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Oh that's not too bad then (the overdraft that is), 8 months interest free is not to be sniffed at. I'm sure you'll do fine.

And for some reason I've only just noticed the base on the Inquisitor - pretty cool

I think I'm still thinking checkers on the shoulder pad rims and maybe checker the purple on the inner hood with the creamy white - thats what the colour is; creamy Beige (bailleys). Started out a pale vellejo flesh tone but I have highlighted with white and used some washes to give it the impression of being some kind of ceramite material. I've done more to the metalics and the hood but no updates till tommorow He needs his face picking out and his chest jem doing - checkers and stuff maybs.

"I've done more to the metalics and the hood but no updates till tommorow" Ohh, you big tease you!

Definitely like the idea of checks on the shoulder pads, just seems to have that old-skool feel to it, and that's never a bad thing

Coming to an LGS near you - Weety's alco-paints: Guiness Black, Old Grouse Amber, Bailey's Beige, Limoncello Yellow, Creme de Violet, Creme de menthe Green and of course Cranberry Wine Red !

sounds delicious, and a whole lot better than blood red and snotgreen...

Yep. Sloe gin crimson. MMMM

The shoulder pads are confusing me - I've done one but the other is a different width as it is not his original arm. So It might not look right - I'm tempted to do something different on the other pad and go for the asymmetrical look, which is kinda oldschool too. Nearly finished but I have to go to smelly old work soon

love the shoulderpads...they look very good in its checkered style...
one thing so, the barrels i would drill out more, for now the holes look to tiny...

vik

I love all the freehands you did on that mini : checks, =I= symbol on the hood, etc... The purple looks damn good too!

As for the shoulder pads, from that perspective you cannot really tell there's a difference in scale, so for now it doesn't bother me much...

But think that an Inquisitor is a powerful character, whose armour has probably seen centuries of battle (and damage). Maybe one of its shoulder pads was replaced for a temporary repair, then became an icon of that Inquisitor. Or a grateful AdMech Magos offered the Inquisitor a revered relic from his order & integrated it into his armour... Or any other good reason you might make up in the grim darkness of the 41st millenium...

the chequers look good, as does the darker book and purity seal text, infact it all looks good , the purple is really becoming a focal point with that highlighting, i also like his dirty boots and i agree with monkey i also just noticed the base, i think thats a good compliment though, to have something blend in seamlesly. he is starting to look ancient

Well as always with macro photography the camera sees flaws where the eye sees only perfection. After all the way our brains are designed when we look at something very small the brain is probably filling in the gaps untill we really concentrate. Weras the camera just faithfully copies.

This is probably just obsessive of me but I have seen people paint minis which even close up just look impossibly smooth. I mean how do they do it? magnifying goggles? or maybe they just spend to long on photoshop smoothing out the kinks

But even so he is looking very sharp - a bit more work on the checkers, the chest jem, the face and the base and he is done - probably finished tommorow - I've spent enough time on him now.

One last thought on what yggdrassil said. The other shoulder pad should have some kind of personal insignia as he has enough =I='s allready. But what kind of insignia would an inquisitor have? answers on a post card.

a quick antidote to inquisitors. Thought I would do this guy as he has been without a weapon for ages. I Like buying models with missing arms as they encourage me to conve

actualy i´m not sold on the mace...if he was holding an old german WWI handgrenade that would be a whole different thing...the rest of his pose looks very promising...
sorry for the harsh critics...

vik

I have actually got one of those and considered using it for this but I changed my mind! Oh well you cant win em all.

yep thats true and after all its your mini...just posted my two cents here^^

vik

Maces are fine, you can't go wrong with sticks and spikes

Inquisitors looking fine, maybe check out some heraldry for ideas to a personal symbol.



'This is probably just obsessive of me but I have seen people paint minis which even close up just look impossibly smooth. I mean how do they do it? magnifying goggles?' I reckon it's because they use demon blood for pigments. Or maybe they just sacrife stuff to the paint god, you know, like all those speedy painters do.

monkeytroll wrote:

weetyskemian44 wrote:This is probably just obsessive of me but I have seen people paint minis which even close up just look impossibly smooth. I mean how do they do it? magnifying goggles?'

I reckon it's because they use demon blood for pigments. Or maybe they just sacrife stuff to the paint god, you know, like all those speedy painters do.

Ha ha ha... Now I see why I envy guys such as grey_death, Raff or Son of Orar... They have a magic recipe!!! Thanks monkeytroll, I'll ask them for a ounce or two of "Demon Blood", hope they still have some available lol...

That latest guy's awesome, awesome base too.

hey weety , that juve looks cool, dont think i have ever that model before. your conversion is cool ,a custom mace , is it made from sprue and greenstuff? so is it just the mace that you added, and if so i wonder what he had before? looks like his hand position suggests a spear or lance to me. the lasgun over the shoulder is nice , as is his stub gun. i really like the proportions of this guy, our necromundan gang has some nice characters.

son pf orar is one of my favs too. Will have to check out grey death momentarily! Hope I can crack the demon blood formula. But really I have bigger ceramic fish to bake so i'll proabably never get to the golden demon competition, let alone the finals. I will know I've arrived at the top when empchild starts giving constructive criticism!

Ha ha, don't misjudge yourself, you paint really nicely!!! If not, do you really think your blog would be that popular?

Thanks dude!

Hey my kiln is arriving early if anyone wants me to do a novelty mug I will have a whole pile of examples done soon

Congrats , will keep an eye out.

if i say yes to two of your mugs, then what would you charge +p&p to get them to germany? all in all? some grimdark angles^^ would be nice...would also be giving them a nice xmasy look too...

vik

Will let you know - I should weigh a mug before I say for sure.
Have a think about what kind of design yoiu want because tommorow I am going to add some experimental decoration to the first batch of 6 mugs. And maybe I can do a test piece?

i dont want to suggest a complete design as i respect your work as an artist...when i want some mugs from you they should represent your work by your design...i want to give them both to my wife as a xmas gift...so she isn´t in to 40k or anything wargames really but a good design that has a slight foot in the matter isnt going to hurt? doenst it?^^

cheers and may the clay be with you^^

vik

well we will see what comes up - maybe some eldar jewels carefully hand painted. or some kind of hereldry.

- Inquisitor is done except for the personal insignia but I am away from home at the mo and cant update - staying over near the studio as the kiln is arriving tommorow

Bonus on the kiln

I'm hopeful my funds will stretch to a mug, need to build up my stock of early weety work so when you're famous I can stroll around shows and talk down to the snooty gallery owners

'Oh yah, I see you have some later weety pieces. Hmm, weety? Oh yah, that's what I've always called her, I have a good selection of her early work, much better than this commercial stuff you're selling. Oh, totally, I recognised her work early on, even got some of her college era works. Seems you guys have finally caught up. Have to go, got a important meeting at the Tate in a bit, ciao' Delivered in a very snooty manner of course, all the time looking down my nose at them. Just for a giggle...

Lol monkeytroll... I want to own something from the rising star as well!

Well I said I would finish some mugs today but it took a lot more time and hastle to get the kiln in because some **** parked his ****ing car in the ally, blocking all access to the studio and we had to find him by asking in all the nearby shops. We did find him eventually but then I had to rip the doorframe out of the studio to get it in - thankfully its such a badly put together doorframe that it was easily taken out and put back so no worries.
Finally to cap it all off it came with a continental plug so I couldn't do a test firing.
After all that I couldn't be arsed to finish the mugs and they will keep till sunday. Might do some theraputic warhammer painting and updates on that tommorow.

That's quite a day.. i suggest you get some of that theraputic Single malt as well... i have heard its good for stress relief.
So ripping off of door frames .. is that a local custom, or is it because your studio is a squat studio , made for the tiny people, that you have chained beneath your desk?

Well its always fun to rip off a door frame. My studio is maybe an eldar studio - made for skinny things, weras the kiln is squat, literally squat!
I didn't get to do any of this ripping - I had a friend helping who is very macho about anything involving tools, he can't watch a woman do a job involving tools without saying "your doing it all wrong let me do it" but I get free help so I mostly don't mind. Mostly....