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Excellent work, Ezki! She looks fantastic! The base color vs the skintone, the finish on the leather, the axe. All great.


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Thanks youwashock!


Bam, she is finished.
It was quite the run, but managed to get her done before the deadline (both the dakka monthly challenge and MPO 2023).




This project definitely had it's challenges, even if the usual problems with resin prints are not counted (breaking pieces, smoothing out the textures etc.).
The large even surfaces for example felt very scary at first. The sheer amount of detail and different textures provided additional challenges to overcome.

I also struggled with the eyes quite a bit. Just when I thought I got them about right, my girlfriend offered her harsh judgment: "they look weird" or "now they look too uneven".
After maybe the 8th attempt they were "hmm, guess they are alright" and I decided to call it before stacking too many layers of paint
She rarely sugar coats when I ask for feedback, which is quite helpful. But as she is not very "art oriented" and more "logical", I take her feedback with a grain of salt haha.
As a huge fan of the original character, she was however happy with the end result.

When it comes to practicing NMM, I'm still not very familiar how the light works with metallic objects. For example the axe's edge was clear enough, but especially the middle part proved a bit difficult. One can watch hundreds of reference pictures, but still not find the exact same shape. After consulting a few fellow painters at the Finnish mini painting discord and watching Vince Venturella's "Non-metallic metal axes" I got the most important tip: "don't sweat it too much" and decided to wing it.

There are a few things that could be fixed a bit of course, but regardless I'm actually really happy how this turned out.
Especially the axe and the weathered leather turned out quite well. NMM was something that felt too overwhelming, but I think I'm slowly getting the hang of it.
It's still slow as heck to paint, so not going to do that for tabletop miniatures.

In addition to this being the first large model, it's the first actual step towards display painting.
This does not mean that I will venture away from tabletop miniatures or start painting purely display pieces, but I will definitely broaden my horizons in the future!

Thank you for looking!

Excellent stuff, she certainly seems to be a step up in display painting, though from an already high standard! You weren’t kidding about the nsfw tag either!

Thank you gobert!

Been a while since last update!

The hour is late and my eyes are quite strained for painting quite a few hours during the last couple of days, so I'm keeping this short even though I would have a lot to say about this project.
But here's the latest work.

Continuing with the Baldur's Gate theme with Shadowheart.
Painted this for the Dakka challenge, but did not manage to get her completely done. Doing a full round of NMM in this scale (~70mm) was a bit too much for a single month's endeavour.

The base is still in the works and there are a few unfinished areas (like the hands and the gold on her backside), but other than that I'm calling here done.
Taking a small break and painting something else before I get back to it.



Definitely out of my comfort zone, but a very interesting challenge and a blast to paint.
At first I was about to give up on the whole thing, as the NMM scetching started looking horrible and I was at a loss.
Luckily there were many reference pictures of this character, so I kept on brushing away. After a while, the shapes started to make a bit more sense and I started feeling a lot more confident.

Poured my heart and soul to this and I'm actually really happy how it turned out. Hopefully I have the energy to finish the base later. Maybe... MAYBE even tackle that OSL from the candles?

Thanks for looking!

Your paint game lately has been TIGHT. Excellent work on her. The nmm wants to be center stage, but the work on the face keeps pulling me back. Just stellar.

That's just a very beautiful piece- all of the techniques combine to make a perfect whole. NMM, skin tones, detailing, simply wonderful. Please finish the base and add the OSL for the candles.

I enjoy looking at all the pics that folks post here on Dakka: some show the improvements we gain in skill with practice and advice, some are funny, some detail difficult techniques that most of us will never try, some are breath-taking in their scope and some very few are simply for looking at and marveling. This is one of the latter.

Well done, indeed. Rock on.

Very nice work Ezki.

Cheers,

CB

Absolutely stunning Ezki, you can certainly see the effort that’s gone in to her! Amazing!

Stunning work on Shadowheart (and Karlach as well)! Do go for the OSL effect!

Wow, those are just beautifully painted minis!

Thank you so much for all the comments everyone. I'm flattered.
I've yet to paint the OSL effects on Shadowheart, but I'll get to it in due time.

And sorry for not getting back earlier.

Meer_Cat wrote:That's just a very beautiful piece- all of the techniques combine to make a perfect whole. NMM, skin tones, detailing, simply wonderful. Please finish the base and add the OSL for the candles.

I enjoy looking at all the pics that folks post here on Dakka: some show the improvements we gain in skill with practice and advice, some are funny, some detail difficult techniques that most of us will never try, some are breath-taking in their scope and some very few are simply for looking at and marveling. This is one of the latter.

Well done, indeed. Rock on.

Thank you so much for your kind workds!
Looking at different miniature pictures in Dakka and/or Instagram is one of my favorite pass times and that summed up really well why it is so addictive.


So.
Since Shadowheart, I've managed to paint just one miniature: a Triss Merigold bust.
Some of you saw her already at the February Dakka Challenge.

I was planning to do a post here soon after that, but then things happended.
Me and the missus caught the good old 'rona. Both of us were under the weather for a while.
The timing was truly impeccable, as we were moving in two weeks and were in the middle of packing our old home.

Once we survived that, the real work began: decorating the new home.
Usually I'm not one to care much about decoration (or so I thought), but something hit me.
I spent my free time browsing the net and running around different furniture stores with the missus. It was both exciting and very stressful at the same time.
Add to that, I did not yet have any place to do any painting as my old desk did not fit the new hobby room.

But now, finally sitting in my new armchair, I'm able to take a breather and finally post an update.


Triss Merigold. Sculpted by H3llcreator.
First bust I have ever painted and a fitting project for the Dakka challenge "Out with the old, in with the new".


Painting in this scale offered many new and exciting challenges.
The larger surfaces made it possible to play around with textures but at the same time were quite intimidating.
And the face. Oh that was truly scary. But I think I managed quite alright, despite messing up many many times, especially with the eyes.
I tried to replicate the original color scheme the best I could by mixing different tones.

I did not record the time very accurately, but I'd wager that it took around ~55 hours to paint this.
Usually I'm spent after 20 hours into the same project, but this time I wanted to see it properly through.
No shortcuts under the sleeves or on the backside or any other place which I would usually just base coat and slap a wash on.

After looking at the pictures, there are a few things that could be improved upon a bit. Regardless, I'm happy how it turned out.
Busts were something I was previously terrified of painting. Maybe now some of that fear is gone.

She immediately found a new (temporary) place in our new home.




And to keep the engine running, a sneak peek from the next project:
I'm still looking for a new hobby desk (preferably an old secretary desk), but I setup a temporary painting station on my work desk.

Started working on Yennefer. Cannot have one without the other.


Finished the face last night. Tried to replicate her "cold personality"



Thank you for looking!

Beautiful work, Ezki. Glad real life is settling down and I am sure Yen will blow doors off, too.

Gorgeous painjob, looking forward to see Yen!