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Yeah, got painting after a couple days of not painting.

First off, the face isn't even close to done. I was getting near time to finish painting, so I through flesh ink on it before stopping. So that is a messy inking just to lower the tone of the flesh. Tomorrow will be highlighting it back up into what should actually look like a face. If anyone has advice on how to do a guy's lips so it doesn't look like he's wearing lipstick, but still stands out (as in, not flesh coloured)






And apparently I took out of focus pictures on the last 2... today just isn't my day. I like how the pants turned out except for the right thigh (his left thigh) may need to wash that down a little.

C&C always appreciated, hope everyone is enjoying the Infinity stuff. I gotta say the models are amazing. The pants look good, all the folds look natural.
After I finish Mr. Clockmaker, next up will be the Sniper.

For lips, try adding a tiny bit of orange, brown or red to the mid-tone of his flesh. Only apply to the lower lip and give it a highlight of paler flesh if you can. This is how I do it, but it's fiddly as all nuisance.

One way of adding color to the lips would be adding a dark red diluted to wash like consistency. That will bring some color to the lips, but the original color shows through.

I finished Clock maker, started the Spektr's base. Honestly, Pics to follow, probably saturday. Game tomorrow! Also, anyone wanna give me a quick run through of a that Armada spaceship game or point to a video battle report?

So I finished up the Clock maker (yeah me!) and blocked in colours for the Spektr Sniper.

So he turned out alright, I added a little gray when I was working on his flesh so he's kinda ashen (I was tested in preparation for my Malifaux stuff) Also, do to a comment elsewhere, I'd like some feedback on the white areas.




Spektr, Doing the gun seperate as it's kinda blocking his chest. Both are kinda annoying to paint as the one point of contact in the blue tac let's them wobble a bit when I'm painting. May buckled down and get some sort of clampy mc clamperson deal to hold them. Besides that, I love that in the future, camoflague is therm optic and you can run around in bright orange shirts!



Also, I love his skull mask deal.

Awesome!

We need more Infinity stuff around here - and I'm glad to see you bringing it!

The white areas are knid of bright, I would have gone from more of a gray myself. It is difficult to get bright, clean white to look ok in figs, I think you have done ok job.

Wow I just saw this topic and wanted to say you've got some impressive skills! keep it up!

Also, where dit you get those awesome models(infinity, malifeux?)

Greetings from holland!

Hans_posthumus wrote:Wow I just saw this topic and wanted to say you've got some impressive skills! keep it up!

Also, where dit you get those awesome models(infinity, malifeux?)

Greetings from holland!

Thank you very much!

theWarStore.com is my primary sight for a lot of my stuff lately. They have the widest selection so I'm able to grab one of this and that across all the games I have. I've heard maelstorm games is the uk equivalent and I'm pretty sure they've got the same choice of games.

To improve your white you need to focus on the transition between pure white and dark grey a little more. The colours you're using for the white are spot on, but your shading lines are very heavy and done blend smoothly into the bright white.

Try using some very pale grey to emphasise those areas that aren't as deeply cut, like the curve of his corset-like armour (which I think is pretty nifty). To get white to look good on miniatures it has to be a pale other colour, like grey, with larger areas of pure white highlight that you'd normally apply.

I haven't got any examples to demonstrate what I mean at the moment, unfortunately since I rarely work on white-heavy models.

@ Deminym

Thanks I've found them on maelstrom yes though! Just orderd some. Gonna place pics when I have some painted!

Otherwise keep the good work up! Looking forward to see more!

So this came in the mail today!

To the left you can see the card for the substitute for my convict gunslinger for Malifaux (or to replace Hans)

Alright, so waaay too long without a post on here. I built that angel tonight but by the time that was done, it was too late to start painting too. So here is the last work I did 2 weekends ago before my hiatus started that I didn't post.


So Descent is a cool game. Warmachine is fun. Sushi is good. I'll be getting back to daily painting starting tomorrow (I swear) I'll point out that the reason my hiatus started was that I can't get in the mood to paint if I'm in the middle of arguing on the internet, and that's what I was doing last monday... and it just carried on from there. So I'll avoid rules arguments online until I finish up at least a couple guys.

On another note, starting with the next mini I do (Zondbots probably) I'll be trying to speed up the process at the cost of a little quality. I really wanna get this Infinity stuff done, then finish my Malifaux, 'cause then I have to do the new Trolls that are on the way and the Cryx that is slowly building up. Also, that angel will probably end up a birthday gift, so it will interrupt the painting plan some time in April.

And last bit of news, I'll most likely be heading over to England in the fall, so that'll probably interrupt my painting routine. It kinda puts me further in the mood to paint like a crazy man; the future is always a little uncertain and intimidating.

Peace y'all

So a little bit of work on the Spektr. Working on the white areas, just need to add the actual highlight of white for those areas. I wasn't the steadiest tonight but it was nice to paint again. I wasn't the happiest with how the black ink came out on the back, but the old flesh wash in the other orange areas is pretty good.




I kinda like the harshness of the gray vs white areas, but I've also managed to forget how I did my black lining in just a week. :(
Anyway, plodding along, singing a song...

The orange area on the back is looking excellent. The white areas are a bit harsh, but thats what you get when working with clean white.

Keep it going.

Woot! Done. Some little bugs like the new superglue I got acting like a 13 yo boy (as in, as soon as I touched it, stuff was spewing everywhere) and stripped off some paint. (Ok, that was really inappropriate, but I thought it was funny) Anyway, enjoy Mr. Skull, flanked by Ms. Jazz hands and Mr. 'What Time is it?'










Yeah, I just saw the arm that's still missing some orange (that would be the superglue problem I mentioned...)



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there, I just fixed it.


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I I obviously didn't clean the rifle arm, man that line really bugs me.

Your "what's the time" dude needs a belt - it would mean his right hand would be free to do other stuff apart from hold his pants up. At least we know he won't be running anywhere (you can't run with your pants slung around your arse).

Short work night tonight, took them off the tab, drilled and pinned in prep for base, repaired what I broke from before, did a quick start for bases.



Horrible picture, but that's all you get.

Vacation starts Saturday and I'll probably be gaming tomorrow. So this may be the last update for awhile.

No more updates?

On vacation, wait till monday

Well, vacations over, back to painting

Here's zondbot #1 block coloured. Took awhile to figure out how I wanted to do this, still not sure if I'm happy with where the colours are.

Opinions welcome and encouraged.



I forgot orange on the circle on the fin.

The orange on the knee I'm kinda thinking about beyond that, expect a lot of shading in joint areas with dark.

Zondbot #2 arm and face are a little different, but this is kinda the test colour scheme for him too.

Crap, I forgot I have homework... I only got the orange done.

On a side note, receive a stupid amount of stuff in the mail today. Prepare to see the numbers in my sig grow significantly in the next couple days.

Not a real update, just a quick report.

The numbers in my sig just grew by a large factor. Currently the painting of the zondbots is on pause until I get some of my new stuff taken care of. I've built the Krielstone units and UA (at least, they are all together except the actual stone, none are glued to bases yet) and I've built the Runeshapers, and I'm doing their bases currently. There is now a lot of stuff for me to work on. Add on top of that, I have to start getting the paperwork done for going to England for the fall.

played a couple games with eDoome, the blitzer's back boxes fell off, gotta get him out and fix him.

So what did I get? (italics stuff is already stuck to a base and ready for rumbling.

10 whelps, 3 runeshapers, max Krielstone + elder, min longriders, horthol, eDoomie, Nyss minion sorceress, Nyss lesser warlock, coven, eSkarre, min satyxis raiders + witch, 2 necrotechs, 3 scrap thralls, 2 sirens, withershade, 3 ronin, a thing of dice and a set of bases (which I meant to get inserts, but I should be able to trim 25mm bases into inserts for 30mm base)

Thats a lot of stuff to get painted.

So you are focusing on the trolls first?

I want the trolls together enough to put on the table, painting wise; I really wanna finish my Infinity, especially before I leave 'cause I don't know how big the Infinity crowd is in England.

Don't really feel right calling this an update but... take what you can get I guess

So here's most of what I've been building.

Longriders had pretty bad gaps/uneven joints on the mount, but the rider was good. Krielstone unit could use some more variety but not too bad I guess. I love the Lanyssa Ryssyl model, eDoomie is a monster and I might have to get another heavy for him! Fell caller I got in a trade and won't see too much use unless the Long Riders are out. The Runeshapers I love the minis, we'll see how they do on the field this week! Oh, and cosmetic repairs on the Blitzer.

Home made trays for all the stuff I've been building, not exciting.

Well, I got some games in with my new stuff. I'm definitely looking forward to getting out for nightfall and eating some squishies. Besides that, I'm on my Zondbots again. Trying to get them done then I'm supposed to do the Free booter angel that I built before. The black wash on the zondbots didn't work very well at all, so I may have to do again with ink this time... Everything is dark from the wash right now and I've got to build the colours back up.



ideas for colours for the angel?

You could try a classic golden take on the angel. Give touch of golden brown (like snakebite leather) to all of the colors and using it as basis for the skin.
This was best reference I could find, not a good one but hopefully my idea gets through

Zondbots with the black lines reinforced and the orange reinforced. Next up in fixing the white areas then the glowy details. so 2-3 more nights of painting so I should be starting the angel late next week/2 weeks from now which may rush it so we'll have to see. Sorry, that's all for tongiht.

Strenghtening the black lining really makes a difference with these bots. They look more defined and have more presence now.