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**lliu**

Wow!

**Struna**

emmagine wrote:
Your painting is amazing, more talent than me for sure. I would offer one bit of advice, as it's about the only way I could contribute. Most of your OSL is spot on, you picked great colors for it.

There are a couple places where it's off though. Particularly, blue light on red surface. If you shine a blue light on a red surface, it won't change the pigment color. You won't even get a lighter color red. You can fudge this, and make the red lighter, and the eye won't care. But when you apply blue OSL to a red surface, it looks painted on instead of like light. I've messed up quite a few times with this before I finally figured out what was wrong.

The hard way is to learn all about light color & pigment, and memorize the respective wheels and how they interact.

The easy way is to use a reference chart. They are readily available for things like stage makeup / costumes, since colored lights are frequently used in that environment. here is a link to one.

http://www.d.umn.edu/~mharvey/handbook5607.html

Your technique for applying the OSL is one of the best I've seen just fyi. Changing the colors up on the cast light (not the source) will make your work that much more amazing.

Yeah you are right. For example green would be better on that red. Unfortunately I didn't test that :( IMO finding a good color of OSL light is 80% of success.

A Llittle update from the last week:

(I post only one photo for each miniature to do not spam, rest of them you can find on my blog: http://heavymetalpainting.blogspot.com

**Struna**

New AM:

**em_en_oh_pee**

What a solid portfolio! Damn, there is nothing in here I don't like! Keep up the amazing work.

**lliu**

This is simply jaw-dropping! Keep up the incredible work!

**O'connell**

Nice job! The skitarii remind me of episode 3 clone troopers and their walkers.

**poison_**

Really nice work! WOW

**Snoopdeville3**

Sweet tank!

**aw_man**

I love the exhaust effects on the space marine vehicles. At least for me, it tells my brain that vehicle sees usage and drives around looking for things to kill.

Great job on all of them.

**Struna**

O'connell wrote:
Nice job! The skitarii remind me of episode 3 clone troopers and their walkers.

I took insiparation exactly from SW Walkers

Thank you very much for all comments!

I have more of cool stuff for you to see:

**Struna**

I completely forgot to update topics on forums :( So expect soone more posts with my older works

Let's start with Eldar Army:

Youtube:

**Talys**

@Struna - the Eldar army looks fantastic

Kelly502 wrote:
Why I don't like airbrush, makes models look like cake frosting.

If you look at Forge World studio models, they use a ton of airbrush, but it doesn't look like it. Thing is, that takes a lot of time and many steps after the airbrush (like sponges, weathering, powders, etc). But these things take a ton of time.

Consider the price that Struna is selling the Razorback for -- $90 USD. Subtract $41 for the model, and you're at $49 for painting. Subtract the cost of the consumables (eg paint), and that's amazing value for what's there.