote: BTW I was in Ireland for the weekend and surprisingly enough it was quite sunny so I am hoping you are enjoying it.

I'll be in Ireland in August.... You telling me it's not sunny?

SL

Ramos Asura wrote:I think youre being a bit hard on yourself as far as the skins go. I, for one, think they look really good.
Also.... I would never had noticed the stain unless you mentioned it xD

prime12357 wrote:The skins look fine to me, and I don't even see the stain, so there you go

Hehe, they look ok, but aren't quiet what was trying to get them to look like, so its a bit of a personal fail. The stain is pretty noticeable in reality so I am going to have to try and fix it up..

Janders wrote:This blog definitely got me back into painting, I've read all 90 pages, awesome and inspiring work as always Ifalna!

Oh awesome! Thats gotta be a good thing Amazed you read through the whole thing, it gets a bit crazy at times!

MrMerlin wrote:I think the skin looks really, realy good! How'd you do it? Anyway, if you rather want it too look like a weather-beaten hide, mix some bright and medium browns into the green and paint brighter stripes all over him, following the muscles. So far he looks smooth and clean.

Also, how'd you paint the cloth between his legs?

Ah yes, I meant the cured skin of the cloak His greeny skin kinda has to match the rest of the guys in the little army so it needs to stay quite clean. I DO really want to start experimenting when getting extra colours into skin though, it's something thats been on my " You really need to learn to do this to improve" list for some time now.

The loincloth is bestial brown highlighted up through a lot of layers to bleached bone with plenty of careful black and brown washes inbetween, it needs one more light wash and slight rehilight I think.

Bacms wrote:

MrMerlin wrote:I think the skin looks really, realy good! How'd you do it? Anyway, if you rather want it too look like a weather-beaten hide, mix some bright and medium browns into the green and paint brighter stripes all over him, following the muscles. So far he looks smooth and clean.
Also, how'd you paint the cloth between his legs?

I would also love to know how you got the skin and cloth looking so good. I wish I could get even close to that. BTW I was in Ireland for the weekend and surprisingly enough it was quite sunny so I am hoping you are enjoying it.

Millions of layers The skin is mostly glazing, which was super time consuming but turned out quite nice I think.

This time of the year here is generally bright and mild, we get rain but it tends to be in 10 minute super heavy bursts and then dries up quickly from the general warmth and breeze. It's quite pleasant, never really too cold or too hot.

Solar_lion wrote:Very nice. love the richness of the mask. Should really compliment the green skin.
I'll be in Ireland in August.... You telling me it's not sunny?
SL

Haha I doubt it will be, it will be bright though. Ireland is basically very bright grey and green. Almost constant cloud cover at least leaves us with mild weather though.

Great work, Iffy! The bona and cape are superb, but you might ( I think you already said this) want to make the skin abit less 'shiny'.

Back!

Sorry for the vanishing act, I just had nothing really worth posting, I've been practicing a LOT with my new webcam trying to record mini's, and it is a lot harder than expected.

The first problem is my poor laptop cannot handle recording in high def, which is fair enough, its not exactly a beast of a machine, so I need to paint on my desk by the box of dark matter that is my desktop. I also need a pretty hefty lighting setup and backing paper.

Positioning the camera is problem no 2. It basically needs to be directly in front of you, between you and the mini. You can't touch it with your arms while painting, and you can't life an arm above it or it ruins the lighting. You have to hold the mini at a specific lenght away from you and not move it closer or farther so the focus does not get ruined, and you have to avoid the temptation of bringing it closer to your face (which I am used to doing while painting!)

Bloody tough, but I am getting there.

Urien_Rakarth wrote:Great work, Iffy! The bona and cape are superb, but you might ( I think you already said this) want to make the skin abit less 'shiny'.

I remedied that! I finished him up with a matt sealer and it removed all the shine, he is lovely now. The squig commission is actually all done now! Will be doing shots tomorrow. I spent all today finishing them up and just don't have the attention span to get a huge group shot done right now, haha.

However, here is the single smallest thing I have ever painted in my life. I cannot stress how tiny he is. He is all that is squig rolled into a pea of metal.





My hands both fell off afterwards, but not before I started quite a lot of work on the Carnivean (who's everblight group is whats on my to do list next )




Still relatively early WIP tabletop. His ultramarine streaks are bangin but might bring them up further, need to chat to owner.

Base is early days and black is not finished on it, need to decide on maw colours. Can’t help but think acid green. I’m on a terrible acid green buzz recently.

Da squig is da bomb! Nicely done. Can you imagine sculpting that thing??

as i said on facebook, i really love your "scar gremlin" squig! and whatever that secong monster is, i like it alot! what game is that for, i've never seen it before?

Yay!! Iffy's alive!

Dude.... and I thought Pete was a small squig.... That's absolutely minuscule!! I love his paintjob too!

Gotta say... that last model interests me greatly.... I might have to swing out and find one or two xD

The squig is cute as very small button! Love the Carnivean, I always think it's interesting to see how different folk interpret a studio paint scheme. Look forward to seeing how they turn out!

Rogue Wolves wrote:as i said on facebook, i really love your "scar gremlin" squig! and whatever that secong monster is, i like it alot! what game is that for, i've never seen it before?

Big beastie is a Carnivean, from the Legion of Everblight faction within Hordes, from Privateer Press.

If you're interested, here is a link to the Legion gallery over on the Privateer Press website.

^ thanks!

Love the tiny angry squig Iffy! Had you made the black over his eyes smaller, he'd be a bull squig terrier lol

Whoa! That savage orc (witch doctor?) is extremely well done.

Group shot of the squigs... you taunt us with it!

Now thats a tiny squig. Looks about the size of the "attack squig" mounted on a banner. Sheesh. Great job, great job not only because you didnt screw it up, but also because you painted it so nicely. I like how it resembles a cow

I love that mask so much. I can't even express it. So great.

And that little squig is hard core You know he shouts "Kill the queen!" at passing coppers.

Baby Squig..Looks like the Terminator!

Gitsplitta wrote:Da squig is da bomb! Nicely done. Can you imagine sculpting that thing??

I don't want to imagine that at all, holy crap. I bet it was fun though, if infuriating!

Rogue Wolves wrote:as i said on facebook, i really love your "scar gremlin" squig! and whatever that secong monster is, i like it alot! what game is that for, i've never seen it before?

He is the best squig ever, haha The big guy is a Carnivean from the legion of everblight mini's privateer press makes, you should totally check them out.

Ramos Asura wrote:Yay!! Iffy's alive!
Dude.... and I thought Pete was a small squig.... That's absolutely minuscule!! I love his paintjob too!
Gotta say... that last model interests me greatly.... I might have to swing out and find one or two xD

He was just too wee. I really wanted to put him on a giant base all on his own, but it might have been overkill

This carnivean is from the plastic box set, its a fantastic clip together mini, but I think they do metal versions too.

inmygravenimage wrote:The squig is cute as very small button! Love the Carnivean, I always think it's interesting to see how different folk interpret a studio paint scheme. Look forward to seeing how they turn out!

So am I! The owner wants purple for the insides of the mouth, which is going to be a lotta fun I think.

MrMerlin wrote:Love the tiny angry squig Iffy! Had you made the black over his eyes smaller, he'd be a bull squig terrier lol

If he had jowls, I totally would have painted him like a french bulldog or boston. Would have been hilarious.

RiTides wrote:Whoa! That savage orc (witch doctor?) is extremely well done.
Group shot of the squigs... you taunt us with it!

Coming very soon™!

KingCracker wrote:Now thats a tiny squig. Looks about the size of the "attack squig" mounted on a banner. Sheesh. Great job, great job not only because you didnt screw it up, but also because you painted it so nicely. I like how it resembles a cow

I was going for a cow/doggy kinda look, I'm glad it worked out

Wehrkind wrote:I love that mask so much. I can't even express it. So great.
And that little squig is hard core You know he shouts "Kill the queen!" at passing coppers.

He totally does, and he nuts them in the shins.

Cutthroatcure wrote:Baby Squig..Looks like the Terminator!

Terrifying, he is clearly the most dangerous squig out of the whole group!

Final shots of Squiggies up tonight, I am celebrating getting even older so have been slightly delayed I should have an excess of sugar supplied energy to use up taking far too many shots of tiny monsters by this evening at some point. My boyfriend clearly took advice from Wurrzag and the Squigs on my cake, wouldn't you say?

Good Lord... all that sugar!!

That'll keep you up nights! (Happy b-day Iffy!)

Matches the ork which docs cape

Happy B-day as well. sugar overdose forthcoming.

SL

Ouch, my stomach hurts from merely looking at that monster! All that sugar....

anway, happy birthday!

That looks awesome, he deserves some major pats on the back.

Now how did it taste?