blow your mind

[bodiscool]

this has probebly been asked before but im new so hey ho!!!
just wondering what was the first mini u saw that blew your mind.made u gasp and vow to improve your skill.
for me it wasnt the greatest mini you will see but it was the moment i said i wana do that.
it was at the old gw studio i had just started there and was sat next to torbin snoor(sorry if its spelt wrong lol) he was painting the old orion it was the smoothness and tone of the skin.that ws wen i decided to to push myself and see how good i could get(still trying lol)

 

[Dragonsreach]

That would be This One.

Going back quite a few years now.

 

[War Griffon]

DR I can\'t believe you fell for a fianna lol
You should be ashamed of yourself.

 

[Dragonsreach]

Originally posted by War Griffon
DR I can\'t believe you fell for a fianna lol
You should be ashamed of yourself.

Why? I work with a Young woman who could have been the model for that very mini.
Having said that I have quite a few Fianna still to paint.

 

[lizcam]

Can\'t remember the painter (maybe Mike can help there). He\'s spanish but I want to reach this level. I probably won\'t but I\'d like to.

 

[airhead]

this one.
Then Pete directed me over here and the rest is history.

 

[Dragonsreach]

Lizcam: Isn\'t that by Alberto Moreno Font?

 

[lizcam]

Originally posted by Dragonsreach
Lizcam: Isn\'t that by Alberto Moreno Font?

I think so but I\'m not sure. I have the pics saved on my computer and look at them now and then when I need motivation but I\'ve lost the name of the artist. I know he\'s on the Spanish team forum, tho\' but that doesn\'t help me as I don\'t speak spanish let alone read it.

 

[War Griffon]

I think if I had to pick a single mini that inspired me the most then it was an Eldar Grav vehicle that was painted for one of the early Golden Toadstool events, I have since lost all photos of it but the art work put on it was amazing.
It was done in a blue and then over the top of that in white was a femal angel absolutely gob smacking freehand.
The other that comes in close to that was a Warmaster scale Empire War Griffon I think was done by Dirk.

 

[Bastetcat]

This one was the first. Got me hooked on CMoN. Also probably turned me into a fangirl of Natalya\'s.


Then this one got me to really try to paint better myself. Since I had (rather, my husband had) the actual figure, it brought the scale out better. In other words, made me really understand the amount of detail involved as I wasn\'t sure how big some of the minis here were.

 

[wiccanpony]

i think the first time I saw a Grenadier Dragon

but this one still makes me smile
http://www.coolminiornot.com/39124

 

[Ritual]

Originally posted by Dragonsreach
Lizcam: Isn\'t that by Alberto Moreno Font?

Nope, it\'s by Banshee.

 

[freakinacage]

this guy, first time i had seen nmm. ironic as it\'s not an amazing example

 

[Ritual]

Mine was also a Rackham studio paintjob. I\'m not entirely sure which one was the first, but I think it may be this one:

That was the first Rackham mini I painted, at least, and the first time I tried to do something else than copy paintjobs off the pages of White Dwarf.

 

[No Such Agency]

I was a big fan of SaxonAngel\'s back in my early CMON days (I still am, of course ) and some of her more striking works really made me think \"wow!\". But it was probably the early lighting effects minis by victoria (eg. Firey Angel) and EricJ (eg. May Faith Protect) that \"blew me away\".

Of course THIS still raises my eyebrows, albeit for other reasons...

 

[Necroghast]

This one.

And also this one.

 

[War Griffon]

Managed to find a photo of the two that I really liked although the photo of the void dragon is not that good there used to be more shots and larger ones when it was origonally entered into the golden toadstool.

 

[pariah72]

I came back to mini painting after about a 10 year break so I was amazed to see what people were doing since I had left. One of the first mini\'s that caught my attention on this site was this.

Mainly because OSL was unheard of when I left.

 

[bodiscool]

know wot u meen iv just had a 7year break and have to say some ppls work is just breathtaking

 

[evil tendencies]

I had been painting a while, but when I saw this, my conception of what miniature art can be totally changed. It\'s been a few years now, and I still go back and look at it for motivation.