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Oh hey Shawn! Yes, I remember you as well! It\'s my pleasure to recommend Gamescape! Their San Rafael location is without a doubt the best gaming store I have ever been too. There is one of my...

Hi,

I haven\'t roamed upon this website since I was 13 but I decided to submit this article as I feel it will help some of you. I don\'t know if any of you remember me or not, I was pretty heavily...

Do you airbrush, airhead? I\'d love to see some of your work.
Jake

hehe... that would defeat the purpse of lobbying votes now wouldn\'t it... ;)
Jake

Hey guys,
I haven\'tt been doing much miniatures lately and this is why. I found my other love which is kustom airbrushing. I entered a contest with a piece that I painted and i made it to the next...

@Wintersraine I sent my package off over 3 weeks ago. Have you recieved it yet?
Jake

I got my minis from canada today!
I got a GW darkelf, a cool reaper ghoul and 2 (unadentafied) wiz kids minis.
Jake

Looks sick bill! I like the trousers! The 9 o\'clock shadow really adds charactor!
Jake

Should I send out ot you or wait longer. I know alot of people went on vacation last week maybe he\'s still out?

Jake

Should I send to funnymouth? I sent a pm a week or so ago. Still nothing.
Jake

I worked on the tiki a bit today. It has to be finished and cleared by thursday. YIKES! :o
I just need to slap on some highlights and stuff. I think i\'ll make it.... I hope. :(
...

Never been there... I lounge around airbrush.com, the kustom kulture lounge (coast) and learn airbrush. I\'ve been trying to learn to pinstripe but damn is it hard.

Jake

Cool man. Hopefully Darren was helpful.
Thanks for the comments! I hope you like the tiki the best. It\'s for a contest.
Jake

Hey Guys,
As many of you might have noticed I have had a huge decrease in my activity on CMoN and with the rest of the miniature world. I have been on a vacation of sorts or perhaps you could name...

Looks good vince!

Jake

Dude it shouldn\'t hurt!!!! ;)

I really like the paint job. I think that in the picture you ilumanated the back ground kept the mini too dark. Try to focus the light on the mini itself.

Keep up...

Sign me up man!!!
Mill Valley, CA USA Ship anywhere!

Jake

Same! I can\'t wait! Still figuring out how to sculpt a robotic horse though... :rolleyes:
Jake

It\'s the last day!
Bid if you want it! :D

Jake

Rise above the influince!!!! Fight the adiction!!! Don\'t do world of warcraft!

You may laugh but I\'ve seen enough people become adicted to world of warcraft. I\'m seriously thinking of having a...

A dwarf!:D
Jake

Some ones already bid so I geuss it\'s too late. :rolleyes: Maybe next time!
Jake

I didn\'t want to paint an ultra marine... I don\'t like them thats why I chew them up and through on bases as bitz!:mad:
Jake

I made it out of the top of a citadel paint lid then I sculpted around it, added bits, cork, sand, ect... Theres A TON more pictures on the auction.
Jake

This is a custom made Display Base with a detatchable 25mm gaming base for WH40K. The miniatures were painted in a desert style paint scheme with trashed ultra marine bits and a warn oil barrel. The...

Thought I\'d just pop in and say hi. I\'m still alive. I could probabley paint something if you have it ready.
Jake

Next time don\'t paint over it. Strip, re-prime, paint, ect...
Jake

Well if you just focus off the head... :D
It\'s funny how many parts are missing in our little test tube he / she!
Jake

I emailed my trade partner about a week ago to see if he got my stuff and me hasn\'t gotten back to me yet. I mailed it before christmas.
Any help?
Jake

That sure is a fun mini to paint isn\'t!!! ;)
You really need to thin your paints more. I can just see them caked on there man. You see how they look kind of plasticky? Thats because of the...

I\'d say I\'m a baby tooth. I\'m little and you\'ll end up losing me eventually... :D
Jake

Don\'t put a title like that! Man thats anoying! :mad: :cussing::cussing::cussing::flame:

I like well sculpted, well cast, and well done minis... I can\'t really say what I just buy what I like. I...

Any update? It\'s been a LLLOOOOONNNNNNNGGGG time.
Jake

Sounds great.
*opens wallet* Oh look at the moths! :rolleyes:

Maybe my parents... JK lol
Jake

It\'s getting there! Make sure you clean up that over spray before continuing.
Jake

Looks fantastic! Is that for nids?
Jake

I\'ve given miniatures to my family as birthday gifts before. They say they like them.
Jake

Take some of the brown and get some in the grey areas and take some grey and get it in the brown areas. Then mess with the tones by adding some greens or something like that. It will result in a much...

It\'s looking pretty good. It might help to add a wash of something to tie everything together like very thinned dark green ink. I\'ve done that before and it works well.
Jake

Just cover it up with some sand/gravel. If your not willing to do that then paint it with some textured paint.
Jake

I couldn\'t help it! lol

http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/2503/itauez7.jpg

http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/7624/taudiscovp1.jpg

Jake

I did like 3 years ago. I haven\'t since.
Jake

Hi,
On January 9th 2007 I will have been painting for 4 years! Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! :D:bouncy::flip::bouncy::flip::bouncy::bouncy::flip::bouncy::flip::drunk::drunk::drunk::drunk::drunk::P

Jake

Incredable! That first pic of the web is astonashing! You\'ve got quite the future in photography ahead of you! :D
Jake

My sister (she\'s 16) got an iPod nano for christmas from my parents. Shes completely infatuated with Jonny Depp (obsesed!!! :o) so I got her this Pirates of the Carribean skin from skinit.com for...

I got a ton of stuff for airbrushing that if I told you, you wouldn\'t understand the signifigance.

In the miniature world (tm :D) I got Varghar (Hell yes!!!) and a box of ogre bulls (I\'ve been...

Wow your style really nice and clean. Great!
Jake

You could sell that and make a TON of money if you wanted. :D
Jake

My first ever mini was a GW lotr gandorian warrior. I\'ve got it sitting on my \"dysplay case\" for sentamental and inspirational purposes.
Jake

That is soo koool!!!
Jake

It looks like beastmen necrons and chaos parts.
Looks sweet!
Jake

She didn\'t really have feathers just plated scales on her wings. They resemble feathers but truely aren\'t. She , I think, was slightly based off of one of those dinosaurs, not velocorapters, but...

Come on people. Eragon was good at least. If you want to see shite go see Mel Gibson\'s Apocolypto! Jesus Christ that movie sucked! lol

Jake

The book I actualy loved. You guys are just a bit critical and I respect that. I loved LotR and if Eragon is similar (Well no duh it is! All fantasy books are based off of Tolkien in some way. Try to...

14?!?!!! He\'s 16 and a half in Eragon and turns 17 in Eldest. He\'s 17 in the movie. Not much of a differance. :P

Jake

The trailers did look like crap! I was very skeptical about seeing it. By far the worst advertised film I\'ve ever seen!

jake

Hey guys,
I just got back from the movies after seeing Eragon on opening day! :D I absolutaly love the book series (Inheritance for those who don\'t know) and the movie definately did it justace!
...

The site looks really great!

Thanks Tracy!
Jake

so you base with acrilic and then layer with oils or do you start to paint normally with acrilics then wash with oils or what? ??? A tutorial would be nice! :yes:
Please help! :redface:
Jake...

Painting/sculpting miniatures has really caused me to excell with art. I aspire to be an artist (PROFESSIONALLY :yes: ) for the rest of my life. I also airbrush though that really helps. Minis are as...

I just really haven\'t had anything to paint! I\'ve been converting like hell though!

I\'ll get a bunch of minis on christmas and that will really kick-start my painting spree. From christmas on...

If I could trust me I would go! I\'ve never been to europe :(

Thanks,
Jake

You can use my avvy picture for the photo thing. It\'s not the best photo of me but it\'s the only one I have!
Thanks,
Jake

tough... hmm... the flash on the intro seems a tad sketchy. It\'s got like a sketch white line around the paint brush and it doesn\'t flow all that well.
Sorry for being so negative!
Jake

Damn you for being so good! Do you pitty me for not? It\'s just not fair!


Jake

AMAZING! :o

I have tried oils on my minis but to no sucess. does each layer have to dry between each coat of paint or is it wet on wet?
Thanks,
Jake

Looks good.
I couldn\'t help it :D

http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/8186/crw0337stdox8.jpg

Not very valiable at all:
CMoN Shop

Tony! :o:o:o:o:o:o
beep beep beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeepppppppp *faints*

Dude!
Jake

It actually like another chance to tackle that beast! Any chance I could paint him?
Thanks,
Jake

Don\'t know. I just painted this head cause I found it lying around my work space and I wanted to try something larger.
Thanks,
Jake

How a bout a differen\'t miniature artist each day. And they each have to give you a lesson ever day! *opens first door* Hola Banshee! :D
Jake

Corrections for all posts.
HE looks burned.
I DIDN\'T sculpt him. Joaquin Palacios sculpted for the Andrea Miniatures mini Ithandir.

Jake

I glazed down the nose and cheeks and lower lip with red. Too much? The shadow colors are entirely red. That might be why some parts look more red. The forehead looks more white because it has less...

Hey guys.
I finished this head from the Andrea miniature Ithandir. PLEASE LEAVE FEEDBACK! Sorry for the HORABLE pictures.



http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/6778/head1mf5.jpg
...

What?

I don\'t get this thread.

Um... Does anyone outthere like pancakes?

Jake

What you need to do now is just sit at your work desk and PAINT! Get that thing finished! :rolleyes:
Jake

Or whatever hes been drinking! :P
Jake

What I was going for is that the marines gaunlet is stronger than a normal hand. I also don\'t have any marine or catachan parts on my hands :rolleyes:. I completely redid the left (his right) leg....

Days until:
http://www.7is7.com/otto/countdown.html?year=2007&month=8&date=11&hrs=9&min=0&sec=0&tz=local&
:cool::cool:

I\'ll post my current progress on my entrys for the LA gamesday (8/11/07...

What the king thing? I\'m actualy focusing on my GD entrys at the moment (I\'ve got 3 months to convert them and 6 months to paint them!)
Jake

I\'m a HUGE fan of LotR minis. It took months before I descovered there were other minis! :rolleyes: I think that they still are better quality than most minis especialy the WHFB ones!
Jake

looks good.
Jake

I like it but I don\'t really get what it is... Maybe like a map with all sorts of minis and paintbrushes, paint, ect... that might be cool?
Jake

Adobe go live? Is that a web program? I\'ve never heard of it.
Jake

So I\'ll take it you got mine? I hope your computer can play WMA\'s!
Jake

I\'d like to see it to! :yes:
Jake

Wow rev. I guess you were just a vector! 4 out of the 5 were the minis I sent you last time! :mad: You didn\'t like them? Thats pretty cold man! :flame:

My package from Bill arived today. I got a...

Ya I think it\'ll sure lead an army and inspire fear in others! :D
Jake

I agree with that.
What I don\'t understand is why stores that have the room can\'t keep selling what they have been and other smaller stores just choose not to stock all of the models and just have...

Mini 5 for me! :o
Jake

The richpen mojo airbrush, a bunch of accesorys and crap for my AB, and a few minis.
11 things in total. I made my list WAY too damn organised! :D

That wouldn\'t go well in the GD\'s! :D
Jake

Ok. So just use plastic tubes and things like that?
Thanks,
Jake
Edit: Like this?

I\'m too lazy! lol

I\'m making a horse in necron style (cyber-skeleton) does anyone who how I can do this?
Thanks,
Jake

Parts needed for conversion:
necron warrior sprue/ box
Necron heavy destroyer spine (a few of them)
Necron rods sprue
necron wraith tail
necron pariah warscythe
plastic horse
all different...

If your sculpey is orange your cooking it for waaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyy too long.
Jake

How did you make the spine?
BTW let me say that that is perhaps the coolest conversion I\'ve ever seen! How do you find insparation for conversions? I always have trouble... :~(

Thanks,
Jake

Hey if I could I\'d probabley get a mac. They\'ve got a tun more features than a windows. I just can\'t stand the embarrasment of being a member of HOMO! lol

Does anyone know how to fix my problem...

When I open it it says, \"Invalid Parameters\" Does anyone know how I can fix this?
Thanks,
Jake

It\'s funny that they would make a zz top mini. lol
Jake

How did you make it? I\'d love to see some tutorials!
Jake

Looking good.
What part of cali are you from?
Jake

I try to use dry brushing ONLY for bases. You could but ... :rolleyes: whatever.
Jake

I was actualy refering to the hp-cp (the hp c plus).
Jake

Ya. Get a good brush that can shoot acrilics well. The eclipse brushes are made for automotive art and therefore shoots mainly uros, why I suggest the hp-c is because it\'s an ilistration brush and...

Thanks man! I was afraid you left us! :~( Don\'t scare me like that! :mad:
Jake

I\'ve started painting the armour. It\'s the best metalics I\'ve ever painted!
Jake

Get an iwata or richpen airbrush. Both are japenese as well. A really good miniature airbrush would be the iwata hp c plus. It\'s a good ilistration brush. It would probabley be good for minis too....

Great man! I haven\'t yet tried my airbrush on any minis. It\'m really into airbrush though.
Jake

Ya. Purple or blue would look great. What color should I go with for the undergarments? I don\'t want to paint the armor bronze. Either silver or gold for me. What does everyone else think?
Jake

WHAT?!? :o
Edit: Look at the coments here: Linky
Aparently he posted that today.
Jake

I\'m sorry to bring up old posts but what colors did you use for the cape?

Thanks,
Jake

p.s. I have a request, after you post a picture PLEASE tell what colors you use! Please!

Hi guys,
I am painting Ilyad Games leonidas. I am having a bit of trouble deciding what color scheme to paint him in. I don\'t like Ilyads \"stock\" color scheme at all.
I think that I want to go...

Mix some greenish brown tones and highlight acordingly. I haven\'t ever painted bronze nmm so I\'m not much help.
Jake

I love these! Keep us posted with how they turn out!
Jake

MY god! Thats amazing! Are you painting it for a competition?
Jake

Most arts/craft stores sell cork. It\'s great stuff.
Jake

A solid 7. Very good.
Jake

I don\'t get the title... but I like the paint job anyway.
Jake

Thats a funny one! Lots of charactor.
Jake

really great! I love the tat!
Jake

A good basic paint job. The paint is very clean. You need to work on shading though.
Jake

Pretty good. Just keep working and you\'ll be on your way soon!
Jake

Those look really good. The orks are great!
Jake

Jakob you are a genious! I just painted some gold on a model using your technique and I\'ve never had better results! THANK YOU!
Jake

Wow!
Thats really good!
Jake

Alot of the stuff needs more highlights and all around the colors are a little muddy. I can see your still highlighting the gw way.
Jake

Wow! That stuff is great.
Keep it up!
Jake

A lot of sculptors do commisions. You just have to look around and you\'ll find them.
I also think that this isn\'t the right forum to post this in. Please read the rules before posting.
Jake

Very cool! I love the idea!

*Raises hand*
I\'ve got one.

Jake

wow. That stuff does look great for chainmail.
Do you think it would be too big? Maybe it would work for 54mm minis?
Jake

Ya we need pictures to help you.

Jake

You could also just try a local art store. It\'s pretty popular stuff.
Jake

I\'m guessing marmite is a brand...

I don\'t meen to be a winy american! I was born like this! :(
Jake

Ya duplicolor is the BEST. I go through like 3 cans a month of this stuff.
Jake

Huh? ???

Agreed. :yes:

I actualy prefer the gold breast decoration versus the bone. The bone looks good when done well but the gold really adds an other level to it.
Jake

Do it! Don\' ask jus\' do it!

lol

I\'m looking forward to seeing that squad.
Jake

wicked cool man!
Jake

Ya I agree. Crapy mini great paint.
Jake

It\'ll look good as long as it\'s not waving...
Good luck,
Jake

Thats probabley the best abadan I\'ve ever seen!
Jake

Thats really cool! I\'ve been thinkin up some conversions myself.
Jake

Base wise it looks good but it still needs shadows and such.
Jake

Looks good. The face is a little pink but it still looks great.
Jake

It\'s looking good Bill. It\'s a little ruff but some easy sanding it should come out nicely.

Jake

Nice! You need to highlight the top of the axe plate and the trim around it. the parts that hit the light source dead on will be the brightest.
Jake

No problem! :D

Jake

This is a fun mini isn\'t it. When are going to start the giant squig?
Jake

Cool. Samurai! :]
Jake

The bone needs deeper shadows. It looks good though.
Jake

Where did you get the wings from?
Jake

This is really coming along great! I think the bike needs to be weathered more but it still looks really good.
Jake

Atempt her style. :D Her name is Natalia Melnik.
Jake

Ya the metallics definately need some work. Was this converted?
Jake

It\'s just thicker. It\'s not as matte either.
Jake

Start with a brown base like bestial brown then get lighter and lighter. Stripe on the highlights rather than just highlighting normaly.
Jake

Do you have to use copper wire?

Jake

Ya GW\'s guide is a bit unsificiant but if you\'re only painting gaming level figures it\'s not a bad guide.

Jake

Sorry. Didn\'t see that. Try painting it with a brown color like bestial brown and just get lighter and lighter until you get to pure white. If you want it to look more like bone, carefuly stripe...

I think GW has a guide. The painting really all depends on what you want/can paint. In order to get that dark look that they have you have to learn to paint with a light source and that could take...

Ok. What ever suits you.
The US and Europe have different ways of casting where, if we used polmers that weren\'t mixed with an epoxy would re solidifi. You\'d still get a cast but you\'d come up...

Ya the purple makes it really dark. The orange glaze is pretty essential though. When you only highlight with mithril silver it looks too well silver. Just have fun with it and if you have any...

lol

I\'d sugest painting the orange then painting on the black/brown stripes then coming in with some white/ivory around them.

Thanks,
Jake

Tell your freind that I like his mini very much. The browns especialy!

I have a bit of trouble with mettalics. I can\'t get the smooth blends that I can with non mettallics. How much do you thin...

What is this ... um... strigoi your trying to convert?
Thanks,
Jake

Terrain is cool. It\'s usful for bases! lol
Jake

Great review! I very well may pick up some of this procreate myself.
Thanks!
Jake

Yes. You have to paint it like there\'s a spotlight shining from one direction on the model and thats where all the highlights are coming from. An other way is zenithial highlighting which is where...

Paint it! :D
Jake

I\'m sure the Inquisitor rulebook has some cool stuff.
Jake

If you look at my chaplain in my gallery I used those same colors on the black armor. I also find that black armor looks best when painted with metallic highlights unlike the edging that most people...

Get one anyway. They\'re fun to draw with! :D
Jake

I really like magicsculpt. Perhaps a bit harder to work than gs but it\'s extremely cheap comparebley.
Jake

Pegasos miniatures are fantastic! I think they make a few 80mm ones.
Heres a link:
http://www.pegasomodels.com/home_en.asp
Jake

You can paint over them. I sugest dullcoating the are before painting though.
Jake

Great article. I have yet to try procreate though I am tempted...
Jake

That might look a bit rediculous. But hey for GW rediculous is comon. :D
Jake

You could just use cork then freehand the cracks. :cool:
Jake

I\'ve used the primer and it\'s very good if you don\'t use too much.
Jake

Agreed... ???

How high of quality do you want these to be? If you don\'t mind a slightly lower quality you can just press the thing into some thing that won\'t ever dry like clay or wax and then pour some plaster...

Why not just find a color scheme/combination that you like and paint it like that? I find creating your own faction (craftworld?) is the funest.
Jake

Natalia Melnik has a great guide in the darkson designs painting guide. I highly sugest you get it.
Jake

I\'d sugest reading Jakob Neilsons guide on painting mettallics. There\'s certainly some interesting stuff there.

http://www.jrn-works.dk/tutorials/tut.php?tut=metal&lan=eng

Jake

Ya. Do you want quick or goodlooking?
Jake

I\'ve seen him lurking about planetfigure. It\'s about time he got back to cmon.
Jake

Thanks man!
Jake

I\'ve never used the W&N brushes but I use the DaVinci Maestros. My god are they great brushes! :wow: I have the 1, 0, 00, and 000 brushes but I ususaly only use the 1, and 000. I HIGHLY recomend...

Of course u deserve it Tracy! :) Don\'t be so hard on your self! :P

Jake

I like the look although I think The model is at an akward upward angle.
Good work,
Jake

Wow thats a conversion I\'ve never seen. The mini with the robe looks great as well.
Thanks,
Jake

It looks much more dynamic than the stock pose.
Jake

You need to highlight the gold much more. It doesn\'t have enough contrast.
Jake