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Not a bad miniature on this page, some very nice work! Love the conversion on the Nomad.

 Arclaw wrote:
Here's one that I finished last night. I got to try out my new Windsor & Newton S7 brush, which compared to the GW brushes is like trading your car in for a Ferrari. Very happy how he turned out. ... his partner is next in line!

Can't wait to try out that heavy flamethrower

And who the hell do you think you are, turning up in this thread and showing a picture of a mini that spectacularly well painted?

 Pacific wrote:
Not a bad miniature on this page

Hah!

Haha! Bugger..

I see what was done there, amusing

I shall now provide the service of the bard, and throw around some mediocrity so everyone else can look better by comparison

Actors from my recently completed diorama:


Mushashi


Oniwaban


Decloaking Ninja


Thanks for looking and tolerating me lowering the bar Looking forward to more of your beautiful minis!

Brilliant diorama you have there.

Aye, excellent! The Decloaking effect is great and the whole scene just fits together perfectly!

Thanks

I think you have raised the bar with not just nicely painted minis but a whole diorama

Thanks for the kind words The paintjobs definitely don't stand up in this thread but they're what I do and I appreciate the sentiment

 GrimDork wrote:
Thanks for the kind words The paintjobs definitely don't stand up in this thread but they're what I do and I appreciate the sentiment

NO worries It is a showcase thread, not a competition

Awesome stuff GD, that decloak is so sweet.

I really like how it turned out grim.

Hi I'm back to painting Infinity miniatures have been working on some operation ice storm minis and a Caledonian Mormaer posted the images in my painting log here

Thanks guys

Crazy Ivan, those are some fancy models, great work!

Haven't posted anything in awhile so WIP Shot

Upgraded my airbrush so I was playing with it

Whoa, that's really nice man, good job on that camo.

Nice WIP. Camo looks good so far.
The cloak just needs depths now.

 pfibp wrote:
Nice WIP. Camo looks good so far.
The cloak just needs depths now.

That's going to be the kicker there, how to add depth without changing the colors. Ink washes will stain the tan down to brown. Most likely the scout get stripped and I start over.

Glazes. Not meaning those colors GW declares "glaze".

Can't tell about the options when using an airbrush (don't own one and don't have practical experience) but take what you've done so far as the template.

Pick your base tan, add a bit of a dark brown, dark green or black (or mixture of those) and thin it down.
Apply the mixture to your brush and remove the bigger part of the water from the brush by doing strokes on the back of your thumb for example.

Now you have a quite controlled amount of thin paint slightly darker than your current color in your brush. Use it to paint the deeper and/or shadowy parts of the cloak.
If you make mistakes clean up again with the original color.
Repeat with same mix.
Make slightly darker mix and repeat steps above.
Repeat all of it until result looks good.

Do similar for highlights.

In general if your imagined light comes from above the figure (the most common option as I know it) materials get darker the more to the bottom they are.

End result: Depth in colors.

OK, this description is quite rough and basic but that's how I paint.
1) Base colors
2) Shadows like described above
3) Lights like described above
4) Edge highlights where it's meaningful and necessary (not the every-edge-GW-method )

Step 2) can be done with washes as well but will then need clean up afterwards.

For camo pattern this means painting it, potentially ruining it again and in the end repairing it once more.

In case you need more trustworthy sources for the theories behind this :

Light and shadow: http://massivevoodoo.blogspot.de/2009/12/tutorial-light-and-shadow.html
Zenithal lighting: http://massivevoodoo.blogspot.de/2010/08/tutorial-zenithal-lightning-work-order.html

Thanks for the tips and I will give it a stab One of the nice things about Infinity, if I mess up all I have to do is strip the model lol.

Im still an airbrush noob, but now that I got a brush that will actually function I should start improving on that front. The fun is prioritizing what you paint, going from the harder to reach deep details to the easier stuff to access, I have some masking material, but I seem to be challenged when it comes to using it and removing it.

So here is a WIP 2.0, now with some ink work.



After the rest of him is done up, he needs a good dose of matte varnish.

Looks like the cloak has taken that shading very well.

Nice work on the camo! What airbrush did you upgrade to? How're finding it?

 ckig wrote:
Nice work on the camo! What airbrush did you upgrade to? How're finding it?

I grabed a Iwata Esclipse HP-BS I linked the ebay listed I nabbed it off of, got a great deal on it. And I am finding it far superior to that piece of junk Master AB I started with.

Glad you're liking it and the results speaks for itself. Good catch on that one! Seems like Iwata and Badger are the goto airbrushes. I'd get one if I had the space.. and better ventilation in my work area lol.

 ckig wrote:
Glad you're liking it and the results speaks for itself. Good catch on that one! Seems like Iwata and Badger are the goto airbrushes. I'd get one if I had the space.. and better ventilation in my work area lol.

I could use better ventilation lol, but I tend to work in small batches and the new Vallejo stuff removed any toxic ingredients, so I don't really have a lot to worry about.

I don't really worry about fumes or particles when I'm model making, I probably should. I do have a respirator on stand by just in case. The only people I've ever heard talking about paint dust all over their flat or breathing in too much are commission painters painting for 8 hours a day.

I think I;m just paranoid about inhaling stuff

So here's my latest gecko:

 ckig wrote:
I think I;m just paranoid about inhaling stuff

Some of the best artistic pieces were done when the artist was high

Also the Geckos are looking good

Well, if I ever get some Geckos, I doubt they'll ever look that nice. You did a great job on them and the highlighting looks fantastic.