Ikaponthus
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Hello,
First post and first model for a few years. My goal on this one is to score higher than a 7.5 on CMON. I\'m hoping to get some advice (from painters who do paint to a 8+ standard) as I go a long, and maybe I\'ll be able to give a few tips for some beginners... (?)
First off, I\'m going to post more regular pictures from here on in. I didn\'t think to post a WIP, so I didn\'t take photos of the sword as I was painting it, but I will for the other stuff.
I\'m using a mix of Vellejo and GW paints, and I\'m buying them as I go, so I only have about five at the moment! (story behind that is I\'m a traveling and wanted to paint a mini to keep my hands and head busy while I stop smoking). It might be hard to paint a miniature on-the-go, we\'ll see.
I started off by undercoating the model with several layers of thinned down (3:1 water to paint) chaos black (aerosols are a no-no on aeroplanes).
One thing I\'ve always done with previous models is to do the entire basecoat at once. Then all the shadows, then all the highlights, etc. From looking at some other tutorials it seems this is not what the good painters do, so instead, this time I\'m going to do one section at a time.
I started with the sword. The sword is supposed to be bronze and the metal things (don\'t know what they\'re supposed to be!) are normal grey metal. I don\'t like \"standard\" NMM because I think most of the time it just ends up looking like concrete. Unfortunately, I don\'t think I\'ve done much better here (and my blending is obviously not very good on those small parts!). However, I do like SENMM. Done right it looks excellent, and that was my original goal, but I couldn\'t get my head around the reflections (I can understand the theory in the CMON tutorials, but when it came to the model I wasn\'t sure) so it\'s ended up looking like pretty average \"standard\" NMM.
After that I mixed up a flesh coloured skin (a mix of white, flesh and terra-cotta colored paints, actual names forgotten) and thinned it down about 3:1 water-to-paint. It took about six or seven layers to get a smooth coat and cover all the undercoat.
One problem I would like to have advice on, is even though it\'s only diluted 3:1, it\'s so difficult to control the paint, especially in areas like the toes, face and fingers. It seems the paint just seeps into the cracks, leaving the protruding part of the area almost completely unpainted! I hear that most people thin their paints down even more, like 4:1 or even 5:1. What\'s the secret to controlling it?
Anyway, here\'s the pictures.
(edit: how does that \"choose file\" thing work? Seems pretty useless. 2 minutes and I\'ll use ImageShack).
First post and first model for a few years. My goal on this one is to score higher than a 7.5 on CMON. I\'m hoping to get some advice (from painters who do paint to a 8+ standard) as I go a long, and maybe I\'ll be able to give a few tips for some beginners... (?)
First off, I\'m going to post more regular pictures from here on in. I didn\'t think to post a WIP, so I didn\'t take photos of the sword as I was painting it, but I will for the other stuff.
I\'m using a mix of Vellejo and GW paints, and I\'m buying them as I go, so I only have about five at the moment! (story behind that is I\'m a traveling and wanted to paint a mini to keep my hands and head busy while I stop smoking). It might be hard to paint a miniature on-the-go, we\'ll see.
I started off by undercoating the model with several layers of thinned down (3:1 water to paint) chaos black (aerosols are a no-no on aeroplanes).
One thing I\'ve always done with previous models is to do the entire basecoat at once. Then all the shadows, then all the highlights, etc. From looking at some other tutorials it seems this is not what the good painters do, so instead, this time I\'m going to do one section at a time.
I started with the sword. The sword is supposed to be bronze and the metal things (don\'t know what they\'re supposed to be!) are normal grey metal. I don\'t like \"standard\" NMM because I think most of the time it just ends up looking like concrete. Unfortunately, I don\'t think I\'ve done much better here (and my blending is obviously not very good on those small parts!). However, I do like SENMM. Done right it looks excellent, and that was my original goal, but I couldn\'t get my head around the reflections (I can understand the theory in the CMON tutorials, but when it came to the model I wasn\'t sure) so it\'s ended up looking like pretty average \"standard\" NMM.
After that I mixed up a flesh coloured skin (a mix of white, flesh and terra-cotta colored paints, actual names forgotten) and thinned it down about 3:1 water-to-paint. It took about six or seven layers to get a smooth coat and cover all the undercoat.
One problem I would like to have advice on, is even though it\'s only diluted 3:1, it\'s so difficult to control the paint, especially in areas like the toes, face and fingers. It seems the paint just seeps into the cracks, leaving the protruding part of the area almost completely unpainted! I hear that most people thin their paints down even more, like 4:1 or even 5:1. What\'s the secret to controlling it?
Anyway, here\'s the pictures.
(edit: how does that \"choose file\" thing work? Seems pretty useless. 2 minutes and I\'ll use ImageShack).
I\'ll just have to pretend it was a very ancient Grail Knight. 
