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Those tiny details are killer. The sails are great, the logos are so shallow I'm sure it was a challenge. One I would failed.

superduper ship ifalna! That looks really squee, its so tiny but represents something huge. Like one of those rocks the Japanese dress up to look like mountains. I desire a tiny boat now I've seen this. Better go look for one...

Superb work on that boat

Glad people are liking the boat

I have to say, it looks really lovely in real life, likely due to how small it actually is. There is some really crazy detail going on with these models.

Weety, you should totally get some. They are really fun to paint. The sails have raised areas on them so those patterns are printed on, and Whalemusic, it's not been toooo bad painting them If they were a millimeter flatter I think it would have been near impossible, but so far it has been ok!

Wow, I really like the ship! You are setting the bar high for when I get round to painting mine.

Looking forward to see your take on the skaven and araby ships!

I wanted to paint my own but the size of them kind of turned me off hehe....but now that my sister painted the Kraken and I have an airbrush coming....i might give it a try again !

Haha, I can't wait to do more either

Tonight is the start of my weekend so I have a pizza + fringe marathon with my bf and pal, but tomorrow I think I will keep going with the ships, want to get this finished and on to the big red one

Heres something slightly interesting.

About a year ago, I painted up this Emperors Champ. He was to character at the time but I would view him as tabletop now, and he was the 2nd or 3rd SM I had ever painted. Being a total noob at taking shots at the time, I decided it would look super cool to shoot him on a black bg. One that was covered in fluff. Then I made the shots into one long strip (whyyyyyyyyy) and thought I was totally pro.



Now I still look back on this as a massive shame, because I was actually quite proud of him. He was very subtle which I always had problems with on black, and I sent him back to the owner directly after taking the shots meaning I could never reshoot proper ones.

I spent a bit just now manually editing out the black bg bit by bit by hand, then changed the composition to make a small amount of sense. You can actually see him now, though the quality of the shot is still terrible.



This is an example of when GIMP can't save the day. When the original image quality is bad, it will stay bad no matter what. It's why getting proper lighting and focus is so essential.
I'm seriously considering painting up another champ to do a "Before and after" for the last year, it could be fun

The ship is looking excellent Iffy, I cant wait to see the others painted up.

I'd try and pic up a metal Emperors Champion from ebay now if I were you as I dread to think what a finecast one would be like.

Hello Ifalna,
I took this moment to step out of the Shadows of Lurking (TM) to say the following:
Your painting ability rocks.
I am sure the Emperor's Champ you paint up later will blow that one out of the water, but that one still looks awesome, and is better than what I can do at this time.
Hopefully I was not too forward.

DW

Ifalna wrote:
An Ifalna tutorial would basically be advice on how to sit at your desk with your face on your keyboard and a bottle of whiskey lightly grasped in one hand. I doubt many people would find it that useful

Day 7 on my "Holiday" in Ireland and having driven from Dublin to Kinsale to Dingle.. I know why you drink.

Absolulty the lovelist of country and people. There could be some improvements to the bike paths everybody drives on!

SL

Dude, that Champ is awesome, regardless! I had a tough choice between SW, BT, and GK when I picked up the codex, went with SW but that BT is really good! Love the models in this thread, keep it up!

Ifalna wrote:Haha, I can't wait to do more either

Tonight is the start of my weekend so I have a pizza + fringe marathon with my bf and pal, but tomorrow I think I will keep going with the ships, want to get this finished and on to the big red one

Heres something slightly interesting.

About a year ago, I painted up this Emperors Champ. He was to character at the time but I would view him as tabletop now, and he was the 2nd or 3rd SM I had ever painted. Being a total noob at taking shots at the time, I decided it would look super cool to shoot him on a black bg. One that was covered in fluff. Then I made the shots into one long strip (whyyyyyyyyy) and thought I was totally pro.

Now I still look back on this as a massive shame, because I was actually quite proud of him. He was very subtle which I always had problems with on black, and I sent him back to the owner directly after taking the shots meaning I could never reshoot proper ones.

I spent a bit just now manually editing out the black bg bit by bit by hand, then changed the composition to make a small amount of sense. You can actually see him now, though the quality of the shot is still terrible.

This is an example of when GIMP can't save the day. When the original image quality is bad, it will stay bad no matter what. It's why getting proper lighting and focus is so essential.
I'm seriously considering painting up another champ to do a "Before and after" for the last year, it could be fun

That is my model you did for me and still so happy with him. Still a great paint job!!!
Although the Kasrkin Sarge you did for me is by far the best

GiraffeX wrote:The ship is looking excellent Iffy, I cant wait to see the others painted up.
I'd try and pic up a metal Emperors Champion from ebay now if I were you as I dread to think what a finecast one would be like.

I don't want to think about it :( I think Finecast is my nemesis.

I will die at the hands of Finecast, stabbed in the back in an alley somewhere. I'm scouring Ebay as we speak, seeing if I can find any nice and cheap!

Dragon Warrior wrote:Hello Ifalna,
I took this moment to step out of the Shadows of Lurking (TM) to say the following:
Your painting ability rocks.
I am sure the Emperor's Champ you paint up later will blow that one out of the water, but that one still looks awesome, and is better than what I can do at this time.
Hopefully I was not too forward.
DW

Hello DW!

Very kind of you to say, thank you very much! I am not sure when I will get around to painting a new one, but he is on my list of personal projects for sure

Solar_lion wrote:
Day 7 on my "Holiday" in Ireland and having driven from Dublin to Kinsale to Dingle.. I know why you drink.
Absolulty the lovelist of country and people. There could be some improvements to the bike paths everybody drives on!
SL

Haha, has your tomtom told you to drive into a field yet? Dublin is great. You get there and think:

" Oh, this isn't as backwards as I was expecting. Lot of old buildings and roads but it's got some modern touches, not bad. "

Then you drive 10 minutes outside Dublin and are surrounded by cows and driving along a road with more twists than a Shyamalan movie.

ZakFaire wrote:Dude, that Champ is awesome, regardless! I had a tough choice between SW, BT, and GK when I picked up the codex, went with SW but that BT is really good! Love the models in this thread, keep it up!

Thanks dude! He is pretty old but I do still love him. I just WISH I had gotten proper shots :( Ugh.

Today I am going to try and finish off the wee ship, and replace the backgrounds in a lot of images in my gallery to make them more coherant. I have to add sigs to a lot of them too, my site has been getting a lot more traffic since I started doing that!

Here is something I have not posted in a while, it's an update of my lair after a recent restock -



I honestly find that the neater and more organised where I paint is, the better I paint. It's very calming and conductive to creativity I think.

This might be a tiny desk, but I manage to fit every bit of painting equipment I need in here, from latex gloves to bits boxes, and it's nice to have it all in one place instead of trying to find things I need and having to look around.

Do you guys keep your desks neat or do you just go with the flow? Do you find it makes any difference?

Right now my whole painting area (desk & spray booth) is cramped and a complete disaster. I hate it! But... I think I can still paint on it, though I haven't tried anything very challenging lately.

I think a neat painting area is a big asset, just one I don't have at the moment.

Personal I have a running war. I'm often on the loosing side but every month or two It's beaten back to where I might start winning regularly. I never do win but one can dream.

wow. my painting corner is an old newspaper and all my paints are scattered around the table. but somehow, I still manage to remember which color is where. oh well.

I paint on the coffee table; sometimes literally.

weetyskemian44 wrote:I paint on the coffee table; sometimes literally.

I find that there is usually more paint on my table then on the model

I see the lair even envloves video games.. a true lair indeed!

I like the picture of the boyfriend (?), perhaps tacked up as a reminder of the real world.

Wish I had the space for a nice painting area...my barracks quarters are tiny haha

Hey Ifalna, hope you don't mind but I've just put a link to your tutorial in the Deathwatch competition (http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/150/464389.page#4636215) to help folk with sorting their pics.

Also I have paint table envy :shakes fist:

I am actually proud of my work are. Well mainly my paint box the others things aren't really that impressive. But since I spent almost a day painting bottles this is always a good chance to show off

Just watched your Tutorial on GIMP picture manipulation, it was very good. I think I might have fallen in love with your accent as well,

How time flies when filling out paperwork. I can't believe it's been nearly a week since I logged into Dakka....

Since we're on the topic of workspaces, mine is in the garage. It's a disaster area. It used to have a lot of space that's now been taken up with materials for terrain, half-build models, and God only knows. I should take a pic and post so you can be utterly appalled. Recently though, it has gotten a bit too much for me and I've been spending more time cleaning up than actually painting. (I will start up a project log soon.)

As for the Emperor's Champ, well, as they say, hindsight is 20/20. (I make it a point not to revisit my old posts, I'd cringe otherwise.) Still, from what I can see, he looks good. Though, yeah, the picture quality degrades a lot as I push in with the zoom.

The detail on the ship posted last page was rather stunning painted up. I look forward to seeing the rest.

weetyskemian44 wrote:I paint on the coffee table; sometimes literally.

HA! Very nearly made me spit my tea out.

D

Gitsplitta wrote:Right now my whole painting area (desk & spray booth) is cramped and a complete disaster. I hate it! But... I think I can still paint on it, though I haven't tried anything very challenging lately.
I think a neat painting area is a big asset, just one I don't have at the moment.

I don't think I could keep a neat one with 2 minigits running around, the cats are bad enough. D:

ChaoticMind wrote:Personal I have a running war. I'm often on the loosing side but every month or two It's beaten back to where I might start winning regularly. I never do win but one can dream.

kingjayko wrote:wow. my painting corner is an old newspaper and all my paints are scattered around the table. but somehow, I still manage to remember which color is where. oh well.

weetyskemian44 wrote:I paint on the coffee table; sometimes literally.

I figure if it works, it works. Doesn't matter if you are painting off a shelf while sitting on a ladder, if you are putting out models you are happy with then the painting area is doing something right! I'm just a bit of a freak and get stressed around mess, so I find I work better if I try and keep it neat.

Capitansolstice wrote:

weetyskemian44 wrote:I paint on the coffee table; sometimes literally.

I find that there is usually more paint on my table then on the model

Thats what my classy apple dinner mat is for. Lets me pretend the desk stays clean when in reality the mat is just filthy 24/7 Awwww yeah.

Rogue Wolves wrote:I see the lair even envloves video games.. a true lair indeed!

You need vidya in a true lair. The 360 and ps2 is in there, ps3 will be making a trek from the living room into here for the release of Darksiders2 though, so Mr Man can play it and I can watch without being tempted away from painting.

ZakFaire wrote:Wish I had the space for a nice painting area...my barracks quarters are tiny haha

Well at least you have a good excuse, yeah God I could make so many ff7 puns, but I won't. I won't.

inmygravenimage wrote:Hey Ifalna, hope you don't mind but I've just put a link to your tutorial in the Deathwatch competition (http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/150/464389.page#4636215) to help folk with sorting their pics.
Also I have paint table envy :shakes fist:

Oh! Thats awesome! Thanks so much Hopefully it can help someone out a bit, get some better images up You should totally envy my painting desk, it's covered in Pokemon and so is in the top percentage of painting desks.

Bacms wrote:I am actually proud of my work are. Well mainly my paint box the others things aren't really that impressive. But since I spent almost a day painting bottles this is always a good chance to show off

Aha, thats nice! You can store it all away easily with the drawer, good thinking. My old table was something like that but I felt it was a bit too big for what I wanted. The little pc desk was just perfect sized for me.

mwnciboo wrote:Just watched your Tutorial on GIMP picture manipulation, it was very good. I think I might have fallen in love with your accent as well,

Glad it was of some use! I've gotten a lot of comments on the accent, I fething hate it, it's common as muck here and a bit embarrassing, heh.

Dicrel Seijin wrote:How time flies when filling out paperwork. I can't believe it's been nearly a week since I logged into Dakka....
Since we're on the topic of workspaces, mine is in the garage. It's a disaster area. It used to have a lot of space that's now been taken up with materials for terrain, half-build models, and God only knows. I should take a pic and post so you can be utterly appalled. Recently though, it has gotten a bit too much for me and I've been spending more time cleaning up than actually painting. (I will start up a project log soon.)
As for the Emperor's Champ, well, as they say, hindsight is 20/20. (I make it a point not to revisit my old posts, I'd cringe otherwise.) Still, from what I can see, he looks good. Though, yeah, the picture quality degrades a lot as I push in with the zoom.
The detail on the ship posted last page was rather stunning painted up. I look forward to seeing the rest.

I figure you should just spend a day doing one big cleanup, and then make a vow that you will return things to their places when done for the night. That's the only way I can do it, I make sure everything is back in place before I finish painting. If I didn't, it would be a total dump ><

I don't so much regret him as I regret the terrible photo :( Lesson learned though.

Briancj wrote:I like the picture of the boyfriend (?), perhaps tacked up as a reminder of the real world.

Hah, I'm sure my Dad would take that as a compliment somehow, even if a blurry photo is to blame ;D

Click for huge shot -



Finished the character standard Swordfish.

Not glued together at all so owner can take them apart for travel, which is a good plan.

Quite happy with the subtle blacks, tried some smooth sail highlights to not overly detail them and think they turned out nice

I got the battlefoam for travel games, fear not. Only concern would be the long ride back, I think I can handle some glue though.

Ifalna wrote:

Briancj wrote:I like the picture of the boyfriend (?), perhaps tacked up as a reminder of the real world.

Hah, I'm sure my Dad would take that as a compliment somehow, even if a blurry photo is to blame ;D

Hi, Dad!

Still, the 'real world' picture rule still applies. Prevents you from being lost in the world of painting FOREVER.

Wow, almost 100 pages of awesome miniatures... Iffy, your work is stunning as always, and even more so with these tiny tiny details that are coming out amazingly well..

Great job