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Imperial Fists - The Emperor's Champion

As usual, this mini is only meant for tabletop gaming purposes... and it sucks at that, too! Had some problems with the yellow on the shoulderpad and wasn't able to blend decently the shadows on the loin cloth, and well, I'm starting to get tired of these sharp one-colour highlights, but hey... that's all I can do right now, so I guess it'll have to do until I learn how to paint properly... ;) Had some fun while modelling the Iron Halo (God knows why GW doesn't supply it with this mini...) and relaxed a lot since there wasn't an awful lot of Golden Yellow, this time, and that's it :)

Posted: 30 Dec 2004

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Martin C

For gaming standard, he's fine :) As for suggestions... 1) I always ink metallics, as I think they look too light and shiny otherwise. I use a thin coat of Chestnut Ink on Gold, and Armour Wash on Silver normally. 2) The yellow is discoloured around the purity seal (possibly a touch-up?). Personally, I paint yellow after everything else (so I don't get anything on it), and start by re-undercoating the area with white. I then paint a mix of Skull White (for coverage), Yellow Ink (to tint the white), and Yellow over the area, followed by whatever yellow you want to use as the basecoat - this gives a bit of a cleaner, brighter colour than otherwise, and needs fewer layers. 3) The highlighting on the black is too stark (IMHO). Personally I mix Chaos Black, Shadow Grey, and Codex Grey together when highlighting black - it gives a slightly bluey, worn look without looking "blue". 4) For highlights, try this: take your final highlight colour, and your base colour, and create a 50:50 mix. Paint a relatively wide highlight with this colour using the point of your brush. Now, take your final highlight colour, and paint a thin highlight in the more raised areas, using just the side of your brush (to help you get a thinner line). I find that the trims on spare shoulder pads are great for this (especially as you can scrape the paint off afterwards, and have another go!). After you've mastered this, try using a third (intermediary) colour. Finally, try it with thinner paints, to make the highlights blend into each other. (OK, I know that's several steps of improvement over time, but that's the best way of learning, I found!) I know it sounds like I'm being really harsh and picking it to bits, but I'm not - I'm trying to be constructive. It is a nicely painted figure, and fine for gaming standards. The things that I have picked up on are relatively small :) Oh, I like the blend effect on the sword btw! :) Hope that this helps in some way!

19 Jan 2005

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frenchkid

Well looks good anothe for a table top miniature, if that's what you were aiming for then you did a good job of it. The yellow looks good, especially considering it's one of those hard to do colors (well in my case anyway :P). As for doing better then the one layer sharp highlight, well the only way is to try. Thin your paint a lot and get those layers on :D By the looks of this mini I'd say you wouldn't have problems getting good highlits.

30 Dec 2004 • Vote: 6

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