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Thanks for the kind words, guys
Client seems to be pretty happy with them, so Im happy.

Titan is slowly progressing, primarily because of work- Been pretty busy, so not much time to work on painting!


Did do a bit of work on a random mini for my DnD campaign... Rather crazy character- Some kinda birdman monk!





Before you ask, no, I dunno where its from! Hes just had this model knocking about in his boxes for years unpainted... Then I came around and needed to pay off my bartab!


Next major army project is infinity- Boring assembly pics at the moment, but hopefully will be getting some paint flying on them before/after work tomorrow! Only problem is its all white and black!!
Hah... well I always like a good challenge

Progress is slow as the weather continues being a pain in the butt, and I've run out of varnish thinner I use for dullcote! (Professionalism!)

Quick little mini update for you guys- Infinity stuff is assembled and primer is drying, and while all that was setting up, I broke out a little friend of ours...


Yeah... Its still huge.

Awesome. All of it.

Very cool to see more titan progress! I'd love more, even without a writeup - just a quick pic of whatever you're doing to it at the moment, like the above

Excellent..

How do you fell the casting of the parts came out? was there a lot of flash? Part fit together well?

Obviously I'm not the one putting it together, but the parts seemed to be no flash and very little slipping. They weren't very far into the production run at that point.

Flash was near nonexistent, even on the smaller parts. Very minor slippage, mostly fixable with some scraping/cutting. The worst of it I think would be the massive heatsink blocks on the arm lasers. There the slippage is slight (millimeter or less), but very hard to clean on the many fins. Some rivets got destroyed by mold slip, but nothing too extreme, and most of these are on the undersides or will be hidden by the armor plates.

Fit was ok for the most part. Several parts needed some hot water bending, but thats common for any resin kit. Pieces were pretty obvious where they went- proper cut-outs and tabs... I havent really needed to look at the instructions much because of this.

Today I had the crap shift at work, so I could only get an hour or two of work in before heading in, then about that much afterwards before sleeping. Spent it building up the shoulder guns. A bit of a bugger with the three barrels, but not terrible.

The scale mini... that's nuts!

I can't see the damn model 'cos i'm too distracted by that damn wallpaper!!! are you trying to get me to fly over and paint the wall for you!?

That's a big gun!

EDC

Obviously you have been so dedicated to painting mini's you have not decorated since 1989. Now that is true hard core dedication.

And that gun is ridiculous. I mean that in a good way. I mean this thing is just silly massive, totally jealous of any one with one of these. Can not wait to see you licking some paint on it.

Hey, Ramos, what is your recipe for painting dark skin?

That wall paper is why his models look so good. Our eyes are drawn to his models making it seem like they are a thing of beauty because behind it, is a visual horrorscape capable of instant ocular destruction.

 nerdfest09 wrote:
I can't see the damn model 'cos i'm too distracted by that damn wallpaper!!! are you trying to get me to fly over and paint the wall for you!?

Oh my god... it's like staring into Slaanesh's infinite labia. The longer you look the more it starts to swirl and fold before you. How the hell did I not notice that before you pointed it out? Now that I see it, I just feel sad, nostalgic and confused... high school in the bathroom all over again.

 Wehrkind wrote:
Slaanesh's infinite labia.

Exalt!

 moonpie wrote:

 Wehrkind wrote:
Slaanesh's infinite labia.

Exalt!

What the actual fakk, Wehr

- Salvage

Wehr....



Hey now, dont you knock my hideous wallpaper! Ill have you know I searched the world over for the pinnacle of haute couture. I consulted countless shamans and scientists and spent millions! Years of hard research in double-blind studies went into this particular shade and texture.


Orrrr maybe I got bored after about 5 minutes of my hunt and just picked this up from some blind guy behind the 7/11, but same difference, right??


@nerd: you're always welcome to come on over and redecorate. Probably the only way this paper will ever get changed!

@Salvage: That... That mat... exists


How.... Unexpected O_o




More work on the Infinity minis!
White is a nightmare of a color- no good way to shade it... Hit it with a wash and you stain it, but you need some way of darkening the panel lines. So I went with a bit of a bold experiment on this one: Oil Wash!

Burning the midnight oil on this one, but it seems to be working thus far.


But of course it looks beautiful... Im using my special backdrop.





May your retinas be set ablaze in its pure beauty.





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@Moonpie: The dark skin was painted using Reaper's Dark Skin Triad, plus a little Tanned Flesh Shadow mixed in at the highlights. I glazed P3 coal black into the shadows to deepen the shadows and bring a more natural tone to the skin.
Lots and lots of glazing with thin paint- thats the key to skin!

 moonpie wrote:

 Wehrkind wrote:
Slaanesh's infinite labia.

Exalt!

Another exalt. If I'd been drinking my morning cup of tea, I would've spat it everywhere.

The infinity mini really lends itself to the wash, certainly different from the bright infinity schemes I'm used to seeing.

EDC

So when you say glazing, I imagine you are describing a heavily thinned paint. Is this thinned with water or medium?

Also, I like your wallpaper. I think it is pretty. So, you know it must be ugly.

evildrcheese wrote:The infinity mini really lends itself to the wash, certainly different from the bright infinity schemes I'm used to seeing.

EDC

Yeah, the wash really helped make the armor look grungy, but not -too- grungy. Just enough to make the armor look lived in

moonpie wrote:So when you say glazing, I imagine you are describing a heavily thinned paint. Is this thinned with water or medium?

Also, I like your wallpaper. I think it is pretty. So, you know it must be ugly.

I use mostly a matte medium with a bit of water mixed in for flow. No real specific measurements, though, as I mix everything on the brush! The key is that the paint should just give a bit of color to what its over. More and more layers of the thin paint, and the color gets more intense. And Im always going back with shade colors and blending the shadows a bit more. Its important to keep the contrast up!

That model is looking great! And I actually think your photos where the minis show up the best is when the wallpaper is your background . You went through a phase of using artificial backgrounds, and this is much better, imo!

Naaaaaah, Im just getting a little better at using my camera!! The background is just icing on the cake!


Weather has been crappy, and to do the next step of the Infinity guys I need to matte varnish them all again. So in the mean time, I've been doing some more work on the Titan's "small" guns (they're magnetized now!), as well as a miniature for one of the players in my DnD game!

This is Harvey. Hes a bird man. And a monk.

That's really nice, love the pattern on the wings (and that it's different on the top and bottom ).

beautiful work on his feathers/wings. gorgeous stuff

Stunning birdman. Beautiful work. Agree those wings are awesome.

Love the work on the wings Ramos, really outstanding.

Outstanding.. the wings, the beak.. good Show!

Bloody good show old chap! the Birdman is brilliant, very similar style model to the Orboros one I did a while back and you've really done an excellent job on those wings as mentioned, you certainly know how to impress, Ramos!

Boss Salvage wrote:

 moonpie wrote:

 Wehrkind wrote:
Slaanesh's infinite labia.

Exalt!

What the actual fakk, Wehr

- Salvage

Can you believe they let me teach college kids?

Nice work on the bird man.

EDC