"Free at last..." - JMD Demon

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Crackpot

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Hy there,

finally I completed the JMD-demon! I started this project some months ago but after the first few working hours it went to the "unholy WIP-shelf". The damned shelf of eternal waiting and gathering dust. The hell for all miniatures! No mini who took a step on the unholy WIP-shelf was ever seen again! THE HORROR! THE HORROOOOOOR!!!!
But wait, not this time! Somehow this little fella managed to get back from the "dust-hell". I think I will call him "Dante". :D

So after some final working hours "Dante" was finished. The base took nearly the same time as the miniature because the resin Rock that comes with the demon was somehow unnatural. The surface was much to smooth for a rock so I had to "cover" it with some additional rocks, gravel, sand and brushwood and I had to try some different colors for the stone to look somewhat natural. Hope I succeeded. ;)

By the way, obviously I am no english native speaker, is the text in the collage tolerably correct? I was not sure of the first sentence... Would it be "RAN for their lifes" or "RUN for their lifes"... ARGGG!

Anyway, I hope you like the demon. Comments and critique are welcome! :)

Vote HERE

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SkelettetS

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yeah i think i remember you put up a sort of short wip thread about this fella like a year ago lol ;)
really beautiful work, glad to see it finished! im off voting now
 
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cleen X

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Its a JMD mini, you can get it from cmon shop, its out of stock now though I think, or the JMD website.

Great mini btw! My favorite sculpt by far I think, they need to get it back in stock on cmon!
 
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dogfacedboy uk1

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This guy is one of my favourite demons and you have done a fantastic job painting him!!!

The text is okay but to be technical the first bit would sound more correct like this "Finally! The last guards were slain or had ran for their lives." or "Finally the last guards were slain or had ran for their lives." The first one sounds more "dramatic". The rest of the text sets the story perfectly.

dfb
 
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Crackpot

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Thanks for all the response! I wasn't to shure about the skintone at first... :/

@ SkelettetS
Hey don't exaggerate! It was only a few months! :D

@dogfacedboy uk1
Thanks for the correction. Next time I will PM you first. ;)
 
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dogfacedboy uk1

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No problem Crackpot, adding little stories like you have done there always add a nice touch to a finished piece of work. I will be trying to do it with all my sculpts to add some character as well as creating a fantasy world around them. By the way, are you going to share that colour recipe, I have a resin Thrudd the barbarian from Heresy that I think that will look lovely on!!

dfb
 
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Crackpot

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I am not shure if I can reproduce the colors I have used because it was kind of chaotic. :D
If I rememer correctly I began with the brightest colors on top of the mini (shoulders and upper back). I think it was a mix of Duncan-beige and GW-Elf-flesh. The rest was painted with a mix of Duncan-beige und Duncan-rust-red. After that I softend out the transitions. Then I darkend the shadows with a mix of Duncan-rust-red und Duncan-chocolate-brown and finally with Duncan-chocolate-brown and Duncan-black.
Then the "fun" part started and I layed over several layers of red and violet glazes. The bright colors got more red-glazes and the darker areas more violet-glazes.
Since the Duncan colors tend to be ULTRA matt, I added some glazes/washes of Vallehjo inks ( I think it was "smokey ink", "black green ink" and "violet ink"). The great think with these inks is, they give a nice restrained gloss and they soften out some rough transitions. :)
So I think this sums it up... (if I remembered everything correctly... oh gosh, my memory is getting worse and worse :D)
 
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dogfacedboy uk1

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Thanks Crackpot! I will try and match it roughly with my vallejo colours and GW ones if I can. Once I finish up my Nurgle chaos warriors I will dig out thrudd and start throwing some paint about.

dfb
 
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