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A new WIP today with the first steps on Rick and Sheldon :

Very promising.

Love that Sheldon model, and it can't be just a big bang coincidence?

Great work, Minus! The textures on the clothes of the survivors is astounding!

You're successfully tricking my brain into imagining those textures are actually there and as far as i'm aware that's top of the rung painting! But we already new you were the best of the best.

I forget, do you have any Golden Daemons? If not you definitely should!

Gitsplitta wrote:Very promising.

Thanks Gitsplitta. I'll do my best to not disappoint you.

Eldercaveman wrote:Love that Sheldon model, and it can't be just a big bang coincidence?

I love it too.
That's no coincidence, the guys who made the game decided to make the survivors really stereotypical. I mean REALLY.
So you have a geek that looks like Sheldon Cooper, a cop that looks like Rick Grimes, another on is very similar to Bruce Willis. Add a Latino with two huge machetes (meet Machete), a goth Girl (hello Aby), a crazy Businessman called Doug (like in "Michael Douglas")... I doubt there's any coïncidence there. ^^
In the limited edition, you could even get... Chuck Norris. So sad I missed it. :-(

Casey's Law wrote:Great work, Minus! The textures on the clothes of the survivors is astounding!
You're successfully tricking my brain into imagining those textures are actually there and as far as i'm aware that's top of the rung painting! But we already new you were the best of the best.

Thank you.
I'm not really used to paint clothes, I generally paint power armors or so on. So painting blue-jeans or converse shoes is definitely new to me.

Casey's Law wrote:I forget, do you have any Golden Daemons? If not you definitely should!

Haha, no I don't.
I didn't even enter such a contest yet. The only contest I ever took part was Gothicomp, an online painting contest about BattleFleet Gothic. I won the fleet category with my Imperial fleet, wich you can see in my dakka gallery.
To be honest, I don't think I have the required level for a Golden demon. But now because of you I'm thinking about entering next year... just for fun ! Let's see if I find a motivating project for this !



My WIP survivors, a few steps later (the skin is NOT finished, there's only a basecoat there ^^ ) :

MAn those minis look GREAT with some paint on em. Nice work so far

I think you may well surprise yourself if you entered! I think your work is really great, as you know!

Dude those look great with some color on them! Btw I love how you painted sheldon, as a fan of big bang I'm glad you used the colors you did! Kudos!

Eldercaveman wrote:Love that Sheldon model, and it can't be just a big bang coincidence?

I love it too.

That's no coincidence, the guys who made the game decided to make the survivors really stereotypical. I mean REALLY.
So you have a geek that looks like Sheldon Cooper, a cop that looks like Rick Grimes, another on is very similar to Bruce Willis. Add a Latino with two huge machetes (meet Machete), a goth Girl (hello Aby), a crazy Businessman called Doug (like in "Michael Douglas")... I doubt there's any coïncidence there. ^^
In the limited edition, you could even get... Chuck Norris. So sad I missed it. :-(

Just remember.......

Casey's Law wrote:I think you may well surprise yourself if you entered! I think your work is really great, as you know!

^_^
I'm not so sure, but now I wanna try. I have a friend that is planning to paint some models for next year's Golden Demon, I'll participate with him.

MrMerlin wrote:Dude those look great with some color on them! Btw I love how you painted sheldon, as a fan of big bang I'm glad you used the colors you did! Kudos!

At first I wanted to paint him a Flash T-shirt, but then I saw his Green Lantern one. As I don't paint green that often (as opposed to red, that I always use) I had a go on it !
Happy that BBT fans appreciate that.

Eldercaveman wrote:Just remember.......

That is wonderful.



Rick and Sheldon are almost done :

Man those look great!

Hope they still look great now 'cause they're complete. ^_^





And the family portrait with all the painted survivors :




Ok, so only 3 left to put colors on. Yippee-ki-yay !

You paint jobs are so dynamic... really amazing stuff Minus. Kudos! The "lighting" on the officer is un-freakin'-believeable.

Oh man! That's it, next year i'm going to give you some money, and your going to paint me something. Just so you know in advance.

Gitsplitta wrote:You paint jobs are so dynamic... really amazing stuff Minus. Kudos! The "lighting" on the officer is un-freakin'-believeable.

I am really happy with Rick. I had really NO IDEA how to paint him, particularly what colors to use for his uniform. And in the end it turned out pretty good.
Considering Rick is my favorite character in the game, with Bruce Willis (seems that I like cops ^_ ^ ), I feared I could paint it quite bad, but I didn't. The more I was painting him, the better I liked him.

Casey's Law wrote:Oh man! That's it, next year i'm going to give you some money, and your going to paint me something. Just so you know in advance.

Haha.
I have never made comission works. 'til now I only paint for myself, or for friends. However, I can think about it.

 Minus wrote:

Casey's Law wrote:Oh man! That's it, next year i'm going to give you some money, and your going to paint me something. Just so you know in advance.

Haha.
I have never made comission works. 'til now I only paint for myself, or for friends. However, I can think about it.

Haha, don't worry man i was half joking anyway. Although i would certainly consider it at some point next year if you were up for doing a one off. If you're not into the commission thing maybe i could trade you for something. I don't know if i have any skills that you could use though, my painting is pretty rough. Conversions maybe?

 Casey's Law wrote:
If you're not into the commission thing maybe i could trade you for something

^_^

I'm not against doing commissions, I just never thought about it. If I have an occasion to paint an interesting mini and make some money in the process, then why not.
I don't think I'll ever paint an entire army, though. I have too much armies to paint for myself.

Anyway, I'm really pleased that you like my paintings, and I'll try to do my best on the next models !

Ladies and Gentlemen, please welcome John McClane and Machete (in an early WIP version, of course) :

Cool beans!

Indeed!

 Gitsplitta wrote:
Cool beans!

Thanks (to both of you). Now I understand that term.

New Wip picture :

The guy on the right looks like one of the two assassins from "The Replacement Killers".

Yeah true !
If I recall correctly, it's the same actor that plays "Machete". I have seen that movie quite a long time ago, but I'm almost sure it's the same guy !

This proves that the model designer made a good job !

Danny Terjo. Serious. Badass.


You lot should check out his story on how he became an actor. Its pretty interesting.

Some of his quotes are freakin' hilarious.

KingCracker wrote:Danny Terjo.

Yep !
I never recall his name, in my mind he is "labeled" as "Machete", whatever the movie I see him in. ^_^

KingCracker wrote:You lot should check out his story on how he became an actor. Its pretty interesting.

I never heard about his story. Didn't know he had been in jail and so on.
I didn't even know that the tatoo on his chest was a woman with a sombrero !

Gitsplitta wrote:Some of his quotes are freakin' hilarious.

Any examples ?


Talking about Danny Trejo and his tatoos, has anyone tips on how to paint them. What colors to use to get that typical dark blue tatoos are generaly made off ?
I would like to add some on Machete's model.

From the Bio on his IMDB page. (discussing how he started acting)

Then this other guy comes over and says, "Hey, you're Danny Trejo. I saw you win the lightweight and welterweight title up in San Quentin." And I go, "Yeah. You're Eddie Bunker." I had been in prison with him. And he was a writer. We started talking, and he asked, "Are you still boxing?" And I go, "Well, I still train." And he said, "Do you want a job? We need someone to train one of the actors how to box." And I said, "I got a job. They're going to give me 15 bucks for acting like a convict. What's this pay?" He said, "It pays $320 a day." So I said, "How bad do you want this guy beat up? gak, for 320 bucks-" And he goes, "No, you have to be really careful, this actor's really high-strung. He's already socked a couple of people." I said, "For $320, man, give him a stick. I'll fight Godzilla for 320 bucks." I started training Eric Roberts how to box. Eric wanted to learn how to box, and I think he was scared of me, so he'd do whatever I told him to do. Andrey Konchalovskiy, the director, saw that he would do whatever I told him to do. I guess Andrey had some problems with it. So Andrey comes over and hires me. He says, "You be in the movie. You fight Eric in the movie." And that's where it started. From that day until right now, I've got 183 movies.

Funny... and amazing all the same. Came to the set to give someone drug counseling and left with a new career. Guess it's more of a story than a quote, but you get my drift.

 Gitsplitta wrote:
I said, "For $320, man, give him a stick. I'll fight Godzilla for 320 bucks."

Excellent !

haha love the Slayer shirt dude!

I never heard about his story. Didn't know he had been in jail and so on.
I didn't even know that the tatoo on his chest was a woman with a sombrero !

Yea hes led a pretty interesting life.