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Kal-El wrote:
Hey everything looks great except one thing. The storm talons salamander icon on the left side is backwards. It's even more evident because it's facing the other direction on the right side.

I really hate saying this, but it would benefit you and your client if you fixed that technicality. I'm interested in your landraider color palate. Looks great!

With that icons it was a bit fail, I and my client didn't notice that :(


This time something "speed painted":

1.) Everything looks great. Some looks greater than others, but thats a matter of taste.

2.) Whenever I see something I don't like with a paintjob, I always just get that mental visual of my last game, and then I remember, dude, its painted. And i don't care how anymore. lol.

Good stuff keep posting and painting!

Speed painted? Really it looks amazing far better than my tau. Your OSL is amazing especially on those rhinos.

Time to something new:







And video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4nGnk_71f0

Nice job despite the somewhat ugly look of the model you had to work with :-)

Its not sleak or pretty model to start with by any stretch but that looks very nice :-)

Another new release:







Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dStVRWAtPXk&hd=1

Awesome jobs...very clean. Really liking the Space Wolves stuff.

And thank you for putting the Stormfang's wings on correctly.

All looks amazing to me, I only have an issue with airbrush work when the details are ignored and here you have edge highlighting, weathering, etc. etc. If I was going to paint as a business (i'm too crap unfortunately) I would definitely use an airbrush over a paint brush for very obvious reasons. Personally I think the OSL looks great, particularly like the two beam ones though.

OK, yesterday I've done really bad pictures, that's the new one:








Sorry for that you had to see that crap photographs :(

Everything's looking good still and hey...if the client doesn't notice then Your all set lol!

If I did salamanders I'd totally reference your stuff btw. One of the better salamanders out there.

All looks pretty fantastic, but a little heavy on the airbrushing for my liking I think

Hey what brand and model airbrush do you use?
Also fantastic job on the salamander! I love the tones of green and yellow you use on then and the blue light complements them perfectly!

Digging your work dude. Especially the green marines. However for me personally, there is too much osl. I prefer it a bit more subtle as otherwise it takes the emphasis off the rest of the model a little too much.

Just my preference. Skill however is awesome. Good job!

 jetjetex wrote:
Hey what brand and model airbrush do you use?

I use Iwata HP-C Plus. Previous I used H&S Ultra- IMO that was crap. Iwata is just awesome. With H&S I had problems with durability of the nozzle (about half year) and drying paint in it. Iwata don't have gigantic nozzle, which inside of it paint accumulates and next cause rupture of nozzle.

 BrotherOfBone wrote:
Too much airbrush for me..

I dunno, if it works it works. I don't buy the "airbrush is cheating" mentality, not that that is what your are saying here.

I love these. I will say that, while technically awesome, I struggle a little bit with the WHY of some of the highlights and shadows you are doing with the airbrush work. In most cases it appears to be implying that the painters of the vehicles were doing some strange camouflage patterns rather than the natural highlighting of the environment. But that may be your goal!

 PhillyT wrote:

 BrotherOfBone wrote:
Too much airbrush for me..

I dunno, if it works it works. I don't buy the "airbrush is cheating" mentality, not that that is what your are saying here.

I love these. I will say that, while technically awesome, I struggle a little bit with the WHY of some of the highlights and shadows you are doing with the airbrush work. In most cases it appears to be implying that the painters of the vehicles were doing some strange camouflage patterns rather than the natural highlighting of the environment. But that may be your goal!

I think that mostly I paint natural with more "contrast" a bit more darky...








VIDEO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1IZcixLuYs&hd=1

It's amazing how much better your work is from the first page... From the Salamanders fighters onwards, you've really gone up a level or 10!

Fantastic work, well done!

Some awesome stuff here, the best ones are the ones without OSL, but only because Im not an oSL fan, they are all superb.

Thank you for comments! I'm glad that even people, who don't like some kind of effects, which I use on my miniatures, appreciate my works

Today painting work...











Videos on my YouTube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRAVIw8YCDuxxL3lH02XWxQ

I think all of your stuff is very very good. The undead are much better than that. They were made for your style and are possibly the best ghostly models I have ever seen. You have one very lucky client regardless of your cost

serathnal wrote:
I think all of your stuff is very very good. The undead are much better than that. They were made for your style and are possibly the best ghostly models I have ever seen. You have one very lucky client regardless of your cost

Thanks! Currently I sell all new releases on ebay:

http://www.ebay.com/sch/hm-painting/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_ipg=&_from=

Hello,

Probably you thought that I am dead or finished with painting. No, I just had a really busy semester at the university. Now I am back! Harlequin Troupe has been painted! Great miniatures, but they need a lot of time to paint them on pro level sadly I didn't have so much time :(What do you think about them?

















They are for sell: http://www.ebay.com/itm/121566510061

The green on the Salamanders is just perfect. Great job.

Finally I finished to paint Tempestus Scions Army...























Of course it won't be mine :
http://www.ebay.com/itm/121578791777

Hold on, why is your commision service named Heavy metal? Something's fishy...

 Matthew wrote:
Hold on, why is your commision service named Heavy metal? Something's fishy...

Because I like Heavy Metal?

Struna wrote:

 Matthew wrote:
Hold on, why is your commision service named Heavy metal? Something's fishy...

Because I like Heavy Metal?

But the guys who paint for GW are called the 'Eavy metal team.

 Matthew wrote:

Struna wrote:

 Matthew wrote:
Hold on, why is your commision service named Heavy metal? Something's fishy...

Because I like Heavy Metal?

But the guys who paint for GW are called the 'Eavy metal team.

Yeah, they are Eavy, and I am Heavy

True.

Your painting is amazing, more talent than me for sure. I would offer one bit of advice, as it's about the only way I could contribute. Most of your OSL is spot on, you picked great colors for it.

There are a couple places where it's off though. Particularly, blue light on red surface. If you shine a blue light on a red surface, it won't change the pigment color. You won't even get a lighter color red. You can fudge this, and make the red lighter, and the eye won't care. But when you apply blue OSL to a red surface, it looks painted on instead of like light. I've messed up quite a few times with this before I finally figured out what was wrong.


The hard way is to learn all about light color & pigment, and memorize the respective wheels and how they interact.

The easy way is to use a reference chart. They are readily available for things like stage makeup / costumes, since colored lights are frequently used in that environment. here is a link to one.

http://www.d.umn.edu/~mharvey/handbook5607.html

Your technique for applying the OSL is one of the best I've seen just fyi. Changing the colors up on the cast light (not the source) will make your work that much more amazing.