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Woot 150! Quite an achievement sir congrats!


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I mean 151 I guess lol

The curse of the page rollover.

Who you calling sir buddy? Its Ma'am to you. But seriously thanks, I couldn't have done it without experienced painters like yourself to aspire to.

Good job again Weety. Like the scarf thing around his neck.

Mmm, tasty lead, mmm.

Nice job, not the nicest miniature to start with but it has a couple of lovely details that you've picked out beautifully. Namely the, I assume, looted Eldar pistol and the scarf. The scarf detail is my favourite, I always enjoy these little details you add and the patterns you give the fabric. I'd quite like to try it actually, have you done a tutorial or did I imagine it?

Well basically they are just dots of white paint so I'm not sure what to say except you must have a very steady hand. the dots are arranged in a 4 dot diamond pattern and also repeated in a roughly diamond configuration. Where the fabric is in shadow I try and make the dots smaller and fainter. I use a very fine nylon brush which has curved over at the end into a hook shape - this is a common flaw of synthetic brushes but it does allow for very accurate dots, lines and stripes I find.

Thanks for the tips, weets. I'll try it out at some point and see what I can come up with.

* Hands Wheety the whip*

Well thankyou miss dee what a lovely whip.

I will post a link to the competition thread when they get it up, and you can all vote.

Painting goliaths this week, big ones. Unfortunately have to go back to work this week and we have a new manager who I have to ingratiate myself too(that makes 7 so far).

Beautiful skin tone on those juves, Weety! Love the slight discolouration around the stones, and the subtle gradient on the muscle work.

Also absolutely love the scarf on the citadel gent - it's great to see what can be made of such dated models with a little love.

You should be fine shaving / filing lead, btw. Resin's a little dangerous because the dust is so fine it stays up in the air (and then your lungs, which get fibrosed over time). Lead weighs a fair bit even in shavings, so stays on the table. Like the others said - no licking or cooking with it!

Please all immediately make your way to http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/537266.page and vote for me! Obviously I don't stand a chance.


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Bloody competitions! I have never entered one b4 and I realize that they make me feel very nervous. Competitiveness in art... Something I constructed and painted is now being judged by others. Its like being the mother of a stupid child who's taking a hard exam and has been predicted a D. Sort of.

Voted, weety - I think I've voted for your entry, but I'm not certain.

Some very nice pieces in there, and some of the nicer ones seem to be getting a lot less votes than I'd expect.

So long as you voted for what you like! Its about the taking part apparently.

I think I can tell which is yours Weety and I like it.

So long as you like it and you did your best that's what matters, the competition is only an extra.
Good job.

I hope your enjoying the competition weets and I hope Infinity has made an impression on you! Your entry is honestly one of favourites although the voting is going the opposite way to my predictions. I think one of the nicest parts about taking part is about aiming to improve next time or getting a friendly rivalry going with someone. This tends to pick up after the winners are announced and everyone turns out to chat about there favourites, some people might even post a breakdown of their feelings on each entry soon. I think Arakasi and someone else did it last time.

Well whoever painted Entry 7 - Yu Jing Sun Tze 2.0 deserves to win overall in my opinion - also I like the the other two that are contesting first prize - they are all really pro-paintjobs. But the bases are all quite small and simplistic on the front runners and the rest of us have much more interesting bases. So I guess the voters don't care for a scenic base when they see a great paintjob. A lot of us have suffered from imperfect photography it seems. Entry 18 particularly looks amazing until you get a closer look and realize its ended up pixilated. I think I should have taken a bit more care with my photographs, but I was in a hurry to get to a carnival...

Yeh I thought the theme would have held much more weight with the voters, I'm rather surprised. Only one or two of the miniatures I voted on are in the running for a top 5 slot and I made very careful decisions.

Presentation is a huge deal in these competitions, 18 is a prime example. I have to be careful not to give away who the entrant is but they don't have access to a computer easily and they barely have the slightest grasp on English so the rules may as well have been a recipe for Chilli. They originally sent me like 20 big images so I explained the rules and eventually they managed to send me that image but it was half the size it should be. I explained again but they couldn't do anything, I volunteered to stretch it to fit which is what you can now see. The first set of images told a very different story though, there is some ridiculously small freehand along the back of his sheath and on the back. I was completely blown away, especially considering this was their second attempt an entry(the first one started a week before the challenge).

But anyway, you should be really proud of your entry, I know I say that a lot but it's true. All of these entries are above and beyond what most people would hope to achieve, yours definitely included.

Yeah, I thought about the basing and adherence to the theme when I voted and thought it was strange that many of the better painted models had very simple bases and then there were others that had huge, complicated bases that actually told a story and were therefore equal as far as the competition goes.

So I think I may have voted for about a third of them, but I also voted in the gallery for each entrant as a way of grading them.

Well competition or no, life goes on and its nice to paint without the pressure. Here's more goliath porn. Goliaths are the perfect subject for me atm as I'm working on improving my skin tones and goliaths have a lot of skin. I have a goliath leader I want to paint next, the one with the grenade launcher and chainsword - he needs fixing as his chainsaw has snapped off but I think with a little GS all will be well. Also I've primed and based a chaos squat and he is sitting on the table waiting for love (thinking nurgle).

I didn't think about voting in the gallery, actually - might have to do that.

I'll admit to ignoring the theme for the competition, and instead concentrating on the quality of the paintwork and basing - I do tend to think that it is a shame if you go to a lot of effort to paint the model, but then do the bare minimum on a scenic base.

Looking at the three currently in the lead (5, 7, 13), I can see why the latter two have gotten good scores, as the paint on the model is great, particularly 7. I'm less clear on why 5 is doing so well, as a lot of the fades look like airbrush work, as opposed to the work on 7's purple cloak. As noted earlier, though, none of them have anything going on in the base, which is a big let down.

Goliaths look great Weety. I'm envious of your skin tones. The shading of the muscles and face are really nice.

Ah, the big dudes... Goliaths right? Very nice looking group weety.

voted^^

Lovely Goliaths, pal. The gothic horror paint scheme is really working for me and skin work is hugely impressive!

Dysartes - yes airbrushes are annoying aren't they, they're just so unfair on the rest of us. . One day I will have an airbrush and then I will feel better about it. I've got two eldar wraithlords just waiting for that day.

Thanks everyone for voting and stuff.

Why is it that goliaths all have halloween pumpkin shaped skulls all over them?

Oh - its because they are gofic of course. Maybe I should do tribal tattoos on the next one?



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OMG OMG OMG I just had a funny idea.

I've got about 30 quid to spend so I was looking through the parts of hasslefree I don't normally get too and realised how many naked sculpts they do, and suddenly thought that I could make a really trippy looking 1970s softcore porn orgy...

I'm not 100% certain that I could post it on dakka though...

So far I've got elvis, an old man in a tutu with a shotgun and a kid with a chainsaw in my basket.


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Also kind of want this but I have to find the right rider for it
http://www.hfminis.co.uk/shop?product=shetland-pony~hfm027&category=miniatures~fantasy-monsters-%26-animals


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They gave this dog balls! You've gotta credit hasllefree because they have balls. Lotsa balls.

http://www.hfminis.co.uk/shop?product=hamlet~hfn024&category=miniatures~fantasy-monsters-%26-animals

Hamlet is cool, weety - did you see Post-Apocalyptic Hamlet?

That reminds me, I wonder if Ifanaan got anywhere with her HF care package yet...

Yeah I'm sure she got those all the way back at the start of the year. Hopefully soon huh I really want to see what she does (sure she will go one better than me on them - its like an arms race trying to keep up with ifalna). Yeah hamlet is a great dog - and he looks good in a gas mask. Still haven't decided exactly what to spend the spare money on.

So noone has anything to say about my hasllefree softporn diorama idea? I don't blame you to be honest...

I've been painting a fantasy orc and making flagstone bases. Photos later - I have an early work shift today so I gotta go.

Google keeps telling me that "two people are spying on you(click here to find out more)". What they should have said was "Two government agencies are spying on you(and we help them)".

I've been enjoying painting fantasy for a change - this one is really old - someone told me where it was from but I forget. Will have to trawl the thread for it. Made the base myself!

Wow. Proper old school.
Oh, and I'm totally down with retro 70s softcore...

You're not paranoid, people really are watching you... lol

Orc looks good. Really nice metal work and I like the fur boots.

Is he part of the PFJ? Solidarity Brother...

Oh yeah, and no problems with the softcore here...

Remember though, the 70s was apparently before the invention of the razor