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Thanks, guys!

In a facebook group someone volunteered to print me this earpiece, it was a failure, of course, needs some tweaking, e.g. making it thinner, and ~20% size decrease:

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Thanks, gorb!

I choose to remodel it with Blender, spent 2 evenings to learn it, and created the following:

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All I need to find someone with a 3D printer...

Put together the body, there are some small issues, but almost ready, bluetacked the head to see the full bust.

I used 1:1 mix of VMC Blue:Black, highlighted with Sunny Skintone for the marbled...

I used 1:1 mix of VioletRed:Black, highlighted up to SunnySkintone, and drawn a lot of thin lines. Added some VMC Blue and Naphtol crimson stripes, too, for making the cloth more interesting:
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Thanks, gorb!

I airbrushed the armor, using the same shade color, naphtol reds and yellow:white mixes:

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Painted the hair, used 1:1:1 mix of VMC Chocolate Brown : VMC Violet Red : VMC Black, highlighted slightly with VMC Sunny Skintone, and airbrushed some VMA Orange to the top edge of the hair. It is...

Thanks gorb, I used the airbrush, too :wink:

And uploaded the Genestealer Magus, to here and to P&P.

Ladies are looking incredibly fantastic!

You can also try to add some red wash to the corner of the eyes, will look more natural.

Thanks, guys!

It is a limited Luxumbra mini, I bought it second hand, paint stripped and there was a small (but after priming and basing, was quite notable) scratch under her left eye :( . So...

And coming back, started working on Luxumbra Acherontia, skin has been sketched with VMC 70.928 Light Flesh, 70.845 Sunny Skin Tone, VMC 70.812 Violet Red and Violet Red mixed with VMC 70.950 Black:...

Hi,

I put up my latest mini, Aztec Priestess from First Legion. I've painted this for a long time, and to be honest it was not an easy task, I struggled a lot, with basic things like full body...

Thanks, gorb!

And here is a sneak peek of the assembled Lazarus:

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Thank you guys!

I know I update my progress only sporadically, but among others I was on vacation, here are some TTQ Blitz Bowl orks I painted (I love painting so much more than being on the...

Thanks guys, but I simply cannot leave them as they are, and I am always pushing my limits, cannot be really satisfied, that's why I paint only a couple of minis a year.

But continuing with the...

Thanks, guys!

MAXXxxx, expect to meet you, maybe will demo BlitzBowl there, I don't know.

Further work on Lazarus, slowly and steady, as I used to do, here comes the left shoulder coat of arms,...

And after cleaning up a lot of lines:

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Thanks, eki, but this is just the sketch.

I found this a good moment to add some texture to the cloak, really many many many parallel lines:

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Brother Maynard!
Bring up the Holy Hand Grenade!

Thanks, guys, but there is more!

I struggled with this logo a LOT. And even more. I tried to keep the logo symmetrical, first trying to mirror and shift to check whether the logo is even:

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Thank you guys!

Toad, my wife is espacially happy, as I can keep order in my corner, finally!

There are some more backlog photos of Lazarus' cloak, planned red, adding some freehend. Was...

I did not post for a while, I know, because instead of painting I built a painting corner. It is ~90% ready, I have still issues with some of the drawers (need to cut ~3mm from them), missing small...

Hi, I took some photo of the finished Sulnar, Burning Wind. May I ask you to vote?

And here is an image with darker ("black", as they called, it, haha) background.

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Thank you guys!

khavor, it's not really an LGS, but a country-wide tabletop event, containing a painting contest, too. It's not on the level of a international model contest, but nevertheless, it...

Hi, good, solid work on the lady!

I can see only two problems on her, the yellow skirt, where the shadows are more saturated than the highlights. Shadows should be darker (check) and more...

Welcome here!

Seen your mini on facebook, good to see it from more angles. Excellent work!

Head was painted with 1:1 mix VMC Red Leather:White, highlighted with ~3:1 White:Yellow, shaded with 1:1 mix of Magenta:Black.

First crude sketch:

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After some refinement:
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In the tutorial I can read things like



AFAIK the VGC colors are the same as the old Citadel colors, so VGC Parasite Brown instead of Vermin Brown, VGC Beasty Brown instead of Bestial Brown,...

Yes I know, but the traditional DA colors are green, white and red, skin and gold are by default orange(ish).
So I added magenta to balance the green. I hope that the mini from the front will not...

BaM and Toad, thank you very much for the detailed tutorial, they are exceptional!

Hi, it's a good book, Heinlein is an exceptional writer, at least as good as Frank Herbert, but I still need to decide whether the book is a mystical sci-fi or a new age parody :)

Thanks guys!

I was planning to modify the pose slightly, so cut up the left arm, added some wires and greenstuffed the joints:

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First the sword itself, then added some blue sparks:
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Your bases are always beautiful!

And even some more, from the backlog. Leather is done by using VMC Red Leather:

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“Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl...

Thanks, Kretcher!

However this is not about energy, I wished to finish something for the upcoming event. I do not like to put away a project, anyway, as I have to go back a given color set and...

TBH I put away this project, too, as I wished to do a model for Golden Gobbo, the local competition (yes, still working on my backlog).

Was thinking, especially on a mini where I can add some...

Thank you guys!

After the Masclans workshop i still see I have a long way to go, however. It made me very humble :)

These are the final pictures of the conquistador, toned the face, painted the...

Nice build! May I ask where did you get that plasma gun? Is it from some titan?

Thanks, Dexter!

It is not so difficult, you just need a lot of small horizontal highlight lines on the belt, then glazing it to the base color, repeat 3x. Then glazing back to the darkest parts,...

Thanks, CB!

Some work on the face, used VMC Chocolate Brown, VMC Leather Brown, VMC Beige Red, VMC Basic Skintone, VMC Light Flesh, and Schmincke White, mixed with VMA Pale Blue on top right and...

Thanks, Dexter!

I noticed that 6mm is quite long, 4 is enough, even for 54mm, had to cut back with scissor.

Something else, worked some on Altores' Conquistador. This guy is incredibly huge,...

Beautiful skin texture!

Hi all,

somewhere along the lines I lost my motivation to post, but here are some progress.

I built a static grass applicator, based on Luke Towan's description, using a 20kV generator. It was...

Thank you guys!

One week ago I was lucky enough to participate on a two days long workshop held by Marc Masclans.

We painted Égilon, practiced painting with basic colors (good practice is to...

I am always in awe of your sceneries, and thanks for the tutorials, too!

This is an extremely übercool and fantastic angry birdie!

Thank you guys!



Welcome, I stole it, too ;) Saw it somewhere, asked, how it was done, tested it, first try is here. The only issue is the bottom edge, there could be reliefs (?), parts of the...

The best word I know for this mini is "spectacular"!

Thanks guys!

Here are the finished Gloomhaven characters:

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Excellent vignette, like it!

You can always paint one of the eyes blind/grey.

Thanks gorb,

here is the warrior with helmet, too.

I based the helmet with VMC German Cam Black Brown, stippled VMA Burnt Umber and VMC Clear Orange.
Then heavily drybrushed mix of VMA Steel,...

She is beautiful!

And meanwhile received my copy of Gloomhaven in Hungarian, first mini is here, only in my TTQ:

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I do not know how could I skip your WIP, but your trolls, goblins, squigs, orks are all amazing!

BaM, eki, thanks!

For the shield pattern, I looked around for norman and viking shield design on the web, and found these Skyrim shield mod, used the second one.

First after some edge detect,...

Thanks!



The only level up here is the face, I never painted a so large one. And I am visiting a small painting workshop, so I can get some help, too.

Added the helmet harness, colored with...

We will miss you and you will be remembered.

This is an extremely good idea, will use it for my army, too!

Your diorama looks extremely good even in this state, good job!

This devil is beautiful!

When your mini looks better than the box art (like now), then you can be sure that you are on the right path!

Continuing with the belt and the coif(?), latter painted with 2:1 mix of VMC Black:VMC 70.960 Violet, highlighting with White.

So the green, orange and purple will create the color triad:

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Thanks, gorb, but I had some issues with the eyes, namely the iris is too large, please check the wiki. So I had to make them smaller, and it is kind of difficult to find VMC Ivory before...

Thank you guys!

Meanwhile I had some progress on the Norman warrior, painting the eyes with 2:1 mix of White and VMC Turquoise and the jacket(?) with VMC 70.891 Intermediate Green, highlighted...

Thanks, guys!



It is better to say that I added freehand about 15 minis...

And the assembled Sulnar, except braids, needs some fixing and filling, too:

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And the pattern on the other side, after sketching:

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But it is difficult to make it symmetric, with some gimp image diff, after 3 turns of trials and fixes:

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Hi guys,

long time no see, eventually I could not get to the Hungarian Golden Gobbo, I took care my other hobby, all the test are finished and my daughter got appendicitis, went to hospital, so I...

Yep, I just want to finish it (and the norman bust) by 12/3.

Congratulation, this is an awesome dio!

Beautifully disgusting mini! I especially love the color variations on the armor.

This. Is. Super. Fantastic!
Headcrab for prez!

I need to find out how can I practice drawing or painting those little b*st*rds..., ehm, motifs? And need time, and mojo, etc.

Until then, I just painted the inside with 2:1 mix of 70.870 Medium...

Thanks, guys!

Next came the cloak, first tried to paint some smaller repeating pattern, how hard can it be.
To achieve this goal, I used 3mm Vallejo tapes, and airbrushed the frames of the...

Thank you very much!

Beautiful guy, I truly love all the colors and hues of the shoulder pad.
But I do not understand the axe, seems as it has two edges, the upper part is much wider than the lower "fang" edge.

Nice dorf, and god progress.
May
I ask what is your base color for the copper helmet? I am always struggling finding the crrect hue...

Nice mini, keep the boobz, pleaze. And for more prude customers, you can create a clothed version with a shotgun :)

Thank you guys, very much!

Here is the almost finished body, hair is pure VMC Red Leather, highlighted with Light Flesh, shaded with VMC Black:

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And I visited a small workshop, started...

She is really cute and looks extremely fragile. Good job!

I think you should consider an extension tube, I am using a 12mm one for smaller miniatures, it made the mini much more sharper.

Zero,

chix look fantastic!

But could you add some yellow reflection to the inner edge of the blade, mirroring the gold of the headset? It is all the thing I miss to make it perfect.

She is beautiful!



Are you using any extension tube or macro lense?

Thanks, guys!



eki, I am thinking about it, too, especially as there are AI enhancements on the camera pics, and an older DSLR could not follow these.

So some more progress on Sulnar, I...

Love it, has a very cool feeling!

I had to struggle pasting this, too.

+1 for awesome base!

Where did you get the trinkets from?

gorb: this should be some high level mage, so they should be platinums. :)

Hi eki!

There are no special secret here. I use stippling for the cloth, highlighting up to white, using the colors I mention in the posts.
I use very little postprocessing on the picture, as I...

Welcome in the forum!

I do not think the smaller head will be too small, please consider we are used to paint 28mm minis here.
Furthermore an unpainted mini is scarier, I always think that there...

Thanks BAM, eki!

(I had to look up that word, never seen it before :) )

So some more progress,
- shirt is 1:1 mix of VMC Black:VMC 70.827 Lime Green, highlighting ti 1:1 White:Lime Green
-...

Thanks, guys, some more development on the belt stripes:

Let's call the color mithril, it is ~1:3 VMC 70.838 Emerald:White, highlighted with white, darkened with 1:1 VMC Emerald:VMC Black
Blue...

This is an extremely cool diorama! (pun intended :) )

Honestly, love it very much. What kind of minis are these?

Thanks, eki!

Preceeding with the stripes on the belt.

Gold is 2:1 VMC 70.923 Japanese Uniform:Schmincke White, and 2:1 VMC Japanese Uniform:VMC 70.950 Black, highlighted to white, and shaded to...

Thanks, grob!

Hair would have been too plain in simple red...

Meanwhile I was on vacation, started painting Sulnar, Burning Wind.

Vacation meant beach, but I could take some bottles of paint...

Thank guys!

Here is the 95% finished sorceress. I plan to fix some small errors, maybe add some pattern to the red loincloth, but basically done:

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Middle finger has been...

Thx eki, should be better now...

Some more pictures, too:

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Broke down her middle finger, struggling to put it back correctly, it is damn too small...

And some progress on the sorceress.

Green is VMC 70.891 Intermediate Green, yellow is Schmincke PRIMAcryl Vanadium Yellow Deep.

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Thank you BaM, gorb!

Here is some legwork, too:

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EDIT: Colors were same as the nails and horns for the dragon, VMC 70.981 Orange Brown, shaded as the head, and highlighted...

Thanks, guys!

Current state is:

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But it seems that I stuck on this mini. The eyes are not bright enough, planning to highlight them even further with 1:1 mix of fluo magenta:white...

I really could not paint this dragon on the level I like to paint, and the stripe pattern, especially on the wing, did not work out as expected.

But here are some steps of the head:

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Sorry not posting here sooner, but now I am trying to work on my backlog:



Here are some examples from the toenail:

1. On VMC 70.822 Ger. Cam. Black Brown background I draw lines with 1:1...

This is beautiful!

Beautifully haunting!

I think you should prefer dark background for the doggie, looks much better with it.

Did you see this pistolero? I feel that you are working on a similar skintone...

I love that Cerberus!

It always good to see your minis, reminding me the Forgeworld style.



Welcome to the club!

Nice young lady!
BTW did you consider glazing the bottom of the inside part of the sword blade to blue, reflecting her dress?

Q: how the hell will you glue those arms to the body? This is a metal mini, right?

Nice good doggie... And owner looks fantastic, too, they mean business!

Wonderfully dirty, gritty, muddy mynys!

If you are looking for bones, Ben Komets has a video how to make them at home: https://youtu.be/2UcaYg4_XIs?t=1904

OMFG, that Raptor is f*cking awesome!!!

Thanks, guys!

Of course I meant two legs, but my daughter stood by me and wanted to start playing with Sims4...

Ok, some photo about the chicken spine and back, there are hell a lot of...

But... Where are the skulls?

I started working on a diorama, first one are chicken legs:

General shade is VMC 70.822 Ger. Cam. Black Brown.

Skin is 1:1 mix of 70.857 Golden Olive and shade, Golden Olive and 1:1 mix of VMC...

Happy anniversary, or something, and keep up the work!

Sorry not commenting more in this thread, but it is so difficult for me, I always feel all the whoa!s and congrats and excellents so...

I planned to say so far so good, but I think so far so excellent!

Give a try to the oil wash? We discussed it recently on topic http://www.coolminiornot.com/forums/showthread.php?67418-Chronicle-of-DaBeeb-s/page2, but you can also check the following videos:...

Beautiful mini, I love the color scheme, the details, OLS, freehand, everything!

Exceptional work so far!
But may I ask where are the tattoos?

Good job on this goblins!

But you should know this is just the beginning a long and bori..., I mean beautiful journey, I can see a lot of goblin in your path before you have a full army! :)

That's a lot of cool looking gobbo over there!

Nice and solid work on this dorf!

Good looking minis, impressive Goliath, awesome base. Do you have an unpainted version of the base? Is it kitbashed/scratchbuilt?

That is an impressive robot.
And next time you could consider some freehand on that big shield :devil:

Here is the finished organ gun:

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A bit boring, I know, but the next one will be more interesting...

The good thing with the oil wash is that you can remove almost all of it from the surface, definitely better for this task than GW wash.
Furthermore it has lower viscosity than water, more willing...

Did you consider using Vallejo chipping medium and oil point washes (small dots of oil paint on the chipped underlying area, dragged down by brush dampened with oil thinner)?

Will be really file. But where did you get that cool wooden base?

She is beautiful!

Nice solid work on the snake.
TBH I would be most afraid of the feathers, those are the most difficult to paint to me, as they are the least realistically sculpted.

And the almost ready arms:

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Well, as you used all the secondary colors (orange/yellow, turquoise and purple) as triad, it is kind of difficult to add any new color to the mini, so you either you use a modified secondary, or...

Some more work on the dwarfs, front is about ready:

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Thanks KB!

I got some more images of the faces, painted the hairs and some trinkets:

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Arms and weapons are much better.

But anatomy and physics are bitch, especially mixed with martial arts.

Try to stand in her pose, even better is to grab to sticks. Goal is
- find some...

Thanks for the tutorial!



I have to say you are some kind of perv :D

That plate mail! That shield! Extremely awesome!

TBH a real fighter should not get so unbalanced. :)
You should make the work in front of you, in your center line, or you will be dead in no time.

Maybe you could try to move her right arm a bit...

I was working a bit more on my army, painting a TTQ+ dwarf (it came with square bases, so no duardin) organ gun.

First some progress on the crew:

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The sad thing is that you will be good enough if you finish that pile :)

Thanks, I always wash my minis before priming, but I was thinking whether it is possible to use oil when I put together painted subassemblies.

I have a question, how difficult using the oil makes the painting?
I.e. how well will the primer or paint adhere to the green stuff? Will it evaporate "soon" (e.g. in 2 days, till the GS cures)? Do...

Beautiful range, seriously considered ordering from them.

My favorites are the barbarians, the orcs, and Yata.

My concerns are
- the face of Fritcha's victim and face of Edalron, they seem to...

All I can say is :worship!:

Much better!

Please post the reference photo, too! :devil:

Graishak, thanks for all the comments and votes!

TBH I hated to paint this spider, it was made of failcast, and the sculpt was too low quality, I just wished to get over it.

I am pretty sure that GW will provide rules for your titan when you are finished :)

And we can start asking for plastic Imperial Titans, too!

Beautiful NMM!

Exceptional! But I do not understand the sword crossguard, to it greatly differs in style from the other parts of the mini. Do you plan to work some more on it?

You should ask some beautiful young blue-eyed lady to take some reference photo :smile-big:

MaM,
- do you plan to add radial darker lines to the iris?
- did you check whether the eyes look into the same direction? From this angle they seem to me looking apart. E.g. take a photo in front...

Welcome to the club! :good:

Thanks guys!

I really did not try to push my limits, just making him fit to my Skull Pass goblins.

Leaving out the usual ranting about failcast (this was much better than Sigvald, but...

Whoa! Beautiful!

Incredible!

Thanks for the tutorial, these are excellent conversions!

:D

That's a perfectly good looking base.

I was blacklisted, too, wrote a request, sent in a screenshot about the issue, and it was fixed within a week.

gorb, eki, 10, DaBeebs, thanks!



TBH no, it would not fit in the color scheme, and none of the example images contained coloration.

I could not paint as much the last weeks, just worked on...

Nice TTQ mini, well done :devil:

Reminds me of Sloppity Bilepiper :)

Beautiful quick pj!

Nice solid work I can see here, congrats!

What I would have done in other way:
- I would paint the inner edge of Angharad Brigthshield's shield to gold
- I would have added some more highlight...

Nice, clean, consistent band.

Incredible work!

Voting on shieldmaiden

BAM, Dexter, Hairster, Toad, thanks!

BAM, I cannot really sort out them either, there is a gobbo standing on the top with brush and palette, then a half marine armor, other half is a skeleton,...

OMFG, extremely awesome!

Does it have a whole room of its own?

Hi trikzter,

welcome on the forum.

There are two main ideas coming into my mind:

You can add some global lighting, using feathering to darken all the lower parts. Should be fast after a...

Definitely OMFG category.

Another good tutorial can be found on Life Miniatures homepage. (And for woman face you can always add Ben Komets' Shield Maiden to the list)

Furthermore if you can google for face color zone you...

The finished Genestealer Magus and Imperial Agent:

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Yes, thanks, the results:

DaBeebs, BaM, eki, thanks!

The marshal was finished super fast.

Used VMC Carmine Red for the scawl, VMC Dark Sea Blue for the hat (I concluded that it is made of wool, leather would be too...

Hi MAXXxxx, I planned to do it yesterday, but sleep deprivation won with KO:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1x_AnVvFEUTVjnrE0-ojekMTzcKxZfvoG

Some more progress on the marshal, but I had to...

For leaves you can check this diorama for reference, too.

Definitely haS a feeling!

Some more progress, took two days of vacation to finish the minis.

Yesterday I finished the imperial agent base, but the head is still floating above it. Maybe I will add some white glue under it:...

I was always afraid that the leaves stick together or cover each other and no paint will get on them.

What I seen in one video is to tint coffee filter paper and cut out the confetti afterwards....

Thanks gorb, but it is not really shimmering, I would use the word glossy :)
Still thinking of toning it down with some satine varnish.




Thanks guys, the blending was a 2D blending...

Just jumped in to congratulate on the mini, I cannot add much to cyanide's post. (Maybe to paint the right eye to grey? ;) )

But there is a Painting Buddha video especially for you:

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Nice solid work on RG, excellent marble base!

My only concern is the face, looks to me a bit flat. Do you plan to increase the contrast and/or add some color (the usual yellow to the top, red to...

Thanks for the bright background, my old eyes are relieved.

Excellent everything, color choince, metallics, cloths!

Did you consider adding color variations to the mini?

E.g. some...

I really would like to see how do you glue the bird legs to the body without breaking them...

Thanks guys, the marshal has been put aside, but I hope I can finish it this week, as there will be a local compo this weekend, and I try to finish it by then.

TBH The Imperial agent base was not...

Lord of the necrotic metal! :worship!:

Welcome back to the land of the living!



You can also consider the dead skin, like on this chinese vampire.

Like in the Avengers movie, the knowledge is not in your material, but in your mind...

I can really imagine him a diorama, looking up to a greater demon...

Yep, good looking fellas, and you put the color triad together well, i.e. green - orange/brown - purple.

And good to read that you considered my ideas, I am not used to it at, home, 3 daughters...

Whoa, nice, clean, beautiful work!

I especially love the contrast and smooth transitions on your NMM.

BUT: could you please make your photos lighter? It is more difficult to see (and appreciate...

Redraw the Imperial agent base:

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And after 6x resize

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Next project is Andrea's Marshall:

Face is VMC 70.815 Basic Skintone, VMC 70.804 Beige Red and as shading VMC 70.822 VMC German Cam Black Brown.
Eyes need some more work:

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I would highlight the nurgling with the armor color, and it will unify him/her/it with the marine, furthermore this will desaturate him.
Then you can use the nurgling strong green skin tone for the...

Yep. looks much better!

Nice clean work, well done.

So far so good, I would add some oil washes/streaks, e.g. after varnishing dotting small dark oil paint patches on the mini, then carefully pulling them down with a bigger, soft damp brush (soaked in...

Thank you, though I was not satisfied with the sword, the left highlights were not parallel.

After fixing it, painting the helmet on the ground and putting together the mini, I noticed that I...

Nice work, I would add some moss/lichen/green pigment to the rock, some fungus to the side of the tree trunk.
And you can check SaintToad's WIP/homepage for more inspiration...