Miniature Painting
- Thread starter Hateyou
- Start date
-
Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
Hateyou
Not Great, Not Terrible
- 17,000
- 44,658
Kuro
Naxxramas 1.0 Raider
- 9,134
- 24,188
My first guys coming to painting in 2020. Overspill everywhere, staining, tabards are absolute dog shit. Probably shouldn't have picked "Gilt: the Faction" for my start collecting box. But they taught me important things about paint ordering, how washes work, and why tiny yellow stripes are Satan's work.
- 2
DirkDonkeyroot
Blackwing Lair Raider
- 881
- 1,446
Thousand sons are pretty ambitious for first models, I bet they taught you a ton.
- 1
Hateyou
Not Great, Not Terrible
- 17,000
- 44,658
Back the camera up so it’s in focus, take the pic, then edit it, zoom in and crop the pic.
DirkDonkeyroot
Blackwing Lair Raider
- 881
- 1,446
Getting one of those stupid ass selfie sticks might help you hold it lower straight to take the picture too.
Hateyou
Not Great, Not Terrible
- 17,000
- 44,658
Looks great man.
I’d do some dry brushing or highlighting with a lighter color on the cloth/waist things he’s wearing on the raised areas. Raising the highlight of the raised edges of cloth folds does a lot for the visual appeal of it. Gives it a lot more depth and appearance of light/shadows.
Aazrael
Avatar of War Slayer
- 3,544
- 12,942
Thanks, yea the cloth is the part I feel is unfinished. I was going to revisit it but forgot.
The colors came out kinda crap in the phot now that I compare. Might post a better one later with proper lighting.Edit: Looks okay on the phone but crap on the pc monitor. Probably my color settings.
Hateyou
Not Great, Not Terrible
- 17,000
- 44,658
Not sure if you’ve done highlighting like the but just start with taking the same color you used and mix in a little white, do the raised areas. Then add a little more white and do smaller area, etc til you’re happy with it.Thanks, yea the cloth is the part I feel is unfinished. I was going to revisit it but forgot.
Aazrael
Avatar of War Slayer
- 3,544
- 12,942
I did most of the highlighting with dry brushin the same color on the "nuln oiled" base coat, the skin looks awesome in person, not so much in the picture on the PC. Will revisit the cloth/chainmail or whatever it is and see if I can improve it later.
Hateyou
Not Great, Not Terrible
- 17,000
- 44,658
A tip on the eyes too. Try a red base, then an orange layer while leaving the slight edges red, then yellow while leaving slight edge of the orange, then some thin pure white in the centers. Will give it a fiery glowing effect.
Usually after all that is applied I do a light yellow glaze over the whole area to blend it all together a little better, then do one more tiny spot of light white in the center.
That’s how I do my lanterns, they look pretty cool.
Usually after all that is applied I do a light yellow glaze over the whole area to blend it all together a little better, then do one more tiny spot of light white in the center.
That’s how I do my lanterns, they look pretty cool.
Aazrael
Avatar of War Slayer
- 3,544
- 12,942
Yea those look awesome. I only did white base and yellow layer but can continue to add a few more layers in there. Could always smash some red over it and try it your way. Was kinda a quick way to make them glowy, almost left them black.
Hateyou
Not Great, Not Terrible
- 17,000
- 44,658
It’s just needs a little depth is all, easiest way would just be to add some thin white in the centers. The rest of the model has gradients and shades but the eyes look like a base coat and makes them stand out as unfinished.
And that could just be due to the pictures, they always wash out models and lose detail.
- 1