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The BT is looking excellent, really looking forward to seeing a full squad.

The things I would do for a tutorial on that marble white you painted on the shoulder pad.
I'm in awe as always, fantastic work!

Love the weathering on the models. Great job!

 lipsdapips wrote:

The things I would do for a tutorial on that marble white you painted on the shoulder pad.
I'm in awe as always, fantastic work!

Pure white pad, that was then covered with gloss varnish. BT decal was applied. After it dried, it was weathered with little grey nicks. The same scruff marks were made here and there on the white surface, using dark brown. Then I took a brown artistic oil paint, thinned it with white spirit and applied to the recesses, to get the dirt. Oils are much more forgivign than acrylics, and take longer to dry, so as the oil wash was drying, I played around with it by stippling and moving the paint around with the brush, so that I got a result that looked half blended in, and half dirty. Then I backlined the pad using black acrylic paint, making sure the black line was thinner than the brown oil "dirt".

An exercise in quicker paintbjobs. Finally one that was a success, instead of another figure, that I keep on embelishing and adding details to, like an OCD case. This guy took me a day of focused painting. It uses the same techniques as the Black Templar I painted earlier, but simpler, quicker, less precise. With highlighting and detailing made mostly with instinctual brush-strokes and relying on muscle memory, rather than focusing on precison. Also, not as much clean up of sloppier brushstrokes, simpler weathering and no freehand. I think of it as a "lower resolution" version of that Black Templars model.

Fantastic work. I love the realism.

I look forward to seeing more of your work.

He looks very impressive, very good indeed for a days work.

No matter how much you simplify it, your stuff still looks great!

I have to agree. Even this "Lower Rez" model is beautiful.

A quick paint test. Normally I paint my marines around the principle of edge highlighting, like the GW 'Eavy Metal team. But sometimes I also try a more advanced way of hand-blending, area highlights, as opposed to just keeping to the edges. However this style is reserved for single display models (like the older Scythe of the Emperor on the background photo of my page), as it's too time consuming and complicated for armies. Well, today I sat down and quickly painted this Dark Angel (or rather part of the Dark Angel), to see if a simler version of this technique could be done quick enough for squads. And I think - yes. So perhaps that's an option I will offer to clients from now on.

Full disclosure - Some of the blendings on the mini are just slightly, slightly less smooth in real life, than on the photos (taken at different settings, hence the lighting). Looks good enough in hand, especially since it's supposed to be a look for a whole unit.

Sweet jibblets the blends

You start the thing off in steel or is that metal model?

Oh no, the silver is just a remnant of previous experiments in using new types of metallic paints. This snap-fit model has seen some colour testing in the past.

Back from the dead. Part of the current commissioned DA tactical squad. The pics are a bit crappy, as the set was done on a borrowed camera. The highlights in real life aren't as saturated and contrasting. Also the varnish left some reflective glare that was picked up by the camera and overpowered the painted highlights, making the minis on the pics a bit too shiny and "busier" than they really are (especially the one without robes for some reason).

I've added an impression of a cross-hatched, woven texture to the robed marine. One - to make it more detailed and realistic. And two - to bring across the point that these guys are not walking around in silky smooth fabrics, but rather in crude, heavily-woven, penitent robes.

Your painting style is absolutely fantastic. Really dig the dirty realistic look you manage to translate on minis.

Phenomenal. I'm still having trouble believing that you're not a painting super-robot of some kind.

Omg that robe on the DA... Jawdropping.

Friggin' gorgeous! Every last one of them. The gritty realism added by the weathering really sells it. Do you have process (that you might be willing to share) for weathering? Or do you just go around making chips and scratches with a detail brush?