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Rusty Robot wrote:There is a fantastic set of DVDs you could invest in that teach you almost every painting trick under the sun.

"Hot Lead: How to Paint Better Miniatures"

It covers basics in DVD 1, advanced basics in DVD 2 and advanced in DVD 3. Things like wet blending, layering, feathering, NMM, painting the human form, cloaks etc... It rings in at around 8 hours. I am just about done watching it and I already feel like I could paint up a storm!

Seriously great. PM me and I could work something out for you...

aw thanks xxx

Can't wait to see your Sanguinary Guard!!!

Not much to update today I'm afraid, but this is the first member of the Sanguinary Guard!

their wings are as useless as nipples on a breastplate

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wait....

lol

MrMerlin wrote:their wings are as useless as nipples on a breastplate

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wait....

lol

hahah

well, at least you didn't think they actually flew using their wings for a minute ... damn jet packs... lol xxx

Hello peeps, sorry, no images to upload today. I'm taking my time with my Guard as I want them to look good! Going with blue tinged wings Hopefully he'll be up tomorrow or sunday Xxx

Good evening all

Well, it's been a few days (had no time to paint this weekend :S) but here is my first completed member of my Sanguinary Guard! I know there's still quite a lot to work on in terms of my technique but I really like the way he looks. Thoughts please xxx

No Non-metallic-metal painting??

just kiddin, looks great, especially like the wings

MrMerlin wrote:No Non-metallic-metal painting??

just kiddin, looks great, especially like the wings

hehe thanks, my other ones are ready to go... they're now dominating my life haha!

OOOH where in Germany are you from btw? I was born in Wegberg lol xxx

im from around Mainz, wich i near Frankfurt.
But I travel a lot (with my family, parents are photographers), so im only here for like half of the jear. In the end of March we are going to leave for France and Spain, and later in the year its the UK and Sweden.
Do you speak some german?

oh and were in GB are you from? I've so far been to Cornwall, Wales and Scotland/Northumberland

Love the wings too, nice painting.

strikingscorpion wrote:Love the wings too, nice painting.

Thanks so much! I was worried before I started highlighting the wings, thought they were too blue.

MrMerlin wrote:im from around Mainz, wich i near Frankfurt.
But I travel a lot (with my family, parents are photographers), so im only here for like half of the jear. In the end of March we are going to leave for France and Spain, and later in the year its the UK and Sweden.
Do you speak some german?

oh and were in GB are you from? I've so far been to Cornwall, Wales and Scotland/Northumberland

Aw awesome! I do speak a bit of German, not fluent though I'm actually practicing it now to get better!
Well like I said I was born in Wegberg, but I've also lived in Herford, Osnabrück and Mönchengladbach. At the moment I'm at university in Norwich, but my family are in Salisbury- it's near Stonehenge! haha xxx

That's a very nice gold. What's your recipe for it?

Swordwind wrote:That's a very nice gold. What's your recipe for it?

I literally just used 'Shining Gold' and then did a black wash xxx

Ah. I find Gryphonne Sepia to make a better wash myself, as long as you want the gold to look rather old.

Swordwind wrote:Ah. I find Gryphonne Sepia to make a better wash myself, as long as you want the gold to look rather old.

Thanks for the tip xx

Another good idea is to put on the real edges a very small amount of mithril silver, (or some equally bright silver) It's pretty hard to get it to look right but looks lovely if done well.Check out one of the 'eav metal guides or there are loads on the tinternet. Look forwards to seeing how you progress =]

the gold on this one was washed brown, devlanmud I believe.....

J-paint wrote:Another good idea is to put on the real edges a very small amount of mithril silver, (or some equally bright silver) It's pretty hard to get it to look right but looks lovely if done well.Check out one of the 'eav metal guides or there are loads on the tinternet. Look forwards to seeing how you progress =]

thankiesss.

MrMerlin wrote:the gold on this one was washed brown, devlanmud I believe.....

Spoiler:

ooh, looks good! May try it next time xxx

Don't know if I should do the next wings in blue as well, or try something like grey? xxx

bubble wrote:Don't know if I should do the next wings in blue as well, or try something like grey? xxx

I'd do them blue again because the blue contrasts the gold nicely, and it might look weird if the squad had different wings.....

I'd try it on a spare piece, but i guess you dont have any.....

keep up the painting!

A good start bubble. Don't make me think of the first model i "painted". I could have dropped it in a pot of paint, and it would look about the same. As others have mentioned, a brown wash on gold is what alot of people use (Sepia or Devlan Mud). What colour wash you use, especially on metallics, wont just shade it for you, it will enrich the gold as well, making it look epic. I like the subtlety of the wings! =)

Its all looking great. Once you start shading and highlighting, you'll be surprised at what you can do.

Oh, and that ewok is awesome =p

MrMerlin wrote:

bubble wrote:Don't know if I should do the next wings in blue as well, or try something like grey? xxx

I'd do them blue again because the blue contrasts the gold nicely, and it might look weird if the squad had different wings.....

I'd try it on a spare piece, but i guess you dont have any.....

keep up the painting!

Yay, I agree lol. You're right, no spare parts... maybe I'll just have to buy more haha

S'jet wrote:A good start bubble. Don't make me think of the first model i "painted". I could have dropped it in a pot of paint, and it would look about the same. As others have mentioned, a brown wash on gold is what alot of people use (Sepia or Devlan Mud). What colour wash you use, especially on metallics, wont just shade it for you, it will enrich the gold as well, making it look epic. I like the subtlety of the wings! =)

Its all looking great. Once you start shading and highlighting, you'll be surprised at what you can do.

Oh, and that ewok is awesome =p

aww, thanks for such a nice comment! Lol I'm sure your first models weren't that bad

I know, wish I could take credit for having made the ewok but it was all done to the lovely J-Paint XD xxx

Pretty good work considering your self-confessed status as a "noob"! You've got good brush control.

Elnibbus wrote:Pretty good work considering your self-confessed status as a "noob"! You've got good brush control.

hehe thank you! XD apparently I'm not as bad as I thought xxx

I wish my first paintings would look just as nice as yours, I've got to repaint a whole lot because they're a discrage for the rest...

Just keep on going, looks really good so far.

It's quite interesting to see that a lot of women who start the hobby are far better painting to begin with than blokes. Must be something to do with the fact that you can colour co-ordinate better and automatically know what the colour "champagne" is... (It's a cream colour, just so you know guys).

Eddyon wrote:I wish my first paintings would look just as nice as yours, I've got to repaint a whole lot because they're a discrage for the rest...

Just keep on going, looks really good so far.

heheh, one day I'll want to repaint my first ones! thanks xxx

Elnibbus wrote:It's quite interesting to see that a lot of women who start the hobby are far better painting to begin with than blokes. Must be something to do with the fact that you can colour co-ordinate better and automatically know what the colour "champagne" is... (It's a cream colour, just so you know guys).

haha, you're not the first person to say that, one of the members of staff in Games Workshop said women tend to be good at it. Lol, I reckon its more the years of practice in putting on make up xxx

Yeh, my local GW dudes said that too. Well keep practicing the make-up application and the painting!

(Not meaning for a second that you *require* practice at applying make-up...)

Elnibbus wrote:It's quite interesting to see that a lot of women who start the hobby are far better painting to begin with than blokes. Must be something to do with the fact that you can colour co-ordinate better and automatically know what the colour "champagne" is... (It's a cream colour, just so you know guys).

Maybe women are better because most men are just downright bad at the beginning.....

I remember my first time painting.....

*kick open door, farts, scratches back of head* -murmurs swearwords- *throws himself on chair, wich reponses with squeaking noise*
"lets paint some orks"
*grabs poor ork boy, pics up brush* -thinks about color choice, for like 10 seconds- *grabs brown paint, shoves brush in way too far, smears paint on roughly the right location (and about everything else....).....*

8 minutes later

*throws brush somwhere* "methinks im done!" *holds ork away from himself, closes one eye and looks at model* - *is mighty proud of himself *

now, im not at all proud of these first 20 orks......

though the above might be a little exaggerated.....